It was just another day on April 3rd, when suddenly cybersecurity professional Alon Gal’s twitter handle started trending. News of a massive Facebook data breach — leaking details of more than half a billion Facebook users from 106 countries — had hit the headlines. It quickly came to light that this was not a new […]

We’re honored to be recognized by Vertical Systems in their Carrier Managed SD-WAN Services Leaderboard, now for the third year in a row.  Looking at the other providers covered, it is true that we walk amongst giants, but as we all know, giants are not most limber of beings.  They are powerful, but single-mindedly slow […]

At Aryaka, we are focused on making the life of IT decision-makers and practitioners easier. To be the easy button for enterprises when it comes to their WAN and Security needs. One way we do this is by making two promotional offers available that address two of the key findings from our recently published Global […]

Tennessee whiskey—you guessed it—from Tennessee, has earned a label of being the whiskey that gave whiskey a reputation. Ask the connoisseurs, and they will tell you how it’s made with a certain amount of corn, filtered through a bed of sugar maple charcoal, and aged for a minimum of two years in new charred oak […]

Digital Transformation. Cloud Migration. WAN Transformation. There are a lot of challenges facing your enterprise, and traditional WAN cannot keep up with the pace of business today. Perhaps you have heard of a little buzzword called SD-WAN – it is one of the hottest networking terms today. But the term itself has become a bit […]

Welcome to the 5th edition of Aryaka’s global State of the WAN Report! It goes without saying that 2020 is a year to be remembered, and 2021 is shaping up to be the same! This is the industry’s most comprehensive report, polling over 1350 enterprises across every geography and vertical. Common themes this year include […]

In a recent customer survey conducted in partnership with third-party research firm TechValidate, we sought to get a deeper understanding of our customers – why they first selected Aryaka and how, as these organizations continue to grow, change and meet new challenges, they continue to find value in Aryaka. First, it’s no surprise that the […]

For the 2nd year in a row, we’re honored to be recognized as a Gartner Voice of the Customer (VoC) for WAN Edge Infrastructure (February, 2021).  This achievement is totally based on the level of customer satisfaction and follow-through we provide, testament to both the capabilities of our managed offering as well as the expertise […]

CMO at Aryaka Networks. Advisory Board member for the Fabric, Ushur, TrueLark, various startups. Former global marketing leader at Cisco. Recently, I was asked to share some thoughts on the wide-area network (WAN), and in particular, trends on software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) and emerging concepts like secure access service edge (SASE). While this may appear like gobbledegook […]

Recently, Gartner published a foundational document on optimizing internet performance (How to Architect Your Network to Optimize Internet Performance and Reliability, Published 29 December 2020 – ID G00731192).  Many of you may have access to this.  Why I say foundational is that it ties together many of the themes that are top-of-mind for CIOs and […]

For network architects and engineers, the WAN experience is typically seen through the eyes of telco carrier relationships. In many cases, this experience isn’t necessarily a positive one. The process of working with a telco carrier to design an enterprise WAN requires negotiating contracts and rates, provisioning and installing new circuits, addressing performance issues and […]

How many moving parts do you think have to come together to put that shiny new iPhone in your palm? To give you a rough estimate — components from more than 200 suppliers cross multiple borders to reach the assembly line before the device is finally forged and supplied to your nearest stores. From China’s […]

How many branches does your company have? Maybe it’s a handful, or maybe it’s dozens of offices around the world. No matter what the answer is, chances are at least some of your users’ internet traffic is routed to a central data center before being passed onto the Internet. This practice, also known as backhauling, […]

The SD-WAN market was always expected to become a major force in networking, and it’s been exceeding expectations in the best way possible. As Software-Defined WAN continues its successful march and enters the growth stage of the product lifecycle, let’s look at the predictions by key industry analysts, and what the numbers have to say. […]

If your company is beginning to embark on a digital transformation journey, ultimately, you’ll have to confront the question of how to modernize the Wide Area Network (WAN) and ensure it is up to the task of supporting the transformation effort. Today, most organizations are concluding that Software Defined-WAN (SD-WAN) is the best way to […]

What are the key differentiators between traditional telecom network solutions and cloud-first WAN? Traditional networks were not built for rapid change and were meant primarily for static environments. Traditional WAN solutions with MPLS brought in predictable network engineering but were not designed for moves and changes due to changing business demands. A Cloud-First approach is […]

Our last post covered what a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) is and what the market for them looks like moving forward. That leaves two big questions for you as an IT leader — “Is SD-WAN right for your organization?” and, if it is, “When should you make the switch?” Here, we’ll break down some of […]

It is often said that work is not a place you go to but what you do. The pandemic has put a spotlight on all forms of work that can be done from anywhere other than the traditional office environment and forced a rethink of hybrid workplaces. Almost no industry is immune from the change […]

Legacy WANs are unfit for the digital era. The public Internet continues to be plagued by congestion and reliability problems caused by exponential traffic growth, bandwidth-intensive applications, and expanding network complexities. MPLS was designed before the cloud and brings along with it high costs, inflexibility, and long deployment times. These deficiencies have given rise to […]

Enterprises migrating to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-based offerings are learning the hard way that application performance varies wildly when end users are dispersed around the globe. Microsoft reports that more than 50% of its commercial Office customers are now in the cloud, and the company expects that number to jump to two-thirds this year. But global […]