The Azure Networking Map
Hi, I have blogged many maps to describe the Azure landscape. These have proven helpful and I've received a lot of positive feedback about them. The networking piece in…
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Paraglider project released as open source to simplify networking within and across clouds
We are thrilled to share that last week during the ONE Summit North America, we launched Paraglider as an open source project under the Linux Foundation. Paraglider is the result of a collaboration between teams at UC Berkeley’s NetSys Lab, Microsoft Azure Networking, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and IBM Cloud, to define…
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