There was a time when a top goal of IT was to improve application and data delivery by implementing WAN optimization appliances. Traditional WAN optimization devices provided tremendous value for legacy networks by reducing bandwidth requirements and enabling enterprise to efficiently scale their networks. They also improve your organization’s disaster recovery capabilities, response times for […]
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 network delivered as a consumable service. The focus was on operational simplicity and a highly responsive infrastructure experience […]
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 attendance, great discussions on the floor, many enterprises sharing their experiences with SD-WAN deployments. Moreover, the dawn of […]
Today we are announcing a major refresh and expansion of the Aryaka managed SD-WAN portfolio designed to meet the needs of the Cloud-First enterprise. The new offerings cover areas of connectivity, application acceleration, cloud, security and analytics, all brought together seamlessly, and “as-a-service”. We’re calling this the Cloud-First WAN. The philosophy of the Cloud-First WAN […]
Microsoft enterprise customers are migrating to the company’s Azure cloud computing platform in droves, with the company reporting 98% year-over-year revenue growth in its second fiscal quarter of 2018. The appeal is clear. Enterprise shops want to increase agility by getting out of the capital-intensive infrastructure business and start consuming computing as a service on […]
Most of what’s written about SD-WAN discusses the technology’s potential to transform network connectivity by making networks more agile, flexible, and cost-effective for both enterprises and service providers. The truth is, while this technology delivers many benefits compared to legacy networks, there may be shortcomings depending on the implementation. A multitude of startups and existing […]
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 they have to retrain all their top certified network engineers in order to successfully tackle SD-WAN. So, let’s […]
Virtual Desktop infrastructure is commonly used by organizations to manage IT application access for employees in small remote locations, contract workers, and temporary employees. VDI offers these organizations flexibility and ease while maintaining data and application security. However, VDI applications are susceptible to latency and low speeds. End-user experience is severely impacted by the quality […]
Good Tidings from Across the Pond – Aryaka Takes Network Transformation Awards Best SD-WAN Product and Solution and Ranks #3 in Latest HIS Markit SD-WAN Report We’re honored to be selected by Layer123 as the best SD-WAN product and solution. The Network Transformation Awards, presented at The Hague, recognize industry leaders across 5G, open networking, new […]
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 clearly, at Aryaka, we are all about smart things. We have a few holidays creeping up our way […]
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. When it comes to security in SD-WAN, it’s easy to observe there are two generic approaches in our […]
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 efficiency. The current status quo is simple: as they adopt SD-WAN, enterprises -among other things- look to reduce […]