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Online collaboration, sharing documents, presentations, images is now easier |
| Date Added: November 03, 2010 06:07:31 AM |
| Author: Vijay Sengupta |
| Category: Computers & Internet: World Wide Web |
| We live in a networked virtual world, where branch offices are on the opposite sides of the globe, and a remote worker can be a developer working on a laptop from his patio or someone in sales logging an invoice from a smartphone in the back of a cab. Today, you also hear a lot about online collaboration, sharing presentations, documents and images while communicating via voice and/or video. To help networks transport data packets across the network more efficiently and to accelerate applications across the globe, companies have turned to WAN optimization appliances, physical boxes that attached to the network. Today, Silicon Valley-based Aryaka Networks is announcing what it refers to as a breakthrough in application acceleration and WAN optimization, by taking application acceleration and WAN Optimization into the cloud, eliminating the need for a physical device, and avoiding capital expenditure. By lowering the costs of entry for the technology, Aryaka is also making it accessible to mid-market enterprises that could benefit from network optimization but could not afford the hardware expense. This summer, Riverbed Technologies, maker of the Steelhead WAN optimization appliance, announced a virtual appliance to link headquarters to mobile workers more efficiently. But that system still relies on an appliance connected to the network. Aryaka says it offers “the advantages of a private cloud combined with the economics of a public cloud.” It uses a pay-as-you-go model thats based on “the link size connecting to the network and the associated geography.” In addition to the application acceleration suite, Aryaka offers real-time monitoring and management of the network traffic and performance over a web-based portal. In a statement, Aryaka founder and CEO Ajit Gupta said: We saw existing WAN optimization solutions did not adequately address the needs of most enterprises. Organizations were deluged with appliances and burdened by their inherent cost and complexity. We are offering a fundamental architecture and business model shift to how Application Acceleration and WAN optimization should be delivered. We bring the headquarters closer to their branches. Our goal is to enhance enterprise collaboration and delight our customers, one branch at a time. We want the world to think beyond the box. Aryaka’s solution requires no client-side setup and maintenance, while other providers of WAN optimization offer appliances that require a “do-it-yourself” setup to handle the optimization. The transmitted data passes through a number of quick-fire optimization processes at Aryaka’s global locations (or POPs) and is then sent to its destination. “Everything has been planned and you can just sit back and relax and get your work done,” said Ajit Gupta, the company’s president and CEO. Gupta expects his company’s cloud-based model to put other WAN optimization providers that offer their services in the form of a client-side “box” out of business. The market for providing WAN optimization isn’t very saturated, with only about 300,000 of a potential 8 million businesses getting on board, he said. Estimates from Gartner also peg the WAN optimization market as reaching $4.27 billion globally by 2014. For more information visit: http://www.aryaka.com http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/aryaka-pushes-wan-optimization-into-cloud/39405&ct=ga&cad=:s7:f1:v0:d1:i1:lt:e0:p0:t1285063376:&cd=ODBdMaZ8YA4&usg=AFQjCNEu70oiu7U4X0OjOuMpRNlrRcEYMg http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/21/aryaka-funding-wan-optimization/ |
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