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File, object, or block storage: what's the difference?

Choosing where your data lives is only half the question. How it's stored matters too. File, object, and block storage are each built for a different job. File storage uses the hierarchy you already know. Files live inside folders, and those folders can live inside other folders. Object storage gets rid of that hierarchy. Each piece of data is stored as its own object, which makes it easy to scale.

Building Production-ready AI Infrastructure? Start With the Network

AI workloads depend on fast, secure, and scalable access to data across on-premises systems, colocation, cloud platforms, and GPU environments. Here’s how private connectivity can help enterprises move from AI proof of concept to production-ready infrastructure. AI pilots tend to be forgiving. Production isn’t. In the early stages, a team can usually get by with a simple path into a GPU environment, enough bandwidth to test an idea, and a security model that suits a limited group of users.

Patch Management Masterclass: From Exposure to Verified Remediation

Patching has become a race against time. As cyberthreats move from disclosure to exploitation faster than ever, IT and security teams need a smarter approach to vulnerability remediation. Watch this Patch Management Masterclass to learn how to build a risk-based patching strategy, streamline patch management across Windows, macOS, Linux, and third-party applications, and implement a closed-loop remediation process that verifies issues are resolved.

Megaport Advanced Services: From Network Design to Deployment

Network changes often stall after the design is done. See how Megaport Advanced Services helps teams move from planning to implementation and support. Ask a network team where their last big network change got stuck and you’ll rarely hear “we couldn’t work out the design.” The completed design is usually sitting in a document somewhere, reviewed and signed off. What stalls is everything needed after that. Somebody has to write the runbook. Somebody has to sit in the 2 a.m.

How to Fix Intermittent Internet Issues: Is It Your Network or Your ISP?

Your Internet circuit is up. The firewall shows the WAN link as connected, your ISP's status page is green, and a speed test comes back at full provisioned bandwidth. Meanwhile, Teams calls at one branch break up for ten minutes every afternoon, and every user at that site sees Salesforce slow to a crawl at the same moment. Then everything recovers before anyone can capture it.

How Hybrid WAN Is Transforming Enterprise Network Connectivity

Enterprise networks are evolving as businesses adopt cloud applications, remote work, distributed offices, and connected devices. A hybrid WAN solution can help organizations combine different connectivity options while supporting the performance, reliability, and flexibility required by modern business operations.

How to Use Megaport Storage as a Veeam Backup Target

Learn how to use Megaport Storage as an S3-compatible Veeam backup target for scalable, private, offsite backup storage. Table of Contents A backup is only useful if it can be retrieved when needed. Where backups are stored determines how well they’re protected from incidents at the primary site, how long recovery transfers take, and what it costs to bring the data back.