Key Features of Meraki Cloud

Braden Martin
3 min readDec 30, 2019

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The adoption of cloud is on the rise with businesses increasingly becoming aware of its advantages. It is now more of a need than an add-on benefit for every company.

Likewise, Meraki cloud solution is a centralized management service introduced by the company Cisco. This service allows users to manage all of their Meraki network devices through a single simple and secure platform.

Meraki has a vast number of reliable multi-tenant servers at their disposal at Meraki data centers located all across the globe. These data centers include powerful hosting computers comprising of several separate user accounts.

All the accounts share computing resources on their host (the server), thus giving them the name “multi-tenant server”.

Although these accounts share resources, Meraki helps keep information of customers as secure as possible by restricting organization access based on account authentication, as well as hashing authentication information such as user passwords or API keys.

Reliability & Availability

Meraki comes with high-end features and enables different functionality some of which include a high availability (HA) architecture.

Through this feature, Meraki ensures high serviceability to its customers.

In the hour of localized failure, a shared HA structure ensures that your data is available. While data center backup architecture helps ensure customer management data is always available.

These backups are stored on third-party cloud-based storage. These very services also store Meraki data based on region to ensure compliance with regional data storage regulations.

Data Backup

All active management data of customers are kept in a primary as well as a secondary data center in the same region. Meraki ensures that these data centers are geographically separated to avoid physical disasters or outages that could potentially impact the same region.

These data centers sync data in real-time and when a data center failure occurs, the primary data center fails over to the secondary data center with the most recent configuration stored.

Recovery Plan

Meraki tends to the upkeep of customer management data by ensuring it is stored and well-backed up, also ensuring its dashboard and API services are reliable.

Disasters are inevitable, however, keeping your data secure and backed up can help overcome any disaster.

To help prevent the massive loss of data in the hour of such disasters, Meraki holds multiple major points of failure.

It pairs each Meraki data center with another data center located in the same region. The whole point of this is to help recover data within minutes in case one of the data centers is completely wiped out.

Furthermore, in times when both data centers are impacted, Meraki can call upon nightly backups hosted in two different third-party cloud storage services, each of which come with their own physical storage redundancies.

Conclusion

There’s so much more that Meraki Cloud can offer you, to know more you can get in touch with a reliable service provider in Phoenix like Blue Fox Group.

They have been offering the best services to their clients from different industries through Meraki, you can be a part of their pool of well-served clients.

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Braden Martin

Tech Savvy, Nature Enthusiast, Baseball lover! Head of Marketing & Sales at Blue Fox Group- www.bluefoxgroup.com