Aryaka WAN Optimization as-a-Service Named a Finalist in Prestigious iCMG Enterprise and IT Architecture Awards of Excellence

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 9, 2012) - Aryaka (www.aryaka.com), the world's first cloud-based WAN optimization as-a-Service solution, has made the third and final round as a finalist for the world's coveted iCMG Enterprise and IT Excellence Awards. Aryaka is contending with technology entries from 27 countries in this year's third annual global architecture awards, including Credit Suisse, Vodafone India Ltd. and SunGard.

The Architecture Excellence Awards honors architects and enterprises whose work "demonstrates a combination of talent, vision and workmanship, which are creating successful and enduring systems and enterprises" and "highlights various and interesting and remarkable works being done across the world and bringing them to the notice of the global audience," according to Sunil Dutt Jha, CEO of iCMG, in his letter to finalists.

"Aryaka continues to be recognized globally for redefining the multi-billion dollar WAN optimization market," said Ajit Gupta, Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka. "Our unique WAN optimization as-a-Service has moved into worldwide mainstream adoption this year and enabled new use cases for the redefined WAN. The definition of the enterprise is now on-premise with partners and customers in the Cloud- existing models have hit a wall. Aryaka is the simplest and most affordable way forward and its widespread acceptance within the last 12 months has been incredible."

Winners will be announced on July 25 at iCMG's Architecture World 2012 Conference in Bangalore.

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 at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.

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