Chart Industries turns to NaaS to solve multicloud merger challenge

John Burke, CTO of IT consultancy Nemertes, who is familiar with Chart’s partnership with Alkira, says Alkira’s multicloud networking services gave Chart Industries a high level of simplicity, consistency, agility, and reliability.

“The fact that their multicloud network got a common look and feel and consistent set of behaviors across all cloud platforms, regions, and environments, combined with easy automation and the as-a-service offloading of the need for deep platform-specific expertise and platform maintenance and upgrade chores, meant Chart saw vast reductions in the staff effort and calendar time needed to deploy and maintain those networks, and got big improvements in reliability as well,” he says.

There was a time when CIOs did not have to give much thought to networking, but the cloud has changed that. ISVs such as Alkira, Aviatrix, and Cato Networks offer various additive networking services, Burke says. Cato Networks is a NaaS provider with a security focus while Alkira specializes in providing unified global multicloud networking (MCN).