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In this short Tech Talk, join the industry leaders to unravel the transformative power of bridging physical and digital landscapes.Highlights:Explore the imperative role of distributed AI in the ever-evolving enterprise landscape. Gain insights into seamlessly integrating AI data flow from edge to core to cloud through rich ecosystem partners. Learn how to design and implement cloud-adjacent hybrid AI solutions with NVIDIA at Equinix on a global scale. Discover strategies to break down internal and external silos with MLOps, fostering collaboration across departments and ecosystem partners.  

With the v0.4 additions of VRF and Gateway features, and Interconnection present in v0.3, this release of the Equinix Ansible Collection enables Fabric VC (metal-billed) use-cases with BGP discovery of private IP pools over Metal VLANs.  This allows users to manage their Metal network configurations via the Ansible integration with greater ease. In future releases, we'll expand the Ansible Collection to support dedicated interconnections.   If you're interested in using Ansible to manage your infrastructure deployments, let us know!

Equinix's Charles Meyers appeared on CNBC Worldwide Exchange this morning to discuss how DigitalTransformation, cloud, and AI are continuing to drive data center demand. Watch the full interview here: 

Jon Lin, Equinix EVP and General Manager of Data Center Services & Matt Hull, NVIDIA VP Global AI Solutions answers some questions about our recent announced collaboration. Equinix Private AI with NVIDIA DGX is a fully managed private cloud service that enables enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom generative AI models.  

VRF is now fully supported in v0.21.0 of metal-cli! Use commands to create and interact with Metal Gateways, BGP Dynamic Neighbors, and interconnections.  Some examples of possibilities now available in Metal-CLI:  Specify new BGP Dynamic Neighbors by IP Range and ASN  List your Metal Gateways  Get details on Server plan capacity per Metro Create or update a new interconnection and or virtual-circuit on said interconnection  Learn more about VRF on Metal in the documentation. 

Listen to Marty Falaro, EVP & COO Wasabi technologies, as he describes how Equinix helps provide value to a large range of their customers for research, disaster recovery, data backup, post production media services and more.As one of the fastest growing cloud object storage companies in the world, Wasabi uses Equinix Fabric to connect all thirteen data centers around the world as well as Equinix Metal for compute services.Wasabi leverages these digital services to open new doors with their customers and allows for the rapid global expansion of their business, while delivering on their focus to make cloud storage a simple utility, just like electricity. Learn more about cloud adjacent data strategies  

Network operations in the public cloud is easy because it is highly abstracted. How to bring a similar level of network abstraction to your own dedicated cloud environment at Equinix? This session will demonstrate and share how to simplify, automate, and interconnect any network environment.   

In this episode of our Digital Leaders Series, Carl DeGroot, VP U.S. Federal at Cisco, discusses how, in partnership with Equinix, they are supporting the government’s digital transformation evolution, including securing information across data centers, to enable visibility, automation data accessibility, and fostering sustainability.  

In this 20-minute Tech Talk, we will show you how to baseline and identify exactly where you can cut carbon emissions for your network devices like routers and switches, and then transform your overall network architecture for efficiency with data center consolidation and by leveraging virtualization.Experts Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Lead at BT, and James McIlvenny, Product Marketing Manager, Digital Interconnection at Equinix, will explain:How BT’s Digital Carbon Calculator provides a unique view into which network assets to optimize for sustainability  The benefits of combining carbon footprint data and IT services lifecycle management to gain network efficiencies  How BT’s global network combined with Equinix’s own tooling, and data center colocation and virtual interconnection services, in a hybrid multicloud environment enables energy efficiency and reduction of carbon emissions at scale.  

Did you know you can move hardware reservations between projects using the Equinix Ansible collection? Enjoy the benefits of both flexible resource management and dedicated hardware!   Users can also search and access interconnection resources which will pave the way for future management of Virtual Circuits. If you're eager to see these changes come sooner, or if you need Ansible interfaces for other Equinix services, please let us know in the comments.

The Equinix Pulumi and Crossplane providers have been updated to take advantage of the latest Fabric Cloud Router features from the Terraform provider.   This includes recent updates that allow any Fabric resources to instantly approve AWS connections when given AWS credentials.   Secondly a new connection type, FCR to IPWAN, is now available!   Any Fabric Cloud Routers connected to an IPWAN will automatically peer with other remote FCRs connected to the same IPWAN. Also, Fabric automatically provisions redundant network connectivity to the IPWAN service, meaning customers only provision a single connection but receive additional protection. This drastically reduces customer configuration requirements, allowing users to rapidly produce a regional or global network.   The routes automatically learnt from remote FCRs in the IPWAN network are displayed in each of their active routing tables so users

Customers participating in the beta for Metal Load Balancing as a Service can now experiment with this upcoming service through Cloud Provider Equinix Metal (CPEM), a Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager. Anyone in the beta can set up L3 load balancing for the Kubernetes Control Plane IP and for Services running in Kubernetes. If you’ll be at Kubecon next week, come see this and other integrations in action at our booth!  This latest version of the official kubernetes-sigs project, CPEM continues to include MetalLB and KubeVIP configurations options as in-cluster self-managed alternatives.  

In this short Tech Talk, we'll review how to design network access to AWS for high availability and resiliency to ensure your connectivity is available when you need it most. Our experts Dhanil Parwani, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS and Gene McColm, Principal Solutions Architect at Equinix will explain how to:Achieve resiliency with your network deployment of AWS Direct Connect Solve challenges and risks of having a single connection to AWS Discover the benefits of designing for high availability vs resiliency Gain maximum resiliency for critical workloads Manage between cloud regions for data residency and compliance Become geo-resilient across multiple global metros  

Equinix Terraform Provider v1.16.0 not only has the ability to create Fabric Cloud Router resources directly, but also layer 2 connections to AWS, GCP, and specific fabric ports in Equinix. Connections to Azure and Oracle via Terraform are coming soon! FCR is a great option for those who want to quickly route between clouds using BGP or static networks without worrying about specific OS, vendor requirements, or advanced configuration.   For those who use Network Edge, this Terraform release allows you to disable the default internet connectivity before provisioning specific firewalls (Palo Alto Networks NGFW, Cisco FTDv, and Aviatrix FireNet) just like you can in the console. 

As of version 3.6.2, Cloud Provider Equinix Metal is officially part of the Kubernetes Cloud Provider Special Interest Group! We are happy to offer up the work we continue to do on CPEM to a larger community and allow broader engagement. You can find (and contribute to) the repo under kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-equinix-metal or find Equinix listed in the SIG Cloud Provider community readme. Recent updates include fixed elastic IP annotations for those still using facilities (which are being deprecated) as well as a fix to CPEM's use of MetalLB v0.12.1. 

Over 115 million customers use the IHG One Rewards mobile app to book hotels and enhance guest experiences worldwide. Through their software-defined network, IHG empowers their DevOps teams to swiftly onboard new partners, SaaS vendors, and cloud services, fostering continuous innovation without compromising network stability.The Equinix network solution also allows data and applications to easily move between regions into their enterprise data warehouse for analytics, keeping the business and their customers running at top performance.  

A number of features and improvements have landed in metal-go since the v0.9.0 release last month. As of the latest release, v0.15.0, metal-go has gained support for: tags on projects, SSH keys, and virtual networks specifying storage configuration when creating a new device logging Sunset & Deprecation headers for backwards compatibility with packngo (especially important in light of the upcoming deprecation of facilities) filtering projects by name when loading all projects for a user or organization using the name query parameter searching devices by hostname, description, short_id, reservation short_id, tags, plan name, plan slug, facility code, facility name, operating system name, operating system slug, or IP addresses using the search query parameter For a full list of the changes that have landed in metal-go since v0.9.0, check out the the metal-go releases page on GitHub.

See how Air Canada has architected critical IT systems infrastructure that keeps their passengers and airline partners connected for the best end user experience possible. Developing a digital backbone on Platform Equinix has allowed them to take advantage of AI, machine learning, augmented reality and other solutions with ease. Further, they benefit from the sustainability efforts of Equinix and the many partners that are in our ecosystem. Learn more about Platform Equinix at https://www.equinix.com/insights/platform-equinix

The v0.15.0 release of metal-cli begins our migration from the packngo SDK to metal-go. The following subcommands have been updated to use metal-go in this release: init metros operating-systems plan project In addition, all subcommands have gained the --http-header flag, which can be used to add custom HTTP headers to any request that is sent to the Equinix Metal API as part of a metal-cli command execution.

This release of metal-go includes a number of features and improvements to ease the transition from packngo to metal-go. This includes support for include and exclude parameters when creating various Equinix Metal resources, fixed request paths for Metal Gateway API endpoints, and support for the default project ID and default organization ID for individual users.  A number of duplicated models have been consolidated to reduce the need for type conversions when interacting with different API endpoints. In addition, we have added support for the new SOS hostname attribute on devices to reduce reliance on the deprecated facility attribute.This release also includes features that are not available in packngo, such as support for the Invoices API. To learn more, check out the full release notes on GitHub and visit the metal-go page on Equinix Labs.

 Optimize your multicloud connectivity and gain performance-cost benefits using Equinix Fabric® and Google Cloud.Led by Nick De Cristofaro, Networking Specialist Customer Engineer, Google Cloud and Jun Wei, Senior Principal Solutions Architect, Equinix you’ll learn how to:Leverage the best solutions from multiple cloud providers while avoiding lock-in with one provider Use multiple cloud providers for backup and disaster recovery Meet data sovereignty requirements for on-premises workloads to Google, using Equinix Fabric®  

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.

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.

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