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How Megaport and Wasabi Are Simplifying Cloud Storage

Partners , Tech

With the rapid growth of cloud-native applications, businesses are increasingly seeking reliable and efficient cloud storage solutions. However, relying solely on major hyperscale cloud providers can often lead to complexity and high costs. This is where independent cloud storage platforms like Wasabi come into play, offering simplicity and affordability without compromising on performance.

How Generative AI is Changing the Way We Harness Our Data

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In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, data is the new gold. And with the advent of generative AI in cloud services, businesses have a unique chance to transform their data in powerful new ways.

How We’re Using AI and ML to Improve Cloud Management

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My retired father called me this week to ask if I’ve heard about ChatGPT. He was amazed at the capabilities of the application and asked me where this was headed. It was at this exact moment I knew artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) were entering a new phase. It wasn’t long ago that AI and ML were topics for science fiction, but in the first quarter of 2023, years of hard work and incremental breakthroughs have produced some of the most sophisticated software anyone has ever seen. Every major tech player is throwing their hat in the ring, from Facebook’s LLaMA to Google’s Bard looking to take on Open AI’s ChatGPT head-on.

Five DevOps Resources You Should Use in 2023

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Today’s businesses rely on a diverse range of applications, services, and digital infrastructure. To keep up in a competitive market while remaining agile and adaptable, industry leaders need to invest in practices and tools that can quickly and efficiently develop, test, and deploy new software and services.

How Quantum Computing Can Better Protect Your Data

Cloud , Tech

News of data breaches and hacking attempts seems to happen daily. As hackers and the tools they use become better at breaking passwords and decrypting data, some have anticipated the increased threats that quantum computing solutions can provide and the opportunities of quantum encryption to address them. With companies embracing hybrid and fully remote working models, resulting in vast amounts of data being shared daily, companies are also interested in quantum’s potential to protect data in the cloud. Here is how we’re thinking about this emerging technology at Megaport.

The Enterprise’s Guide to AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway

Networking , Tech

How AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering Options Have Evolved Ever since AWS Direct Connect launched in 2012, organisations have been embracing dedicated connections to their cloud services—they gained the ability to improve their overall data transfers, increase their network performance, and enhance their data privacy when connecting to AWS. With the introduction of an array of new service features and enhancements, the options for peering with AWS have certainly evolved. Let’s take a look at how this has developed and how you can take advantage of some of the features available.

From Excavators to Earthquakes: Achieving Redundant Networks

Networking , Tech

In March, the world turned its attention to France as a fire destroyed several data centers , disrupting millions of websites and businesses in the process. It’s easy to forget that the internet, and the cloud, rely on physical infrastructure, but this event was an abrupt reminder.

Choosing a Device to Connect Your Megaport

Networking , Tech

The world is rapidly adopting software defined networks like Megaport that are easy to provision and scale and also offer reliability and high performance. While this gives customers the ability to create and edit connections that are fully automated in the Megaport world, there is still a section within the network that remains the customer’s responsibility. That is the physical network device being used on the on-premises colocation DCs or office locations.

Accessing Google Cloud APIs via Google Partner Interconnect and Megaport

Networking , Tech

With the emergence of new and innovative cloud computing technologies, companies have the ability to drive digital transformation initiatives with completely different economics, pace, and scale.

Achieving Network Redundancy with an Active/Active AWS Direct Connect Connection

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Your enterprise business probably operates all day, every day, so continuity and constant uptime are crucial for keeping everything running smoothly. Risking your business on a single link design could mean losing data, customers, and even revenue if your connection goes down.

Q and A for Q-in-Q part 2

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Following our last post where we discussed the concept of stacked VLAN tags (Q-in-Q) , in this second part we will focus specifically on Microsoft Azure and the ExpressRoute product offering that brings direct connectivity into the Azure public cloud environment.

Q and A for Q-in-Q part 1

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What is VLAN tagging? There are two types of ports on network switches. Most vendors use terms such as “Trunk Port” and “Access Port” to differentiate them. Access ports define a port where a single VLAN ID is carried whereas Trunk ports carry traffic destined for multiple VLANs. Trunk Ports require a policy to determine which traffic is to be sent within which VLAN identifier. For these purposes, a technical standard defining VLAN tagging 802.1q was developed. These VLAN tags contains information such as VLAN ID and other information that is specified by the 802.1q standard.

API Highlight: Ordering

News , Tech

In this post we’ll look at the process for systematically ordering services using the Megaport API. Currently there are four service types which can be ordered, three are widely available and the fourth is limited to partners.

API Highlight: Introduction

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Architecture The software stack was designed to be modular, allowing us to easily add and remove layers while maintaining a consistent customer experience. One of the key points here for the technical team was to add a layer of abstraction between the network equipment and the management software. Initially this means we’re not locked in to a specific vendor but longer term it means that even moving to a new technology like OpenFlow can be achieved by adding a new module at the Agents layer while the rest of the stack remains the same. As can be seen in the stack, the Megaportal and our phone apps are all dependent on the RESTful API to talk to our backend systems. The intention here is that we use the same interface and mechanisms internally that we expose to customers.