Bits, Bytes & Beyond

Bits, Bytes & Beyond
Podcast Description
Bits, Bytes & Beyond, hosted by Trent Blakely, Head of Product Marketing at PCCW Global, is a podcast that goes beyond the buzzwords and dives deep into the real-world challenges of how data moves – and what may happen when things go wrong. Each episode features candid conversations with industry experts, breaking down technical use cases and unpacking the strategies that actually work.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of cloud computing, data migration, network connectivity issues, and real-world technical challenges with episodes that include topics like multi-cloud deployment pitfalls and connectivity intricacies across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, striving to provide practical strategies and insights for tech practitioners.

Bits, Bytes & Beyond, hosted by Trent Blakely, Head of Product Marketing at PCCW Global, is a podcast that goes beyond the buzzwords and dives deep into the real-world challenges of how data moves – and what may happen when things go wrong. Each episode features candid conversations with industry experts, breaking down technical use cases and unpacking the strategies that actually work.
When you're working with multiple cloud providers (especially the big three), it’s easy to assume everything will connect smoothly. But as many teams learn, that’s not always the case.
In this episode, Trent Blakely is joined by Jay Turner, SVP of Product Planning and Development at PCCW Global, to unpack the hidden pitfalls of multi-cloud deployments. They explore overlooked connectivity issues, how to catch failures before they happen, and share real-world lessons on quirks across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Episode chapters
(00:00) Start
(01:09) Intro
(06:22) AWS: Prefix advertisement limitation
(10:23) Google Cloud: Limited VPC peering across projects
(13:21) AWS: Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) limitations on maximum connections
(16:20) AWS: Limited networking features in VPC peering
(20:18) Azure: Public IP address restrictions
(25:56) Azure: No native support for multi-cloud network integration
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