Alkira is now available on
AWS marketplace

Overview

The cloud era has arrived. Organizations are increasingly transitioning business critical applications from on-premises data centers to the public cloud and SaaS environments. While compute, storage and applications have comprehensively evolved beyond virtualization and automation to simple as-a-service offerings, the network and security have not. Modern enterprises fully realize the critical necessity to bring network and security into the cloud era and allow IT organizations to empower the digital transformation moving at the speed of rapidly evolving business needs.

Slash Cloud Network Deployment Time & TCO

Just draw your new cloud network on a simple canvas, and with one click watch it come to life

The Challenge

Building a secure, scalable and resilient cloud network that connects together remote users, on-premises locations, and AWS VPCs is many times a daunting and frustrating experience. Inserting next generation firewalls to enforce organizational security policy for the cloud applications adds even further complexity.

Physical Colocations

Limited geographic reach, long provisioning times, high upfront costs

Do-It-Yourself Cloud Networking

Lack of cloud expertise, limited networking capabilities, inconsistent operating model between cloud and on-premise networking environments

Cloud Orchestration Tools

Incremental approach, limited by existing cloud networking capabilities, steep learning curve

An innovative solution is needed to address the challenges around networking and security for the cloud

Benefits
Fast AWS Cloud Networking Time to Service

Alkira slashes time to service with Cloud Area Networking approach. The entire cloud network connecting remote users, on-premises sites and AWS VPCs is drawn on an intuitive design canvas, provisioned in a single click and is ready for use in minutes instead of months

Cloud Firewall Security for AWS Workloads

Easily enforce uniform firewall zone-based security policy for AWS single or multi-region cloud application traffic. Alkira’s solution takes care of automated firewall provisioning, health monitoring, scale and symmetric traffic steering.

End-to-End Network Segmentation

Segmentation and micro-segmentation allow segregating AWS VPCs and reducing security attack surface. Communication between segments for shared application services can be selectively allowed with or without firewall security policy enforcement.

Deep Cloud Network Visibility

Alkira portal offers deep operational visibility into cloud network health, availability, utilization and application traffic flows for the AWS cloud environment. Enterprises can achieve operational excellence without the need to procure and deploy additional management software tools.

Elastic Scale and High Availability

Alkira unified backbone connects single region and multi-region AWS cloud environments with multi-ten gigabit speeds leveraging AWS high speed low latency backbone. Alkira’s highly available global virtual infrastructure is backed by SLA guarantees.

Solution

Alkira Cloud Area Networking offers global unified network infrastructure as-a-service for the enterprise networking and security needs. With Alkira Cloud Area Networking, enterprises can have a consistent, feature-rich and significantly simplified experience of achieving the following:

Deploy
Any-to-Any Network

Deploy global any-to-any enterprise-grade network connectivity across remote users, on-premises locations, and AWS workloads residing in single or multiple global regions.

Integrate
Cloud Firewall

Integrate cloud firewall security services for the AWS workloads with intent-based policies, symmetric traffic steering and full life-cycle management.

Gain Cloud
Visibility

Gain full day-2 operational visibility, advanced routing controls, and governance for the AWS cloud network

Alkira’s Cloud Area Networking approach unlocks the digital transformation solving most acute enterprise challenges around networking and security for the AWS cloud environments. Enterprises can now confidently transition applications from on-premises data centers into AWS and further increase cloud adoption.

See Alkira Cloud Area Networking in Action!

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How does it work?

  • Register for Alkira service and access the portal
  • Select geographical regions for your global cloud network on the map
  • Add remote users, on-premise sites and AWS VPCs, while assigning desired network capacity, network segments and billing tags
  • Add firewalls and intent-based policies
  • Provision everything in 1-click!
Neil Anderson

Sr. Director, Network Solutions,
World Wide Technology (WWT)

Customers are increasingly shifting workloads to the public cloud and the networking has to adapt quickly as data, services, and endpoints are becoming more distributed across the edge and public cloud locations. As a result, customers need to manage, adapt, and simplify the networking operations within and across cloud providers. We see Alkira as a strategic disruptor in the space which addresses this real challenge for our customers.

Reading Material

Learn how to accelerate cloud adoption with Alkira Cloud Area Networking

Resources

Solution Brief

Accelerate AWS Adoption Through Alkira Network Cloud

White Paper

Multi-Cloud Networking Reinvented

By Atif Khan (CTO)

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