Around three in four enterprises that responded to our latest WAN Manager Survey reported having more than one infrastructure as a service (IaaS) partner. Azure and AWS were easily the most frequently cited by participants; 60% were using one or both of these providers.
With this in mind, how are enterprises connecting to their IaaS providers and why would you select one method over another? And what's the global geographic distribution of cloud providers looking like these days?
This is why we had to have Principal Analyst Patrick Christian on The WAN Manager Podcast. We're overdue to talk about cloud and WAN infrastructure.
Lucky for us, this is Patrick's specialty, he had an hour to spare, and he brought us a new map to help us visualize the cloud.
Once we hit record, Greg asked about all things cloud, data center strategy, the latest insider lingo (Regions vs. availability zones?), and the controversial politics of using video during conference calls. (Listen all the way through to hear Greg's sartorial strategy for video calls.)
Enjoy the full episode below.
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From This Episode:
- WAN Service and Pricing Trends for 2020
- TeleGeography's Cloud Infrastructure Map
- TeleGeography's Interactive Submarine Cable Map
- About Cloud and WAN Infrastructure
- About the WAN Manager Survey
- Take the WAN Manager Survey (And then take this related, even shorter COVID-19 impact survey)
- Register for our webinar on SD-WAN and expense management with the team at Calero MDSL
Patrick Christian
Patrick Christian is a Senior Research Manager with TeleGeography. He heads the Cloud and WAN Research Service. He also focuses on African and European markets specializing in international bandwidth markets and internet infrastructure, WAN services, terrestrial and submarine cable systems, and international voice traffic analysis.
Greg Bryan
Greg is Senior Manager, Enterprise Research at TeleGeography. He's spent the last decade and a half at TeleGeography developing many of our pricing products and reports about enterprise networks. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about corporate wide area networks and enterprise telecom services. He also hosts our podcast, TeleGeography Explains the Internet.