Cloud Network-As-A-Service Offering from Aryaka
Cloud Network-As-A-Service Offering from Aryaka by UCStrategies Staff
A cloud network-as-a-service offering from Milpitas, California-based Aryaka is promising to streamline organizations’ access to private and public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365.
The WAN optimization startup has noted that its new cloud network-as-a-service will provide enterprise users with a dedicated and low-latency network through which high performance of cloud-based services will be made possible, no matter from where they are hosted. Enterprise users, and especially those who work remotely or are located at branch offices away from their company’s data centers, will benefit the most from this, particularly as they are the group that needs to compete for public Internet bandwidth, or invest in pricey MPLS links in order to access cloud-based services.
The vice president of marketing and sales at Aryaka, Sonal Puri, said: “This cloud network-as-a-service is seamless access to cloud services or cloud service delivery to end users. There is nobody else in the world that is doing something like this. The new need in the market is to access to the cloud, and that's what we are providing.”
Similar to Aryaka's WAN optimization-as-a-service and application delivery-as-a-service offerings, the cloud network service connects users to its geographically closest point-of-presence so that user-to-application requests can be made easier and more secure. Aryaka’s global network of 25 data centers support these services.
According to Aryaka, the company’s private network of points-of-presence and the dedicated links allow data deduplication and TCP optimization to work as well for users as they would when being accessed from a LAN. A full-featured optimization software stack is operated by each of the points-of-presence, and this takes away the requirement for users to have a separate WAN optimization appliance.
A formal partner program was established by Aryaka in 2011 to assist in the sale of its service offerings through the channel. There are around 30 Aryaka reseller partners in the world at present, the majority of whom prefer to distribute cloud-based services from the company, moving away from traditional hardware-based appliance sales.
Puri stated: “Some of [Aryaka's partners] are your traditional VARs or distributors that are seeing the world of cloud, and they're realizing that having a subscription-based model versus selling a box once and then never seeing any more revenue from it is probably the better way for the future.” (CY) Link