Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for XaaS 2025

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2026 signals a clear inflection point: legacy WAN infrastructure is giving way to software-driven, cloud-native connectivity. Gartner places cross-cloud networking, alternative WAN backbone services (XBaaS), and AI network fabric among the highest-priority innovations in enterprise networking — driven by distributed AI workloads, multicloud architectures, and escalating security demands....

Discover how Michaels, one of North America’s largest arts and crafts retailers, transformed its nationwide network in just three weeks with Alkira’s Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS) platform Alkira-Michaels-Futuriom-v1.3-f…. Faced with peak-season traffic surges, growing cloud adoption, and the operational risk of datacenter backhaul, Michaels needed a faster, more resilient approach. By leveraging Alkira’s cloud-delivered global network...

This Network Modernization Study explores how a global investment firm transformed its legacy WAN into a cloud-native, multicloud network—and saved millions in the process. Facing rising telecom costs, rigid infrastructure, and growing performance demands from cloud-based analytics and trading platforms, the firm turned to Alkira’s Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS) to modernize connectivity across regions and cloud...