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Hi Community! I’m Sariga, part of the Global Customer Care and Experience (GCCX) team.I lead our new Equinix Customer Insights Panel and would love for you to join! It’s the quickest way for you to shape our solutions and voice what matters most to you and your organization. It’s simple, you’ll be the first to be invited to polls, surveys, interviews, focus groups and design sessions. You control how much time you can give us for feedback on new ideas, processes, product releases, possible features and more.Sign up today for the Customer Insights Panel. Once you’ve activated your account you can explore and participate in the research activities.Respond below if you are part of the Insights Panel ⬇️ 

Just announced: If you have a Fabric login and billing account, you can order Equinix Precision Time through the Fabric Portal. Just follow the Quick Connect prompts, and with a few clicks, your new time service is provisioned and ready to go. Both PTP and NTP protocols are supported, for both Standard and Enterprise tiers. Want more information? See the steps in Order Precision Time with Quick Connect.

This is the first official release of our experimental generated Java SDK for the Equinix Metal API. This SDK is generated from the Equinix Metal OpenAPI specification. To learn more about our generated Java SDK, visit the equinix-labs/metal-java repo on GitHub.

I returned from a trip to Ghana, West Africa, with a new perspective on how technology helps us not only make new discoveries but gives old discoveries a new perspective. In this special episode featuring all three co-hosts in a fascinating discussion, you'll hear about examples like Adinkra, the symbol-based language of the Ashanti Empire. A form of communication based on various observations of and associations between humans and the objects they use, the associative nature of the language is one of the bases for block code that software engineers use today. 

Equinix has made the Fortune 500 list by Fortune Magazine for the 3rd consecutive year, solidifying our position as the world's Digital Infrastructure company.

Today, I want to dive into the exciting world of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and explore why it's gaining popularity among businesses of all sizes. Additionally, I'm curious to know if any of our esteemed community members have hands-on experience or have deployed a VDI solution using Equinix products and services. Let's collaborate and share our insights! 🖥️ What is VDI and why is it trending? 🚀 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a technology that enables businesses to host and manage virtual desktops on a centralized server or cloud infrastructure, delivering them to end-users over the network. This approach offers numerous benefits, including: 1️⃣ Enhanced Security: With VDI, sensitive data is stored in a centralized and secure location, reducing the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access. 2️⃣ Scalability and Flexibility: VDI allows for easy scalability, empowering businesses to add or remove virtual desktops based on their evolving needs. It also facilitates

Is there a way to limit a user to only be allowed to deploy servers in a specific metro? For example a user can only ever deploy in Singapore Metro?  

We’re building a new tool - an online tracker to visually show the progression of your cage/cabinet deployment, and we need your feedback to understand what information would make tracking your deployment easier. Interested in taking part in this 30 second research? Sign up today for the Equinix Customer Insights Panel.  Once your account is activated, you can explore and participate in research activities including the new online cage/cabinet tracker tool. 

The 1.14.3 release of the Equinix Terraform provider includes bug fixes and documentation improvements to provide a more consistent experience. The spot market request resource and data source have been updated to avoid unnecessary changes when the order of `facilities` changes for a spot market request, the virtual circuit resource has been updated to reduce the occurrence of API errors due to invalid requests, and the documentation for the `equinix_metal_device` resource has been updated to more accurately describe the `user_ssh_key_ids` and `project_ssh_key_ids` fields.

Hello everyone! At Equinix, we are proud to offer a wide range of products and services to help our customers achieve their business goals. From data centers to network solutions, cloud exchange to security services, we have a variety of offerings that can meet your needs. That's why we would love to hear from you! We would like to get an understanding of which of our products you're using and how they're helping you achieve your goals. Whether it's our: Data centers: providing secure and reliable colocation solutions Network solutions: connecting you to a global network of partners and customers Cloud exchange: giving you the ability to easily and securely connect to multiple clouds Security services: protecting your critical business assets and data Interconnection solutions: allowing you to directly connect to the people, places, and things that matter most to your business Equinix Metal: providing on-demand and scalable bare metal infrastructure solutions Network Edge: delivering

Equinix is being featured in a short film highlighting our goals and perspective on sustainability. The documentary also looks at our alignment with United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and our vision for sustainability and its drivers in the data center industry.  The documentary is part of the Vision 2045 campaign, which is an effort to highlight what multinational companies are doing to help save our planet.   Produced by TBD Media Group and sponsored by The Economist. Check it out!    

A Terraform module that quickly installs OpenShift for use on Equinix Metal.   First off, v0.4.0 aligned with the support of metros and deprecated the use of facilities; see the announcement here. The default location was changed from SJC1 to DA, the default size is c3.small vs the previous c2.medium, and Terraform version 1 or higher is required. Underlying this is also a switch from our Metal specific Terraform provider to the full Equinix Terraform provider (v.1.14.1). This allows more configurability for node plans and better default node plans. Newer versions of OpenShift are used. This also includes several outstanding bug and CI fixes that were preventing the project from successfully functioning. It is recommended to rebuild any existing deployments. Migration should be possible by converting the state files as described in the Migrating from equinix/metal to equinix/equinix.  v0.5.0 does all the above but includes minor update to the install

Version 0.2.0 of the metal-python SDK has been extended to cover all available Metal API resources! The items from v0.1.0 are still included (Metal Gateway, VRF, Interconnection, etc.). This continues to flesh out possibilities for the growing Ansible Collection for Equinix (ansible-collection-equinix).  Tags: DevRel, Engineering, Release, Metal-Python, Metal, Python, SDK 

We're continuing to improve the security process when you visit an IBX. You can now check in and check out with your Equinix Customer Portal (ECP) mobile application: Read the full announcement below:

Version 0.7.0 of cluster-api-provider-packet, introduces metro level support vs facility level in accordance with the soon-to-be updated Metal API. Users of previous versions will want to take advantage of this immediately. The basic requirements to upgrade your existing clusters can be found here. Please work with your Equinix support team to determine the best migration path for your architecture. Assistance can also be found in the Community Slack and Community site. Read more at our Metros Quick Reference and see the facility deprecation announcement.  *Please note that if devices are already in the correct metros you’ve specified, no disruption will happen to clusters or their devices. As with any production change, test your changes before applying them to clusters in production. In addition to metro-level support, this release installs the latest cloud-provider-equinix-metal v3.6.1 by default and is built on golang version 1.19 and cluster-api 1.3.

We've released v0.7.2 to comply with the new kubernetes package repositories new key signing process. This new process prevented cluster-api installs from working at all. Please update to v0.7.2 so you can deploy new nodes again.https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-packet/releases/tag/v0.7.2

Can I connect to multiple cloud providers within an Equinix data center?

Incase you missed it: We have extended the timeline for migration of your Equinix-configured Network Edge Devices to Self-configured Network Edge Devices. This notification is only for Equinix-configured Network Edge Devices; it does not impact Self-configured Network Edge Devices. Read the full announcement below:

In this short Tech Talk, we review how to manage hybrid workloads in a multicloud environment using Azure Arc and Platform Equinix®. Our experts explain how to enable your business to use the power of the cloud regardless of workload location.Led by Jaime Schmidtke, Microsoft Unified Edge Specialist, Global Black Belt and Brian Petit, Equinix Global Solutions Architect, Microsoft AllianceHighlightsLearn how to leverage Azure Arc to enable the central operation and governance of diverse environments. Discover how to simplify the complexity you face when building applications and services in hybrid cloud. Understand how to maintain a secure and robust dedicated connection between on-premise and public cloud. Experience seamless, on-demand, direct access to cloud services such as Microsoft Azure. 

Did you miss the exiting announcement from our identity team? Identity and Access Management (IAM) will be implemented for Fabric, Network Edge, and Equinix Precision Time (EPT) users in your account in the next few weeks. Read the full announcement below:

Equinix Internet Access 2023.3 release is mostly about ordering internet access service instance using a Fabric port, but it also introduces new endpoints for searching and viewing your EIA service instances. For more information, see Equinix Internet Access - 2023.3 Release Notes.

As of v0.2.1, the official Pulumi provider for Equinix is now listed in the Pulumi registry. This version includes a fix for a documentation bug as well as updated documentation that more accurately covers supported languages.

You can now enable your portal users to self-serve notification preferences for IBX Policy Violation Notifications in the Equinix Customer Portal (ECP). See the announcement below:

As a customer if I bring my own IP address will Equinix force me to a Dual-Stack or just IPv4-only config?

Has anyone been able to successfully integrate EMG notifications with google's pub/sub? I have been at this for months and am not successful.Basic path is:EMG event such as port down is triggeredThis event, which is picked up by the python outgoing notifications script located at https://github.com/equinix/messaging-gateway-templates/tree/master/template-python-outgoing-notifications-v1, which I have deployed as a cloud function and scheduled to run every 2 minutes, is then sent to pub/subthe pub/sub notification is sent out as an email notification to my team.Is anyone able to assist?