Aryaka Receives Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 13, 2012) - Aryaka (www.aryaka.com), the world's first cloud-based WAN Optimization as-a-Service, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named its unique solution as a recipient of a 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.

"We're honored to be recognized for our purpose-built solution that was built to solve both application and performance issues faced by the distributed enterprise," said Ajit Gupta, Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka. "As important, we are pleased to provide an affordable, innovative and secure solution for midmarket organizations that cannot afford costly WAN optimization hardware and expensive MPLS links."

"Aryaka was chosen to receive a 2011 Product of the Year Award for creating outstanding advancements in communications," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "Aryaka's WAN optimization as-a-Service has proven benefits for its customers and provides ROI for the companies that use it. Congratulations to the entire team at Aryaka. I look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the coming year."

The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership, and thoroughness that are characteristics of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to the market from March 2011 through March 2012 were chosen as winners of the Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.

The 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award winners are published on the INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer Interaction Solutions Websites.

About Aryaka
Aryaka is the world's first cloud-based WAN optimization as-a-Service company solving application and network performance issues faced by the distributed enterprise. Aryaka has been named to Dow Jones VentureWire FASTech 50 innovative startups for 2011, a "Cool Vendor" by a leading analyst firm and a GigaOm Structure 50 company that will shape the future of cloud computing. Aryaka eliminates the need for expensive and complex WAN optimization appliances as well as long-haul connectivity, and enhances collaboration across corporate locations, data centers and cloud services. It offers significant cost benefits, ease-of-use, instant deployment, performance advantages, dramatic productivity gains and real-time visibility into WAN applications, locations and performance, while providing 24/7 world-class support. To learn more, visit www.aryaka.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.

About TMC

TMC is celebrating its 40^th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online.TMC publishes the Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud Computing magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world's leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events:  Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference & Expo and more.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

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