Introduction

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


“With Aryaka, we can expand our business in China faster by up to 60%. The network’s stability allows our end-users to access our system easily, making our expansion easier in China.”


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:

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%