Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leader in Intelligent Application Switching (IAS), ensuring end-to-end availability, performance and security of networked applications, and Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ/NMS: TECD), a leading worldwide provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services, announced today that Tech Data has signed a North American distribution agreement with Radware. Tech Data will carry the manufacturer's entire product line of award-winning application switching solutions including Web Sever Director, Cache Server Director, Content Inspection Director, FireProof, LinkProof, Peer Director and CertainT 100.
“By partnering with Radware we can enhance our customers’ solution offerings and their ability to differentiate themselves from the competition,” said Roy Appelbaum, vice president of network product marketing for Tech Data. “Our resellers are looking for solutions that help their customers enhance network performance and security while controlling costs. Radware's intelligent application switches provide high availability, optimization and security to any network, no matter the size. This lets resellers offer business enhancing services to a broad range of organizations.”
“Partnering with Tech Data extends our reach further into the networking market and will further increase our mind share and recognition among resellers, VARs and end users," said Vikram Desai, Chief Operating Officer, Radware. “Our choice of Tech Data as a distributor was based on their proven success in distributing local and wide area networking solutions, their success providing pre and post-sales configuration assistance and their network design expertise.”
Kenneth Long, General Manager, e-Systems Division at Lewan & Associates, a Denver, Colorado based solution provider specializing in systems infrastructure integration stated, “The Radware/Tech Data partnership means that we’ll be able to leverage Tech Data’s strengths in technical support, training, and logistics management along with Radware’s application switching and security products to provide our customers with network applications that will enhance their competitive position.”
About Tech Data
Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ/NMS: TECD), founded in 1974, is a leading global provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services. Ranked 117th on the Fortune 500, the company and its subsidiaries serve more than 100,000 technology resellers in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Tech Data’s extensive service offering includes pre- and post-sale training and technical support, financing options and configuration services as well as a full range of award-winning electronic commerce solutions. The company generated sales of $15.7 billion for its most recent fiscal year, which ended January 31, 2003.
About Radware
Radware is dedicated to providing Intelligent Application Switching (IAS) that guarantees the integrity of network transactions ensuring secure and consistent connectivity. Radware aligns business needs with the network infrastructure to seamlessly allocate resources, optimize application requirements and secure the network. By reinforcing the infrastructure at every critical point, Radware adds a level of intelligence to improve network manageability, performance and security resulting in end-to-end business continuity.
Radware's solutions address the needs of corporate enterprises, service providers, and e-commerce business through one or more of our award winning products including: Web Server Director (WSD), Cache Server Director (CSD), FireProof, Content Inspection Director (CID), LinkProof, Peer Director, CertainT 100. Our comprehensive suite of products service end-to-end application operations, providing robust and scalable network traffic assurance. Get certain, from click to content, across your network -- with Radware.
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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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