Megaport launched a storage product, completing the compute, network, and storage trifecta it began building when it acquired bare-metal provider Latitude.sh last November.
The Brisbane, Australia-based infrastructure firm says the addition gives enterprises a single automated platform for all three pillars of IT infrastructure, with no egress fees and connectivity speeds of up to 100 Gb/s (100G).
“By aligning storage needs directly with workload requirements on our global ecosystem, we’re combining the performance of dedicated infrastructure with the scalability and flexibility customers expect from the cloud,” Megaport CEO Michael Reid noted.
Megaport acquired Latitude late last year, pivoting its core network-as-a-service (NaaS) offering to align with the Brazilian outlet’s automated compute platform to form a quasi-bare metal neocloud operated from data center facilities with little to no humans on site.
This latest update completes the trifecta, with Megaport looking to cut through what it views as prohibitive egress fees charged by conventional players to access or move data.
Instead, Megaport Storage uses the firm’s existing backbone alongside direct high-speed connectivity, with the firm pitching it as ideal for AI workloads, with users able to feed large training datasets directly into bare-metal GPUs at wire speed.
“As demand accelerates for AI, edge computing, and high-performance workloads, Megaport is evolving into a unified platform that gives customers instant access to scalable global infrastructure,” Reid added. “This enables new use cases, including storage and backup strategies that strengthen cyber resilience, while setting a new standard for sovereign infrastructure.”
Latitude currently operates across 24 locations in 10 countries with a global headcount of around 80 people, a staffing model Reid argued is the only realistic way to meet AI infrastructure demand at scale amid a worsening tech talent shortage.
“We don’t have any staff … no staff are on site at all at any one time, unless there’s an outage or there’s an issue with a server that comes offline, and we replace that,” the CEO said of its staffless sites during a recent conversation with SDxCentral.
To further augment its evolving platform, Megaport launched a built-in security tool last month that lets customers filter potentially malicious network traffic.