Aryaka News

Harding Safety, a manufacturer and supplier of marine life-saving systems, has deployed Aryaka’s software-defined, optimized network to achieve improved performance and connectivity between its sites in Norway and China.

The software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is a specific application of software-defined networking (SDN) technology applied to WAN connections, which are used to connect enterprise networks – including branch offices and data centers – over large geographic distances.

Mobile carriers continue their march towards virtualization platforms using network functions virtualization and software-defined networking technologies. However, cost considerations remain a hurdle as these NFV and SDN deployments will be taxes with running concurrently with legacy platforms, thus accounting for surplus operational expense in the near term.

SDN Africa, an exclusive reseller of Aryaka technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, has launched its latest Cloud Express products.These products offer clients a much better performance on all their cloud-based services like Office 365, Salesforce.com, SAPCloud, Google Apps, AWS, Azure, Dimension Data’s MCP, and Google Cloud.

Microsoft offers a way for organizations to connect directly to Azure data centers through one of three connection methods.

Telehouse Europe has announced Enhanced Connect, an overlaid optimization service designed to give faster remote access to centralized cloud applications. The new service takes existing Internet connections and improves their performance, so distributed organizations can connect to central services that are located in the Telehouse facility in London’s Docklands, without having to increase their bandwidth. The service is based on optimization technology from Aryaka.

Recently,Gary Sevounts had a very interesting discussion his engineering wizards at Aryaka, after an unsurprisingly well-attended screening of the original Star Wars trilogy at the company’s headquarters. The discussion was about how modern cutting-edge technology trends like advanced robotics, AI, nanotechnology, next-gen communications, etc. could have been featured in the earlier movies.

The growing SD-WAN movement received a lot of attention at this week’s Open Networking User Group show, with four vendors demonstrating proof-of-concepts that not only showcased their platforms, but also how they could work with other companies.

Occasionally, I get emails from engineers. Occasionally, the first word starts with an « F. » They can be forthright souls.Sometimes, though, I hear of their new ideas, expressions of fear or even wonderment. And sometimes I just hear about their parties.So it is that the engineering team at Aryaka sent me a missive longer than most movies. I hadn’t heard of Aryaka, but it claims to be « the only software defined, ultra optimized, cloud delivered, private WAN. »

Howdy Partners, and welcome back to Channel Partner Program Roundup. This week we threw out our lasso and snagged a herd of stories from BlackLine, Aryaka and Trend Micro, so hold onto your hats and lets get started.

So, what does the next-generation WAN look like? In an attempt to answer this question,Steve Martin looks back in time, to see how the WAN has evolved so far. The evolution of the WAN has followed the evolution of enterprises, in general, and their changing business requirements.

CenturyLink opened the application process for its annual Teachers and Technology grant program. Full-time pre-kindergarten through grade 12 classroom teachers in public or private schools within CenturyLink’s local service areas can apply for a grant of up to $5,000 until Jan. 12, 2016. The funds are meant to help teachers use technology in an innovative way to increase student achievement.