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Six Key Differences Between Major Cloud Providers

Demystify your private cloud options with our comparison of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. On a typical day at Megaport, our Solutions team helps a lot of customers with a lot of questions. And in my time here, I’ve noticed these questions often follow the same theme: What’s the best way to connect to their cloud service providers? The reality is that there’s no simple answer to this question.

How to Automate Your Megaport Infrastructure With APIs

Learn how to transform your network efficiency and interoperability, all from a single interface. As networks expand and automation becomes the norm, API usage has exploded; in today’s digital landscape, 90% of developers are now utilizing APIs. APIs are no longer just technical constructs, confined to the dark corners of software engineers – they’re now the lifeblood of many companies. API tools allow you to connect to diverse data sources, supporting interoperability and innovation.

Why Italy is Europe's Next Cloud Expansion Hotspot

With a growing network sector, flourishing digital landscape, and exciting growth targets, there’s never been a better time to expand your business to Italy. Italy has long been known for its rich history, culture, cuisine, and natural beauty. But beyond tourism, Italy is an economic powerhouse and a growing player in the global tech scene. In recent years the country has experienced impressive growth, emerging as one of the largest economies in Europe.

How to Lower Your Cloud Costs

Cloud costs can pile up quickly, and often behind the scenes. We explain how you can help your business keep cloud spend under control. Enterprises—including small- to medium-sized—often find themselves struggling to manage costs and predict their cloud storage. And it’s not necessarily because we’re acquiring more things – it’s because the things we have are getting bigger.

Peering: How Local Is Local?

Optimize network performance by ensuring both you and your peers are locally connected. When it comes to Internet Exchanges (IXs), there are two types of peering: local peering and remote peering. And depending on your network setup and goals, the type you use can have a significant impact on your network performance. While remote peering has valuable use cases, we often see customers using it in scenarios where it is actually doing more harm than good to their network performance.

Introducing Megaport AI Exchange

Supercharge your AI innovation with secure, scalable, and high-performance connectivity for your AI workloads. AI isn’t magic. Just like every other system in the IT world, AI is built on computing infrastructure – and the performance of your AI applications hinges on this infrastructure and the connections that bind it.

Two Scenarios for Hybrid Multicloud Deployment With IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure

Learn how you can modernize your applications at scale for a powerful hybrid multicloud solution. Every network team wants a hybrid multicloud network that is efficient, resilient, secure, and scalable. Megaport has been a part of this journey for years, and many enterprises today leverage Megaport Cloud Router(MCR) for their cross-cloud workloads to achieve their dream networks.

How to Connect Equinix and Digital Realty

Connecting these two leading data center providers can supercharge your network efficiency. Here are three ways to do it. It doesn’t matter what size your business is – the ability to seamlessly transfer and manage data across multiple locations is crucial for uninterrupted productivity. A common use case network managers want to implement is connecting their Equinix and Digital Realty data centers.

Megaport Enables Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro for More Resilient Network Connectivity

With our latest enablements, you can use ExpressRoute Metro and Megaport to reduce downtime, improve latency, and protect your bottom line. Downtime. Sunken costs. Missed deadlines. Compromised data. Poor latency. All of these problems have one thing in common (besides the fact that they strike fear in the hearts of network architects) – they’re consequences of a network with poor resiliency.

Executives, Here's What Your Network Team Wants You to Know

Understanding and aligning to the needs of your network team can unlock a more profitable, efficient, and sustainable business. Network and IT teams are part of the success of your organization. They keep your critical applications running smoothly and protect your data from threats, all while flying under the radar.