Jazz, Pakistan’s number one 4G operator and the largest internet and broadband service provider has partnered with Network Cloud pioneer Alkira,®Inc. to deploy the company’s Cloud Networking as-a-Service(CNaaS) offering. The Alkira integration with Jazz’s Cloud portfolio provides enterprises the ability to deploy a multi-cloud network in minutes, with the flexibility to turn services on and off as the business requires.

The time, cost, and complexity of building networks in the cloud with end-to-end connectivity, security and visibility are major challenges holding back digital transformation. Enterprises now require greater agility to respond quickly to business needs, complex network infrastructure, including solutions from a wide range of cloud vendors.

Through Alkira, Jazz will provide simpler, comprehensive, and faster multicloud solutions that can help optimize performance, control costs, provide quick cloud access and secure applications, environments, and data. A pay-as-you-go model that provides a single platform to manage services from different cloud providers with no additional hardware requirements.

Syed Ali Naseer, Chief Business Officer at Jazz, said:

In this new normal, businesses are relying on a mobile workforce and applications accessed in the cloud. As these businesses undergo a digital transformation, they require extreme agility and the best network security. In partnering with Alkira, we are looking to reinvent the cloud experience by delivering a multi-cloud network with unified services, security, intent-based policy, visibility and governance. This platform seamlessly connects to corporate infrastructure, enabling a secure multi-cloud environment in minutes, providing businesses the agility they need,

About Alkira

Alkira® developed the Network Cloud, an end-to-end global unified Cloud Network infrastructure as-a-service. Alkira Cloud Services Exchange™ (CSX) offers a consistent, secure, and dramatically simplified cloud networking experience for on-premises, cloud and multi-cloud environments with integrated network and security services, and full operational visibility and governance. Alkira was founded by CEO Amir Khan, founder and former CEO of Viptela, and Atif Khan, CTO, who was VP of Integrated Solutions and on the Viptela founding team. Alkira has raised $76M from Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Koch Disruptive Technologies, LLC, and GV Capital (formerly Google Ventures). Learn more at www.Alkira.com or follow us @AlkiraNet.