Mark Baker, the former CIO of JAS Forwarding Worldwide, a recognized leader in global freight forwarding and logistics, found a network solution to support his company’s effort to consolidate and centralize its global ERP resources, and then realized that network was the perfect platform to support growing collaboration and cloud needs. It has been a […]

Glenn Hensley, IT infrastructure manager at Makino, a leading maker of manufacturing tools for a range of vertical industries, was running out of patience with the wide area network linking company facilities in North America, Asia, and Europe. It was taking too long for data to synchronize among locations, increasing the chance that employees would […]

Platform Specialty Products (PSP), now Element Solutions, grew through acquisition and the process left the company with a global network pieced together with inherited parts that was complex, hard to manage and had begun to limit options for further growth. CIO Dustin Collins knew the company had to bite the bullet and start from scratch. […]

Kenny Gilbert, CIO of TDK InvenSense, hadn’t been on the job for more than a few weeks when employees started lining up at his door to complain about the performance of the company’s wide area network. TDK InvenSense is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies sensors to manufacturers of devices for mobile, automotive, and industrial […]

In a recent study conducted by Aryaka, the average data response time for a 200MB file ranges from 68 to 135 minutes over Internet based network infrastructures, depending on the distance. If you calculated the amount of customers most global manufacturing firms handle on a daily basis, waiting for files to travel at that rate […]

Compared to what typical enterprise network architectures looked like a decade or so ago, current global WAN deployments are like a complicated maze and continue to increase in complexity. What used to be a simple hub and spoke local network has now turned into: A complex mesh of globally distributed branch offices Numerous data centers […]

Cloud adoption is on the rise and the need for optimal connectivity is greater than ever. According to a recent forecast from Gartner, cloud computing remains a major driver of IT spending. Research indicates by 2022, more than a quarter (28%) of spending within key enterprise IT markets will be cloud-based, up 19% from 2018. […]

Los Angeles has the 4th longest commute times in the country and citizens there spend an average of 81 hours per year in traffic. There are ways to sidestep the gridlock, as we’ll discuss, but both the problem and the solutions make for a good analogy if you’re using (or considering using) the public Internet […]

Digital transformation initiatives are reshaping manufacturing, and here at Makino a global leader in metal cutting and manufacturing technology, we’re looking forward to advances that allow real time data analysis to better predict machine downtime, track performance, and anticipate maintenance needs. We build manufacturing tools for almost every vertical, and also offer a suite of […]

Digital transformation. Cloud migration. Branch simplification. This perfect storm is straining legacy networks and sending enterprises scurrying for new WAN answers. The good news is there are many solutions emerging that promise to help. The bad news: There are so many tools coming out from a variety of players in different corners of the industry, […]

Global enterprises around the world are currently undergoing a digital transformation where mission-critical resources are migrating to the cloud. SD-WANs are reshaping the way enterprises deliver these resources. However, leveraging MPLS or the public Internet for connectivity with SD-WAN adds complexity without delivering the full potential of migrating to the cloud. Aryaka is excited to […]

SD-WAN has been touted as the leading technology to help drive global enterprises through their digital transformation initiatives. And nearly every network vendor on the market today has their own flavor of SD-WAN vying to improve application performance, reduce cost and complexity, and deliver enterprise-grade security. The potential is there for businesses of any size […]