Today’s modern enterprise network has grown into a complex series of domains, managed by different teams using different systems and tools. Cloud networking has become more complex with the push to deploy applications and services not just in one cloud, but multiple cloud platforms. Enterprises want to deliver faster services to customers but are held back by the inability to deliver on solutions that can enable self-service automation for cloud and traditional network domains.
Orchestrate Multi-Cloud Network Management with Itential & Alkira
With Itential’s network-centric automation and integration platform combined with Alkira’s multi-cloud networking capabilities, enterprises will have the richest set of intelligent cloud, network, and IT infrastructure automation features to easily manage and orchestrate multi-cloud networks, reducing complexity and delivering IT infrastructure more efficiently.
Network Automation & Orchestration
Multi-Cloud Networking
End-to-End Network Orchestration
Orchestrate end-to-end processes that include the configuration of network and security devices along with pre-check and post-check processes, data gathering, notifications, and creating and updating change requests.
End-to-End Network Connectivity
High speed, low latency global cloud backbone with ubiquitous presence and flexible last-mile for optimal application experience.
Codeless Integrations to Any System
Integrate with any IT system, network, or cloud controllers for use in automations. Customers can easily create integrations using vendor published API documentation.
Powerful Segmentation & Micro-Segmentation
Gain new levels of insight, visibility, and end-to-end control over your Extranet environments with Alkira’s unmatched suite of segmentation features.
Visual Method to Build Automations & Transform Data
Easily create automation workflows without having to learn any coding or scripting languages. Itential takes structured data from a workflow task, transforms it, and updates other management or documentation tooling using REST API integration without scripting.
Integrated Network and Security Services Marketplace
Bring Best-of-Breed network and security services to your global network with ease and leverage Alkira’s intent based policy framework for intelligent service insertion
Configuration Compliance for Cloud & On-Prem Networking
Ensure network compliance for on-prem and cloud networking with flexible golden configurations and automated processes to run audits and remediate network changes.
Agentless Design
No agents to deploy or virtual overhead to manage, allowing you to get started quickly deploying cloud network and security resources in minutes.
How Itential & Alkira Work Together
Capitalizing on these capabilities, the integration of Itential and Alkira enables network teams to accelerate their multi-cloud network automation initiatives with confidence.
Technology Integration
Alkira simplifies the provisioning, operation, and management of multi-cloud networking, making it straightforward to connect different sites, users, or cloud applications together.
Itential enables the entire network team to participate in automating their network domains, integrating with the tools and solutions they already have, and orchestrating end-to-end processes.
By integrating these two platforms at the API level, network teams can build automations that utilize Alkira’s unique cloud features and network and security services, along with integrating with on-prem network and security solutions, IT systems like IPAM, ITSM, and sources of truth.
Itential + Alkira Use Cases
- Cloud Onboarding
- Cloud to Internet
- Cloud Security
- On-Prem to Cloud
- Multi-Cloud Connectivity
- Inter-Region Connectivity (Cloud Backbone)
- Extranet-as-a-Service
Itential + Alkira Benefits
100% as-a-Service
No hardware to buy, no virtual agents to manage. With Itential’s industry leading SaaS automation platform and Alkira’s Extranet as-a-Service, provide turnkey business outcomes, on-demand resources, and flexible consumption.
Deep Integration Between Itential & Alkira
Both platforms are integrated at the API level for the highest level of integration flexibility for customers allowing automations to operate seamlessly across cloud, data center, security, and IT systems.
Simplify & Automate Complex Multi-Cloud Management
Eliminate the complexity of provisioning and operating multiple cloud network services across different cloud platforms by leveraging automation that works with Alkira’s platform.
Ensure Security & Compliance
Ensure that both cloud and on-prem network environments maintain compliance with the latest security standards by automating compliance audits and automatically remediating cloud services or network devices that have drifted out of compliance.
Deliver Services at Scale
Automate the complete end-to-end processes for deploying changes to both cloud and traditional networking services, eliminate manual backlog and achieve your goal of delivering more services in less time.
Explore Alkira in the Itential Automation Marketplace
Itential provides free, modular pre-built components that can be leveraged with Alkira.
Pre-Built Adapters
Itential is the only SaaS-based automation platform built to support both network and cloud infrastructure, making it easy for enterprise organizations to reduce manual operations, deliver services faster, simplify network change management and maintain security with standardized configuration and compliance. The Itential Automation Platform is a low-code solution that seamlessly connects IT systems with network technologies for rapidly designing and deploying end-to-end network automation workflows.
Alkira simplifies and accelerates the delivery of cloud networks by abstracting the complexities of cloud environments. Before Alkira, enterprises were faced with time-consuming design and configuration projects to provision networks spanning data centers, internet and cloud. Alkira shrinks the time to connect to and through individual clouds, to connect cloud regions and to interconnect multiple clouds and network domains. A simple point and click interface obviates the need for experts in proprietary cloud networking constructs enabling a single, consistent approach to provisioning across all environments. Day 2 operations benefits from a single console for network-wide visibility. Alkira also provides unmatched end-to-end security through simplified firewall deployment, network segmentation and microsegmentation, and intent-based policy management. Alkira is delivered as a service with no hardware to deploy, software to install or agents to manage.