Qualified for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Radware’s ADC solution provides uninterrupted communications services and improved productivity by eliminating costly downtime
Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that AppDirector, its intelligent Application Delivery Controller (ADC), has been qualified in the Hardware Load Balancer program for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 environment; guaranteeing maximum availability, scalability, performance and security. Managing traffic for both Web Services content and SIP-based Unified Communication (UC) services, AppDirector provides advanced health monitoring to avoid system downtime and advanced traffic management. Additionally, Radware’s ‘pay-as-you-grow’ licensing model ensures long-term investment protection, facilitating incremental growth demanded by today’s business.
By deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 as a central component to a communications infrastructure, organizations gain tremendous business value through advanced collaboration and communications services – from instant messaging and VoIP to audio and video conferencing. Yet for users to take full advantage of Microsoft’s high-value Office Communications Server 2007 R2 solution, IT managers must be able to ensure its continuous availability and to efficiently scale-up the solution to support a greater number of concurrent users and higher levels of capacity, driven by the bandwidth-intensive applications and services.
Radware’s AppDirector solves this challenge, and ensures the following key business benefits:
- Full Communication Services Availability: Radware’s advanced health-monitoring algorithms detect communications failure in real-time. Once any type of failure (Web server, application server, operating system or database) is detected, AppDirector automatically redirects users to an available resource.
- Increased Response Time/Performance Optimization: AppDirector accelerates Microsoft’s UC performance and improves the Quality of Experience (QoE) through advanced load balancing. To optimize server performance, AppDirector redirects users to the least loaded, best performing server; thereby ensuring fast response time to all users at all times.
- On Demand, “Pay-as-you-Grow” Scalability: Part of Radware’s Business-Smart Data Center strategy, AppDirector is powered by the Company’s next-generation OnDemand Switch hardware platform, which enables organizations to seamlessly scale-up their Office Communications Server 2007 R2-based services to support more users and greater traffic throughput without any physical forklift upgrade. This in turn eliminates downtime by providing a seamless, easy and quick upgrade path.
“Radware has a solution to help customers maximize the next-generation communication services in Office Communications Server 2007 R2,” said Jamie Stark, senior technical product manager at Microsoft Corp. “By supporting Office Communications Server 2007 R2 availability and ongoing scalability, Radware helps customers achieve productivity goals, streamline communications and provide operational flexibility and control.”
Yossi Vardi, Vice-President Global Business Development said, “In today’s continuous global business environment, the ‘always up’ requirement from a unified communication service, such as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, has a strong business justification. AppDirector ensures that all different communications services are ready to serve the end-user; thereby reducing OPEX by eliminating costly downtime and improving productivity through uninterrupted communications services.”
AppDirector seamlessly integrates into existing and newly-deployed Office Communications Server 2007 R2 environments without the need for modifications to the network/application infrastructure, or end-user client devices, software, or source code. Additionally, if an organization plans to expand its Office Communications Server 2007 R2 server environment, AppDirector can be transparently added into the production environment without any network adaption or service interruption; providing greater flexibility and scalability.
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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 nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute™, 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.
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