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The Problem with Public Internet Connectivity
Exploring the pitfalls of public internet connectivity for cloud access – and identifying your alternatives.
Read MoreIs 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?
Read MoreListening to Customers and Looking for Leaders: A Midyear Review
From gleaning insights from customers and partners to deepening his understanding of the Network as a Service market, Chief Revenue Officer Rodney Foreman chronicles his first half year at Megaport. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” –John Wooden About six weeks into my job as the new Chief Revenue Officer at Megaport, I posted this quote to our North American Sales team Slack channel because:
Read MoreInterconnection 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.
Read MoreInterconnection Trends: Cutting Complexity with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
20% of currently-deployed, business-critical applications will shift to hyperconverged infrastructure within a year, cutting management complexity as the technology moves into the mainstream. With hybrid and multicloud environments representing the future of all IT infrastructures, there’s a risk that leaders will find themselves saddled with a level of complexity beyond the on-premises tech they were trying to escape from. As soon as you introduce multiple discrete components to your environment – cloud solutions from multiple vendors, on-premises data centres, public cloud services – you can inadvertently introduce management challenges. Everything will have different requirements, update cycles, permissions, and so on.
Read MoreInterconnection Trends: The Cloud Shifts Towards the Edge
Connectivity is king as edge computing reaches for the clouds in search of high-capacity bandwidth and processing power. The use case for edge computing is a simple: why waste time and resources sending information back to a centralised data centre, when you can process and analyse that data as close to the action as possible? It puts less pressure on the network, is easier to control, and means organisations can run programmes and analytics faster than ever before. It’s taken some time to mature, but it’s on its way to being a major catalyst for technology change.
Read MoreMegaport Launches in Japan
Megaport expands to Japan, where cloud connectivity demand is increasing across various industries operating in today’s cloud-first environment. Japan is expected to spend $7.4 Billion in public cloud services in 2019. That puts them in the world’s top five countries consuming cloud services, according to IDC. As an innovation engine, Japan has always pushed the boundaries of technology. This, coupled with the Government’s dedication to funding cloud services, and the growing investment into public and private ICT infrastructure, has positioned Japan as a cloud-first nation.
Read MoreInterconnection Trends: A Diversifying Industry Drives Multicloud Adoption
Most businesses now use two or more cloud providers, shifting away from single-vendor solutions and putting more importance on interconnectivity than ever before. To make the most of what’s on offer in the cloud, you can’t afford to tie yourself down to one provider. That’s the sentiment that’s driving widespread multicloud adoption across industries. As organisations mature in the way they use cloud services, more and more are realising that getting locked-in to a single vendor is more likely to hinder than help.
Read MoreInterconnection 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.
Read MoreThe Future of Database is in the Cloud
75% of databases will be deployed in the cloud by 2022. Here’s why connectivity is more important than ever. While the cloud is now a mainstay for all kinds of IT workloads, key systems like core databases are still often kept on-premises. But that looks like it’s starting to change. According to Gartner, 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022. While many organisations were uncertain about moving back-office systems like the database offsite, that view is clearly changing. Here’s why this shift is happening, and what it means for your data centre connectivity.
Read MoreImproving 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.
Read MoreManaging 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:
Read MoreThe Future of Cloud is Total Interoperability
Why total interoperability is important for today’s cloud strategies and how you can achieve it. Way back in 2009, a consortium of major IT companies worked together to produce the Cloud Computing Manifesto. It outlined key principles that all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) should follow, putting an emphasis on the importance of openness and interoperability. Right from the dawn of the modern cloud era, there has been a clear understanding amongst cloud leaders that interoperability is critically important to companies across all industries. But unfortunately, until now, that understanding hasn’t translated into action quite as broadly as once hoped.
Read MoreConnectivity Simplified: 5 IT Challenges Made Easier with Megaport
Building connections to and between the services that power your business should be easy.
Read MoreConnectivity in Digital Media: Why Scalability is Everything
Flexible, scalable network architectures are the key to success in digital media.
Read MoreThe Edge of the Public Cloud is Getting Closer to your Business
How Network as a Service (NaaS) providers extend the reach of the public cloud to the enterprise.
Read MoreThe Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Cloud and the Connection Between Public and Private
Connecting to on-premises and public cloud resources doesn’t have to mean sacrificing the benefits of either environment. When cloud technology first burst onto the enterprise market, IT leaders and networking teams were faced with a very difficult choice. Should they embrace public cloud solutions and gain unparalleled flexibility at the cost of control, or opt for private cloud offerings, enabling them to retain total control over their data and security, at the cost of manageability and agility?
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreEvaluating 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?
Read MoreMaking 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.
Read MoreSaaS, AI, and Connectivity in the Second Wave of Cloud
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and AI are evolving and stimulating innovation for cloud consumers. In order to capture the momentum of new technologies, organizations require an optimized and cohesive interconnection and data centre infrastructure solution. Today’s SaaS Applications SaaS has evolved to solve a broader set of business issues, just as organizations have become more entrenched in how they can support customer needs. The SaaS applications of yesterday were not the complex layered applications we regularly use today; the likes of Microsoft Office 365, Google’s G Suite, and Dropbox have advanced far beyond basic web pages. This added complexity, along with the heavier throughput associated with today’s SaaS applications, has driven the need for reduced latency and increased performance at the network layer to ensure business critical applications work to their peak abilities. Best-effort public internet access is not architected for guaranteed or consistent performance, but many organizations have to use it due to lack of access or knowledge on how to access SaaS applications via private connections. Inconsistent network performance degrades the user experience, productivity, and impacts revenue. Security and reliability are top-of-mind when deploying critical workloads and accessing applications housed in public cloud infrastructure. There are also major concerns around the ease of troubleshooting issues quickly; if a CTO is pushing data to numerous SaaS applications and their network connection is unreliable, or even has inconsistent round-trip latency, the consequences for their organization could be huge. As a result, there is an increased demand for a different way for organizations to connect with, utilize, and consume their overall cloud portfolio.
Read MoreThis Month in Cloud: Financial Benefits of Private Cloud Interconnection
Customers choose to use AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, network performance, security/privacy and reduction of bandwidth costs. In the field it’s routinely observed that most customers primarily adopt a private cloud interconnection network architecture because of the performance and security advantages. However, from time-to-time, reduction of bandwidth/network costs is cited as being weighted as an important metric. Many customers understand there is a positive tradeoff between dedicated internet access (transit) costs and transport costs. However, what is not commonly understood is that the major public cloud providers such as AWS and Microsoft financially incentivize their customers to adopt private interconnection (aka Direct Connect and ExpressRoute, respectively) by reducing the Data Transfer “outbound” charges (approximately $0.09/GB to approximately $0.03/GB in North America).
Read MorePortal Highlight: Service Groups
A common complaint we hear about regarding supplier web portals is that if a single person needs access to multiple companies, that person generally needs to maintain multiple accounts. One of the core concepts in the Megaportal is the idea that all our services belong to a Service Group. A Service Group is owned by a company and permissions are granted against the Service Group. Services can belong to multiple service groups, and people or roles can be assigned access to multiple service groups. Permissions can be granted to people or roles, we’ll get to this in a moment.
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