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Alkira reinvents networking for the cloud era. When your applications move to the cloud, you need a network that is built for the cloud and behaves like the cloud. Alkira delivers global elastic cloud network as-a-service to securely connect to and across your AWS environment in minutes.
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Overview
Cloud adoption continues to accelerate. Organizations are increasingly transitioning business-critical applications from on-premise data centers to one or multiple 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 has not. Alkira® Network Cloud is the industrys first solution offering global unified network infrastructure as-a-service. With Alkira, enterprises can have a consistent and significantly simplified experience deploying a global network for end-to-end and any-to-any connectivity across users, sites, and clouds with integrated network and security services, full day-2 operational visibility, advanced controls, and governance. The entire network is drawn on an intuitive design canvas, deployed in a single click, and is ready in minutes! There is no need to produce any hardware, deploy complicated software solutions or learn cloud networking architectures. Alkira's solution is trusted by the leading global enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers. The Network. Reinvented for Cloud.
Highlights
- Alkira accelerates cloud applications performance by connecting enterprise users, sites, and cloud workloads to the Alkira cloud backbone through a fully-meshed network of globally distributed built-in-the-cloud points of presence.
- Alkira secures cloud environment through a fully integrated next-gen cloud firewall service. Just pick a firewall from the Alkira network services marketplace. Alkira automatically provisions, scales, and monitors the firewall service.
- Alkira offers uncompromised operational visibility and control with industry leading visualization. Enterprises can provision, monitor, and troubleshoot all aspects of the cloud networking environment using point-and-click graphical interface.
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Global Network Infrastructure
Unified network infrastructure as-a-service with global end-to-end and any-to-any connectivity across users, sites, and clouds
Cloud Firewall Integration
Fully integrated next-generation cloud firewall service with automatic provisioning, scaling, and monitoring capabilities
Network Visualization
Intuitive design canvas for network deployment with point-and-click graphical interface for comprehensive operational visibility
Cloud Backbone Connectivity
Fully-meshed network of globally distributed cloud points of presence for connecting enterprise users, sites, and cloud workloads
Service Marketplace
Network services marketplace allowing selection and integration of advanced networking and security services
Cloud Networking Architecture
Unified cloud networking platform supporting multiple cloud providers with distributed deployment and infrastructure-as-code capabilities
Network Automation
Automated cloud network orchestration with simplified operational model across major hyperscaler environments
Distributed Security Framework
Integrated distributed cloud firewall embedded directly into cloud network infrastructure
Multi-Cloud Connectivity
Advanced inter-cloud and intra-cloud tunnel connectivity supporting heterogeneous cloud environments
Edge Networking
Comprehensive edge networking solution enabling hybrid cloud connectivity and seamless cloud migration strategies
Network Infrastructure
Global private backbone network with high-speed, secure connectivity
Cloud Interconnectivity
Direct multi-cloud connectivity with virtual routing capabilities at layer 2 and layer 3
SaaS Acceleration
Direct connections with major SaaS providers to improve global user experience
Cloud Onramp
Hybrid cloud connectivity solution enabling private infrastructure connection to public cloud environments
API Integration
Smart API integrations for real-time provisioning and management of cloud service connections
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Customer reviews
Jameshammett Jameshammett
Cloud workspace has streamlined how I manage project documents and meet my goals
Reviewed on Dec 05, 2025
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX)Â is for my documents. I use Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX)Â for my project. Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) helped me achieve my goals with my document. I use Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) to resolve problems related to my documents or projects.
What is most valuable?
All the best features Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) offers stand out to me.
When I mention calls, I mean else, for else, which makes the calls feature useful for me.
I started using Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX), which has positively impacted my organization. After I started using Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX), things improved and became easier.
What needs improvement?
I think Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) can work better in various ways. Anything else could be added about the needed improvements.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) for two months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) is very stable and performs well.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Nothing indicates that Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) can grow with my organization's needs.
How are customer service and support?
I have not interacted with customer support at all.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution before Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX).
What was our ROI?
Nothing indicates I have seen a return on investment from Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX).
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX).
What other advice do I have?
Nothing comes to mind as advice for others looking into using Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX). I would rate this product a 10.
John L.
Alkira Cloud Networking: An Easy to Use and Manage Network Optimization Software
Reviewed on Jan 29, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Alkira Cloud Networking boasts an intuitive graphical interface that abstracts the complexities related to networking tasks. While its agility enables instant setup of network configurations, it's also easy to make modifications on the go. Besides active visibility, there are full-fledged analytics and monitoring tools available to provide conscious management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Steep learning curve for novices in advanced networking concepts. Some features are hardly documented and this leads to underutilization as the more powerful parts shadow them. Very few third-party integrations coupled with challenges of organizations that have a superb toolset might be limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alkira Cloud Networking met the requirement for network infrastructures which are scalable and flexible as well. The platform simplifies configuration to reduce any kind of bottlenecks that could be present during deployment. The tools which analyzed automatically help in improving the performance of the network with downtime being kept at a minimum level along with an improved rate of reliability.