In their recently published Earnings Release for FY15 Q4, Microsoft announced that their commercial cloud revenue grew by 88%. The growth was driven by Office 365, Azure, and Dynamics CRM Online, and their commercial cloud business is[...]

They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad Lord and Wednesday’s worse, Thursday’s oh so sad…    I’m sure most IT administrators can relate to these[...]

Rarely will you come across a CIO, IT Director, Network Architect, or Network Manager who does not complain about network problems, and most of their complaints, whether they know it or not, are actually about the middle[...]

“Thousands of years ago, there came the long night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts; and women wept and felt the tears freeze on their[...]

Picture this: One of your company’s potential customers types in your web address and hits enter. From that moment on, a timer starts ticking in his (or her) head. And it’s a short timer at that –[...]

Last week, we released our State of the Enterprise WAN Report 2015. This year’s report investigates key factors impacting the evolution of the enterprise WAN, including the ongoing migration of applications to the cloud, the limitations of[...]

Aryaka finds that the public Internet is not ready to support mission-critical enterprise traffic The State of the Enterprise WAN in 2015 is mixed. While certain components of the enterprise WAN are improving, other factors are actually[...]

Most people do not trust sales professionals. In my line of business, we deal directly with CIOs, Network and IT Directors, and Application Managers. In my conversations with them, they express how suspicious they are of vendors that[...]

In the past couple of years, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) have taken the networking industry by storm, and every vendor and service provider wants to stake their claim in these emerging spaces.[...]

People like to compare the Internet to highway systems, and in many respects the comparison works. For instance, commuter highway traffic congestion is here to stay, and that’s probably true for Internet traffic, as well, but that’s[...]

A seasoned blogger I’m not. This isn’t to say that I’m afraid to share my thoughts publicly. As you get older, you start to focus on the things that matter to you most. As a long-time “technologist,”[...]

We have exciting news to share today: Aryaka has raised $16 million in new funding from top-tier Venture Capital firms Nexus Venture Partners (lead), Trinity Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Presidio Ventures. Our new funding[...]