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The VM Boom For AI Agents | David Crawshaw Co-Founder & CEO, exe.dev

What happens when AI agents stop simply answering questions and start using computers of their own? It could create an entirely new boom in virtual machines. In this episode of Uplink, David Crawshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of exe.dev, joins host Michael Reid to explore the infrastructure behind the rapidly emerging world of AI agents. As agents become capable of writing code, running applications, operating tools, maintaining state, and working independently, they need more than access to an AI model. They need computing environments where they can actually get work done.

What Is RPO and How Can You Reduce It to Minutes?

Learn what RPO means, how it differs from RTO, and how faster backup storage can help reduce data loss after disruption. When designing a backup and disaster recovery strategy, organizations often simply ask how quickly they can recover. But a more important question to ask is how much data they can afford to lose. Backups are only as useful as the point in time they can return you to. If a payment system fails at 2 p.m.

What is Backup and Disaster Recovery? A Complete Guide

Learn what backup and disaster recovery means, how BDR works, and why it matters for reducing downtime and data loss. Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is what keeps data loss from becoming a business-wide catastrophe. And to protect their business, IT teams need to ask if they can recover the right data, in the right order, fast enough for the business to keep operating. A backup can preserve a copy of a file, database, or workload, but disaster recovery is what brings the wider service back online.

What is IPsec?

Our Megaport technical expert, Steve Tu explains what IPsec is, how it secures network traffic, and where it’s used across VPN and cloud connectivity. About Megaport Deploying infrastructure should be fast and simple. Megaport’s software-defined platform provides private compute, network, and storage — so you can build secure, scalable infrastructure for cloud, enterprise, and global AI inference workloads. Trusted by the world’s leading enterprises, Megaport operates across 1,200+ enabled locations globally.

Why Connectivity Is the Next Growth Opportunity for Managed Service Providers

Learn how NaaS helps MSPs add connectivity services and respond faster to customers without building a global network. For many Managed Service Providers (MSPs), connectivity is still the part of a customer solution they control the least. An MSP may manage the cloud environment and secure access to it, but adding a circuit can still mean carrier lead times and manual coordination. Options may also narrow when the customer enters a new market. This reality doesn’t match with customer expectations.

For whoever has to explain the cloud bill to finance every month.

As infrastructure gets more complex, with workloads spread across clouds, regions, and providers, every hop your data takes between them adds up. Where do these costs actually come from? Has your team ever traced a surprise bill back to data movement? With Megaport, cloud egress costs are minimized by routing data privately between providers, avoiding the higher transfer rates associated with public internet routing.

What Is S3-compatible Backup Storage?

A backup is only useful if the data is still there when something goes wrong — and if it can be restored quickly enough to matter. As backup volumes grow, teams need more capacity without losing control of recovery performance or cost. S3-compatible backup storage gives teams another way to handle that pressure. It uses the familiar Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) API model without requiring backup data to live in Amazon S3 itself.