Paul McGuinness

Head of Solutions Europe | Network as a Service

Paul leads our EMEA team of Solutions Architects to help customers design and implement their networks. He also leads market education on global Network as a Service private connectivity solutions across industry verticals including virtual connectivity hubs, SD-WAN, virtual firewalling, and virtual routing solutions.

Previously, Paul has held senior positions at several global telecommunications vendors including Cisco, Polycom, and Ayava, and has held solutions consulting roles for a number of successful startups.

Transforming Financial Connectivity: Introducing Megaport Financial Services Exchange (FSX)

News

Over the past six years at Megaport, I’ve witnessed a growing desire for change in the Financial Services (FS) industry, particularly regarding application and data mobility within organizations and with third-party partners. Initially, many in FS approached cloud adoption tentatively, waiting until it was fully matured and trusted across the industry. Today, however, the FS sector is one of the largest users of cloud services globally.

How to Connect Your AWS and Microsoft Azure Environments

Networking , AWS

Hybrid cloud and multicloud architectures have become common—with a predicted 94% of organisations having a multicloud network by 2024—for enterprise IT departments seeking greater network reliability, security, and cost-efficiency in support of optimal application performance. As more and more enterprise workloads migrate to the cloud, it’s only natural that organizations seek ways to connect Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, two leading hyperscalers, to future-proof their network and ensure the lowest latency between workloads.

Comparing Ways to Connect to Microsoft Azure

Cloud , Networking

Curious about Microsoft Azure and the best ways to connect? Azure is a hybrid Cloud Service Provider (CSP) with customized, scalable, cloud-based packages. These encompass Software as a Service (SaaS), based on subscription-based software licensing and delivery, Platform as a Service (PaaS), allowing companies to develop, deploy, manage, and update applications, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), providing high-level application programming interfaces (APIs).

Four Easy Ways to Lower Your Microsoft Azure Egress Fees

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you know we write about egress fees a lot; we’ve helped customers save tens of thousands of dollars per month on data transfer out of the cloud. Moving data from your on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure (“inbound” or “ingress”) is free, but the data transfer fees for pulling data out of Azure (“outbound” or “egress”), as you would in a typical hybrid cloud use case, can be quite hefty depending on how you connect.

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Pricing, Explained

Networking

We hear the confusion from customers all the time. What to make of Microsoft Azure ’s ExpressRoute pricing ?

When to Use ExpressRoute Local for Microsoft Azure Private Peering

Networking

In this article, we will explore the different options for connecting to Microsoft Azure private peering and Microsoft peering. Then we will examine the best connectivity options regarding cost, look at examples, and offer you a checklist for when to consider ExpressRoute Local . With this information, you can decide if reaching out to an ExpressRoute Local location via Megaport is worthwhile for your organization’s private connectivity.