Havas Achieves 7X Faster Performance for IBM Cloud Services with Aryaka’s Global SD-WAN

Havas Achieves 7X
Faster Performance for IBM Cloud Services with Aryaka’s Global SD-WAN

Global Marketing Communications
Company Moves to Aryaka’s Global SD-WAN to Connect Offices in Asia-Pacific to
IBM Cloud Services

SINGAPORE. December 06, 2016– Aryaka®,
the global SD-WAN provider, announced today that Havas, one of the global
integrated marketing communications leaders, has made a strategic shift from
IP-VPN to Aryaka’s global SD-WAN solution to accelerate IBM cloud services
access and performance for their offices in the Asia-Pacific region.

Havas has operations spread across
100 countries and employs 18,600+ people. In 2015, the company moved from
legacy, on-premises collaboration tools to IBM’s cloud-based productivity and
social collaboration platform.  

Havas was experiencing performance
issues when accessing the cloud-based platform over the Internet. The company
was looking for a solution that could improve access and performance for
applications and services on the Cloud, in order to enhance employee
productivity in Asia-Pacific.

“Emails and file transfers were slow,
while voice and video quality suffered. Latency and packet loss over the
Internet were huge bottlenecks to accessing cloud applications,” said Ivan
Glaser, Chief Information Officer – Asia-Pacific at Havas.The company added
special emphasis on the importance of agility (organizations cannot afford to
wait months for installation as in the case of MPLS deployments) and
scalability (in terms of adding more bandwidth and/or sites on the global
network).

Havas decided to trial Aryaka’s
global SD-WAN, and started with a no-obligation Proof-of-Concept for their
offices located in Beijing and Shanghai, to the IBM cloud datacenter in
Amsterdam.

The company achieved the following benefits after deploying Aryaka:

·        
          Up to 7x faster application
performance globally

·        
          Up to 9 Mbps peak bandwidth savings

·        
          6% data reduction in remote
geographies like South-East Asia

·        
          Deployment and installation in days,
not months

·        
          Real-time network and application
visibility

·        
          Fully managed service with 24×7
CCIE-level support

“We approached Aryaka to address
application performance challenges we were facing in Asia-Pacific. We ran a POC
from Beijing and Shanghai to Amsterdam, and were extremely happy with what we
saw,” said Glaser. “We were up and running within a week, and applications
performed up to seven times faster. Overall, it was a huge win for us! Aryaka’s
solution is agile, scalable, cost-effective, and enables IT to support
productivity needs of our global workforce.”

“The Internet is often the performance killer when global businesses
migrate their mission-critical applications to the cloud,” said Ashwath
Nagaraj, Aryaka’s Founder and CTO. “Aryaka’s global SD-WAN combines private
network connectivity with WAN Optimization to solve this problem, delivering
performance for applications migrated to the cloud.  

We are thrilled Havas was able to reap the full benefits of their IBM
cloud implementation using Aryaka.”