Network Cloud Pioneer Alkira® announced close cooperation with Microsoft for startups program, which has selected a group of emerging businesses for the benefits Microsoft Blue offers customers on its cloud journey. Selected start-ups will receive support from Microsoft for development partnerships and ecosystems that include technical, sales and marketing opportunities and leadership. Alkira announced that the company’s network cloud platform’s original Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) is now available in the blue market.
Connectivity Cloud The Alkira Network Cloud Platform, which reduces environmental time, cost and complexity, provides enhanced performance, maintenance and security to blue customers while deploying Windows workloads in the blue cloud. Microsoft Blue customers can access Alkira solutions on a multi-cloud network, either in blue or with other excellent breed products in the blue market.
Benefiting from the inherent power of blue, Alkira CSX is delivered as a secure cloud networking infrastructure which reduces the time it takes to deploy cloud networks to scales and months to minutes as per the needs of dynamic customers.
Jeff MA, Microsoft’s general manager for startups, commented: “Our startup program provides access to Microsoft’s incredible resources to new businesses and helps Microsoft’s blue customers bring the benefits of exciting new technologies like Alkira network cloud platform. Alkira’s platform provides powerful and flexible capabilities to harness blue power to deploy fully featured cloud networks.
Mamoon Hamid, a partner at Cleaner Perkins, said: “It’s time to join the network cloud era, and Alkira’s cloud networking infrastructure-a-service offers customers a safe, simplified route to Microsoft Blue Cloud. Microsoft is gradually giving companies like Alkira the opportunity to help blue customers on their cloud journey, and we are already seeing value unlocked for all involved.
Brad Kenmore, vice president of research at IDC’s Datacenter Networks, said: “IDC found that businesses are getting more appreciation for how modern infrastructure can support strategic cloud objectives such as business agility, application experience, strong security. If venture architects want to help their firms achieve greater business agility through the migration of workloads over the cloud, they want to ensure that the transition to operational control and management is not compromised. Alkira’s network addresses these requirements by helping cloud platform firms and their architects adapt to the cloud’s business benefits with the need for effective regulation.
Microsoft customers who use the Alkira network cloud through the blue market will benefit from simplified billing and fast deployment from low purchase overheads, and Microsoft authentication promise Suo-Hou.
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