SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alkira®, Inc., the company reinventing the network for the cloud era, is pleased to announce that Koch Industries will join Alkira for a Keynote Presentation at ONUG Fall 2020 to address their deployment of the Alkira Cloud Services Exchange™ (CSX). Alkira presentations at ONUG include:
- Oct 14th - 10:10 AM PT/ 1:10 PM ET “Enterprise Customer Case Study for Cloud Network Deployment” with Alkira CTO and Founder Atif Khan.
- Oct 14th - 11:20 AM PT/ 2:20 PM ET “Reinventing Networking for the Cloud Era” with Alkira Head of Product Management Manan Shah.
- Oct 14th - 12:55 PM PT/ 3:55 PM ET “The Great Debate: Remote Workforce Infrastructure: On-Prem or Cloud-Based” with Alkira CEO and Founder Amir Khan.
- Oct 15th - 11:10 AM PT/ 2:10 PM ET - ONUG Keynote Presentation: “Koch Industries Deploys Alkira for their Cloud Networking Journey” with Koch Industries Senior Enterprise Architect Matt Hoag and Alkira CEO and Founder Amir Khan.
To schedule a 1:1 meeting with Alkira please contact us at onugfall2020@alkira.com
Koch Industries is one of the largest privately held companies in the world with $115 billion in revenue and operations in more than 70 countries.
Alkira Cloud Services Exchange™ (CSX) is the first and only global network cloud delivered as-a-service. It offers a consistent and dramatically simplified networking experience for on-premise, cloud, and multi-cloud environments with integrated network and security services, and full operational visibility and governance. With Alkira, your entire end-to-end network is drawn on a digital design canvas, provisioned in 1-click, and ready for use in minutes. No hardware to procure, no software to download, and no cloud to learn. Alkira extends your enterprise infrastructure into the cloud and is a trusted solution by leading global enterprises, system integrators and managed service providers.
“Alkira is excited to see how cloud architects and chief transformation officers have embraced the need for a unified network infrastructure as-a-service, proud to be at the forefront of this shift to delivering network services, and honored to have Matt Hoag share Koch’s cloud networking leadership with the ONUG community,” said Amir Khan, President, CEO and founder of Alkira.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the need for an agile and elastic network infrastructure delivered as-a-service to support the hyper-acceleration of enterprise cloud adoption,” said Nick Lippis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of ONUG. “The ONUG community embraces innovation and disruption and isn’t afraid to break business models. Network as a Service is now the new norm in enterprise cloud design. Viptela shared its early pioneering vision for SDWAN and customer deployments at ONUG, and we are honored and delighted to again have Amir and Atif Khan share their Alkira Network Cloud offering and Koch deployment with the ONUG Community.”
ONUG is the only forum dedicated to exploring enterprise multi-cloud use case architectures, exciting new innovations, and solutions to challenges facing the enterprise in the cloud arena. The ONUG Fall 2020 virtual event allows individuals and businesses to learn from peers, make informed infrastructure deployment decisions, and generate open discussion between the vendor and user communities. In this way, the event drives the continuation of crucial problem solving in the wake of COVID-19’s widespread industry disruption, serving as a source of value and transformative insight for those in attendance and for the wider IT community.
Learn more about Alkira:
- Join a webinar with Alkira CTO Atif Khan and Koch Industries on “Where Network Meets the Cloud.”
- Read about Alkira in the Gartner Cool Vendor on Cloud Connectivity
- Schedule a demo and draw your network on a digital canvas, provision in one click, and watch it come to life in minutes
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About ONUG
ONUG is the only organization composed of senior-level IT executives from the Global 2000 that represents the interests and initiatives of the Enterprise Community. Through our global event series, Working Groups, training academies, and webinars, ONUG plays a central role in the creation of new and improved tools to develop, manage, and secure the Digital Enterprise. ONUG’s peer permission structure fosters the exchange of information among the world’s largest organizations as they build and secure the digital economy. The ONUG Board is comprised of IT leaders from Bank of America, Cigna, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, eBay, FedEx, Fidelity Investments, Gap Inc., GE, Intuit, JP Morgan Chase, Kaiser Permanente, the Lippis Report, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, State Street Bank, TD Ameritrade, UBS, Oath, and hundreds more. For more on ONUG, go to www.onug.net or follow us on Twitter @ONUG_.
About Alkira
Alkira® developed a Network Cloud that allows Enterprises to build and deploy a global hybrid or multi-cloud network as-a-service in minutes. Alkira Cloud Services Exchange™ (CSX) delivers network connectivity, advanced services with complete governance, and the ability to build and operate a sophisticated network without any training or certification. Alkira was founded by CEO Amir Khan, founder and former CEO of Viptela, and Atif Khan, CTO, former Viptela VP of Integrated Solutions and a member of the Viptela founding team. Alkira is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and GV Capital (formerly Google Ventures). Learn more at www.Alkira.com or follow us @AlkiraNet
Alkira® is a registered trademark and Alkira Cloud Services Exchange™ are trademarks of Alkira, Inc. ONUG is a registered trademark. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
