SD-WAN has become the definitive buzzword in enterprise networking, and if you’re a decision maker in IT, chances are the technology has come up in conversation. According to Gartner, by 2018, 40% of WAN edge infrastructure will be based on SD-WAN or something similar. What is SD-WAN? In a nutshell, software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) […]

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 application response times for one are four times better than the other. That was one of the core […]

Chances are that SD-WAN has come up in conversation with your IT department. If it hasn’t already, then it’s sure to be a hot topic of conversation in 2018. According to IDC, SD-WAN sales will grow at a 69% compound annual growth rate, hitting $8.05 billion in 2021. With this rapid growth and so many […]

You can battle proprietary on-premises video conferencing tools and deal with buffering errors, or enjoy a smoother experience via the cloud. In this distributed, global business climate, we don’t always have the luxury or travel budget for face to face meetings. In those instances, many global enterprises have turned to Unified Communications as a Service […]

The SD-WAN market is still white-hot, as buyers turn to the technology to cost effectively meet burgeoning bandwidth demands while realizing benefits such as simplified WAN management and better application performance. What’s not to like? In fact, there is so much upside with SD-WAN that vendors and service providers new and old are rushing to […]

If SD-WAN has not come up yet in conversation with your IT department, chances are it will in the new year. According to IDC, the SD-WAN market is expected to reach $1.19 billion by the end of 2017, as enterprises look to solve network challenges created by the increase in mobile users, big data, and […]

Would you sign on with a partner if you knew within a year they would be looking to move off in a new direction? Probably not. But that’s essentially the reality enterprise buyers face as they evaluate SD-WAN technologies today.  The market is rife with new players but is rapidly contracting as legacy infrastructure vendors […]

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 you did something in Salesforce or Zoom or Office 365? These applications, used by distributed teams around the […]

Digital transformation is reshaping how global enterprises conduct business at a significant rate and with the remote and mobile workforce increasing rapidly, accessing mission-critical applications is more vital to business productivity than ever. Even on top of that, businesses are continuing to expand globally. But, using an internet-based SD-WAN could hinder an enterprise’s ability to […]

How many times have you been in a business meeting and suddenly, your call drops? Or you are on a conference call and your voice lags? You can probably count it on more than one hand. In the past few years, we have seen cloud-hosted voice and video dramatically change modern business communication. But, without […]

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. The idea may seem strange at first given VMware’s position as the dominant player in server virtualization (Why […]

From vampires and mummies to witches and zombies, Halloween can bring out some scary creatures, but nothing is scarier for an IT manager than slow and unreliable connectivity and application performance. Aryaka recently published the State of SD-WAN Connectivity report that compares SD-WAN deployments that are built on the Internet vs. a global private network. […]