Networking and security often operate in isolation from enterprise connectivity and security, resulting in siloed networks. Network architects are then left to build new silos for each use case, creating multi-cloud environments that exponentially increase the levels of complexity. Standardized network security policies across all environments can help save on costs while reducing the overall firewall footprint.
Network and Security Integration
Companies can centrally deploy network and security services within a region to meet the needs of all workloads within that region, instead of deploying them in different virtual private cloud networks.
Alkira also enables leveraging the same services such as firewalls for multiple use cases, allowing for further consolidation. These consolidations result in significant savings in network redundancy costs for Alkira customers.
Solution Highlights
Alkira provides point-and-click provisioning of integrated network and security services with intent-based policies across geographic regions. Uniform security policies are enforced across single cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
Use Cases
Define Once, Deploy Globally
Alkira Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs) build a fullmesh of connectivity with other CXPs to provide a global backbone for the entire network. In this way, network teams can deploy connections in hours instead of days or weeks, establishing network connectivity and security services between users, sites, and clouds while providing high availability, full redundancy, and high performance.
Reduce Redundancy
Reduce network services that are overprovisioned with usage-based auto-scaling based on real-time capacity demand. Resiliency can be added by deploying services that are highly available with an active/active setup, a type of Ethernet network configuration that allows active traffic on the same VLAN.
Automation Ready
Alkira’s automated cloud network configuration supports security policy enforcement. The Alkira Platform intelligently inserts global security controls, such as firewalls, on a global scale. Traffic is symmetrically routed through the firewalls hosted by Alkira Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs).
Troubleshoot Quickly
Alkira enables end-to-end network connectivity and visibility into all network connections, providing continuous network management and optimization. This approach dramatically simplifies troubleshooting based on a single-pane-of-glass view across the entire network.
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