How CIO decisions are shaping the future of enterprise talent In the email heard around the enterprise world, Elon Musk declared that ALL employees would return to the office or be fired. Thus, throwing the biggest log yet on a fiery, executive debate that will rage for years. Has your CEO made the same decree?  […]

Prelude to Gartner’s IOCS – Your Cheat Sheet on Anywhere Infrastructures Track In just two short weeks, the Gartner IOCS kicks off, and with it, our breakthrough announcement! One conference track, ‘Anywhere Infrastructures,’ is especially relevant for enterprises and closely aligns to Aryaka’s strategy across several fronts. A year ago, we introduced our Private Access […]

The enterprise ecosystem has become exceedingly global and mobile over time, while the need for collaboration is stronger than ever. Partners, suppliers and customers have become a part of an integrated supply chain that needs access to these centrally hosted applications from anywhere in the world. As a result, client server access and WAN needs […]

Clunky, unreliable, and slow remote access options, like VPN, are the necessary evil that IT administrators love to hate. This vital piece of the corporate puzzle helps keep your information secure and your global remote and mobile workforce in sync. However, it also creates headaches – and high costs – for teams that want to […]

Aryaka customer Mark Baker, CTO of Pilot Freight Services, recently said that to be a successful IT leader you must, “Plan for the worst, hope for the best.” It’s a commonly held wisdom, especially in the networking and security world of IT, that has helped Aryaka customers like Pilot Freight Services address the technology challenges […]

On September 1st, 2020, I joined Aryaka, now 11 months ago. Which makes this a good time for reflection, just before my summer break. Below is a snippet from how I introduced myself to my new colleagues: “My name is Patrick Brog, I’m 49 years young ?, married to Tosca and we have two sons, […]

Hailed as a panacea for all things pandemic, Work from Home (WFH) has struck a chord with many of you. More so with the tech industry, where the idea of “work” was to ceremoniously dress up each morning and spend a good chunk of time sitting in a brick-and-mortar office or in traffic. While the […]

Lockdowns, quarantines, self-imposed isolation, restructuring business for online platforms, and remote workers — COVID-19 has had enterprises participate in the biggest remote work experiment in human history. Now, more than a year into the pandemic, we are in a relatively better position to gauge the impact of remote working on how we communicate, connect, and […]

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 piece of technology news to the IT challenges posed by the COVID-19 challenge. Clearly the dramatic shift of […]

Some weeks ago, Paul and I published a quick analysis of how COVID-19 is impacting enterprise network-traffic-patterns. That blog was written when -at least for most of the Western world- the most crippling and limiting limitations started to be mandated by national and local governments. And so, three weeks later, I decided to look into […]

As a product manager at Aryaka, I have a massive data lake of WAN usage statistics from hundreds of organizations around the world at my fingertips. A quick analysis of these WAN usage statistics has given me a better insight into how work, as well as enterprise network-traffic-patterns, are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

In response to the growing threat of COVID-19, an increasing number of universities across the world are cancelling all “non-essential activities,” campus tours, study abroad programs and, more critically, in-person on-campus classes. Just this week, Harvard notified students they had five days to move out of on-campus housing and would be completing classes and exams […]

In the current environment, many companies are mandating people to work from home in the Asia Pacific Region. In this digital age, working from home is a normal phenomenon. Thanks to Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions, you can securely connect from your laptop to the corporate network and have access to the business applications to […]

I recently returned from CES, sharing the show floor with 175,000 of my closest friends. The sheer size and diversity of the event you can read about elsewhere, but what became clear is that as we enter this new decade, we’re finally on the cusp of fundamental changes that we’ve been writing about for eons. […]

As part of our global managed SD-WAN service, ‘pre-wired’ multi-cloud connectivity is one of the linchpins of our offering.  This permits our customers to access IaaS/PaaS/SaaS via our SLA-driven private backbone for mission-critical applications, as opposed to relying on the public internet that doesn’t offer end-to-end QoS guarantees.  The Oracle Cloud, offering some unique capabilities, […]

The WAN wasn’t built in a day – but you’d think that SD-WAN providers would have at least spent some time considering how to build one of the most important pieces of the WAN into their cloud strategy: remote access. Two major trends in business development have made remote access a non-negotiable for the enterprise […]

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 in number of VPN gateways and concentrators within your enterprise network. In the past, the biggest concerns for […]