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 tend to be an optimist. We are entrepreneurs. We can’t afford not to be optimist.

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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 we take all of the traffic, make sure it is clean and protected, accelerated, and available instantly in different devices and different formats in different parts of the world. >>>

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 like your previous company, and also internally in Google and Facebook. They are accelerating their own content network. That’s really how the Internet is developing.

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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 on a B2B network problem, I’m sure you are perfectly on top of the issues around net neutrality. Where do you see all the speed of network issue going and what are the key drivers and resolutions that you expect to see?

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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 the world. It’s as if we have built these airports with really fast methods of transportation. >>>

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.

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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 private internet.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to you. Tell us a little bit about your background and also, tell us about Aryaka.

Ajit Gupta: I’m the CEO and Founder of Aryaka Networks. Aryaka is a company based in the optimization space. You can think of us as an intelligent network for the enterprise. Essentially, we bring geographically-dispersed companies together. We make the headquarters talk better with the branch offices in much faster and simpler ways. This is all done in the, so-called, cloud. We have points of presence around the world. Enterprises connect to these locations and then the magic happens within our data centers. >>>

Building India’s First Billion Dollar Tech Company: InMobi Co-Founder Amit Gupta (Part 7)

Sramana: I have noticed a couple of trends that are very strong. Zoho is one of the first who did product development in India while selling globally as a SaaS product. I have seen a lot of companies following that model. They don’t even need to have a presence in the U.S. because they sell and acquire customers online. This model has produced a lot of interesting mid-scale companies who are doing anywhere between $3 million and $20 million in revenue. A lot of these companies are bootstrapped as well.
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