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Pulsant Takes Steps to Become the UK’s Platform for Connecting Business

Pulsant is a digital edge infrastructure company that provides cloud, colocation, and connectivity services to UK businesses. Supported by a network of 12 strategically located edge data centers, its platform puts 95% of the UK’s population within reach of businesses seeking to deploy new edge applications, or securely extend hybrid infrastructure to improve performance.

How SWG and SD-WAN Work Together

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a huge percentage of the workforce moved home. This population shift—and its dependence on computers and their networks—meant corporations had to double down on network security and reliability.

Higher Performance Migrations to Google Cloud VMware Engine

Cloud adoption is ever increasing with enterprises “lifting and shifting” applications from on-premises infrastructure into their clouds of choice. Migrating workloads, which involves transferring large amounts of data–sometimes petabytes worth, can lead to numerous headaches, including rising costs, the high number of person-hours devoted to ensuring a migration runs smoothly, and the risk of outages of mission-critical business applications.

What You Can Learn From AWS re:Invent 2021

AWS re:Invent 2021 last week featured a slew of announcements. Here are some key highlights and what they mean to you. AWS re:Invent 2021 was a hybrid affair – a part-virtual and part in-person event that saw a return to live attendance in Las Vegas to the tune of 20,000 attendees. It was great to see colleagues and customers in real life for the first time in nearly two years, at an event featuring many exciting sessions and new service announcements by AWS.

Digital Realty and Google Cloud Discuss Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud for Regulated Industries

In industries like banking, healthcare, and government, adhering to data compliance regulations isn’t just an arbitrary requirement; it’s essential to keep customer and company data secure.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

Megaport Enables Fortinet Secure SD-WAN on Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE)

In late March, we announced the launch of Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) , the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) hosting service we developed to allow customers to spin-up virtual networking devices on demand. As a vendor-neutral service provider, Megaport has always offered maximum flexibility and choice to our customers as they push to modernize their networks. That’s why today we’re announcing the enablement of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN on MVE .

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.

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.

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.

Upcoming Webinars: OVHcloud, Google, 1623 Farnam, and Qwinix

We’ve got some compelling web events about hybrid cloud and multicloud in February with our partners OVHcloud, Google, 1623 Farnam, and Qwinix. “OVHcloud Connect” in partnership with Megaport

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

Partner Spotlight: Datacom

Learn more about one of Megaport’s data centre partners in New Zealand and Australia. Who We Are

Partner Spotlight: OVHcloud

How Values Drive Our Business at OVHcloud Hi, We’re OVHcloud Really, it should say ‘Bonjour, nous sommes OVHcloud’, but we have long outgrown our French roots. Established in 1999 in Roubaix, France, OVHcloud quickly joined the elite group of global hyperscalers and is now the largest European cloud provider, operating 400,000 servers within our 31 data centres across four continents.

Partner Spotlight: Colocity

Colocity is an Adelaide CBD based Data Centre Operator specialising in co-location and fibre services for South Australian businesses. Operating two purpose-built, carrier-neutral data centres on either side of the Adelaide CBD, the Company’s state-of-the-art facilities are linked via high-speed fibre data services and exist on separate high voltage electricity feeds. This, combined with full-load UPS power, backup generators, and redundant cooling, enables Colocity to deliver businesses exceptional uptime and redundancy.

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.”

Partner Spotlight: The Migration Company

“The Migration Company’s partnership with Megaport accelerates our time to value for our customers and continues to strengthen our 40% faster migration service offering. Connecting our customers’ data centres to the cloud is now a 60 second process which represents efficiency in cloud connectivity lead times, cost savings and reduction in overall migration timelines.”

Spotlight: Zenlayer

“Megaport is a great partner for us because we complement each other well. Our expertise is in cross-border connectivity while Megaport saturates connectivity in each region. In addition, it’s been a pleasure working with Megaport due to their flexibility and fast turnaround time.”

Partner Spotlight: 365 Data Centers

“This exciting new partnership between Megaport and 365 Data Centers enhances our ability to deliver connectivity to the various Cloud Service Providers around the world. This keeps 365 at the leading edge in the services we can provide and the speed at which we can meet our customers’ needs. Customers of 365 Data Centers now have the ability to rapidly move workloads between our cloud services , their own environment, and the multiple cloud environments available in the industry, without the complexity that would come with managing all of this connectivity themselves.”

Why the Microsoft-Oracle Partnership is Great for the Enterprise

Exploring the cloud interoperability partnership between Microsoft and Oracle, its benefits to enterprise customers, and what it means for Megaport. As the cloud continues to expand and develop, organisations are becoming increasingly more empowered with the tools they need to optimise day-to-day workloads as well as innovate to stay ahead of the game. Microsoft and Oracle Cloud recently announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling businesses to run one part of a workload within Azure and another part of the same workload within Oracle Cloud – giving them the ‘best-of-both-clouds experience’. This is a huge step forward in advancing the way cloud technologies work together to meet the demands of their customers. We’ll break down the complexities leading up to this partnership and give our insight into how it will be valuable for the enterprise – as well as what it means for Megaport customers.

Spotlight: Wasabi Technologies

“Wasabi customers who haven’t yet gone to the cloud often find that their connectivity isn’t quite up to 21st century standards,” said Jim Donovan, SVP Product, for Wasabi.

FlashForward ICT and Megaport

“We are excited to add Megaport to our ever-growing Vendor portfolio. Megaport is uniquely positioned to solve the critical business challenges facing every business owner today. Businesses need secure, low-latency, and scalable cloud connectivity and Megaport delivers, around the city or around the world." – Mitchell Satov, Executive VP, FlashForward ICT

Partner Spotlight: DC Blox

“DC BLOX is pleased to partner with Megaport to expand our rich connectivity solutions to enable digital business. Offering secure, private connections from every DC BLOX data center to Amazon Web Services , Microsoft Azure and a host of other cloud providers meets a growing market need for hybrid cloud environments . And with Megaport’s Software Defined Network, DC BLOX can offer customers additional options for global connectivity.” – Jeff Wabik - Chief Network Strategy Officer

Partner Spotlight: Agile Data Sites

“Agile is proud to announce Agile Cloud Connect services. Enabled by Megaport, this service will allow Agile to be a strong option for clients needing true hybrid cloud solutions .”