Author: paulliesenberg
Aryaka Declared a Managed SD-WAN Industry Leader by Vertical Systems Group
Aryaka Declared a Managed SD-WAN Industry Leader by Vertical Systems Group
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
Major Take-Aways from the SD-WAN Services for the Post-COVID Future Webinar
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.
What Networking can learn from Apple Inc.
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
Improving Global Microsoft Azure Performance with Aryaka
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
The Last Router
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
Embracing DevOps with Aryaka Cloud-First WAN
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?
When Gartner Declares You a Visionary Company – What Do You Do Next?
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
ONUG Fall Conference 2019
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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SD-WAN Doesn’t Have to be Scary (Halloween Special Edition)
SD-WAN Doesn’t Have to be Scary (Halloween Special Edition)
Terrifying things are crawling around our porches this time of the year! And network managers have been receiving some scary news about SD-WAN as of late, ranging from the complexity of deployments to trusted vendors telling them[...]
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How to… Get Smart SD-WAN
How to… Get Smart SD-WAN
If you have read a few of my blogs since I joined Aryaka, you’ll see that I blogged about Aryaka technologies such as SmartConnect and SmartEdge – in addition, we also have a capability called SmartCDN. So[...]
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Securing the Software-Defined Branch with Aryaka Zones and Partner Solutions
Securing the Software-Defined Branch with Aryaka Zones and Partner Solutions
Last week I blogged about Aryaka HybridWAN and its innovative approach to deliver internet connectivity with enterprise class SLAs to the branch. Of course, as soon as you open branches to the internet, security is a major concern.[...]
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Why not all HybridWAN Solutions Were Created The Same
Why not all HybridWAN Solutions Were Created The Same
According to Gartner, one of the key architectural characteristics of SD-WAN is the ability to leverage a variety of transport mechanisms to connect branches in a way that achieves an optimal mix of reliability, application performance and cost[...]
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