1. Video Conferencing is up dramatically

At Aryaka, we optimize various video conferencing services (i.e., 8×8, Blue Jeans, ZOOM, Teams, and more), and just in the last six weeks, video traffic into China increased by more than three times. Face-to-face interaction is clearly an essential tool in remaining productive. Increased video is a prevalent traffic trend we have observed across companies of all sizes in all industry verticals.

2. High-Tech workers have left the campus

The graph at the left is the WAN usage profile of a US West Coast Software company, where over the last two weeks, employees have left the campus and moved home. Traffic over the Aryaka Global core has temporarily dropped as the company is in the process of transitioning many of its employees to Aryaka’s Secure Remote Access solution, accelerating connectivity and improving the user experience for mobile users.

3. Knowledge workers are now working from home

The graph below is from a Fortune 100 company using Aryaka’s Secure Remote Access solution for their mobile users. Since the end of February, their mobile usage jumped by almost 3X as COVID-19 made its way around the globe.

4. Manufacturing companies just keep humming

Dozens of manufacturing companies showed mostly flat WAN traffic over the last couple of months. This may well be because the Aryaka Global solution has enabled these companies to build a resilient global network infrastructure that just keeps humming and prevents disruption.

5. Some companies have slowed or shut down

Unfortunately, we also have observed some companies slowing down, with some even closing entirely. Luckily, this represents a minority of companies. These are typically smaller companies with labor-intensive operations and services that require the on-site presence of employees and find it impossible to offer their services with a remote workforce model.

6. We are working more during weekends

It appears there is more traffic on Aryaka’s private core network on the weekends than usual, indicating that employees are working more during these hours. This trend is confirmed by several articles published this week – here’s a typical statement: “..the US had seen the biggest time extension of the normal working day, adding an extra three hours. In the UK, France, Spain, and Canada, working hours have increased by an average of two hours per day ..”. I often find myself now more than usual behind my laptop responding to company emails during or after binge-watching TV shows and movies, as I typically did on weekends before this global phenomenon.

Disaster preparedness requires WAN networks built for change

This pandemic will inevitably end, and many companies have realized that a proper disaster recovery plan should include the ability of their employees to work from home at a moment’s notice without compromising productivity, data security, and effective collaboration. Delivering high-performance private WAN connectivity is not without challenges during a major disaster because broadband networks will be heavily stressed. It is telling that Netflix and Facebook are reducing video quality amid this crisis to reduce the strain on the internet.

The challenge is that most companies cannot afford to keep two high-performance private WAN networks up and running for both corporate sites and home offices. Aryaka provides the ability to reallocate private core bandwidth from the enterprise site to the home, the mobile user, the cloud, and to the Data Center with unmatched agility – provisioning times often take far less than 24 hours. And Aryaka’s WAN-as-a-Service delivery model means that changes are implemented through automated orchestration in SmartManage. Aryaka’s support team helps customers with zero-touch installation and configuration of systems – whenever, wherever.

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‘Integrated with Oracle Cloud’ implies that customers with data and applications destined to the cloud will experience peak performance across the Aryaka core or when connecting from the branch.  And, our presence on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace offers customers a simple way to consume our SD-WAN service.

Aryaka’s SmartCONNECTSD-WAN is a fully managed service, a single solution optimizing application performance and enabling global multi-cloud connectivity. It deploys in hours and offers reliable and stable performance for Oracle’s cloud services. Global enterprises benefit from direct network access to cloud data and applications from any region in the world using Aryaka’s 30+ Points of Presence (PoPs), reaching 95% of the world’s business users. Aryaka’s solution delivers up to 8 times faster application performance compared to existing network options, providing access to business-critical applications in 30 milliseconds or less.

As part of the company’s fully managed SD-WAN as a Service, Aryaka offers the choice of how to connect sites to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including FastConnect for direct access or IPsec VPNs. Our service offering helps enterprises easily connect with users in the following ways:

• Enterprise to Cloud – Access to Oracle Cloud for users at headquarters, branch offices and remote locations through a software-defined, application optimized, global private network with a choice of FastConnect or IP VPN
• Cloud to Cloud – Enterprise-wide access to multiple Oracle Cloud data centers (e.g., home region and alternate regions)
• Multi-Cloud – Enterprise-wide access to applications hosted simultaneously on Oracle and other infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) or software as a service (SaaS) platforms

We expect the number of customers leveraging Oracle Cloud to grow in the future on the basis of a strong investment and expansion program that will almost double the number of regions served over the next year.

Learn more by visiting us at this week’s Oracle Open World in San Francisco, booth 2204 or sign up for a meeting here.

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Cloud adoption is on the rise and the need for optimal connectivity is greater than ever. According to a recent forecast from Gartner, cloud computing remains a major driver of IT spending. Research indicates by 2022, more than a quarter (28%) of spending within key enterprise IT markets will be cloud-based, up 19% from 2018.

This means enterprises with branch offices around the world will need to ensure every employee is engaged and equipped with the right tools for team collaboration and business execution in cloud and SaaS environments. It’s important to ensure no matter where an employee resides in the world, they have seamless and consistent access to cloud applications and tools.

The Construction Approach to Application Delivery

In the past, global enterprises would construct their own network infrastructure to provide global employees with the right access to data and applications. This would involve deploying MPLS connections to branch offices, headquarters, and data centers where everything was hosted.

However, as data and applications move to third-party clouds away from the on-premises server, this method of network infrastructure becomes inefficient and incredibly expensive. In many cases, it’s impossible to deploy direct MPLS links from each branch office to the cloud.

That’s why today many CIOs want to consume their network in the same way they consume their applications today: As a cloud-based service.

Can Networks Be Deployed Like SaaS?

One key benefit to cloud computing for any business is the ability to scale out at the own pace of their business. With any cloud or SaaS application, deployment is as simple as the user pointing to a URL and accessing the application.

Aryaka takes the same approach by abstracting connectivity.

With Aryaka, a business simply points their routers or switches to one of our global POPs, and they’re automatically connected to all their branch offices and cloud-based application services through one global private network.

Through this consumption approach, an enterprise can now deploy their network in a matter of hours rather than build their own in months.

There are a number of advantages to this approach:

• Flexibility: By using a standard Internet connection to reach Aryaka’s services, businesses can rely on a fast and secure core network without having to build out heavy infrastructure. Business can also expand branch offices or move locations as they please, without having to worry about the rigidity of the legacy MPLS-based global infrastructure in place.
• Faster Application Access: Enabling this faster connectivity through our global private network layered with WAN optimization ensures every employee around the world has consistent and seamless access to the business’s mission-critical applications used around the world. End-users anywhere can access the same behind-the-firewall or SaaS application as if they were working next to where the applications reside.
• Full Transparency: Since legacy MPLS relies on multiple providers to connect branch offices worldwide, it does not have the ability to provide full transparency into the network. Aryaka provides a single cohesive global network which is centrally managed, enabling it to provide end-to-end, real-time transparency. IT can get a full view into network and application performance, supporting the enterprises’ business execution objectives.
• Zero CapEx: Since there is no infrastructure to build and invest in, this provides global enterprises with a lower total cost of ownership than they would find with building their own legacy network.

Over 800+ Enterprises Consume Their Global Network Using Aryaka

Aryaka services have been deployed by some of the largest global companies in manufacturing and software. Businesses of all sizes and verticals use Aryaka for their go-to solution to optimize cloud and SaaS application delivery, along with agile network deployment across global locations.

• Global manufacturing leader, Makino, replaced their legacy network with a software-defined solution from Aryaka and had their entire intercontinental network deployed in less than three days. What’s more, they saw data synchronization times between their headquarters in Toyko and the United States decrease from 6-7 hours down to 22 minutes, leading to a 20x increase in productivity.
• City & Guilds Group, a worldwide leader in eLearning and executive coaching also moved to a global solution from Aryaka to increase productivity and collaboration between their users in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Network deployment between all their global locations was up and running in a matter of days, and global users were able to collaborate through applications such as Office 365 in real time.

The Consumption Approach is the Future

The shift of data and applications moving away from data centers hosted inside the headquarters to clouds that can be accessed anywhere is the present and future of application delivery.

This means the needs for the network are changing. That is why it is important to enable your business with a network that is as flexible and adaptable as the applications and tools required to execute your business today.

Connect today with Aryaka and see what we can do for your global enterprise.

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