Cloud Networking
Six Key Differences Between Major Cloud Providers
Demystify your private cloud options with our comparison of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
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How to Automate Your Megaport Infrastructure With APIs
Learn how to transform your network efficiency and interoperability, all from a single interface.
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How to Lower Your Cloud Costs
Cloud costs can pile up quickly, and often behind the scenes. We explain how you can help your business keep cloud spend under control.
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Peering: How Local Is Local?
Optimize network performance by ensuring both you and your peers are locally connected.
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Easy Ways to Interconnect Your Network
In 2024, an interconnected network is a must-have. Here’s how to get one and supercharge your business operations.
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The Role of the Data Center in Your Network
From traditional to virtual, we explore the different ways this facility can support your enterprise network.
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Top 10 How-To Guides To Improve Your Network
Tech providers often provide valuable resources to help you optimize your network. Here are ten of our recent favorites.
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Comparing Encryption in Transit Options
Weigh up three popular ways to protect your data in transit—host level encryption (TLS/SSH), MACsec, and IPsec—to fortify your network security.
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Comparing Generative AI Offerings From Major Cloud Providers
Avoid AI overwhelm and weigh up your options easily with our roundup of the top generative AI offerings from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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A Sustainable Business Strategy Starts With Your Network
When reviewing or implementing business sustainability strategies, it’s critical not to overlook your network.
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Solutions to Common API Issues With Megaport
This detailed guide gives you 11 solutions to common API problems, so you can automate and streamline your deployments with ease.
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Megaport Enhancing Connectivity in Canberra
As the demand for cloud services continues to grow, ensuring security, compliance, and reliability remains paramount, especially for government entities and affiliated sectors. Megaport is meeting these critical needs with its recently expanded network in Canberra, providing robust and secure connectivity options for such users.
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AWS PrivateLink, Explained
Customers implementing AWS connectivity are presented with a range of choices, including PrivateLink. So when is PrivateLink most suitable? We detail the uses and benefits of this private connectivity method.
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Megaport Launches First AWS Direct Connect Network Service Offering on AWS Marketplace
Customers can now streamline the purchase and management of AWS Direct Connect and private connectivity from within AWS Marketplace.
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High Availability With Palo Alto Networks and Megaport
Palo Alto Networks High Availability has been one of our most highly requested feature integrations with Megaport Virtual Edge. Now, it’s available. Here’s how you can use it for a more reliable, redundant network.
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Megaport's New Portal Features and Functionalities
In this blog post, we’re excited to share the details of some recent feature updates, each meticulously designed to provide you with more flexibility, improved performance, and a more intuitive user experience.
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Internet Exchanges and Peering: Unlocking the Benefits
This growing connectivity method opens users to a whole new world of network capabilities, and is becoming more essential than ever before.
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Why Spain Should Be Your Next Network Expansion Target
This European country is poised to make its mark in the cloud networking industry. Here’s why it should be the next addition to your enterprise network.
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Introducing Megaport Internet
Get a dedicated internet solution with all the benefits of Megaport’s scalable network fabric in just 60 seconds.
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How Generative AI is Changing the Way We Harness Our Data
In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, data is the new gold. And with the advent of generative AI in cloud services, businesses have a unique chance to transform their data in powerful new ways.
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Comparing Your Multicloud Connectivity Options
As multicloud adoption surges, so too do the choices for connecting to your clouds. We break down the key solutions and their benefits.
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What Are Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE), and Should You Have One?
Today, the cloud impacts all departments of the organization, not just the IT crew. Here’s how cloud centers of excellence drive cloud success.
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Cross-Cloud Connectivity Made Easy with Oracle and Megaport
With the latest suite of integrations between Megaport and Oracle Cloud, boosting performance and reducing costs across your cloud suite is easier than ever.
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Is Cloud Storage Safe?
Are your storage needs increasing faster than your on-premises storage can handle? We explain why cloud storage is actually the safer option – while also saving you money.
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What’s New With Megaport’s Services
Here’s everything you need to know about Megaport’s latest service enhancements.
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PaaS vs SaaS vs IaaS vs NaaS: What's the Difference?
With a range of network and computing capabilities now offered via the cloud, it can be tricky to keep up. We explain the four core ‘as a service’ offerings and their use cases.
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How We’re Using AI and ML to Improve Cloud Management
With artificial intelligence and machine learning in the news of late, what might they mean for cloud computing? Michael Vitale explains how we’re positioning these technologies to benefit our customers.
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Five DevOps Resources You Should Use in 2023
How can enterprises streamline their operations for improved internal efficiency and customer satisfaction? The right combination of DevOps tools will do just that.
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MetTel and Megaport Enable High Performance Applications in the Cloud
Before Megaport, MetTel’s customers battled impaired application performance and deployment delays when moving to the cloud. Now, their connectivity enables high-performance applications in the most distributed cloud environments. Here’s how.
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How Quantum Computing Can Better Protect Your Data
Bringing the power of quantum encryption to the cloud, we take a look at the emerging technology that’s changing how we protect our data.
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Top Five Cloud and Technology Predictions for 2023
The Gartner® Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023 report makes predictions across a number of industries for the coming year. Here are the ones that excite us the most.
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Five Features Your Enterprise Network Needs in 2023
We reflect on the standout criteria that defined optimal enterprise cloud connectivity this year, and share how you can set up your network for success in 2023.
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How to Automate and Orchestrate Your Network Effectively
We explain how to make the most of automation, orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code tools for your highest performing network yet.
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AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud: The Big Three Compared
These three top cloud providers are used daily by millions of users across the world – but what sets them apart? We take a magnifying glass to the features that matter.
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The Problem with Public Internet Connectivity
Exploring the pitfalls of public internet connectivity for cloud access – and identifying your alternatives.
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A Guide to SD-WAN
SD-WAN has been making waves in the networking world thanks to its ability to provide dependable edge-to-cloud connectivity. Here’s how it works, and how it could help you.
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How to Fix Poor Google Cloud Latency
Learn how to reduce your latency and get better network performance from the popular cloud service provider.
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3DS OUTSCALE uses Megaport to Unlock Cloud Potential
3DS OUTSCALE aims to provide local cloud services with global reach.
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Comparing Ways to Connect to Microsoft Azure
There are several methods of connecting to the popular Cloud Service Provider, but which one is right for your business?
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Multicloud Connectivity: A Complete Guide
If you’re unfamiliar with multicloud, it can be tricky to know where to start. This complete guide covers the basics of multicloud, how it could benefit your business, and how to get started.
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How to Fix Poor Azure Latency
Learn how to reduce your latency and get better network performance from the popular cloud service provider.
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Twilio Interconnect Uses Megaport to Power Enterprise-Grade Performance
Private connectivity bolsters the security and performance of Twilio’s products – and Twilio Interconnect makes it easier than ever for their customers to go private.
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The Four Types of Cloud Storage: Pick the Right One for You
Explore the four main types of cloud storage—public, private, hybrid, and community—and find out which solution best fits your business needs. Understand the pros, cons, and use cases for each storage model, from security to scalability.
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Is Your Internet Connection Damaging Your Business?
Choosing the right cloud connectivity method could make or break your business. So should you avoid using the internet, or does it have a place in your cloud network?
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How to Simplify Your Multicloud Management in 2022
As your multicloud network grows more complex, managing it shouldn’t. Here’s how you can leverage existing tools to manage your multicloud time, cost, and performance.
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Three Reasons You Should Interconnect Your Clouds
Having multiple cloud providers alone isn’t enough to future-proof your business. Here’s why your next step should be to interconnect your clouds.
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Three Easy Ways to Modernize Your Cloud Network
With cloud networks growing increasingly more distributed, having a dynamic network that grows with your business is essential. Here’s how to achieve it.
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How IT Decision Makers Can Navigate the Global Chip Shortage
As the global chip shortage continues, here are our tips for protecting your network – and your business’ bottom line.
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How to Fix Poor AWS Latency
Find out how to reduce your latency and get better network performance from the leading cloud service provider.
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How Route Filtering Can Improve Your Multicloud
Looking to optimize your multicloud network? Route filtering could be your next move.
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Comparing Last-Mile Connectivity Methods
When it comes to networking in 2022, businesses are turning their attention to the last mile. But what are your edge connectivity options – and which is best?
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The Rise of Born-In-The-Cloud
With work-from-anywhere business structures surging in popularity, many have already made a complete shift to the cloud. Here’s why we expect to see an increase in cloud-native adoption in 2022.
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AWS Virtual Private Gateway vs Direct Connect Gateway vs Transit Gateway
We compare the three AWS network gateways to help you choose the best option for your business.
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How SWG and SD-WAN Work Together
Gartner® Predicts 2022 says by 2025, 40% of enterprises will adopt SD-WAN and cloud-delivered Secure Web Gateway (SWG) from the same vendor, up from less than 5% in August 2021. Here’s what that means for you.
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Higher Performance Migrations to Google Cloud VMware Engine
Migrating workloads from on-prem to cloud can be a major headache using unpredictable, unreliable internet connectivity. A new whitepaper quantifies the difference private connectivity can make.
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3 Ways to Get a More Cost-Effective Network
Cost resilience is essential to prevent your cloud costs spiraling out of control. Here’s how to achieve it.
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IBM Cloud Direct Link 2.0 Aims to Improve Resiliency
IBM Cloud’s new and improved Direct Link 2.0 comes with a myriad of benefits – and it’s now available on Megaport’s Software Defined Network.
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Cloud-Driven Innovations in Mexico and Latin America
With its growing cloud market, Mexico and Latin America are fast becoming one of the international hubs of cloud-driven innovation in IT.
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Where IoT Fits in Your Cloud Network
Internet of Things (IoT) is a buzzword constantly growing in popularity – but what does it really mean, and how does it apply to your network?
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Should You Adopt a Zero Trust Network Architecture?
From what it is to how it works, we look at Zero Trust Network Access and whether it’s time for your enterprise to adopt a zero trust architecture.
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Which SDCI Provider Is Right for You?
How do you select the best provider for your enterprise? Here’s the criteria to compare so you can choose with confidence.
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The Real Cost of High Network Latency
Having unreliable network performance could impact your business in more ways than you think. Here’s how to reduce latency.
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Reducing Costs With AWS
Save on egress, setup, and maintenance fees with our simple tips on reducing your enterprise costs with AWS.
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Megaport & KIO Networks Partner to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption Across Mexico
Mexico is the 2nd largest IT spending market in Latin America. In March, Megaport will be there via a partnership with KIO Networks.
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How Megaport Virtual Edge Supercharged The Instillery’s SD-WAN
Learn how The Instillery are using SD-WAN to keep on top of their increasingly complex multicloud architecture, for both them and their customers.
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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Aims to Make Cloud Migrations Easier
Enterprise storage has traditionally been the most boring cloud application, but it’s becoming the most important. Read how AWS and NetApp are changing the storage game.
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How DXC Technology Uses Megaport to Connect DXC’s Australian Data Centers to the Cloud
Learn how DXC Technology gives their customers better flexibility, reduced costs, and improved reliability with Megaport’s Network as a Service (NaaS).
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Network Transformation: Supercharge Your SD-WAN Webinar Recap
Last month, Megaport ran a series of Network Transformation webinars to discuss how to develop a practical and effective SD-WAN strategy. Here’s a recap of what was discussed and a transcript of the Q&A afterward. Megaport’s Solutions Architects around the globe held webinars discussing ways to modernize an enterprise’s SD-WAN infrastructure by using Network as a Service (NaaS) to deploy faster, reduce opex, and simplify and secure your WAN. Four webinars were held to accommodate different time zones and hosted by:
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Cloud Hubs or SDCI: Which Is the Best Private Connectivity Method?
Cloud hubs and software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) are both popular private connectivity methods. But which one will better support your enterprise?
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The Enterprise’s Guide to AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway
Demystifying Direct Connect and Transit Gateway so you can better understand your AWS networking capabilities.
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Lowering Egress Fees in Microsoft Azure with SDCI
There are lots of names for the method of optimizing SD-WAN connectivity, but one thing is certain: It can save you lots of money on egress fees. As we’ve written about before, transferring data from your on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure (“inbound” or “ingress”) is free for both public internet connections and Azure ExpressRoute, but the data transfer fees for pulling data out of Azure (“outbound” or “egress”) vary depending on whether you are utilizing the public internet or using Azure ExpressRoute.
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Megaport Makes New Oracle Cloud Regions Available in Europe
Megaport has added several new on-ramps to Oracle Cloud throughout Europe. We detail the benefits for Oracle Cloud and Megaport customers. Both medium and large enterprises in Scandinavia and beyond are increasingly becoming frequent users of Oracle Cloud services. As cloud-native operations continue to dominate all levels of applications and businesses, this growth trend is only going to continue. Until recently, connectivity to Oracle Cloud had to go through one of the original OCI locations within mainland Europe. But now, with Oracle expanding their global cloud footprint to support triple-digit growth, these options have been significantly expanded. But where have these expansions happened, and what do they mean for you as an Oracle Cloud and Megaport customer?
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Oracle Cloud Chooses Megaport as Their First Partner for One Portal Provisioning
Oracle Cloud’s new integration with Megaport makes it easy for Megaport customers to provision connections without leaving the Oracle Cloud console. Megaport’s public API has long made it easy for customers to automate provisioning of Megaport services for their hybrid cloud, multicloud, and private cloud connectivity needs. Now, thanks to our strong ongoing partnership and the ease of use of Megaport’s open API, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has chosen Megaport to be its first partner to launch “One Portal Provisioning,” which enables existing Megaport customers to turn up private connectivity within the FastConnect console.
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The Hidden Cost of Running Cloud-Hosted SD-WAN for IaaS
In an industry driven by SD-WAN, there are three common ways to connect your branch locations to the cloud. We break down the benefits and limitations of each.
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Build Multicloud Networks for Business Continuity Using Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Part 3
In the final post in our blog series, our team of experts will give you best practices using Oracle Database High Availability features to secure mission-critical multicloud workloads that can afford no downtime or data loss.
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Webinar Highlights: Managing Multicloud Setups with ITRS and ICE
ITRS, ICE Data Services, and Megaport recently held a webinar to discuss best practices for multicloud deployment. Find out what experts are saying on modernizing infrastructure, reducing operating costs, and unlocking new opportunities. The presenters were: Peter Duffy, Head of Product Management, ITRS Group Leon Liang, Director, Feeds Business Development, APAC, ICE Data Services Paul McGuinness, Head of Solutions, Europe, Megaport Moderator: Hank D’Moore, Senior Director, Feeds Product Management, ICE Data Services
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A Guide to Multicloud with Google Cloud Platform
From security to scalability, we guide you through the benefits of building a multicloud strategy with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and optimizing your connectivity with Megaport to make the most of your clouds.
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New AWS Local Zones in US Make Ultra-Low Latency Easier
For customers who require ultra-low application latency in the US, 15 new AWS Local Zones coming online in 2021 might be the answer. At AWS re:Invent 2020 last December, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the intent to add 15 new Local Zones in the Continental United States by the end of 2021, starting with previews in Boston, Houston, and Miami. The primary target of these new Local Zones are customers who require very low latency in a certain geographic area, namely customers using AWS for video rendering, transcoding, AI/ML, and virtual desktop apps, or creating and delivering content such as real-time gaming or social media.
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Video: How to Connect Your AWS and Azure Environments Part 2
Our Solutions Architect Kyle Moreta walks you through how to efficiently connect an AWS VPC with a Microsoft Azure VNet with the help of Megaport. Have you watched Part 1 of this video tutorial? If not, start here, then come back. See you soon. Welcome to Part 2 of my walkthrough of how you can connect an AWS VPC to Microsoft Azure VNet using Megaport and our Megaport Cloud Router (MCR), to build out direct, private connectivity between the two different clouds.
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How RedShield is Using NaaS to Stay Safe Online
Read how RedShield’s shift from public to private connectivity has boosted security and performance for both them and their customers.
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Our Solutions Architect Kyle Moreta walks you through how to efficiently connect your AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud environments with the help of Megaport. Watch Part 2 of this video tutorial. Learn more in the blog, 3 Ways to Connect Your AWS and Microsoft Azure Environments. Let’s walk through how you can connect an AWS VPC to Microsoft Azure VNet using Megaport and our Megaport Cloud Router (MCR) to build out that private connectivity between the two different clouds.
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High-Performance Computing Inside Kao Data Powers UK Healthcare Innovation
In the UK Innovation Corridor, hybrid cloud high-performance computing powers new solutions to today’s healthcare challenges.
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Rethinking IX’s Role in Optimal Network Performance
Enterprises need to rethink the way they’re using internet peering. More than just a way to pay less for IP transit, it can be the key to unlocking a high-performance network.
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A Guide to AWS Direct Connect Locations
What are they, where are they, and how do you connect to them to get more out of AWS for your business? We answer all of your questions about AWS Direct Connect locations.
Read MoreBuild Multicloud Networks for Business Continuity Using Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Part 2
In the second part of our 3-part blog series, our team of experts will give you best practices using Oracle Database High Availability features to secure business-critical workloads in the cloud when you can afford little or no downtime.
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How You Can Simplify Your Provisioning With NaaS
Quick and simple cloud provisioning is a must for businesses in 2021 – and the key to achieving it is by using Network as a Service.
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3 Key Networking Questions to Answer for Your Cloud Customers
In managed services, systems integration, and cloud-native technologies, you’re entrusted by your customers to provide cloud-based expertise. But are you ready to address the key networking questions that drive success in the cloud?
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Architecting an enterprise multicloud network built for business continuity can be costly and labor-intensive. In this three-part blog series, our team of experts will give you best practices using Oracle Database High Availability features to help.
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SD-WAN and MPLS: Weighing the Similarities, Differences, and Benefits
SD-WAN and MPLS: Weighing the Similarities, Differences, and Benefits
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Webinar Transcript and Video: The Evolution of Cloud Connectivity with Sungard AS
Over pizza and beer, Sungard AS and Megaport talked about the challenge of ensuring optimal performance of distributed applications, and the importance of fast, easy network connectivity. Sungard AS and Megaport recently held a webinar to discuss the evolution of cloud connectivity over pizza and craft beer tasting, courtesy of the gourmet Italian food chain Eataly. We’ve provided edited transcript excerpts from the event below, as well as the link to where you can register to watch the webinar in its entirety.
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Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Pricing, Explained
The sheer number of variables in Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute pricing can be dizzying, but we can help you make sense of it all.
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From Excavators to Earthquakes: Achieving Redundant Networks
We look at the challenges connectivity providers face with achieving fully redundant networks, and share our tips on how to check your provider’s redundancy.
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Why Segment Routing Excites Us
What if your business could have more control over the path data takes through your network? What if you could choose not just the lowest cost path, but the lowest latency route, a maximum security path, or automate any combination of your business intents? By Brent Van Dussen, Head of Network Engineering Mitchell Warden, Distinguished Network Architect William Stephens, Senior Network Engineer People who work in networking know best that traffic routing across IP networks can be inconsistent and unpredictable. Our job is to build a network with the right kit using the right technology to create the most reliable, predictable, and scalable backbone, while working in an adequate level of redundancy in case something does go wrong.
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Why You Need a Scalable Enterprise Network in 2021
As businesses continue to globalize, embrace remote operations, and increase their use of multicloud, adoption of Network as a Service (NaaS) solutions is increasing. According to the Forrester Analytics’ Global Business Technographics® Network and Telecom Survey, 2020, the most common reason companies are adopting as-a-service networking is to provide more flexibility to their business (39%). And a huge part of the flexibility that a NaaS provides is the ability to scale.
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NXP Builds Cloud Center of Excellence with Megaport
NXP’s Cloud Center of Excellence serves over 9,000 hardware and software engineers dedicated to designing semiconductor chips found almost everywhere in our everyday lives–in smartphones, credit cards, cars, household appliances, and IoT devices. You may not know it but NXP’s products are almost everywhere. Their semiconductor chips are inside the devices we use on a daily basis, like our smartphones, credit cards, cars, washers and dryers, and home assistants. NXP is also the co-inventor of near field communications (NFC) technology, supplying the ubiquitous NFC chips that allow us to pay by phone or credit card without swiping. The company manufactures electronic passport chips, RFID tags and labels, and contactless cards for major public transit systems worldwide.
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How Companies Are Future-proofing Their Enterprise Networks in 2021
Companies are looking beyond best-effort internet connectivity to public clouds to improve network performance, reliability, and security.
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Automate Your Multicloud with the Megaport Terraform Provider
With Megaport’s Terraform Provider, you can now easily automate the provisioning and management of your Megaport resources, lowering deployment costs and reducing provisioning time by using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
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ICE Offers IGN Cloud Connect with Megaport
With an increasing number of their customers adopting public clouds, ICE needed to extend access to their market-leading data services into the cloud. The Fortune 500 financial marketplace operator ICE has come a long way since its founding in 2000. Originally launched as an over-the-counter electronic trading platform, ICE bought the New York Stock Exchange in 2013 and invested heavily in its data business with strategic acquisitions such as Interactive Data Corporation (2015), Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, Inc. & Credit Market Analysis (2016), Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research division’s fixed income index platform (2017) and SuperDerivatives (2014). Today, ICE’s comprehensive data services provide mission-critical information and analytics that help their customers capitalize on opportunities and operate more efficiently.
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How SD-WAN Can Elevate Your Enterprise Networking
The SD-WAN market is set to surpass US$4 billion in 2025. Here’s how the technology can future-proof your company’s enterprise network.
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Is Your Cloud Data Secure? Three Questions You Can Ask Yourself
We dive into some of the key ways you can protect your business’ most valuable asset.
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Service Enhancements: Q-in-Q Tagging, 100G Ports, and MCR Route Filtering
With Q-in-Q tagging for Microsoft Azure instances, 100G port availability in new locations around the globe on the portal, and new route filtering functionality on Megaport Cloud Router, customers will have greater control over their hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments than ever. With Q-in-Q tagging for Microsoft Azure instances, 100G port availability in new locations around the globe available on the portal, and new route filtering capabilities on Megaport Cloud Router, you can get more value out of your Megaport service and greater control over your hybrid cloud and multicloud networks.
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When to Use ExpressRoute Local for Microsoft Azure Private Peering
A checklist for knowing how to make ExpressRoute Local on Microsoft Azure right for you.
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Webinar Transcript and Video: Multicloud Over Coffee With Google Cloud
Google Cloud, Megaport, Qwinix, and 1623 Farnam recently held a webinar to talk about deploying multicloud to build agile, future-proof networks in a time of increased IT complexity caused by distributed workforces and applications. Google Cloud, Megaport, Qwinix and 1623 Farnam recently held a webinar and talked about deploying multicloud, specifically using Google Anthos, to build agile, future-proof networks in a time of increased IT complexity caused by distributed workforces and applications.
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5 Reasons to Modernize and Software-Define Your MPLS Network
Enterprises can design a hybrid software-defined MPLS network that frees them from long-term contracts while improving network performance and reliability.
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VIDEO: How to Access AWS GovCloud (US) with Megaport
With cybersecurity top of mind for US government entities and government-regulated industries, AWS GovCloud (US) can help you meet American cybersecurity and compliance mandates, safeguard sensitive data, and protect your workloads.
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Simplify Your Hybrid IT Operations with AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that brings AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to your data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. 1. What is AWS Outposts? If you ask someone to describe an outpost, they might detail a historic outpost of the American frontier, like Fort Sedgewick in Dances with Wolves. AWS Outposts is a great name for the product. Launched at the re:Invent 2018, AWS Outposts is a single rack, exact replica of what AWS runs in their own data centers and delivers a fully managed, consistent hybrid cloud experience. AWS will actually visit your data center or colocation facility, install the Outposts hardware and configure it to connect back to the nearest AWS Region. Once configured, the Outposts is managed, monitored, and updated by AWS just like in the cloud.
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Enable a Split-stack Architecture Spanning Oracle Cloud and Other Providers Using Megaport
Implement a secure split-stack architecture and become platform agnostic. Leverage the cost and performance advantages of Oracle Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Database for your applications hosted by other cloud providers.
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Case Study: A Leading Fuel Company’s Digital Transformation
Read how a leading fuel company in New Zealand modernized their network and transformed their customer experience by using Megaport for multicloud connectivity.
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Running Hybrid and Multicloud Containers with Google Anthos
In recent years, enterprises have realised that not every workload should run in the public cloud. Google Anthos offers a platform to deploy and manage containerised workloads across different cloud infrastructures. Authored by: Kent Hua, Customer Engineer - App Modernization Specialist, Google James McElvanna, Solutions Architect, Megaport Nick De Cristofaro, Networking Specialist Customer Engineer, Google James Ronneberg, Partner Development Manager (Cloud), Megaport Introduction In the early days of cloud computing, the narrative from the CSPs was that nearly everything would be run in the public cloud, but as Warren Buffett wisely said, “Don’t ask the barber if you need a haircut.” In recent years, enterprises have realised that not every workload can or should be run in the public cloud. Most have split services and applications between on-prem and private or public clouds based on criteria such as cost, latency, security and compliance.
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Why Cloud-to-Cloud Connectivity is Key in Canada
Eliminate unnecessary latency and modernise your network with direct cloud-to-cloud connectivity. Let’s say your company is located in Calgary and uses Oracle and AWS clouds to run its Oracle databases, with data being sent between the two providers. Common examples of this are companies running Oracle databases within an AWS virtual machines. All of the major cloud providers in Canada – AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud – have their physical infrastructure located in Toronto, Montreal, or Quebec City. In Canada, there are no cloud regions west of Toronto and currently there are no plans for any of the big hyperscalers to build out new regions in central and western Canada. Your traffic would go from the Oracle region in Toronto or Montreal back to your on-premises network in Calgary and hairpin back out to the AWS infrastructure in Montreal. This routing scenario is illustrated in the diagram below.
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From Europe to Norway to the Cloud
There are many reasons to colocate in Norway – cheaper, greener colocation for example. Now there is one more, easy cloud connectivity.
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Understanding Private Connection SLAs for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
A thorough understanding of cloud service provider SLAs is necessary to make solid deployment decisions.
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Understanding Private Connectivity Costs for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
Comparing the cost components to privately connect to these major cloud service providers.
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Comparing Private Connectivity of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
Explore the private connectivity options of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Learn how each cloud provider’s models can boost performance, reduce costs, and improve network stability for your multicloud strategy.
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Simplifying Routing Across Multiple AWS Regions with a Virtual Router Service
Learn about the advantages of using Megaport Cloud Router (MCR) to route traffic across multiple AWS Regions. Routing traffic between virtual private clouds (VPCs) has seen several generations of evolution. VPC peering enabled instances in different VPCs to communicate with each other as if they were within the same network. Later, AWS Transit Gateway, akin to a virtual router, provided a more scalable, simpler networking solution within a given AWS Region.
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Design Scenarios for Multicloud — Diversity and Design Principles
How to define requirements, then design different multicloud scenarios, using Megaport and Megaport Cloud Router. If you are a loyal reader of our blog, you likely came across one of our popular posts, Nine Common Scenarios for Multicloud Design, illustrating different options to connect from on-premises infrastructure to CSPs with or without Megaport Cloud Router (MCR). Over the year and a half since it was released, we have worked with a large number of customers adapting the common scenario designs. We have taken their input, added some improvements to Megaport’s global network, and produced a new set of design scenarios that are focused on diversity and design principles, which we will discuss in this article.
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Avoid Cloud Bill Shock with Azure ExpressRoute Local and Megaport
Data egress fees add up quickly, but you can avoid those fees with a low-cost private network connection from Megaport.
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Transforming the Network Edge
Megaport Virtual Edge transforms the way businesses architect their network. Cisco collaboration brings SD-WAN to Megaport platform.
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Secure, On-Demand Connectivity to Cloudflare is Now Available to Megaport Customers
Megaport and Cloudflare together extend network availability to more worldwide locations with advantages of direct connections to Cloudflare. Megaport is pleased to announce that we are strengthening our partnership with Cloudflare by joining with them to enable direct access to Cloudflare’s global network from Megaport’s SDN. Megaport customers can rapidly on-ramp onto Cloudflare’s global network from hundreds of Megaport-enabled locations globally. This extends the previous capability for Megaport customers to access Cloudflare through Megaport’s Internet Exchanges (MegaIX).
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Getting Started with Megaport APIs
Megaport APIs can save you time and effort in provisioning and managing your network connections. Modern enterprises workloads, cloud deployments, and Software Defined Network management are but a few areas that have enjoyed a high level of automation over the past few years. Automation provides efficiencies for enterprises that wish to speed service delivery, boost employees’ productivity, and avoid repetitive manual operations. A good way to take advantage of the benefits automation offers is through the use of APIs, which can save you considerable time and effort in provisioning and managing your network connections. A recent study from MIT shows that a plurality of organisations are adopting APIs as a key part of their digital transformation journey.
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Accessing SAP Across Platforms is Now Faster and Easier with Megaport Cloud Router
SAP and Megaport have partnered to make creating and managing SAP interconnections simpler and more cost-effective than ever before. Millions of customers around the world depend on SAP to manage their customers, supply chains, financial resources, people, and more, making it one of the world’s biggest cloud service providers. SAP solutions are powerful when deployed on their own, but once you integrate them with the rest of your cloud environment to improve data sharing and performance, the value they deliver becomes far greater.
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Multicloud Is Great, but It’s Only as Good as Your Intercloud Connectivity
A fast and flexible virtual network can fulfill the promise of multicloud. According to Gartner, 81% of organisations use services from two or more cloud providers. That’s an astonishing majority, and one that may only increase in the future as the enterprise world increasingly favours multicloud strategies. But, here’s the problem. The cloud is all about flexibility, and the promise that you can access critical data and systems from anywhere. With multicloud, this promise isn’t fulfilled. That’s because, though you can access all your data in different physical locations, you can’t access it from different virtual locations. One cloud can’t directly access another’s data, leading to all kinds of integration barriers.
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Think You’re Too Far From Your Preferred Cloud Vendor? We Have a Solution.
If the public cloud services you use are too far from your premises, why not just bring them closer? The cloud was intended to bring the very best IT solutions to everyone, regardless of your organisation’s size, budget, or technical know-how. Sadly, that hasn’t been true for everyone. Because even though you can purchase a cloud service and run it from anywhere in the world, your location still matters. The latency, the compliance risks, and even the costs of getting up and running at acceptable speeds, can have a big impact on what you can get from the cloud.
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Choosing a Device to Connect Your Megaport
You have the choice of a number of ways to physically connect to Megaport in your data centre. Which is right for you?
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Seamlessly Connecting Your Oracle Database With Your Azure Workloads
Connecting workloads between public cloud providers is a common need of companies operating in our new multicloud and hybrid cloud world. There are a number of options to consider when choosing how to make those connections. Some providers have partnered and integrated their solutions to enable cross-cloud workloads without having to traverse the public internet. Microsoft and Oracle’s collaboration is a great example. A typical use case for connecting between the two clouds might include deploying Oracle Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and deploying an Oracle, .NET, or custom application in Microsoft Azure.
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Keeping The Lights On: Ensure Your Users and Critical Applications Are Protected With Redundant Cloud Connectivity
Do you have any single points of failure in your connectivity? Check the design of your network connectivity and protect your critical cloud applications as I run you through some redundancy best practices. As businesses have continued to shift their workforces to work-from-home and remote operations, our dependence on cloud services continues to grow. Microsoft reported a 775% increase in the use of its cloud services in regions that have recently enforced social distancing.
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Interconnection Trends: Cloud-native Becomes the Norm
Majority of new businesses expected to be born-in-the-cloud as physical infrastructure makes way for a cloud-native future. In the early days of cloud adoption, being a cloud-native business was disruptive by default. With industries the world over heavily dominated by incumbent companies, brands, and vendors with on-premises infrastructure, the agility afforded by being cloud-native was a huge competitive advantage. Startups could break into almost any sector with a cloud-first approach, and target the market’s most pronounced pain points with their new business models.
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Multicloudy Skies with a Certain Chance of SDN
This article is authored by Megaport’s VP of Engineering and Product, John Veizades, and originally published on VMBlog_. _ In recent years, there’s been a lot of hype around “multicloud” and what it means for businesses. Enterprises have struggled to understand where multicloud fits into their ever-evolving business strategies. In 2018, many customers went all-in with one cloud. This began shifting in 2019, and we expect 2020 to be a breakout year for greater multicloud adoption.
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Become the Customer of your Cloud Vendors’ Dreams
Take control of your cloud vendor negotiations by becoming the ideal customer.
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Interconnection Trends: The Continuing Rise of the Cloud
Global public cloud market to reach $206B; 28% of IT spend going to cloud services by 2022. Moving to the cloud is nothing new for enterprises. Vast swathes of businesses have been moving their IT operations off-premises, creating new cloud-native infrastructures, and adopting new as-a-service tools and resources. In 2019 alone, Gartner expects the global public cloud market to reach over $206 billion, with a not-insignificant 28% of IT spend going towards cloud services by 2022.
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Partner Spotlight: Colocation Northwest
“We are pleased to partner with Megaport to expand our connectivity solutions to enable digital business. Our customers are looking for secure private connections from our five Colocation Northwest data centers to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and a host of other cloud providers to meet a growing market need for hybrid cloud environments. Our customers are also interested in additional regional and global connectivity options that can be delivered over the Megaport Network.”
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Improving Dev and Test Processes with NaaS Connectivity
How Network as a Service (NaaS) connectivity makes spinning up dev and test environments easy, flexible, and fast. The cloud hasn’t just had a major impact on how applications are acquired and deployed today – it’s completely transformed the way they’re developed. Across the board, the cloud has made development processes far more open, and faster than ever before. With dev and test environments hosted and managed in the cloud, developers can easily collaborate on projects from anywhere, deploy new iterations in seconds and embrace a flexible DevOps culture.
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3 Ways to Improve Network Redundancy in the Cloud
Avoid network failures with the right redundancy strategies.Here’s how to achieve it.
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Using Megaport to Simplify your Partner Connectivity Ecosystem
How to connect your offices, private data centres, and public cloud partners – easily. Businesses thrive on communication – with customers, with partners, and with suppliers. Very few organisations operate in isolation, so it makes sense that communicating with the external arms of your workplace should be as easy and secure as possible. Some prefer to keep external communications limited to standard business applications, such as email and document sharing tools, along with other SaaS-based solutions, which may work perfectly well for certain verticals.
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Managing Traffic in the Age of Multicloud
How virtual routing solves the challenges associated with managing multicloud connections. There’s no doubt for those working in enterprise IT, multicloud is an exciting concept. Getting the best that the cloud has to offer from multiple expert partners, crafting your own ideal cloud partner portfolio and environments, and reducing the risks associated with relying on a single cloud provider – for many, it’s the stuff of dreams. But for those in charge of managing network traffic, the thought of routing and controlling workloads between diverse clouds can be enough to inspire sleepless nights. Typically, there are three main concerns network teams have when it comes to multicloud traffic management:
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How to Load Balance Traffic Across Multiple VXCs
For those wanting to maximise the use of multiple network connections for redundancy and optimised performance. Load balancing traffic across your network connections allows you to maximise the use of multiple network paths when routing to the same destination networks. This strategy allows for increased throughput and redundancy. We’ll talk you through the process of setting up load balancing using a Megaport-connected network architecture. When there are multiple paths available to reach the same network, BGP uses a best path selection process to choose the optimum path based on a range of criteria, mark the chosen path as ‘active’, and install the next hop in the forwarding table. This results in traffic to a given destination flowing only over one connection despite having ‘active/active’ BGP sessions. The desired behavior of spreading traffic across both BGP sessions is called Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP).
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Connecting an MPLS Network to the Public Cloud
As enterprises transition from MPLS to SD-WAN networks, part of the journey, in most cases, includes a strategy to connect to the public cloud. Previously, when private MPLS networks were deployed, accessing hyperscale cloud providers may not have been top of mind. Today, this a critical factor in the deployment. However, to support the enterprise costs of deploying a large-scale MPLS network, an organisation usually has to enter into a long-term contract, keeping them locked into their existing topology. Adding multiple clouds and managing connectivity to hyperscalers on an existing MPLS platform is typically slow, costly, and complex.
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3 Ways Dedicated Connectivity is Transforming Healthcare
Exploring the advancements of connectivity for the healthcare industry.
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Connectivity Simplified: 5 IT Challenges Made Easier with Megaport
Building connections to and between the services that power your business should be easy.
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Connectivity in Digital Media: Why Scalability is Everything
Flexible, scalable network architectures are the key to success in digital media.
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Creating Network Redundancy with ExpressRoute Global Reach and Megaport
How to use Megaport’s Private VXC and Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach to connect to the cloud and build a fully redundant multi-vendor solution.
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How Direct Private Peering Can Enhance your Network Security
From routing policy mistakes to BGP hijacks, how do enterprise businesses secure their network to avoid emerging security threats?
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3 Ways Connectivity is Enabling a New Era of Finance Innovation
Innovation in the Financial Services industry is booming. Here’s how connectivity is impacting this new era.
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Accessing Google Cloud APIs via Google Partner Interconnect and Megaport
With the emergence of new and innovative cloud computing technologies, companies have the ability to drive digital transformation initiatives with completely different economics, pace, and scale.
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Establishing VMWare on AWS with Megaport
How to connect your virtualised compute, storage, and networking infrastructure with Megaport.
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Launching Self-Service LAG Ports
How Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Ports enable you to build right-sized resilient networks with greater control over capacity and throughput. With more data moving to the cloud and between public and private infrastructure than ever before, enterprise businesses are searching for optimised ways of migrating large workloads. Gaining greater control and choice over network connectivity is key to achieving this – and these factors play a major role in building resilient, future-proofed network architectures.
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Creating a High-Performance Backup Architecture with Azure Site Recovery
How direct connectivity to Azure’s built-in Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) could solve your business continuity and availability issues.
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How Scalable Connectivity Improves Business Agility
Building a cloud or data transport strategy? Here’s how scalable connectivity could significantly improve the process – and your overall business agility. From everyday operations to key projects, an enterprise’s need to move workloads constantly fluctuates depending on the changing demands of the organisation. Whether it’s between physical infrastructure in data centres or to the cloud, or both, transferring data should be a quick and easy process–especially considering the competitive digital landscape that’s become a reality for enterprises across most verticals.
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Evaluating and Understanding your Cloud Connectivity Options
What are the options available for connecting to the cloud and what’s the best choice for your business?
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How Hyperconverged Technologies Simplify the Management of your Infrastructure Stack
As hybrid cloud and multicloud strategies become the norm for enterprise businesses, the new wave of technology brings with it the complexities of managing, operating, and architecting IT environments.
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Making Complex Cloud Networking Manageable
How Network as a Service removes the complexity of cloud networking. Between public and private offerings, market-leading solution packages compiled by the world’s biggest tech companies, and agile new services delivered by nimble startups, there’s a lot on offer in the cloud. So, it’s no surprise that as businesses rush to embrace all that the cloud can deliver, it can become quite challenging to manage. Different lines of business have different demands, and before you know it, the IT team is managing a huge range of connections to unique services from diverse partners around the world.
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Bringing the Cloud to the Edge in North America
Why our recent expansion with vXchnge will make a difference for North American enterprises.
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Veeam Cloud Tier Storage for Backup and Replication
How Veeam and Megaport services enable smart network architectures for backup and replication. The VeeamON 2018 conference in Chicago brought with it the announcement of a range of new features from Veeam, one of the world’s leading data management providers. These additions centered around the Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 which now has general availability as of 22 January 2019. A major feature that many organisations have been anticipating is Veeam Cloud Tier – a long-term data retention solution that supports cloud storage such as Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.
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Nine Common Scenarios for Multicloud Design
How to use Megaport and Megaport Cloud Router for multicloud designs – from simple single-region to complex resilient multi-region architectures.
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Achieving Network Redundancy with an Active/Active AWS Direct Connect Connection
When it comes to moving mission-critical workloads into the cloud, backup is your best friend.
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Q and A for Q-in-Q part 2
The basics around double-stacked VLAN tagging, otherwise known as Q-in-Q, or by it’s formal IEEE definition, 802.1ad.
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Visualising Megaport’s Network
What do you guys do again? Here at Megaport, we offer customers several layer 2 network services on top of our layer 1 network. The physical network can be thought of as a set of points with connections between them, and is ultimately represented in a database structure something like this (representing a ring network of three locations): The physical network is (eye-wateringly) expensive and because of that is it relatively static over time. When our customers buy services they are effectively constructing their own virtual networks on top of ours, and this is much more dynamic, complex, and well, interesting. A table of data might be completely accurate but it is not very visually appealing, so what to do about that? When I hear ‘network’ I naturally think ‘graph’ and how I can visualise the data…
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Q and A for Q-in-Q part 1
The basics around double-stacked VLAN tagging, otherwise known as Q-in-Q, or by it’s formal IEEE definition, 802.1ad.
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A brief history of Fibre Optics
While fibre technology has become ubiquitous in today’s modern telecommunications networks, did you know that fibre optic technology has been around for a very long time and is quite simple in concept. Glass dates back to around 3000BC and the Romans were drawing glass into fibre as early as 27BC. So while fibre has become an everyday technology ranging from medical to telecommunications to entertainment applications, you can see from its history that fibre has come a very long way in a very short time.
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