Aryaka Networks, a leader in Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), has reached a major milestone in becoming the largest independent SD-WAN vendor in the world, capturing 18% market share and generating $21.3M in Q3-2017, according to IHS Data Center Network Equipment Market
It seems that F5 Networks is becoming more and more like a CDN of sorts. F5 develops appliances with features that mimic CDN functionality. Just like Akamai, F5 Networks offers global DNS services, WAF, load balancing and application acceleration services.
Aryaka Networks, the leading provider of WAN as-a-service is on to something big. They’ve signed up hundreds of customers, and are growing rapidly, to the tune 416% in 2013. Critics might argue that it’s easy to accomplish spectacular growth when
Over the last month, I’ve researched more than a dozen startups, that partake in the CDN ecosystem. The startups included CDNs, OVPs, File Transfer Platforms, WAN as-a-service, and Cloud Security companies. All startups mentioned in my blog are disruptive, offering
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens to Riverbed, whether it remains a public company, or it is acquired in a leveraged buy-out by a private equity firm. Regardless, Riverbed remains on the path to innovation, and it’s
Aryaka Networks, the first and only WAN Optimization as-a-Service company, is shredding the competition. It has received $54M in funding, and is backed by the top VCs. The question arises, who is going to acquire Aryaka? Aryaka is not a
Lately, there has been much in the press regarding MPLS and its future. Is it dead or is it a dying breed in the WAN ecosystem? Instead of generalizing about MPLS in the enterprise, it would be more useful to
Riverbed has 2500 employees, generated $261M of revenue last quarter, is on a run-rate to surpass $1B in revenue in 2013, and yet only has a market cap of $2.79B (as of today). What gives? On top of that, Riverbed’s
Watching the public fight between Aryaka and Riverbed brings back good old memories. It feels like the days of Oracle vs. Microsoft, Oracle vs. SAP and Oracle vs. Peoplesoft. Sometimes it got nasty but it was a boatload of fun
