Aryaka and 8×8: 1+1=3 Industry leaders team to enhance cloud communications performance across SD-WAN We’re happy to announce our partnership with 8×8 to enhance application performance and accelerate digital transformation by leveraging the combined capabilities of the 8×8 cloud communications platform and Aryaka’s cloud-first WAN. See the common theme? Both of our companies’ cloud-based services […]
There is one recent experience we knowledge workers across the globe have shared over the last 4 months: while we have always been well acquainted with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, 8×8, BlueJeans, Slack, Google Meets and several others, now these tools reign supreme as critical center pieces to our productivity. They […]
When Marc Benioff first came up with the idea of offering Salesforce.com as a cloud-based application in 1999, little did he know about its ripple effect in the field of enterprise software. The idea was to move applications to the cloud, making them widely available for organizations of all shapes and sizes. The SaaS model […]
There is something about the smell of a freshly baked cake that is hard to be unhappy with. Not every scent is as welcoming. The tranquilizing effect of sitting down to a slice of still-warm cake with a cup of hot, milky tea, plus the loveliness of the entire ritual is nothing short of therapy. […]
Whiskey, leather, cheese, jeans, pickle, wine…a surprising number of things get better as they age. Technology, on the other hand, as Scott McNealy famously said, has the shelf life of a banana. Think about it. There is a reason you made the journey from a 3.5-inch iPhone to a 6-inch one, and the cellular network […]
For the second year, Aryaka is ranked among the industry leaders based on Installed and billable U.S. Managed SD-WAN sites in 2019. It is amazing to be up there with industry giants such as AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink or Comcast when it comes to deliver on enterprises’ need for managed SD-WAN solutions. This clearly validates Aryaka’s […]
This week, Gartner released their first-ever Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: WAN Edge Infrastructure report (April 2020), and Aryaka is proud to have been recognized as one of the five Customers’ Choice vendors. We were also recognized as a Visionary in the December 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. To clarify […]
As Apple gets ready to announce amazing quarterly results this week again, I had to think about January. When Apple announced record results of over $121B and profits of over $30B in January, industry pundits had a field day analyzing the results, establishing the success of different product offerings and speculating about Apple’s ability to […]
Some weeks ago, Paul and I published a quick analysis of how COVID-19 is impacting enterprise network-traffic-patterns. That blog was written when -at least for most of the Western world- the most crippling and limiting limitations started to be mandated by national and local governments. And so, three weeks later, I decided to look into […]
This week we released our latest SOTW report, canvassing over a thousand IT experts from across the global as to their WAN challenges and plans. We’ve also developed a set of recommendations, based on the survey results, for CIOs and network administrators. The survey identifies some important year-on-year trends, detailed below, and we also conducted […]
As a product manager at Aryaka, I have a massive data lake of WAN usage statistics from hundreds of organizations around the world at my fingertips. A quick analysis of these WAN usage statistics has given me a better insight into how work, as well as enterprise network-traffic-patterns, are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
The cloud-delivered services that your business thrives on are susceptible to multiple performance-impacting elements sitting in your network. While most businesses are well-versed with the basic concept of network management, what is the ‘secret sauce’ that makes your network management a cut above the rest? Before I answer that question, let me walk you through […]