Bangalore: Aryaka, the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization as-a-Service, today announced it has secured a $25 million Series C funding round led byInterWest Partners, with participation fromPresidio Ventures, a Sumitomo Corporation Company, and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners,Trinity Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures.

The proceeds will be used to support Aryaka’s rapid market penetration and global reach as the company continues to redefine the multi-billion-dollarglobal WAN optimization market and change the way enterprises consume this technology. Aryaka’s innovation in deployment architecture and utility-based business model has been accepted by enterprises worldwide as the way to optimize the new WAN.

The latest funding round caps a record year of market traction and milestone achievements for Aryaka.

Global Reach Expands

Aryaka continues its drive to “place the network near the customer.”

• WAN optimization as-a-Service to 500+ customer sites over six continents since its inception 18 months ago
• 1 billion connections for a hundred thousand business users worldwide across 20 countries
• Under 20-millisecond latency for network traffic to over 90% of the world’s business users

Escalating International Sales

Aryaka is opening up the WAN optimization market for all enterprises:

• Aryaka has more than 60 global customers within its first year of launch including global brands like InMobi, STATS ChipPAC, Aruba Networks, ThoughtWorks, Radware, Calypso, Strauss and Symphony-Teleca.
• In addition to revenue customers, 100+ trials are in progress on the Aryaka network.
• 1 Gbps of customer commitments across enterprise networks.  
• Customers using the Aryaka solution span multiple verticals, including technology, manufacturing, engineering, architecture, consulting, logistics and media.

Revolutionizing WAN Optimization

Aryaka is changing the way companies do business by enabling enterprises to achieve:

• Up to 100X increased application performance
• 98% reduced WAN traffic for a better user experience among a globally distributed workforce
• 99% improvement for File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• 98% reduced bandwidth utilization for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Application Performance
  • Over 95% data reduction for Microsoft Exchange
  • 90X higher link utilization for Oracle Data Guard (ODG)
  • 90% data reduction for SolidWorks PDM (ePDM)
• 8X faster access to global cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and enterprise resources for increased productivity

Expanding Partner Ecosystem

• Aryaka’s “Fusion” partner program enables regional service providers to expand their offering globally and integrate with seamless access to cloud services for their customers’ distributed enterprise.
• Emergence™, the Aryaka Alliance Program, continues to add more cloud providers, channel partners, service providers and technology partners, enabling them to capitalize on Aryaka’s market leadership.
• As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Provider, Aryaka provides 8X faster access to global cloud and enterprise resources.

New Markets Penetrated in 2012

• Spurred by strong customer pull, Aryaka entered the Brazil market to serve the country’s fast-growing base of companies headquartered there while enabling multinational firms to better connect their Brazil presence with their locations in other regions.
• Aryaka is now serving customers across six continents, allowing enterprises in established markets as well as emerging markets to take advantage of WAN optimization as-a-Service and aggressively grow their businesses globally.