Financial Services Giant Cuts Cloud Networking Time by 50%

How a $10B+ multinational financial firm simplified multicloud networking across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with Alkira’s unified platform

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Company Profile

IndustryFinancial Services
Size25,000+ Employees
Revenue$10B+ Annual
ScopeMultinational
CultureMulti-Cloud
ChallengeAWS, Azure, GCP

The Challenge

This multinational financial services company faced complex networking challenges while migrating applications from on-premises data centers to multiple cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Services.

Key Networking Challenges:

  • Multiple Cloud Complexity: Managing large numbers of cloud environments across multiple providers and regions
  • Policy Fragmentation: Firewalls deployed in every cloud and environment, making unified policy management impossible
  • Slow Provisioning: Lengthy deployment times for new cloud connections and environments
  • Network Integration: Difficulty connecting acquired companies with overlapping IP ranges
  • Traffic Segmentation: Need for division-based and environment-based network isolation

The Alkira Solution

After an 8-week proof of concept, Alkira became their strategic multicloud networking platform, providing a unified networking environment with centralized policy enforcement.

Alkira’s Unified Approach:

  • Centralized Policy Management: Consolidated all firewall policies into Alkira’s communication exchange points
  • Cloud-to-Cloud Connectivity: Seamless east/west traffic flows between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • On-Premises Integration: Standardized connectivity from data centers to all cloud environments
  • Acquisition Support: Large-scale NATting for IP overlap resolution and smooth M&A integration
  • Advanced Segmentation: Traffic isolation by division and environment (production, dev, test, QA)

Measurable Results

The implementation delivered significant operational improvements and positioned Alkira as a strategic platform for future growth.

Business Impact:

  • 50% Reduction: Both staff time and calendar time to add new cloud connections
  • 200% Growth: Increase in manageable cloud environments
  • 100% Expansion: Growth in supported cloud platforms
  • 50% More Regions: Extended geographic reach across cloud providers
  • Strategic Partnership: Alkira became central to M&A network integration strategy

Customer Quote

“Love how attentive and responsive they are. How flexible and willing to spin up or enable new features in the environment. For example, we were moving to Fortinet and they didn’t support it. They enabled features to make it available! They won by being responsive and for how agile they are.”

– Global Telecommunications Lead

FAQ

How long did the Alkira implementation take?

The company completed an 8-week proof of concept before moving to full production deployment.

Which cloud providers were integrated?

 AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Services across multiple regions.

What were the main benefits?

50% reduction in deployment time, 200% increase in manageable cloud environments, and centralized policy management.

Ready to Overcome Your Network Limitations?  See how Alkira can simplify your cloud networking architecture and reduce deployment times by 50% or more. For more information or to speak with a network specialist, contact us.