Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR) the leading provider of intelligent Application Switching (IAS) solutions, ensuring availability, performance and the security of networked applications across the enterprise, announced that AccuWeather, the world's leading commercial weather service, has deployed Radware's award winning WSD to ensure users continuous access to the AccuWeather.com site. WSD provides high availability and optimization of AccuWeather's web architecture and database servers, delivering resources that are always available.
180 million Americans rely on AccuWeather for weather forecasts and climate information, so it is essential that AccuWeather.com maintain customer satisfaction and trust by ensuring 24/7 weather service capabilities. Radware's WSD, with its advanced health monitoring module, continuously monitors all AccuWeather.com server resources, ensuring that traffic is directed to the best application and database servers.
AccuWeather serves millions of users a day. When regions across the globe are hit with severe weather conditions such as hurricanes and snowstorms traffic volume increases to six million hits a day, requiring dynamic site growth and additional server capacity. WSD enables AccuWeather to easily and transparently scale capacity and performance by adding servers to support increased traffic surges.
"Radware's WSD ensures maximum application performance for such high-demand sites like Accuweather.com. WSD Application Switch eliminates the costly effects of downtime, providing unlimited scalability across server farms to handle increased traffic patterns for cost effective service growth," said Laura Withers, Regional Sales Director, Radware. "Radware guarantees complete business continuity, enabling AccuWeather.com users to get the most customized and accurate weather information for every location across the globe on time, in less time, at all times."
AccuWeather uses Radware's site-wide management tool Configware Insite to manage multiple WSD devices in an infrastructure that includes more than 75 servers. "Whether we need to add or remove servers, alter server capacity, obtain performance statistics or manage server resources - monitoring and control over servers and IP application performance is easy and cost effective," said Eugene Dupler, Systems Operations Manager, AccuWeather, Inc.
About Radware
Radware is dedicated to providing Intelligent Application Switching, guaranteeing the best operation and servicing of IP applications and enterprise traffic across the Internet. Radware aligns application needs with the network infrastructure to seamlessly allocate resources, optimize application operations and extend security, ensuring the integrity of critical business processes.
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), Content Inspection Director (CID), FireProof, 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. For more information, please visit us at www.radware.com
About AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather, Simply The Most Accurate , provides a portfolio of products and services through the airwaves, via the Internet, in print, and behind the scenes that benefit hundreds of millions of people worldwide. AccuWeather services 18,000 paying customers in media, business, government and institutions, and millions more through AccuWeather.com. AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 600 Internet sites including CNN Interactive, ABC's owned and operated stations, The Associated Press , The Washington Post and The New York Times.
To speak with an AccuWeather meteorologist about breaking weather news, contact 814-235-8650. For more information about AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com, please contact Tony DeFazio or Emily DiTomo, of Gregory FCA Communications, at 610-642-8253.
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 20-F.
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