Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, and Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that they have agreed to a partnership to provide high performance and fault tolerant wide area network (WAN) infrastructure solutions for their customers.
The combination of Radware's LinkProof, which performs multi-homing, link load-balancing and health monitoring, traffic re-direction, and bandwidth management, and Riverbed's Steelhead® appliances, which accelerate application response and reduce transport protocol chattiness, offers a compelling solution for building a continuously available, high-performance WAN infrastructure without the need for expensive bandwidth upgrades.
Maintaining LAN-like performance and reliability at branch office sites that need to access centralized application resources is a key challenge for IT departments that are concurrently tasked with reducing operational costs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and increasing security and access control. This challenge is further complicated by inefficient application-to-server protocols and media-rich, bandwidth hungry applications that result in significantly degraded response times or complete service outages.
Benefits of working with Radware and Riverbed® include:
- Uninterrupted, LAN-like access to consolidated data centers, other remote locations, and the Internet.
- Effortless management and load-balancing across multiple ISP connections.
- Increased efficiency of the WAN with bottleneck and service-provider outage bypass as well as bandwidth consumption management.
- Increased data security and compliance with integrated intrusion prevention.
According to Ezra Yosef, Director of Business Development, Radware, "Our joining the Riverbed Technology Alliance (RTA) underscores Radware's commitment to partnering with best-of-breed technology providers, which through the combination of our products, delivers the business, economic, and IT value our customers want and need."
"The RTA was launched in late 2006 to grow the community of applications, networking and storage vendors working to address the needs of distributed organizations," said Venugopal Pai, senior director, alliances at Riverbed. "The combination of Radware's and Riverbed's solutions gives CIO's deploying critical applications from the data center to the branch office the very highest WAN application performance and the maximum availability and scalability of link resources."
Under the terms of the premier partnership program, the companies have agreed to undertake joint marketing and sales activities in support of their go-to-market plans. For more information about the capabilities of the joint offering and to download a free white paper on creating a cost-effective, scalable WAN optimization solution, please visit: www.radware.com/linkproof.
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for more than 5,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolut™, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of intelligent front end, access, and security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart". For more information, please visit www.radware.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions, that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on April 27, 2007. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
About Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
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