Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), a global leader in Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) solutions that bring certainty to dynamic networks, announced today that its FireProof product line now offers complete interoperability with Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, providing real-time load balancing, high availability and clustering for ISA Servers. Radware’s FireProof for firewall traffic management and application security provides full fault tolerance and optimization between multiple firewalls and allows a company to scale up to 100 active devices.
Microsoft ISA Server builds on Microsoft Windows® 2000 security and directory for policy-based security, acceleration, and management of internetworking. Radware’s FireProof product line allows enterprise network and system administrators to manage multiple ISA Servers on a local or global basis, while providing fault tolerance from software and hardware failures and allowing servers to be transparently inserted or removed for maintenance and updates during peak business hours without end-user performance degradation. The total solution enables gigabit speeds and scalability now and into the future.
“The need for high availability, scalability and secure solutions are critical in today’s business environments,” said Roy Zisapel, President and CEO, Radware. “Microsoft and Radware have worked together to ensure compatibility between the robust features and benefits of each product line.”
“This new business relationship is a win-win-win. Radware, Microsoft and enterprise customers will benefit from this interoperability,” said Nevet Basker, Director of Business Development for ISA Server, Microsoft. “With Radware’s FireProof, businesses can use Radware’s load balancing solutions with ISA Server for scalable, reliable and secure business-to-business internetworking.”
About Microsoft ISA Server
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 is an enterprise firewall and Web cache server that enables IT administrators for businesses of all sizes to provide controlled, secure and fast Internet access for their organization. Building on the security and manageability of the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform, ISA Server provides a sophisticated multi-layer enterprise firewall and a high-performance Web cache to control, secure and accelerate business on the Internet. ISA Server is part of Microsoft’s Windows .NET platform, geared to empower companies of any size to Internet-enable their businesses and to allow developers to build products for the next generation of services that will be available on the Web. For more information on ISA Server, or to download an evaluation version of the product, go to www.microsoft.com.
About Radware
Radware’s suite of Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) products are designed to optimize the end user experience by eliminating network uncertainty and downtime. Radware’s product line combines proprietary next generation application switching technology and open architecture with the industry’s leading proven traffic management software. Radware offers a broad range of customized ITM solutions to corporate enterprises, service providers, and e-commerce businesses through the implementation of one or more award winning ITM solutions, including: Web Server Director, Cache Server Director, FireProof and LinkProof. Radware’s Application Switches bring certainty to dynamic networks with products that guarantee the best service from click to content. Get certain with Radware. For more information, please visit us at www.radware.com.