IS (The Internet Solution), the premier Internet Service Provider in South Africa and Radware Ltd. (NASDAQ:RDWR), a leading provider of Internet traffic management solutions, have joined forces to deliver end-to-end high availability and load balancing solutions to enterprise and Web hosting customers in South Africa. This alliance combines IS' proven mission critical hosting solutions with leading load balancing solutions from Radware, to create world class Internet solutions for South African blue chip organizations.
The IS Hosting High Availability solution will offer businesses running high-end Internet applications, an infrastructure that will support immediate fail-over to a redundant environment in the event of a server failure. In addition to full fault tolerance, applications will benefit from sophisticated load balancing, enabling the IS High Availability solution to effectively control traffic and guarantee optimal utilization of Web servers or Internet applications.
"This alliance with Radware demonstrates IS' belief that serious infrastructure underpins serious e-business and provides failsafe high-speed Internet infrastructure to its customers," said Greg Payne, IS Hosting Product Manager. "IS, through its state-of-the-art Internet Data Centres, will be able to offer advanced hosting solutions that run on dual infrastructure, leveraging IS' high-speed backbone".
Jorge Gerber, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Radware Ltd. commented: "With the combination of IS' highly skilled technical force and Radware's leading edge high availability and load balancing products, South Africa's busiest Web sites will now be able to ensure efficient, continuous service even at peak usage times."
About IS
IS (The Internet Solution) is South Africa's largest corporate Internet service provider. A subsidiary of Dimension Data, South Africa's largest Information Technology company, IS provides the building blocks that underpin the online business and electronic commerce environment. IS provides its clients with premium underlying access, hosting, security and other value-added IP services. IS was founded in 1993, and has built its reputation on innovation, dynamism and technical market leadership.
About Radware
Radware develops, manufacturers, and markets products that manage and direct Internet traffic among network resources to enable continuous access to Web sites and services, applications, and content based on the Internet protocol. Radware offers a broad range of Internet traffic management solutions to service providers, e-commerce businesses, and corporate enterprises that require uninterrupted availability and optimal performance of IP-based applications that are critical to their business. Radware's Internet traffic management solutions enable its customers to manage their network infrastructure to bypass system failures and to scale their network infrastructure to accommodate increasing IP traffic. Radware's products improve the productivity of network infrastructure by distributing traffic within a network to optimize the use of available network resources. Radware's products can be deployed either as independent solutions to address specific application needs at a particular location within a network or as an end-to-end integrated solution to manage traffic throughout a network.
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 Internet traffic management industry, changes in demand for Internet traffic management 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 F-1.