Thursday, August 6, 2015

Arista Posts Q2 Revenue of $196 Million, up 42% YoY

Arista reported Q2 revenue of $195.6 million, an increase of 41.8% compared to the second quarter of 2014, and an increase of 9.2% from the first quarter of 2015.

GAAP net income came in at $24.0 million, or $0.33 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $21.6 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2014. GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 65.4%, compared to GAAP gross margin of 67.7% in the second quarter of 2014 and 65.8% in the first quarter of 2015.

"Arista has now shipped a cumulative five million cloud networking ports worldwide,” stated Jayshree Ullal, Arista President and CEO. “I am pleased with this important milestone for the company combined with our continued Q2 2015 customer momentum and solid profitable growth."

http://investors.arista.com/files/doc_presentations/2015/Q2/2015-Highlights-Q2-Final.pdf

Arista Offers Subscription-based CloudVision for Workload Orchestration

Arista Networks introduces its CloudVision network-wide approach for workload orchestration and workflow automation.

The idea is to provide a turnkey solution for sharing network-wide switch state data across a cloud and integrating with SDN controllers from Arista's ecosystem partner community.

Arista CloudVision extends the SDN architectural approach across the network for state, topology, monitoring and visibility.

Key attributes of Arista's CloudVision:

  • Centralized representation of distributed network state, allowing for a single point of integration and network-wide visibility and analytics
  • Controller agnostic support for physical and virtual workload orchestration through open APIs such as OVSDB, JSON and OpenStack plugins.
  • Turn-key workflow automation for zero touch provisioning, configuration management and network-wide upgrades and rollback.
  • Compliance dashboard for security, audit and patch management
  • Real-time Streaming for telemetry and network analytics, a modern approach to replace legacy polling per device.
  • Provides visibility and troubleshooting for underlay and overlay networks
Arista CloudVision is available now as a software subscription, expanding Arista’s existing software subscription offerings. Pricing starts at $295/device per month.

Arista CloudVision partners include, Dell, F5, HP, Infinera, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Rackspace, Supermicro, and VMware.