Network, Security or Cloud Team?
40 Firewalls in 4 clouds
What is the security team?
A network security device that monitors traffic from your network. Block or allows traffic based on a defined set of security rules
What is a firewall?
Brothers that founded Alkira
Who are Amir & Atif Khan?
“What had taken us over two years to evolve in our transport hub version 1 and version 2 deployments we were able to recreate with the Alkira software in a single afternoon”
Who is Koch Industries?
WAN
What is Wide Area Network?
Frustrated with waiting for connectivity for their applications
What is the cloud team?
a network of servers that are connected across the internet and used to store and manage data, run applications, and deliver content and services
What is a cloud?
Director of Sales EMEA
Who is Phil Oultram?
Reduced Firewalls from 76 to 14
Who is Humana?
VPC
What is Virtual Private Cloud?
Lack of end-to-end visibility
What is the security team?
Company is leasing space from a third-party provider similar to a cloud-based deployment model
What is a colocation data center?
CFO
Who is Rakib Azad?
They were able to complete a merger and combine networks in just 2 months
Who is S&P Global?
CXP
What is Cloud Exchange Point?
Poor application performance for developers in India
What is the network team?
A set of standards and protocols to support secure communication as packets of information are transported from an IP address across network boundaries and vice versa
Advisory CMO
Who is Hiro Notaney?
This company is utilizing Alkira to replace
the physical Equinix locations. Every colo
they close, they save about $3m
Who is Tyson?
ZTNA
What is Zero Trust Network Access?
Skills gap, no knowledge of GCP, Azure, or AWS constructs
What is the network team?
Take 1 server and make it into 100s of virtual servers
What is hypervisor?
VP of Solutions Architecture
Sukruth Srikantha
Alkira was able bring up a virtual colo
(CXP) in Brazil for them in an hour. The
stores connect to Alkira via Silver Peak SD
WAN and ride the cloud backbone to an
Azure region in the US
Who is Levi's?
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching