Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR) the leading provider of Intelligent Application Switching (IAS) solutions ensuring the availability, performance and security of networked applications across the enterprise, announced that Ace Hardware Corp. deployed Radware's WSD and CertainT 100 to control and manage end-to-end enterprise traffic for secure, high-performing and fully available networked applications.
"With over 4,800 stores in 50 states and 70 countries, Ace Hardware requires reliable, high performing and secure uptime for our retailers as well as employees. Downtime and poor application performance would result in lost productivity, lost business and damaged relationships," said Bob Blair, Corporate Network Manager, Ace Hardware Corporation. "Radware's load balancing and transaction acceleration eliminates server bottlenecks, SSL based security attacks and failed transactions for complete application uptime."
Radware WSD enables the high availability of Web, Application and Database server farms to eliminate downtime while ensuring fault tolerant transaction processing across all local and global enterprise networks. The addition of Radware SynApps Application Aware services, including Health Monitoring, Traffic Redirection, Bandwidth Management, Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service Protection, delivers a broad set of layer 4-7 application aware services for maximum application performance, complete application and SSL transaction security, guaranteed service levels and highly economical scaling.
Radware CertainT 100 offloads all SSL transactions to a dedicated ASIC hardware accelerator, immediately freeing CPU intensive processes from servers, for Gigabit speed and fault tolerant transaction processing.
"Radware is helping deliver to Ace Hardware the full availability of their enterprise applications. With continuous and fast web application and transaction response time and application and transaction security, Radware Application Switching solutions ensure the complete business continuity of Ace's application infrastructure," said Bob Simpson, VP Sales, Radware.
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) is the Global Leader in Intelligent Application Switching, enabling the full availability, maximum performance and complete security of all mission critical networked applications while dramatically cutting operating and scaling costs. Radware's integrated Application Security, Application Infrastructure and End-to-End Connectivity solutions are deployed by over 2,500 enterprises and carriers worldwide. Radware offers the broadest product line in the industry meeting application needs at every critical point across the network including Web and Application Servers, Firewalls, VPNs, ISP links, Anti-Virus Gateways and Cache.
Learn more on how Radware Intelligent Application Switching Solutions can enable the security, performance and availability of mission critical applications at www.radware.com
About Ace Hardware Corporation
Founded in 1924, Ace Hardware Corp., headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., is the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the industry. Ace's annual retail sales from its more than 4,800 hardware, home center and lumber and building materials retailers top $13 billion. Ace currently operates 15 distribution centers in the United States and has stores located in all 50 states and 70 countries. More information on Ace can be found at www.acehardware.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching industry, changes in demand for Application Switching products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.
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