Networking technology provider Aryaka Networks Inc. today introduced four cloud services aimed at enabling organizations to connect their offices, data centers and off-premises workloads more efficiently with one another.

The products form the pillars of a new suite the company dubs SmartServices. The fifth offering in the bundle, SmartConnect, is Aryaka’s existing flagship product. It’s a software-defined wide-area network managed by the company that enables organizations to send data over long distances, such as among their corporate headquarters and offshore branch offices, faster than they could over the public web.

The four new services build on SmartConnect by automating core management tasks. The first, SmartOptimize, compresses data before it’s transmitted and finds the shortest route through which the packets can reach their destination to improve connection speeds. It’s joined by SmartInsights, a monitoring dashboard that enables administrators to keep an eye on how well their network performs.

Aryaka is also checking breach prevention off its list with today’s news. The provider is adding a service called SmartSecure that administrators can use to manage the firewalls protecting their companies’ infrastructure. The tool initially works with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks Inc. and support for more systems is slated to arrive in the future.

Rounding out the SmartServices suite is SmartCloud. Aryaka said that the offering provides features for setting up connections to the cloud data centers hosting a company’s software-as-a-service applications and other off-premises workloads. The tool supports Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud.

Aryaka’s goal with the SmartServices suite is to provide a bundle of all the core components a company needs to set up a wide-area network. As Chief Executive Officer Matt Carter explained in a recent interview (below) on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio: “One of the big challenges for a lot of our customers is complexity. Many of them have to work with a number of different providers to be able to stitch together a reliable, secure network. What makes Aryaka so differentiated is that we’re able to manage that as one single-source provider.”

Carter joined the provider in late 2018 after previously heading Sprint Corp.’s enterprise business. This May, Aryaka took in a $50 million investment led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to pursue its new CEO’s growth plans. 

“That capital is going to be deployed toward helping us expand our global footprint, put money into marketing, more salespeople [and] build out our processes internally as a company,” Carter told theCUBE host Peter Burris.

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