Rapidly Connect Stores and Sites
Connect your entire supply chain end-to-end, from brick and mortar stores to mission-critical applications and resources across any environment.
Flexible Networking that Moves as Fast as Retail
Modernize networking with Alkira’s advanced network infrastructure-as-a-service platform, giving you the visibility, flexibility, and scalability needed to stay competitive in today’s retail environment.
Secure Local, Mobile, and Global Transactions
Use built-in segmentation, services, and troubleshooting tools to quickly untangle complex security challenges, reduce risk, and maintain critical compliance.
Gain Agility with Cloud Networking as a Service
No hardware to buy, no software to license—Alkira provides the world’s most advanced network infrastructure 100% as-a-service with single-click provisioning and elastic scaling.
Case Study
Case Study: See how Michaels’ leveraged Alkira to rapidly modernize its network and increase resiliency across it system of 1400 stores in the US and Canada.
Retailers face unique challenges, regulations, and SLAs when it comes to IT. How can you leverage the flexibility and speed of network infrastructure-as-a-service, while still meeting strong demands of consumers for inventory, shipping, and ease of transactions?
Alkira understands the challenges of Retail and is trusted by major providers around the world. Use Alkira to harness network infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more. Connect anything, unify everything, and scale everywhere with a flexible platform built for retail excellence and customer satisfaction.
Connect Anything
From SD-WAN deployments to data centers to retail applications and point-of-sale resources, connect it all through our global network of Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs).
Unify Everything
Centralize disparate networks, systems, and organizational silos to accelerate responsiveness and business agility across your retail operations.
Scale Everywhere
As-a-service delivery model lets you scale up and scale down according to need, and dynamically provision network resources to meet seasonal and customer demands.
Optimized for Retail
Alkira is vendor agnostic, enabling you to bring together any mix of retail systems and manage holistically as one platform while maintaining customer experience excellence.
Start Small and Grow Effortlessly
No need for forklift upgrades and wholesale replacement of your existing networking, security, and edge infrastructure. Alkira makes it easy to integrate what you currently use, with native support .
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Key Features
Seamless Connectivity
Alkira supports Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, and more. Whether public, private, or hybrid, Alkira can accelerate your network infrastructure and help deliver end-to-end security across all retail environments.
End-to-End Security in Minutes
Gain unmatched visibility into your entire network infrastructure, no matter the provider, platform, or geographic location. Deliver true end-to-end security that protects critical infrastructure and safeguards sensitive data.
Agile & Agentless Networking
Alkira’s Cloud Networking platform is pre-built and pre-engineered in the cloud, for the cloud. There are no agents to deploy or virtual overhead to manage.
100% Delivered as a Service
No hardware to buy, no software to license, no cloud to learn—Alkira features a completely flexible consumption model. Pay for what you use, avoid costly upfront investments, and bring cloud-like agility to your entire retail organization.
FAQs
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Additional Resources for Retail
Modernizing Retail & E-Commerce Connectivity – Comparison Guide
Comparing Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS) and Build-and-Operate Cloud Networking Overlays Compare NIaaS for retail to build-and-operate cloud networking. See how Alkira simplifies connectivity, security, and scale across stores and clouds. Retail and e-commerce networks now span far beyond the cloud—connecting stores, distribution centers, partners, payment providers, and SaaS platforms. This comparison guide explains how NIaaS for…
Transform Retail Connectivity with Multi-cloud Networking
The core of the retail industry is selling products and services to consumers through stores and e-commerce. Retailers can leverage Alkira Cloud Networking as a Service, build a secure multi-cloud/multi-region retail network for customers, and enhance their customer’s experience by keeping their supply chains agile and efficient. Let’s take a look at some of the…
Network Leadership Brief – Michaels’ Three-Week Shift to Network Infrastructure as a Service
Discover how Michaels, one of North America’s largest arts and crafts retailers, transformed its nationwide network in just three weeks with Alkira’s Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS) platform Alkira-Michaels-Futuriom-v1.3-f…. Faced with peak-season traffic surges, growing cloud adoption, and the operational risk of datacenter backhaul, Michaels needed a faster, more resilient approach. By leveraging Alkira’s cloud-delivered global network…