Alkira + AWS:
Accelerate AWS Adoption and Deployments with Alkira Network Infrastructure On-Demand


Alkira is now available on AWS marketplace

Overview

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 infrastructure into the as-a-service model and allow IT organizations to empower the digital transformation moving at the speed of rapidly evolving business needs.

The Challenge

Building a secure, scalable and resilient network infrastructure 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 applications adds even further complexity.

  • Physical Colocations Limited geographic reach, long provisioning times, high upfront costs
  • Do-It-Yourself Network Infrastructure Lack of expertise, limited networking capabilities, inconsistent operating model between traditional and modern networking environments
  • Infrastructure Orchestration Tools Incremental approach, limited by existing networking capabilities, steep learning curve

Benefits

Fast AWS Network Infrastructure Time to Service

Alkira slashes time to service with Network Infrastructure On-Demand approach. The entire network infrastructure 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.

Firewall Security for AWS Workloads

Easily enforce uniform firewall zone-based security policy for AWS single or multi-region 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 Network Infrastructure Visibility

The Alkira portal offers deep operational visibility into network infrastructure health, availability, utilization and application traffic flows for the AWS 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 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 Network Infrastructure On-Demand offers global unified network infrastructure as-a-service for the enterprise networking and security needs. With Alkira Network Infrastructure On-Demand, enterprises can have a consistent, feature-rich and significantly simplified experience of achieving the following:

  • Deploy Any-to-Any Networks 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 Firewall Services Integrate firewall security services for the AWS workloads with intent-based policies, symmetric traffic steering and full life-cycle management.
  • Gain Network Visibility Gain full day-2 operational visibility, advanced routing controls, and governance for the AWS network infrastructure.
  • Alkira’s Network Infrastructure On-Demand approach unlocks the digital transformation solving most acute enterprise challenges around networking and security for the AWS environments. Enterprises can now confidently transition applications from on-premises data centers into AWS and further increase adoption through streamlined, as-a-service network infrastructure delivery.

Ready to modernize with Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service?  Learn how this partnership delivers comprehensive network connectivity and infrastructure automation through service-based architecture. For more information or to speak with a network specialist, contact us.