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New Megaport Virtual Edge Packages for Better Edge Networking
With our recent expansion of bandwidth options, there are now even more ways to customize your network and meet your business’ needs.
Read MoreMedia Roundup: Megaport’s 2021 Predictions
It’s prediction season and our team has brought out the crystal ball to see what the future will bring to technology, engineering, and the cloud in 2021. Here’s a roundup of our predictions from around the web. The only things more common than New Year’s resolutions in January are New Year’s tech predictions. The Megaport team has brought out our crystal ball and we’re placing friendly bets on what we believe the future will bring in technology, engineering, cloud computing, edge computing, network automation, and cybersecurity in 2021.
Read MoreSecure, 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).
Read MoreWe’ve Launched in France!
Megaport’s Network as a Service (NaaS) platform offers fast, scalable, and secure connections to a wide range of cloud providers Megaport est arrivé en France We’re excited to announce that Megaport has launched our services in France, giving French (and international) customers access to a multitude of unique data centres, cloud on-ramps, and service providers to support their local and global IT needs. Our easy to use self-service portal, fast deployment, and flexible contract terms allow enterprises in France (and across Europe) to build a connectivity resource that aligns with their overall cloud strategy, and improve the capabilities of French businesses to quickly create a scalable hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, or cloud-to-cloud architecture. Our services will initially be available from three Paris locations — Equinix Paris 2, Interxion Paris 5, and Colt Paris 2, and very soon adding Telehouse Paris 2 and 3 and Interxion in Marseille. We’ll be adding other locations in the future. This launch increases our presence in EMEA to 14 countries and 24 metros, with more cloud on-ramps than other SDN providers.
Read MoreMulticloudy 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.
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 MoreMegaport Cloud Router 2.0
Launching Megaport Cloud Router 2.0; evolving network virtualisation for powerful multicloud connectivity. Network connectivity has evolved far beyond traditional means. Virtualisation has flipped the way we move data between on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments on its head. It’s led to the ‘software defined everything’ reality that businesses are becoming accustomed to; whereby computing infrastructure and networks are virtualised and delivered as a service. In fact, the global Software Defined Everything market is expected to grow at USD 143 billion by the end of year 2022 with 29.47% of CAGR. Organisations have wholeheartedly moved on from slow-to-provision fixed transport services, and using public internet connections, to software defined networking and Network as a Service capabilities. These capabilities make operations from the simplest of data migrations right through to complete digital transformations easier, faster, and more secure.
Read MoreLaunching 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.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreMegaport Cloud Router: Changing Cloud Networking as you Know it
Unlocking powerful new Layer 3 connectivity options without the need for physical infrastructure. What is Megaport Cloud Router (MCR)? Compute infrastructure and software have increasingly become virtualized and have moved into the cloud, eliminating the need to own, deploy, and administer physical hardware and software licenses. This shift has resulted in many different “as a Service” models that make it possible to scale rapidly, reduce the total cost of ownership, and increase the availability of mission critical systems. Until recently, the network has been largely ignored in the virtualization development cycle; the ability to connect and scale data networks has been constrained by the need to own, deploy, and administer routers and switches within physical locations. As cloud adoption soars and enterprises demand reliable, scalable capacity, leading Cloud Service Providers have made significant advances so that their enterprise customers can connect directly to their respective cloud environments. However, this technology has typically been reserved for customers with a strong understanding of routing principles and those that have made significant investments in networking infrastructure. Today, Megaport changes this with the launch of Megaport Cloud Router (MCR). Put simply, MCR is a virtual router. While the core concept seems simple, the solution unlocks a number of advanced use cases for companies that want to avoid investing more in physical network infrastructure or prefer a completely virtualized architecture. MCR benefits enterprises architecting multicloud and hybrid cloud solutions, Network Service Providers (NSPs) and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) looking to expand their service reach, and ‘born in the cloud’ companies that rely entirely on virtualized services to operate their businesses. Below are a few MCR use cases.
Read MoreGetting the most out of ExpressRoute’s price reduction
Late last week Microsoft released a significant overhaul of their ExpressRoute offer pricing for users of direct Office 365 connectivity. The Premium routing option, which is required for Office 365 has dropped from USD$3k/month (on top of the standard port charges), to just USD$75/month in the case of the 50Mbps circuit sizing. Check out the updated ExpressRoute pricing table on the Microsoft site. Alongside this fantastic announcement the team here at Megaport would like to share with you some of the changes that are being implemented to either fine tune your current ExpressRoute deployment or get started on your journey to implementing a secure dedicated pipe to the Microsoft cloud.
Read MoreMEGAPORT WINS 2015 ACOMM INNOVATION AWARD!
Channel Manager, Josh Munro and Head of Ecosystem - ANZ, Matt Simpson accepting the Innovation Award on behalf of Megaport. Last night at the 2015 ACOMM, Communications Alliance and CommsDay Awards, Megaport took home the award for Innovation - SME. This was for our SDN-based elastic connectivity platform that gives our customers the ability to instantly provision services and scale bandwidth from Megaport enabled data centres to service providers in our global ecosystem.
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