The features of Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) that stand out to me include the Design Canvas, which helps us visualize the interface and turn complex network tasks into a drag-and-drop exercise, improving timelines and entirely removing the need to write code, subsequently reducing costs, manual labor, risks, and work. I also value the micro-segmentation ability, which allows us to easily isolate traffic, ensuring that third-party contractor networks can only access specific testing servers and nothing else. Real-time monitoring is another favorite of mine, as it helps us troubleshoot with a dashboard that shows exactly where network bottlenecks or security threats are occurring globally. Lastly, the automated disaster recovery feature helps us achieve built-in enterprise resiliency by automating traffic rerouting when a specific cloud region goes offline, which aids users from specific regions as load balancers perform the rerouting. Alkira Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) has positively impacted my organization with significant returns on investment driven by a massive reduction in provisioning time, hardware enumeration, and labor optimization. The accelerated time to market has increased our ability to launch new products or integrate acquisitions by 80%, and provisioning speed has improved by 96%, reducing the traditional month-long planning and routing down to less than a day. The time staff physically spent configuring new cloud networks has decreased by 85%. We have seen project scale increase by 300% without delays, and by moving to a centralized cloud-native routing and security fabric, we eliminated the redundant physical and virtual hardware across different cloud providers, decreasing the total number of network devices by 44% and achieving a 73% reduction in firewalls.
