{"id":2264,"date":"2014-04-23T05:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T05:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:14:33","slug":"new-service-alert-windows-azure-expressroute","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/blog\/new-service-alert-windows-azure-expressroute","title":{"rendered":"New Service Alert: Windows Azure ExpressRoute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently in public preview &amp; available only in the US, Windows Azure ExpressRoute is a service that provides a dedicated fast private connection between your on-premise datacenter and Azure datacenter.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits:<\/h2>\n<p>Since connections do not go over public internet, you get a connection that is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secure<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Reliable<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Fast<\/li>\n<li>Lower Latency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/content.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2406\" src=\"https:\/\/content.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/diagram.png\" alt=\"diagram\" width=\"610\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>Source:\u00a0https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/expressroute\/<\/p>\n<h2>How To:<\/h2>\n<p>There are two ways one can establish an ExpressRoute connection with Azure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Directly using WAN<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; where your on-premise or co-located infrastructure directly connects to Azure datacenters through a WAN network.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Through an ExpressRoute Location<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; here an exchange provider facilitates the connection between your datacenter to Azure. Suited in scenarios where a direct WAN connection to Azure is not possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AT&amp;T and Equinix are the two partners providing ExpressRoute service.<\/p>\n<h2>Use Cases:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Achieve a natural extension feel to your datacenter due to low latencies and better throughputs<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Move large volumes of data like VMs, datasets &amp; old data to Azure quickly<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Greater high availability &amp; disaster recovery times<\/li>\n<li>Applications spread across on-premise &amp; cloud that require secure connections &amp; high performance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more FAQs about the service @ <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/azure\/dn606292.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/azure\/dn606292.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in learning more about Windows Azure &amp; its services, CloudThat offers a <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudthat.in\/course\/level-2-cloud-computing-with-microsoft-azure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 day hands-on course on Windows Azure<\/a>\u00a0delivered by me. Send me an enquiry if you are interested and I will get back to you.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the blog for more !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","blog_category":[3608,3664],"user_email":"sangram@cloudthat.in","published_by":"324","primary-authors":"","secondary-authors":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43415,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2264\/revisions\/43415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}