garysevounts, Author at Aryaka

Is it Time for a WAN Reset? Gartner Looks at SD-WAN: The Future of Enterprise Networks

Posted on November 7, 2021 By Gary Sevounts

“The WAN is a mess!” proclaimed Gartner Analyst, Andrew Lerner, during their recent Data Center Infrastructure and Operations conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lerner was the host of two major sessions focused on the network at[...]

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3 Simple Ways for Choosing the Right MPLS Alternative

Posted on November 14, 2020 By Gary Sevounts

In our cloud-enabled world, MPLS is on the way out – but it’s dying a slow death. Legacy networks have not been made completely obsolete, but as more organizations attempt to access resources in the cloud or[...]

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TOP 4 FACTORS THAT DRIVE IT LEADERS TO CONSIDER SD-WAN

Posted on November 13, 2020 By Gary Sevounts

Unless you’ve spent the last couple of years hibernating under a rock, it’s impossible for you to have escaped the buzz around Cloud, SD-WAN or Digital Transformation. Looking Up to the Cloud If you are a business,[...]

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Why MPLS and Cloud Applications Don’t Mix

Posted on November 3, 2020 By Gary Sevounts

If you’re in charge of delivering and maintaining a global WAN, then you know the headache that this chart can induce. Why? Because legacy WAN connectivity approaches like MPLS do not address performance challenges for cloud and[...]

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5 Reasons SD-WAN is Critical for Global Airlines like Air China

Posted on October 30, 2020 By Gary Sevounts

Industry experts believe that old legacy systems are unable to handle the exponential surge in passenger volume, fleet sizes, along with increasing customer expectations and global expansion of airline companies. For the airlines industry, the importance of[...]

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Salesforce Is Slow? — How You Can Solve IT!

Posted on October 13, 2020 By Gary Sevounts

Salesforce is one of the first applications that’s extended to new offices when U.S. companies expand into global locations, such as China. However, slow application performance often limits adoption and usage, thus negatively impacting business execution for[...]

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Choosing the Right SD-WAN for Your SaaS Connectivity

Posted on June 26, 2020 By Gary Sevounts

When Marc Benioff first came up with the idea of offering Salesforce.com as a cloud-based application in 1999, little did he know about its ripple effect in the field of enterprise software. The idea was to move[...]

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Analyzing the Core Performance Difference in SD-WANs

Posted on February 6, 2018 By Gary Sevounts

SD-WAN solutions have been making inroads into the enterprise by delivering application performance improvements, reducing network complexity at branch offices, and reducing costs in some cases, but buyer beware: There are two primary underlying connectivity options, and[...]

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The State of SD-WAN Connectivity: Performance By the Numbers

Posted on December 15, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

What would you do with an extra 4,000 milliseconds in your day? Probably not much because the time would be over before you even knew it began. But what about an extra 4,000 milliseconds (4 seconds) every time[...]

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Why Did VMware Buy VeloCloud?

Posted on November 2, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

The SD-WAN market is in the consolidation phase of its evolution and corporate pairings are flooding Silicon Valley. The latest news on the block is about the VeloCloud acquisition, or if we may call it VMware Velocloud.[...]

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Is it really true that “no one gets fired for buying AT&T?”

Posted on August 1, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

Not for long: a look at the disruptive forces upending the networking status quo – and why you won’t hear about those forces from the incumbent telecom providers: Collaboration is key to the success of any global[...]

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MPLS: Massive, Painful Layoffs (in) Store?

Posted on July 20, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

What do the numbers 4000 and 1100 have to do with your enterprise WAN? Those are the number of layoffs taking place at British Telecom and Cisco. Along with a big layoff at Riverbed (a WAN Optimization[...]

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SD-WAN Lost My Voice – And Aryaka Found It

Posted on July 14, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

Voice and video are notoriously problematic for enterprises looking to connect their offices and remote users around the globe – a problem that grows in each passing year as businesses continue to globalize. In a recent article[...]

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How a Clientless SD-WAN Solved PSP Corp.’s VPN and Remote Access Problems

Posted on June 29, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

If your organization is increasing its global footprint, operating out of remote locations, or is experiencing a sizeable number of employees accessing the corporate data center with remote access, chances are you are already witnessing a surge[...]

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The Many Faces of Application Delivery with Aryaka’s SmartCDN

Posted on June 6, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

When it comes to application delivery, it’s not always easy to find solutions that provide high performance, cost-effective access to centralized applications to a globally distributed work force, customers, mobile users, suppliers, and partners using the public[...]

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The Sunset of MPLS

Posted on June 2, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

Is MPLS sunsetting? The signs have, increasingly, been pointing to “yes.” Though this legacy technology was useful and groundbreaking in its time, evidence continues to mount that it can no longer serve the needs of today’s global[...]

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Requirements for a New Enterprise WAN

Posted on February 16, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

A few weeks ago, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners invested in series D funding of Aryaka’s global SD-WAN. The investment arm of the major telecommunications company made a historic decision to look toward the future of enterprise networking[...]

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McKinsey CIO Survey Highlights Cloud Adoption Changing the Enterprise WAN

Posted on January 12, 2017 By Gary Sevounts

According to a recent survey from McKinsey & Company, CIOs and IT Executives from a variety of industries are now moving more of their IT workloads to cloud services. For legacy networks and edge-device providers who still[...]

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According to Gartner: SD-WAN Will Change the Enterprise

Posted on December 1, 2016 By Gary Sevounts

SD-WAN has become the biggest trend today in enterprise networking. A recent blog by Gartner noted analyst, Bjarne Munch’s reaction to the space as being, “…on the brink of one of the most dramatic changes in WAN[...]

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Gartner SDWAN Magic Quadrant: Aryaka Labelled as Visionary

Posted on November 30, 2016 By Gary Sevounts

Gartner released their 2016 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization, and not only was Aryaka recognized as a Visionary in the space, we also had the greatest year-over-year improvement in the position. See our progress below. We are[...]

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