paulliesenberg, Author at Aryaka

SD-WAN overlay vs underlay: Fixing the Distorted View of WAN

Posted on November 9, 2021 By Paul Liesenberg

Wikipedia defines a Fata Morgana as “significantly distorting the object or objects on which they are based, often such that the object is completely unrecognizable.” – in other words, a mirage. Reading through this excellent article on[...]

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Renewing our perspective: Why a best-in-class SD-WAN solution is vital to SASE success

Posted on September 24, 2021 By Paul Liesenberg

Perspective is key. In our fast-paced, high tech professional life, we often prioritize the response to short term needs, and sometimes unfortunately lose perspective over some key goals as well as the impact they were supposed to[...]

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The Evolution of the Industry 4.0+ Manufacturing Infrastructure

Posted on September 7, 2021 By Paul Liesenberg

We just published a new white paper, which I authored with tons of input from my smart team here at Aryaka. I always have fun writing white papers, it involves digging for topic-related industry news, checking out[...]

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Aryaka recognized in Vertical Systems Group’s Global Provider Carrier Managed SD-WAN Leaderboard

Posted on August 24, 2021 By Paul Liesenberg

Even when you know you’re going strong, innovating and growing fast – it’s great to get external validation. And we get a lot of it: happy customers that propel us to the top of Gartner’s Peer Reviews[...]

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Defy the Rules: Get 3 out of 3!

Posted on April 14, 2021 By Paul Liesenberg

The other day, while re-reading “Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling” (written by Ross King and published by Penguin Books), it struck me that Michelangelo changed his approach from being a strictly Do-it-yourself proponent early in the project[...]

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Aryaka SmartSecure Private Access: A Look Behind the Scenes

Posted on December 22, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg and Gokul Nair

We have to admit to suffering from chronic pandemic fatigue – both when it comes to the limitations it imposes into our everyday life as well as when it comes to the entire high-tech industry linking every[...]

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MPLS: “Don’t write me off yet”

Posted on October 13, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

A few days ago, I re-watched the movie “Music and Lyrics”. There is an extremely cheesy song Hugh Grant sings at some point in the movie, titled “Don’t write me off yet”. I thought that if MPLS[...]

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WAN Transformation in The Times of COVID-19

Posted on September 15, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

Last week, it was my privilege to participate in a fantastic thought-leadership round table with some leading minds in Australia and New Zealand to discuss emerging patterns in network connectivity. I learned a lot and want to[...]

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Optimizing Real-Time Collaboration Performance

Posted on August 18, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

While several of my colleagues in other geographies now are completely free to work in the office again, here in California -as well as other places- we are still working from home. Or, as some have started[...]

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The Cloud-First Network with a People-First Soul

Posted on August 4, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg and April January

Adam Smith is known for pioneering many of the principles of market economy in his famous work “The Wealth of Nations”, establishing that any individual that pursues his self-interest under conditions of justice “unintentionally promotes the good[...]

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Paving the road to SASE: Aryaka and Check Point

Posted on July 23, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg and Gokul Nair

When it comes to network security, everybody is boarding the SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) train. With very good reason, too: SASE’s architectural model is optimally suited to support the consolidated networking and security needs of all[...]

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Aryaka SD-WAN and Microsoft 365 Teams

Posted on July 6, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

There is one recent experience we knowledge workers across the globe have shared over the last 4 months: while we have always been well acquainted with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, 8×8, BlueJeans, Slack,[...]

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Aryaka Declared a Managed SD-WAN Industry Leader by Vertical Systems Group

Posted on May 12, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

For the second year, Aryaka is ranked among the industry leaders based on Installed and billable U.S. Managed SD-WAN sites in 2019. It is amazing to be up there with industry giants such as AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink[...]

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Major Take-Aways from the SD-WAN Services for the Post-COVID Future Webinar

Posted on May 5, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

Recently, I truly enjoyed hosting Scott Raynovich from Futuriom in our webinar (SD-WAN Services for the Post-COVID Future). Scott presented the market trends that he established after interviewing over 120 network infrastructure decision makers. His survey shed[...]

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What Networking can learn from Apple Inc.

Posted on April 27, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

As Apple gets ready to announce amazing quarterly results this week again, I had to think about January. When Apple announced record results of over $121B and profits of over $30B in January, industry pundits had a[...]

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Improving Global Microsoft Azure Performance with Aryaka

Posted on April 7, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg and Martin Luening

We all know that in the world of the cloud-first digital enterprise, key business processes rely on network performance – if the network doesn’t deliver on the expected SLAs, there is direct impact on business results and[...]

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The Last Router

Posted on February 4, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg and Hugo Vliegen

The year was 2012 and a new reality was setting in for the server market. It had been long dominated by companies like HP, Dell and IBM – who together had commanded a whopping 80% of the[...]

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Embracing DevOps with Aryaka Cloud-First WAN

Posted on January 14, 2020 By Paul Liesenberg

In a previous blog, I wrote about network engineers playing second fiddles (never mind that I mentioned Leonard Bernstein’s New York and Vienna Philharmonics!) and if you check my LinkedIn, it got me some scorn from some[...]

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When Gartner Declares You a Visionary Company – What Do You Do Next?

Posted on December 4, 2019 By Paul Liesenberg and Klaus Schwegler

We are thrilled to be named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. Aryaka was founded in 2009 by a group of visionary entrepreneurs who foresaw the importance of a managed wide area[...]

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ONUG Fall Conference 2019

Posted on November 25, 2019 By Paul Liesenberg

I truly enjoyed attending the ONUG Fall Conference in New York last month. If anyone needed to validate that SD-WAN is hitting its stride and making it into the mainstream, being there would have provided proof: high[...]

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