{"id":453693,"date":"2021-03-09T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=453693"},"modified":"2021-03-09T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:33:23","slug":"palo-alto-networks-and-alkira-partner-to-drive-koch-industries-network-cloud-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/palo-alto-networks-and-alkira-partner-to-drive-koch-industries-network-cloud-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks and Alkira Partner to Drive Koch Industries Network Cloud Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Koch Industries Deploys Alkira Cloud Networking as a Service Embedded with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewalls<\/h2>\n

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\n SANTA CLARA, Calif.<\/span>, March 9, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, and Alkira\u00ae<\/b> Inc., the network cloud pioneer, announced today that Koch Industries, one of the largest private companies in America with an estimated annual revenue of $115 billion<\/span>, according to Forbes, has initially deployed the combined offering of Alkira’s Cloud Services Exchange\u2122 (CSX) and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewalls to securely extend its enterprise infrastructure into the cloud. Alkira is a Palo Alto Networks Emerging Technology Partner.<\/p>\n

Koch Industries’ global business required greater agility from its complex network infrastructure to respond quickly to its business needs across the globe. This became even more critical during operational challenges over the last year, which accelerated the company’s shift to a secure network cloud.\u00a0Adding regional support was slow on provisioning and setup of network security, so Koch sought a simpler, comprehensive and faster network and security solution delivered from the cloud. <\/p>\n

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\n Matt Hoag<\/span>, chief technology officer of Koch Business Solutions, shared: <\/b>\n <\/p>\n

“Alkira’s Network Cloud integrated with Palo Alto Networks’ virtual firewall has enabled Koch to simply, quickly and securely expand our enterprise infrastructure to multi-cloud with an end-to-end, on-demand security offering. Alkira enables us to draw our entire end-to-end network on a digital design canvas, and provision it in one click, so it’s ready for use. With Alkira CSX there is no hardware to procure, no software to download, and no cloud to learn.\u00a0 The Alkira integration with Palo Alto Networks has resulted in a flexible and elastic firewall deployment with policy creation, auto-scaling of firewalls and overall reduced complexity at Koch.”<\/p>\n

The company has deployed Alkira to rebuild parts of its cloud network backbone and transform its network infrastructure into a multi-cloud service on demand, fully integrated with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewalls for protection against advanced network-based threats. Palo Alto Networks Panorama\u2122 further provides consistent security policy and firewall management across all Alkira deployed VM-Series instances. <\/p>\n

Koch’s extremely large and sophisticated network infrastructure included seven global networks supporting thousands of applications, with tens of thousands of access points, hundreds of thousands of switch ports, and thousands of routers and switches, at over 700 sites.<\/p>\n

It takes the Koch team only minutes to configure Alkira’s network cloud and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls, and less than an hour to provision the solutions. The entire security network was set up in a few hours. The solution can serve approximately 120,000 Koch employees doing business in more than 70 countries:\u00a0 <\/p>\n