New Strategic Partnerships, a Flood of New Customers, and Key Additions to the Senior Executive Team Highlight a Record First Half for the Company That Invented SD-WAN Technology
MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 3, 2015) - Aryaka®, the leading WAN as-a-Service company, announced today that the company closed the first half of 2015 with a series of significant wins. Aryaka closed the first-half of calendar 2015 with record bookings, record revenues, record gross margins, and a record number of new customer acquisitions. In the first half of calendar 2015, Aryaka's total number of active customers, as well as long-term recurring revenues, nearly doubled as compared to the first-half of calendar 2014.
From Inventing SD-WANs to Building out a Global, Private Network
Today's agile global businesses couldn't move forward to capitalize on trends like globalization and the mainstreaming of cloud computing because MPLS and WAN optimization hardware acted as major bottlenecks.
As a result, Aryaka decided that just replacing MPLS with an SD-WAN was not nearly enough. So, the company began steadily building out an optimized, global private enterprise-grade WAN, one that can be deployed in a day and is an order of magnitude more affordable. And Aryaka offered it as a 24x7 managed service, eliminating the sleepless nights that customers have when they try to cobble together WAN optimization boxes and MPLS lines. Now, optimization and software-defined networking are simply features within Aryaka's complete WAN solution.
To further extend that network, Aryaka expanded its footprint of global Points of Presence (PoPs) in January 2015, adding PoPs in Los Angeles, Miami, and Dubai. As a result, more than 90% of the world's business users are now within 30 milliseconds of an Aryaka PoP.
"In the past six months, we saw the enterprise market express a great deal of interest in software-defined networking, particularly SD-WANs," said Ram Gupta, Executive Chairman of Aryaka. "Businesses have grown weary of the compromises that come from having to choose between expensive, inflexible private networking options, such as MPLS, and the unreliable and congested public Internet, which SD-WAN vendors rely on. We help enterprises put all of those compromises in the rear-view mirror with our no-compromise WAN as-a-Service portfolio, which offers flexible, on-demand services that include everything from SD-WANs to guaranteed performance to WAN optimization, all of which can be deployed in less than a day and with no Capex whatsoever."
Here are some other highlights from a busy and successful first half of 2015:
Aryaka Continues to Attract Customers Fed up with MPLS, but also Skeptical of SD-WANs
Those new customers include:
Other notable customers include Nordic Semiconductor; Populous, the world's leading sports and entertainment architecture and design practice; Avepoint, which was in Inc. magazine's 2014 "Inc. 500|5000" list of the fastest-growing companies in America; and Nortek (
Aryaka Secures New Funding
In the spring, Aryaka secured $16 million in additional funding, bringing the total raised to date to $75 million. Nexus Venture Partners led the Series C-3 round and was joined by existing investors Trinity Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Presidio Ventures.
New Executive Chairman, Senior VP of Global Sales, CFO, and CEO Join Aryaka
In the first half of this year, Aryaka invested in its next stage of growth by appointing a number of new senior executives with experience scaling companies. These appointments include:
Strategic Partnerships Expand Channel, Magnify Influence in NA, APAC, EMEA, and Africa
The first half of 2015 featured a number of new partnerships. These strategic partnerships dramatically expand Aryaka's channel, while also amplifying the company's presence in key global regions, including EMEA and APAC. These partnerships include:
Industry Recognition in H1 2015
2015 SDN Excellence Award
2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant, WAN Optimization Controllers -- Named "Visionary" for the third year in a row.
2015 Frost & Sullivan's 2015 Global Network Optimization Solutions Customer Value Leadership Award
Named one of the Top 20 Cloud Solutions Providers for 2015 by Silicon India
2015 Cloud Awards -- Finalist for Best Software-as-a-Service
About Aryaka
Aryaka's WAN as-a-Service is the only WAN with enterprise-grade performance and Internet-like simplicity. Aryaka invented the Software-Defined WAN, built a global multi-tenant private network, created the world's best optimization technology to accelerate applications of all types, and delivers all of it as a 24x7 managed service. Aryaka's services have 10 million+ users across 4,000+ sites globally. Leading brands such as Astra Zeneca, Skullcandy, Air China, Freescale Semiconductor, and ThoughtWorks, as well as partners like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Intelisys, and SK Broadband, have all chosen Aryaka for their enterprise-grade networking needs.
Contact Information:
Aryaka Media Contact:
Neha More
Public Relations Manager
Aryaka
408-273-8420, Ext. 2113