Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: There’s been a bit of progress in the startup ecosystem in India. Its growth is slower than I thought. I started covering that ecosystem in an online blog back in 2005. I thought it would move a lot faster. It depends on if you look at the glass being half-full or half-empty. I

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 6)

Ajit Gupta: Moving forward, there are still a lot of opportunities to eliminate more boxes. How can we make the workforce’s lives simpler so that they can focus on their core business? Within the network, we see a lot of opportunities. Probably that will keep us busy for the next 10 years – ensuring how

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You’re saying that the public cloud is what it is and it’s a mess administratively because there are too many disjointed entities with no one player with any economic incentive to straighten and streamline things. The acceleration is all happening on the B2B side with players like yourself and on the B2C side

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I think we understand what you’re doing. I’d like to lift us to a higher level – the industry level. What is going on as far as the speed of the Internet is concerned? There are a lot of issues that are coming to the fore right now. Even though you are working

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Does this mean that you are running the private network for these companies? Ajit Gupta: Yes. We run a private network, which is essentially the Aryaka network, with a lot of intelligence built from the ground up. We have built a lot of technology along with the network and points of presence around

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You started off by saying that the distinction between Speedera, which I actually followed quite closely at that time, and this one is that instead of accelerating B2C content, you are accelerating intra-enterprise content. Ajit Gupta: That is correct. You can say that it’s B2B traffic.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 1)

Ajit Gupta is one of the world experts in the domain of networking, in general, and content acceleration, in particular. Prior to Aryaka, which he founded in 2008, he founded Speedera in 1999, and eventually sold it to Akamai for half a billion dollars. Here, Ajit and I discuss the future of the public and

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