Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service Resources

Why should you care? You spent months or years investigating, designing, and deploying a hybrid, single cloud network environment. The process was tedious and complicated, the budget was getting out of control, and everyone questioned why it took so long. And you did not dare to evaluate multi-cloud networking as every cloud has its independent...

Multi-cloud adoption is real and is happening at a fast rate. By offering the industry’s first and only multi-cloud network as a service solution to connect on-premise networks and public clouds, Alkira is proving to be a premier innovator and pioneer in this space. From the early adopters to the current production customers and partners,...

Cost is something that is on everyone’s mind when building a product. Especially when you are working in a startup, you want to develop a product by optimizing resources and without paying a lot. As you develop products on various clouds, costs could quickly pile up. Following are some of the ways that helped us...

Going High Bandwidth Multi-Cloud with Collocations It is no secret that cloud adoption is growing at a fast rate. Industry experts, like Gartner, estimate the cloud infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS) market to grow to $76.6B by 2022. While making the transition, customers are often adopting multiple public clouds, in fact, more than 81% of respondents in...

Introduction Enterprises moving from on-premise environments to the public cloud is fast becoming a reality rather than an aspirational goal. After embarking on this cloud adoption journey, enterprises shortly realize the need to evaluate multiple public clouds due to 1) the fear of being locked to a single provider for resiliency and cost considerations, 2)...

Many organizations are relying on public cloud for their forward-looking business initiatives, driving them to greater cloud adoption. Some of the reasons for accelerated cloud adoption are: When it comes to today’s networks, not only do the above attributes not apply but it is challenging to build a global unified cloud network that connects on...

The Road To Alkira After creating the SD-WAN market with the founding of Viptela, and subsequently selling the company to Cisco in 2017, it was time to look for another significant market to transform.  We had learned several lessons with Viptela about successfully creating and scaling a startup, including things to do and things not...