According to the San Mateo, Calif.-based company’s annual Enterprise Network Transformation report, 98% of IT leaders say they plan to increase their investment in cloud services despite a growing fear of a looming recession.

In addition, 94% of organizations say SASE will play a larger role in their networking and security plans, and 62% plan to eliminate multiprotocol label switching from their operations.

The company says these trends highlight the ongoing shift to the cloud from traditional IT to help support hybrid and remote work models, but also indicate that enterprise IT leaders see networking and security as vital to their organizations’ long-tern success.

According to the report, 47% of IT leaders say their organization will accelerate cloud and network services adoption despite economic uncertainties, which suggests that IT leaders recognize the ability for cloud to help support distributed work and lead to better application performance and security.

Other findings suggest that organizations are reinventing how they think about security in the wake of the pandemic and distributed work. The survey found that 90% of IT leaders believe that zero trust network access is a crucial component of SD-WAN and SASE services, while 98% say hybrid work has increased the need for new network and security solutions.

An overwhelming 99% of IT leaders said hybrid work has changed the way they view managing networks and security, but the report also indicates that organizations are still behind when it comes to hybrid work plans as 58% say they need plans for a hybrid workforce immediately, while 39% said they need plans in the next 6-12 months. Another 3% said they need those plans more than a year out.

The report ultimately concludes that SASE and network-as-a-service solutions are now critical to solving the problem of network complexity and security. According to Aryaka, 96% of C-level IT leaders say managed services and network-as-a-service will play a larger role in 2023.

In a statement, Aryaka CEO Matt Carter says businesses need to be able to be flexible, adaptable and nimble.

“Our report indicates that the vast majority of CIOs, CISOs and IT leaders are preparing for this uncertainty by investing in and adopting architecture, policies and technologies that converge networking and security, as these disciplines are critical to business success,” Carter says.

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The San Mateo, Calif-based company says it plans to establish 27 new POPs in 21 countries and in 15 major metropolitan areas worldwide to further expand its global hyperscale infrastructure. The POPs are expected to deliver low latency end-to-end for faster connection speeds, along with cloud-delivered services for network, security and observability, while meeting each geographic location’s regulatory requirements and performance needs.

Aryaka’s AppAssure technology will be deployed on POPs, providing insights into jitter, latency, and loss per app and per user for optimal application performance for both on-site and remote users. Furthermore, Aryaka is enhancing its SD-WAN offering based on its industry-unique FlexCore – a dual layer 2 and layer 3 global backbone and adding intuitive navigation to its MyAryaka customer portal for simpler self-service.

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“There are steady increases in SaaS deployment models, public cloud spending, and use of internet WAN across businesses of all sizes, and our POP investment sets the foundation that our customers and future customers will need to be successful in a constantly evolving business landscape,” says Renuka Nadkarni, chief product officer of Aryaka. “With escalating security threats and any businesses becoming a distributed enterprise, companies of all sizes and in any vertical are looking for a partner that can offer business continuity and IT resilience, operational simplicity on a global scale, and unified security enforcement. There are very few providers that can offer all three elements effectively as part of a Unified SASE offer.”

As part of its commitment to providing operational simplicity, Aryaka is offering customers more options and an enhanced experience for last-mile services with wired and wireless connectivity with a single point of contact. Aryaka’s last-mile connectivity services enable fully managed LTE, 4G, and 5G connections in over 90 countries utilizing Cradlepoint Wireless Edge and NetCloud.

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According to San Mateo, Calif.-based Aryaka, the company’s zero trust WAN is based on a unified secure access service edge (SASE) architecture designed to help IT leaders transform the enterprise while defending against relentless cyberattacks by converging networking and security in an all-in-one service.

The company says the solution can also help organizations that have adopted a hybrid work policy, as the unified SASE approach delivers security, connectivity and flexibility enterprises need to adapt.

“Today’s CIO is asked to not only transform the enterprise but do it while battling a relentless cyber threat, and all with even less people and resources,” says Dennis Monner, chief commercial officer of Aryaka. “It’s an incredible challenge that can’t be solved with legacy carrier connectivity and point security products.”

The approach includes a collaboration and commitment to trusted advisors and partners, as well as focusing on simplicity and a cloud-first strategy, the company says.

Aryaka says its Secure Web Gateway is a defense for Site-to-Internet and User-to-Internet traffic, and it protects against web and internet-based attacks.

Combined with its Firewall-as-a-Service, Aryaka says it ensures customers have flexible perimeter security for distributed users, devices, and applications that provides benefits such as:

• Improved patch and update readiness
• Reduced operational complexity
• Correlated view across events
• Reduced vendor portfolio
• Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Increased capital efficiency

“We attack the problem from a completely unique perspective,” says Renuka Nadkarni, Aryaka’s chief product officer. “By truly integrating security into our global, software-defined network and delivering it as a service, we enable enterprises to instantly ‘turn-on’ a SASE architecture that was built in, and for, the cloud.”

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