How a Global Investment Firm Modernized Its Network and Saved Millions

Futuriom spoke with a global investment firm about how it built a complex new cloud infrastructure with a globally distributed WAN—all while using a cloud-based service that minimized the management of on-prem infrastructure.

This firm selected Alkira as a Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS) platform to connect its cloud environments, regional offices, and external partners. Alkira provides a cloud-hosted network fabric that enables enterprises to program connectivity, routing, segmentation, and security policies across multicloud and hybrid environments from a centralized control plane.

Key Demands and Challenges

For a global investment firm managing a globally diversified portfolio across public markets, private assets, and infrastructure, cloud adoption is not an IT upgrade. It is a performance requirement. Data-heavy research, risk modeling, and quantitative analytics teams need fast, consistent, and secure access to cloud platforms and services across regions. That makes the network a foundational dependency for how the business operates day to day.

As the firm modernized core platforms and expanded its cloud footprint, it found its legacy WAN, built on proprietary hardware and expensive leased circuits, could not keep pace with cloud-first needs. The organization chose to modernize both its applications and its WAN to gain the agility, scalability, and cost structure required for global cloud operations.

Key Highlights of the NIaaS Transformation

According to the firm’s technical lead for network, cloud, and security, this approach allowed the organization to modernize its WAN while gaining the speed, flexibility, and cost structure required to support global cloud operations.

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Highlights:

Alkira delivers a globally distributed, cloud-delivered network infrastructure fabric. This fabric is accessed through Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs), with centralized policy, segmentation, and security controls across clouds and regions.
Alkira’s Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS) enables enterprises to replace fixed, hardware-based WANs with an on-demand, consumption-based network that reduces capex, lowers operating costs, and accelerates deployment. Without software or hardware to deploy, global infrastructure can be established in less than one hour.
This Leadership Brief examines how a global investment firm used Alkira’s NIaaS to modernize its global cloud and WAN architecture. The transformation reduced network operating costs by more than 75 percent while improving performance, reliability, and operational control across the firm’s global footprint.