CRN’s “10 Network-as-a-Service Companies to Watch in 2026” highlights innovative vendors reshaping enterprise networking through flexible, consumption-based models designed for multi-cloud, AI-driven, and highly distributed environments. Among those recognized, Alkira stands out as a rising leader in Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS), with CRN calling out its cloud-native Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) platform that...

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model that’s designed to allow enterprise IT professionals to be able to order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks.[…]

The network landscape is about to change once again. From the early days of everything being a physical connection we have come a long way. Wireless networks gave us an alternative to physical wires. But we still needed all that physical networking in our data centres.[…]

Can we map DevOps principles and practices to network operations? Should we? On today’s show, we talk with Williams Collins and Eyvonne Sharp to understand DevOps both culturally and practically.[…]

Enterprises have been slow to adopt NaaS for a number of reasons, including lack of clarity on exactly what NaaS is, lack of a solid business case that NaaS saves money over the long term, and questions around security, visibility, control, and data privacy.[…]

Network-as-a-Service company Alkira recently teamed up with Nemertes, a research and strategic advisory company, to take a deep-dive look into how midmarket companies were managing their hybrid cloud environments.[…]

New service allows admins to connect cloud […]