Aryaka Cloud Network Targets Distributed Enterprises

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Gary Hilson.

Aryaka officially launched its Cloud Network as-a-Service, which is aimed at simplifying access to public and private cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Google Apps and Office 365. The Cloud Network is connected globally through a network of 25 data centers with multi-segment TCP optimization and integrated QoS. Like Aryaka’s WAN Optimization as-a-Service, the Network as-a-Service connects users to the geographically closest point-of-presence (POP), rather than the data center closest to the organization’s headquarters, in order to streamline user-to-application requests.

The new service makes use of the same underlying infrastructure as Aryaka’s WAN optimization, including TCP optimization, but does not include all of the application acceleration features. Aryaka said the Cloud Network is designed to help enterprises with distributed offices, which would normally have to traverse the public Internet to access services such as Office 365 or AWS at a single data center, and that more than 95% of the world’s enterprise business users are within 20 milliseconds from any of its POPs…

Founded in 2008 with a focus on cloud-based WAN optimization, Aryaka expanded into application delivery last fall and has found itself going head-to-head with entrenched vendors such as Riverbed. Peter Christy, research director of 451 Research networking practice, said Aryaka’s Cloud Network is an example of how enterprises “can build as much IT as they want without building any IT.” With the advent of cloud computing, it’s no longer necessary to physically purchase computing networking resources, he said, and over time the Network as-a-Service model could prove increasingly popular as it gives enterprises the ability to pay for only what they need in the same way they do now for other cloud services…

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