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.
In episode 10 of Bits, Bytes & Beyond, Trent Blakely is joined by Omar Abi Issa, Global Sales Director – Blockchain, Web3 & AI at OVHcloud, to explore how blockchain infrastructure is evolving, what it takes to operate at scale and why network architecture has become a critical differentiator.
Episode chapters:
(00:00) Start
(01:14) Intro
(03:10) What are the most demanding network and infrastructure-centric workloads you’re seeing today?
(11:13) How are organisations finding more ways to stay competitive?
(19:16) What does healthy decentralisation look like in practice? What trade-offs do teams need to make between performance, cost and resilience?
(28:22) When API and RPC providers are migrating from public cloud infrastructure to dedicated bare-metal clusters, what are the most critical architectural and networking shifts required to succeed?
(36:36) What new requirements will this AI-blockchain convergence put on global networks over the next 1 to 5 years?
(42:27) How do you see EU data‑sovereignty demands, open technologies, and multi‑cloud connectivity shaping the way we design that underlying network fabric?
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