Masergy Communications has announced the addition of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to its Cloud Marketplace of service providers.
Masergy has directly connected its global software defined network (SDN) platform to Azure’s data centers, so that enterprise customers can access their Azure-hosted applications over Masergy’s network with quality of service (QoS) features. It’s something that channel partners can use as a value-added part of the sale.
The connnectivity also brings a number of advanced managed service features to customers, including Intelligent Service Control for global bandwidth-on-demand, and Intelligent Network Analyst for real-time network and application analysis.
“Finding the right cloud provider to host applications and Web services is only part of the equation,” said Tim Naramore, CTO at Masergy. “Organizations must also choose the best service provider to connect their corporate networks and data centers to the Azure cloud platform. Masergy simplifies this process by offering a fully-tested and predictable connection that ensures the application performance levels that businesses require.”
