CloudKitchens Improves Connectivity to China and Enables Hybrid Workplace

Introduction

This case study of CloudKitchens is based on a June 2021 survey of Aryaka Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

The Challenge

Prior to deploying Aryaka’s managed SD-WAN solution, CloudKitchens was experiencing the following issues with their MPLS network:

• Slow network performance in China
• Slow connectivity for remote employees

Use Case

The company evaluated and selected Aryaka to solve the following:

• Improve connectivity to China
• Enable a hybrid workplace by providing stable connectivity to remote workers

Results

After deploying Aryaka, CloudKitchens saw the following benefits:

• Stable, reliability to/from China
• Accelerated global application performance, including critical applications like Salesforce
• Increased productivity among end-users
• Improved collaboration among end-users

Additionally, the IT organization realized the following benefits:

• Gained ability to support more than 75% additional end-users
• Decreased their network TCO:
  • Decreased hardware costs by 25-50%
  • Decreased software costs by 25-50%
  • Decreased transport costs by 25-50%
  • Decreased staffing/training costs by 25%
  • Decreased time spent on incident resolution by 25-50%