EdgeConneX, a company that provides global hyperlocal to hyperscale data center solutions, is using Megaport’s Software Defined Network (SDN) to upgrade its data center in Southfield, as well as centers in Atlanta and Miami.
This multi-city deployment accelerates hybrid cloud and multi-cloud capabilities for EdgeConneX customers across these markets.
Megaport is a California-based provider of Network as a Service (NaaS) solutions. Its network can deploy private point-to-point connectivity between any location on Megaport’s global network, including on-demand access to global cloud providers from their SDN platform.
Now in nine EdgeConneX data centers globally, customers can avoid the public internet and establish secure, direct, and dedicated connections between their EdgeConneX data centers and the cloud, supporting their data growth and localization of mission-critical applications.
A recent report by Zippia indicated that 94 percent of enterprises use cloud services to reduce costs and increase security, with 80 percent of companies reporting operation improvements after adopting the cloud.
With the increase in cloud-based IT architectures, organizations are modernizing their cloud connectivity. By using Megaport at an EdgeConneX data center, businesses with global IT footprints can also utilize IT backbone capacity between service regions, cloud regions, and data centers in near real-time. EdgeConneX is designed to empower organizations to overcome common barriers to adoption and improve performance and economics.
“Megaport brings high value to in-region organizations who seek to adopt hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures,” says Aron Smith, vice president of product management at EdgeConneX. “By leveraging Megaport on-ramps in key data center locations across our portfolio, EdgeConneX customers can achieve secure, reliable low-latency connections between production and secondary environments through the various on-demand connectivity options available on the platform.”
Matt Simpson, vice president of global business development at Megaport, says, “EdgeConneX’s global data centers and cloud interconnection ecosystem presents a win for companies that require high cloud availability. Our customers can easily and securely connect to their cloud services over Megaport’s software-defined network in a scalable and cost-efficient way.”
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