Alkira’s Cloud Network as a Service was founded in 2018 in San Jose CA by Amir and Atif Khan, the visionary team that founded the SD-WAN market.
Astrotel now offers Alkira Cloud Network and Backbone, as a Service, in APAC.
Cloud Native Multi-site, Multi-cloud Connectivity. Connect all sites, cloud instances, applications, devices, directly to the cloud, using one simple interface, on the hyperscalers backbone.
Configure, manage and bill across all clouds with one simple interface, with global segmentation, controls and visibility.
Set up your network in hours. Add firewalls from any major vendor.
Improve redundancy with Cross Region and Cross Cloud failover and 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. If AWS goes down, move to Azure or GCP. If APAC goes down, move to another region.
Reduce costs with No Hardware, No Co-Lo, No Express Route. Pay only for what you use.
Alkira can be used:
As a Backbone connects data centres to any Cloud in minutes for high speed, low latency, inter-city and inter-country transport, at a fraction of the cost of traditional backbone.
As a Network to link all on-premise users, data centres and multi or hybrid Cloud requirements. Add a new cloud with drag and drop.
As an Extranet to bring Third parties to the network, with segmented access permissions across shared applications
Suitable for clients in:
Financial Services
Healthcare
Media & Entertainment
Retail
Manufacturing
Reference clients include:
"We replaced our Global Service Provider Backbone with Alkira"
Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure, S&P Global
"We replaced our Global Service Provider Backbone with Alkira"
Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure, S&P Global
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