Cloud

Comparing Generative AI Offerings From Major Cloud Providers

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In the last two years, generative AI offerings have exploded in the cloud space (and everywhere else). Major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are perfectly positioned to lead these efforts thanks to the fact that they offer the very resources they require to build these models, and their customers are naturally early adopters and heavy users of AI.

Megaport Enhancing Connectivity in Canberra

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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.

Megaport Launches First AWS Direct Connect Network Service Offering on AWS Marketplace

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When I speak with enterprise customers about their cloud roadmap, they typically share the same vision: A true high-performance multicloud environment utilizing best-of-breed services from each cloud provider, with seamlessly tied-together cross-cloud data flows, all supporting high performance applications – and, of course, the end user experience that people have not only come to expect, but demand.

Comparing Your Multicloud Connectivity Options

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Multicloud has become the norm in digital infrastructure, but with it comes an uncharted set of challenges and considerations for IT teams. Oracle found that 98% of enterprises using public cloud have adopted a multicloud infrastructure provider strategy, which emphasizes that today, almost every enterprise cloud journey is a multicloud one.

What Are Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE), and Should You Have One?

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For many organizations, unstructured and ungoverned cloud adoption is hindering growth and innovation. According to Gartner® , this is often “as a result of not only ‘shadow IT ’ adoption, but also business units moving faster to adopt cloud than central IT is ready to support.”¹

Cross-Cloud Connectivity Made Easy with Oracle and Megaport

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In Flexera’s 2022 State of the Cloud Report , 89% of respondents reported having a multicloud strategy. And, according to a 2022 HashiCorp survey , 90% of businesses that have adopted a multicloud strategy say it’s working for them. With its slew of benefits , multicloud has made itself an intrinsic part of the business world, and for good reason – but it comes with new challenges of its own.

Is Cloud Storage Safe?

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Cybersecurity breaches are becoming more frequent and advanced than ever before, and can result in the significant loss of both enterprises’ and their customers’ confidential data and money. Whether via the cloud or in a private data center, no storage method is guaranteed to be impenetrable.

IaaS, NaaS, PaaS, and SaaS: How Are They Different?

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Adoption of cloud has grown rapidly in the past several years. According to Gartner®, Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20.7% to total $591.8 billion in 2023, up from $490.3 billion in 2022. What started out as a simpler choice between “on-premises” and “cloud” has expanded into countless offerings that serve various use cases.

MetTel and Megaport Enable High Performance Applications in the Cloud

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Founded in 1996, MetTel started with a mission to broaden the variety of choice to optimized, end-to-end connectivity available to enterprises through partnering with the world’s leading telecommunications carriers and application providers.

How Quantum Computing Can Better Protect Your Data

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News of data breaches and hacking attempts seems to happen daily. As hackers and the tools they use become better at breaking passwords and decrypting data, some have anticipated the increased threats that quantum computing solutions can provide and the opportunities of quantum encryption to address them.

With companies embracing hybrid and fully remote working models, resulting in vast amounts of data being shared daily, companies are also interested in quantum’s potential to protect data in the cloud. Here is how we’re thinking about this emerging technology at Megaport.

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud: The Big Three Compared

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For any modern business, it’s no longer a question of whether you should investigate moving your high availability IT services to the cloud; rather, it’s a matter of which clouds you should be using, which service offerings, and how to strategically deploy them to accomplish your business goals. From scalable storage of data to the compute power needed to analyze and transform data, the cloud has become a core component in the way enterprises run their business with competitive advantage in mind.

How to Fix Poor Google Cloud Latency

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Businesses are growing beyond physical data centers, and instead choosing to migrate to the cloud. With the promise of improving business efficiency and reducing development costs, it’s hard to look beyond Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as a key Cloud Service Provider.

3DS OUTSCALE uses Megaport to Unlock Cloud Potential

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3DS OUTSCALE, a strategic partner and subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, was established to provide a local alternative to the major US-based cloud service providers.

Comparing Ways to Connect to Microsoft Azure

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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).

Multicloud Connectivity: A Complete Guide

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Even if you’ve barely dipped your toes in the cloud, you’ve probably seen the term multicloud floating around a lot – and for good reason. With a predicted 94% of organizations having a multicloud network by 2024 , it’s a setup many are turning to in the shift from traditional infrastructure.

How to Fix Poor Azure Latency

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Companies don’t always get the most out of their cloud networks. There are times when need outpaces capacity and networks suffer latency issues. If you’ve found this blog, you likely already know how problematic poor latency can be for a business , and how its inefficiencies quickly translate into lost revenue. According to a recent report from Gartner, downtime costs companies, on average, $5,600 USD per minute – and unreliable latency is a key contributor. So, when network needs are outpacing network capacity, how can you keep up and avoid latency issues?

The Four Types of Cloud Storage, and Which Is Right for You

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Cloud storage is an essential component of any modern business. Whether it’s an application’s database or safekeeping customers’ personal details, you’ll need a storage solution that securely and efficiently meets your enterprise’s unique digital needs. And as the ways businesses use the cloud continue to expand—especially with the increased demand for access-from-anywhere network models—so too do the number of cloud storage solutions.

How to Fix Poor AWS Latency

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In the modern business world, AWS is everywhere. An estimated 93 percent of businesses rely on AWS to some degree, while small- to mid-sized businesses claim to run 41 percent of significant workloads on the leading cloud platform.

Comparing Last-Mile Connectivity Methods

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Connectivity options, alongside the rest of the internet, are constantly changing. When it comes to last-mile access, choices are continuously evolving, especially for companies looking to balance value, flexibility, and risk.

AWS VGW vs DGW vs TGW

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In November 2018, AWS launched the newest version of its native network routing service: Transit Gateway (TGW) . This cloud-based network gateway allows customers to connect Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across different accounts in a hub and spoke topology, and is the third evolution in this feature set. The release was preceded by Direct Connect Gateway (DGW) , which was announced in 2017, and prior to that, Virtual Private Gateway (VGW) .

Cloud-Driven Innovations in Mexico and Latin America

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We’ve written about the state of the cloud in Mexico before. (Spoiler alert: It’s growing, and growing fast.) We’ve also written about key verticals where cloud computing is playing an increasingly important role. In our third and final blog about Mexico, we’ll look at some of the innovations establishing the country and the greater region of Latin America as an international hub for cloud-driven IT.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Aims to Make Cloud Migrations Easier

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As one of the first cloud computing services, enterprise storage continues to be one of the most popular reasons to utilize the public cloud. Fifteen years ago, AWS S3 started the storage-as-a-service movement and has since grown into a multibillion-dollar business. It’s estimated that enterprise storage accounts to 15 to 20% of AWS’s annual revenue , nearing $10 billion USD a year .

How DXC Technology Uses Megaport to Connect DXC’s Australian Data Centers to the Cloud

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In 2021’s global cloud-first landscape, being able to connect from almost anywhere has become critical to business survival. As cloud-native functions become more and more a part of core business, companies are turning to IT services or full-stack integrators to help them migrate and manage their cloud tech stack. But if you’re in a country like Australia, with geographically dispersed and limited network infrastructure, how can integrators ensure reliable cloud connectivity for these applications?

Cloud Hubs or SDCI: Which Is the Best Private Connectivity Method?

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In a recent blog, we looked at public versus private connectivity methods and the benefits of using private connectivity to get your enterprise to the cloud. Now, we’ll dive deeper into the two emergent private connectivity methods: cloud hubs and software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI). What are the differences between these two connectivity methods? Which use cases do they best serve? And, ultimately, which one is better for your network?

How You Can Simplify Your Provisioning With NaaS

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Connecting to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) is a necessity in 2021. Companies are seeking to increase automation and innovation to improve increasingly globalized yet remote business operations. But many companies are just starting to come around to using Network as a Service (NaaS) to connect to the major CSPs.

Automate Your Multicloud with the Megaport Terraform Provider

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Many organizations on the cloud infrastructure journey quickly discover the need for tools to automate resources they create and manage. These tools make it easy to record the state of systems, maintain audit trails, and rapidly create consistent environments for testing or deployment purposes.

Is Your Cloud Data Secure? Three Questions You Can Ask Yourself

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Earlier this month, a massive Microsoft Exchange email service hack shook the tech world. It affected thousands of organizations globally and induced the assembly of a huge US Government task force. CEO of cybersecurity firm TrustedSec David Kennedy called it “literally the largest hack I’ve seen in my fifteen years.”

Understanding Private Connection SLAs for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud

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High availability solutions are a top priority when deploying network connectivity to resources critical to business success. With cloud deployments expected to continue to grow rapidly, understanding service-level agreements (SLAs) provided by the CSPs can help guide deployment decisions.

Understanding Private Connectivity Costs for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud

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Deciphering the costs for cloud services can be a daunting task, and connectivity is one component that is frequently not given the attention it deserves. Megaport customers have simple and scalable costs for private, on-demand connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In addition to these costs, you will have connectivity-associated costs charged directly by the cloud providers. Those costs will be based on the specific pricing models and options for the solution that you’re implementing.

Comparing Private Connectivity of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud

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With the fast growing adoption of multicloud strategies, understanding the private connectivity models to these hyperscalers becomes increasingly important. Private connectivity can, in many cases, increase bandwidth throughput, reduce overall network costs, and provide a more predictable and stable network experience when compared to internet connections. So, whether it is time to spin up private connectivity to a new cloud service provider (CSP), or get rid of your ol’ internet VPN, this article can lend a helping hand in understanding the different connectivity models, vernacular, and components of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) private connectivity offerings.

3 Ways Connectivity is Enabling a New Era of Finance Innovation

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We’ve all seen the headlines. A new breed of agile Fintech innovator has turned the Financial Services industry on its head – creating powerful new digital services, tailored to the demands of today’s consumers. They’ve changed the industry, and now there’s no turning back.

Visualising Megaport’s Network

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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…