Alkira, the leader in Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS), has officially announced the launch of its Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) to build upon the company’s industry-leading Network and Security Services Marketplace.
According to certain reports, the stated development makes it possible for customers to seamlessly integrate LBaaS, while simultaneously optimizing performance and scalability for both internal and external applications.
More on the same would reveal how Alkira’s platform, at launch, is set to support industry-leading load balancing solutions from multiple vendors, thus enabling enterprises to deploy the right solution to meet their business outcomes. The first vendor to be integrated into Alkira’s platform would be F5 BIG-IP. Having said so, a lot more is expected from the solution moving forward to give customers greater flexibility and choice.
To understand the significance of such a development, though, we must turn our attention towards all those organizations that are currently up against complex, time-consuming load balancer deployments. This happens to be the case because most approaches in use today have seemingly suffered from inconsistent configurations and operational complexity, particularly across distributed cloud environments.
In response, Alkira delivers an approach, where it deploys load balancers directly into Alkira’s Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs). Such a technological setup treads up a long distance to provide optimal placement and connectivity which eliminates complex networking configurations.
Not just that, this native integration also empowers organizations to deploy load balancing services with a simple point-and-click interface, while simultaneously maintaining full access to advanced load balancing capabilities.
Hence, regardless of whether an organization needs to balance traffic across different cloud regions, manage multi-cloud scenarios, or integrate with existing hybrid infrastructure, the solution can offer unparalleled flexibility, and at the same time, make advanced cloud networking accessible to teams of all skill levels.
“Gartner predicts that 90% of organizations will adopt a hybrid cloud approach through 2027, underscoring the rapid shift towards more complex networking environments,” said Atif Khan, Chief Technology Officer at Alkira. “As a result, modern enterprises require a load balancing solution that can seamlessly adapt to and optimize their increasingly dynamic and distributed network infrastructure. Our load balancer-as-a-service offering delivers a game-changing solution that provides enterprise-grade load balancing with point-and-click simplicity, eliminating the traditional barriers of complex networking and manual configurations.”
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper, we begin from the promise to deliver simplified global deployment. This ensures rapid deployment of load balancing services across any region or cloud environment with point-and-click simplicity.
Next up, we have an infrastructure-centric integration, which translates to an enhanced load balancer placement and connectivity facility. The stated facility can markedly reap the benefits of Alkira’s cloud network infrastructure without complex networking configurations.
Another detail worth a mention here is rooted in the potential for automated lifecycle management. Here, you can basically come expecting a centralized provisioning and automated scaling of load balancer instances, something which should help the customer maintain their control over load balancing policies.
Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon the new technology’s enterprise-grade capabilities. You see, the solution arrives on the scene bearing a full-fledged suite of advanced load balancing features, including SSL offloading, layer 4-7 traffic management, and application security.
Rounding up highlights would the prospect of enhanced operational visibility. This visibility is achieved largely through comprehensive insights into load balancer health, performance metrics, and traffic patterns, all provided by Alkira’s unified management portal.
Founded in 2018, Alkira’s rise up the ranks stems from packing together environments, sites, and users via an enterprise network built entirely in the cloud. The network in question is markedly managed using the same controls, policies, and security systems that network administrators are familiar with. It is also available as a service, and can instantly scale as needed.
In case that wasn’t enough, there is no need to depot any new hardware, download any software, or learn any architecture. Alkira’s excellence in what it does can be understood once you consider it is currently trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, leading system integrators, and global managed service providers.
