The Alkira and Infoblox integration enables businesses to deploy and manage Infoblox's networking and security services—including DNS, DHCP, IPAM, NTP, and DNS security—across multi-cloud and multi-region environments using Alkira's Cloud Exchange Point (CXP). This integration simplifies deployment, centralizes management, and enhances security for cloud-based applications. Learn more.
Alkira provides a single UI page for configuring and deploying Infoblox instances, allowing customers to assign roles, implement multi-cloud and multi-region designs, and leverage Anycast capabilities for high performance. This eliminates the need for manual configuration of each cloud provider's constructs and reduces deployment complexity. Source.
Alkira supports several deployment models for Infoblox:
The main benefits include:
Alkira enables centralized management of Infoblox services such as DNS, DHCP, IPAM, NTP, and DNS security across multiple clouds and regions. Source.
Alkira offers:
Yes, Alkira supports Anycast routing for Infoblox services, allowing customers to provide Anycast IP addresses and specify Alkira regions for reliable, optimized service response across multiple regions.
Alkira offers single-pane-of-glass monitoring through its portal, enabling customers to monitor the overall health of the Infoblox service and individual instances deployed in Alkira.
Alkira provides multi-layered security policies, including intent-based traffic control and integrated firewall services. Customers can also leverage Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and next-generation firewalls for secure connectivity. Learn more about Alkira's security and compliance.
Yes, Alkira's Resource Sharing feature allows the same Infoblox service to be shared between different Alkira segments, optimizing resource usage and simplifying management in multi-segment environments. Read more.
Alkira addresses:
Alkira is SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliant, ensuring high standards for data security and operational controls. Integrated security features like ZTNA and next-generation firewalls protect distributed workforces and applications. Customers are encouraged to follow best practices for user access management. See compliance details.
Organizations managing complex, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments—especially those needing centralized DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and DNS security—benefit from Alkira's Infoblox integration. This includes enterprises in manufacturing, healthcare, retail, financial services, telecommunications, biotechnology, software technology, media & entertainment, and aviation. See customer stories.
Yes. Notable examples include:
Customers consistently praise Alkira for its intuitive drag-and-drop interface and rapid deployment. For example, a network architect at a large manufacturer reported reducing a 6-month project to 3 days at low cost, and Koch Industries' CTO described moving from months of complexity to a dashboard-driven deployment in hours. See more testimonials.
Alkira delivers:
Alkira offers flexible pricing, including:
Alkira differentiates itself by providing a true abstraction layer leveraging cloud providers' infrastructure, single-click provisioning, integrated security, and vendor-agnostic flexibility. Unlike competitors such as Aviatrix (which focuses on orchestration overlays), Prosimo (application-centric networking), Nefeli (agent-based solutions), and Cato (SD-WAN focus), Alkira offers:
Alkira provides whitepapers, solution briefs, and a dedicated wiki with in-depth technical information. For example, see the On Demand Next-Generation Cloud Firewalls whitepaper and solution briefs. The Alkira wiki offers detailed technical guidance.
Yes, Alkira offers APIs, including billing APIs that provide real-time cloud network cost data for integration with cost management tools and dashboards. Learn more.
Customers can implement a proof of concept in as little as 4 hours, with full production deployment typically taking about 8 weeks. Alkira's drag-and-drop interface and dedicated training platform make onboarding straightforward, even for non-technical users. Explore Alkira Training.
Alkira offers:
Alkira provides proactive notifications for maintenance, a diagnostics dashboard for troubleshooting, 24×7 monitoring, and dedicated support to minimize downtime and operational disruptions.
Alkira's vision is to transform enterprise connectivity by simplifying cloud networking for the AI era. Its mission is to eliminate the complexity of traditional hardware-dependent networking by providing a cloud-native solution that seamlessly connects hybrid and multi-cloud environments through a unified control plane. Learn more.
Alkira was founded by the creators of Viptela (acquired by Cisco in 2017). The company is recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, has received awards such as the 2024 Excellence Award from Cloud Computing Magazine, and is listed on CRN’s 2023 Stellar Startups List. See company details.
Alkira serves Fortune 100 enterprises, system integrators, and global managed service providers. Notable customers include Michaels, Koch Industries, Warner Hotels, and SITA. See more.
Establishing the Control Plane for Cloud Connectivity
Read the AnnouncementInfoblox provides critical networking and security services including centralized, secure, and easy-to-manage DNS (Domain Name System), IPAM (IP address management), NTP (Network Time Protocol), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and DNS security. Alkira simplifies the integration of these Infoblox services in Cloud Exchange Point (CXP), enabling customers to seamlessly use them in multiple clouds.
With digital transformations and growing complexity in networks to support those transformations, the IP address management, including DHCP, IP Address Inventory, DNS, becomes a difficult task for IT administrators. Moreover, as businesses either expand or move their applications and workloads into multiple clouds, the complexity of adapting Cloud and integrating IP Management services increases exponentially. Security is another concern as businesses move their workloads to the cloud.
Alkira Cloud Networking as a Service (CNaaS), is the fastest way to Cloud. Businesses can deploy Infoblox as a service in Alkira to manage DNS, DHCP, IPAM and DNS Security for their multi-cloud multi-region environments. Some of the Alkira customers are already using Infoblox in their existing on-premises networks, and they can easily integrate Infoblox instances in Alkira CXP to expand and utilize the same services for their growing cloud environments.
Figure 1: Infoblox as a Service in Alkira Exchange Point
Figure 2: Infoblox in Cloud Service Provider
In a traditional network environment Infoblox is deployed on-premises to provide network services such as DHCP, IPAM, DNS and DNS security. When customers migrate or expand their network to cloud environment, Infoblox instances can be deployed in the cloud. Customers may choose to have the same Grid (group of Instances managed by a single Grid Master Instance) manage Cloud Instances or deploy a new Grid Master in Cloud to manage a separate Grid for Cloud environment. Either way, each instance needs to be manually deployed and configured. Typically, network services are deployed in the model of a Shared VPC/VNET, where same resources can be shared with different customer departments (e.g. staging, testing, pre-production, production, etc).
Every cloud service provider has different constructs like a routing table, a subnet, an internet gateway, UDR, peering, etc., which work in different ways. When instances are deployed in a multi-cloud environment, managing and operating these constructs becomes even more complex, and it becomes a challenge to have an optimal design.
Increased complexity when services deployed in a shared VPC/VNET design needs to be shared with resources in different departments in a multi-segment environment.
Complex Routing configurations to support advertisement and preference of Anycast IP addresses from different regions.
To provide same network services in different clouds, either services are redeployed in each cloud or traffic is backhauled to on-premises.
Figure 3: Alkira CXP With Integrated Infoblox ServiceAlkira simplifies deployment of Infoblox networking and security through a single UI page of configurations. Customers can deploy multiple instances of Infoblox, assign them different roles, and implement multi-cloud multi-region design with high performance using Anycast capability of Infoblox.
Figure 4: Alkira Portal UI Configuration for InfobloxFrom this single UI, below different design use cases for Infoblox instances in Alkira can be deployed:
Figure 5: Alkira CXP With New Infoblox GridCustomers new to Infoblox can introduce the service in their network, by deploying Infoblox as a Service in Alkira CXP. Customers can deploy Grid Master, Grid Master Candidate and Grid Members within Alkira for centralized IP management services.
Figure 6: Alkira CXP Infoblox Service with existing GridCustomers with existing Infoblox Grid Master, deployed in on-premises or Cloud, can either have the Alkira Infoblox instances join the existing Grid Master as a Grid Master Candidate/Members, or deploy a new Grid with a new Grid Master in Alkira for resources connected to the Alkira network.
Figure 7: Alkira Resource Share of Infoblox ServiceInfoblox service in Alkira CXP maintains the network segmentation. Customers can deploy new Grids in each segment with a separate Grid Master and Members, to keep isolation between different business departments. To optimize the solution and use the same Infoblox Service for different segments, customers can use the Alkira’s Resource Sharing feature to allow resources in another segment consume the same IP address management services.
Figure 8: Alkira Multi-Region With Integrated Infoblox ServiceInfoblox as a service in Alkira can be deployed in a single or multiple CXP regions. These multiple instances can utilize the Anycast capability of Infoblox to optimize the service response.
Alkira solution is built with simplifying cloud networking in mind and gives the customer a cloud-agnostic experience. Customers can deploy Infoblox services in Alkira as per their use case requirement from the Alkira portal.
Alkira eliminates the need of configuring each CSP construct individually with a shared services VPC/VNET without compromising security. Using Alkira’s Resource Sharing feature from Alkira portal, the same Infoblox service is shared between different Alkira Segments. Refer to the blog Cloud Networking Design Patterns with Segmentation and Micro-Segmentation for deeper understanding of Segmentation supported by Alkira.
Alkira implements the Anycast routing between different Alkira regions with reliability. Customers are only required to provide Anycast IP address and Alkira Region where Anycast should be supported.
Monitor overall health of the service and health of the individual Infoblox instance, deployed in Alkira, from a single pane of glass Alkira portal.
Control the traffic to Infoblox service with Alkira’s intent based Policies or use Firewall services integrated in Alkira for inspection. Visit the blog ‘Multi-Cloud Inline Traffic Inspection using Alkira’ for more information.
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