Kao Data Ramps-Up Hyperscale Cloud Connectivity by Partnering with Megaport
December 01, 2020 at 05:00 am EST
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Kao Data has announced a partnership with Megaport. This agreement expands Kao Data's capabilities to provide on-demand cloud connectivity from major hyperscale providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and many others. The partnership with Kao Data is set to increase the data centre's global cloud and connectivity capabilities and will provide a strategic location north of London, as well as the closest Megaport presence to Cambridge's academic and high-tech and scientific communities. This seamless accessibility and flexibility into cloud providers alongside their capability to house high density, industrial-scale, high performance computing (HPC) environments reinforces Kao Data as the home for HPC and intensive compute within the UK Innovation Corridor. Kao Data's partnership with Megaport will provide direct, secure and private software-defined networking (SDN) access to a global cloud and connectivity ecosystem. Customers can connect to leading public clouds, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, and benefit from direct data centre to data centre interconnections. Multi Cloud and Cloud-to-Cloud connectivity is also available through the Megaport Cloud Router (MCR). Bypassing the public Internet provides customers with improved security and higher availability, guaranteeing service, ultra-fast connectivity speeds, predictability and resiliency. On-boarding to the service is accessed via Megaport's point of presence (PoP) within the Kao Data 'Meet-Me' suite, whilst the services are delivered through a self-service portal, allowing customers to enable and adjust the capabilities as and when required through point and click provisioning. The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly increased the numbers of organizations operating from remote locations that have converted to using distributed computing. This trend has amplified the need to offer businesses of all size and scale secure cloud-based, low latency, high performance services, and through this partnership Kao Data and Megaport provide dedicated access to these environments.
Megaport Limited is a provider of elastic interconnection services. Through software defined networking (SDN), the Companyâs global platform enables customers to connect their network to other services across the Megaport Network. Its services can be directly controlled by customers via mobile devices, their computers, or its open application programming interface (API). Its segments include Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. Its products include Port, Virtual Cross Connects (VXC), Megaport Cloud Router (MCR), Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), Megaport Marketplace and MegaIX. VXCs are Layer 2 Ethernet circuits providing private, flexible, and on-demand connections between any of the locations on the Megaport network with 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps of capacity. MCR is a managed virtual router service. MVE is an on-demand, vendor-neutral network function virtualization (NFV) service. Megaport Marketplace is an online hub where global service providers and enterprise customerâs interconnect.