What is Alkira Cloud Insights?

Alkira Cloud Insights is an integrated component of Alkira Cloud Area Networking platform that provides enterprise IT organizations with a single pane of glass dashboard for centralized visibility, instantaneous cloud inventory, and enhanced governance capabilities for their existing cloud and multi-cloud environments.

With Alkira Cloud Insights, organizations can help expose shadow IT, better manage cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure resources, and simplify the process of applying security and governance across single and multi-cloud infrastructure environments.

How does Alkira Cloud Insights work?

Cloud Insights delivers four main features and benefits for Alkira customers, all via a centralized and easy to use dashboard that is built-in to the Alkira platform. The four elements of Cloud Insights include:

1. Rapid Discovery

   Discovery of all compute, network, and security cloud assets in just a click, with a single centralized dashboard for immediate visibility.

Figure 1: The Alkira Cloud Insights discovery dashboard

2. Holistic Insights

   Unmatched insight and visibility into your multi-cloud network environment, illuminating shadow IT and identifying potential security vulnerabilities and cost saving opportunities

Figure 2: Cloud Insights delivers key insights into security, costs, and performance

3. Enhanced Reporting

   Schedule and automate reporting to keep up on any changes across your cloud ecosystem, and measure impact on IT initiatives against industry best practices

Figure 3: Create automated reporting workflows to keep up to date on any changes

4. Actionable Data

   Arm your organization with valuable data to better steer decisions on compliance, cloud infrastructure lifecycle management, and security policy governance across the entire global cloud and multi-cloud footprint.

Figure 4: Manage your global cloud infrastructure with the Alkira Cloud Insights single pane of glass dashboard

The Alkira Cloud Insights Advantage

Here are the key benefits available through the use of Alkira Cloud Insights:

• Cloud Discovery, Inventory and Reporting
  • Rapidly discover cloud resources deployed across single and multi-cloud environments
  • Deep real time visibility into the details of the cloud resources without the need to use cloud providers’ consoles or numerous 3rd party software tools
  • Periodic reports outlining deviations from the set of governance policies
• Comprehensive Insights and Governance Policy Compliance
  • Contain shadow IT impact by identifying and enforcing governance policies
  • Identify security gaps that can lead to unauthorized system access, data exfiltration and loss of intellectual property
  • Identify unauthorized connectivity methods, such as unsanctioned remote access VPN access to cloud workloads
  • Identify performance inhibitors that can result in poor cloud application experience
  • Identify misconfigured network settings, such as overlapping IP addresses across the disparate cloud workloads
  • Identify provisioned yet unused cloud resources that result in unnecessary spend

Learn more about Alkira Cloud Insights.