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Hyperscalers: Reshaping the Optical Transport Market - And Telcos are Getting the Picture

Hyperscalers are driving the shape of new metro optical networks – literally. AWS, Microsoft and Google have reshaped data center to data center connectivity over the years and now, as they populate their data centers with telecoms equipment, they are deploying it in higher density, with a better power utilization than telcos get. This is because they are not depth constrained so can go up to 600 millimeters deep unlike the standard telco 300mm hard limitation.

Unveailing the ESX API

The VMware ESX API is an essential tool for modern IT professionals tasked with managing VMware vSphere environments. This Application Programming Interface (API) acts as a bridge between the VMware ecosystem and various automation, scripting, and integration solutions, streamlining and enhancing the management of virtual infrastructure. At its core, the ESX API provides a powerful way to interact with the vSphere environment programmatically.

Assessing the real cost of egress charges

Console Connect recently hosted a live webinar called ‘Assessing the Real Cost of Egress’ that discussed the findings of a new research paper which identified an egress fee breakeven point for businesses who switch to a private network solution. The research study, entitled ‘A Business Case for Internet-Bypass Solutions in 2023’ authored by William B.

Migrating a BizTalk Request-Response routing solution with LOB Adapters

Welcome again to another BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services blog post. In my previous blog post, I discussed how you can implement the aggregation mapping pattern inside Logic Apps. Today, I will address a very interesting BizTalk Server topic and how we can redesign our solution to implement the same capabilities inside Azure Integration Services: How you can migrate a BizTalk Server content-based routing solution with LOB Adapters – in this particular case, SQL Server.