Alliance Highlights: IBM

As an IBM PartnerWorld member since 2002, Radware provides unique solutions built on IBM technology in all its core business sectors including financial services, public and health, communications, industrial, distribution and small and medium businesses. Based upon long-standing and successful joint field engagements, in 2006 Radware and IBM signed an agreement enabling IBM to resell Radware products and services globally.

In 2007, Radware received Advanced Business Partner status, signifying that it has demonstrated the necessary skills, sales expertise and successful deployments on IBM technology.

Also in 2007, Radware achieved the Industry Optimized for Banking status, which recognized Radware as a banking industry expert. This paved the way for Radware and IBM Global Technology Services to collaborate on all Radware solutions, with an emphasis on the banking industry.

This will result in a close partnership where Radware and IBM Global Technology Services can provide their mutual global customers with bundled, best-of-breed technology and services solutions from market-leading organizations.

Alliance Highlights: ArcSight

ArcSight is a provider of security and compliance solutions that intelligently identify and mitigate business risk. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), ArcSight provides the leading security event management platform.

In 2006, ArcSight and Radware formed a partnership integrating Radware's DefensePro^® Syslog data into ArcSight's Enterprise Security Management solution. Through this agreement, both companies’ customers benefit by managing their heterogeneous security infrastructure, including Radware’s DefensePro, with ArcSight’s comprehensive security event management solution.

In 2007, the companies further strengthened their business relationship by adding Inflight to the portfolio of joint solutions. Inflight delivers actionable intelligence to ArcSight by providing real-time visibility to online business activity by capturing all online transactions while the user is in-session and making this information available to ArcSight ESM and Logger.

Alliance Highlights: Avaya

To ensure network uptime, today’s network administrators require intrusion prevention, anomaly detection and Denial of Service (DoS) protection. Avaya customers may deploy DefensePro^® from Radware to protect the Avaya SIP telephony environment from a wide variety of known and unknown zero-day attacks.

By delivering compliance-tested solutions to the marketplace, Radware and Avaya offer a cost-effective, integrated solution which reduces network complexity, improves security and reliability and accelerates time to deployment.

Radware, a gold level member of the Avaya DeveloperConnection Program, provides critical protection for a broad range of technologies including IP telephony, contact centers and mobility applications. This expertise helps companies extend the value of multivendor networks and transform voice into a business application that delivers true value to the bottom line.

Alliance Highlights: BEA

A proud member of the BEA Partner Program, Radware has conducted complete interoperability testing and has developed integrated solutions with BEA WebLogic Server™ (WLS) as well as with WebLogic Communications Platform solutions, BEA WebLogic SIP Server™ (WLSS) and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper™ (WLNG) using Radware’s Application Front End (AFE) solution.

The Radware AFE solution provides BEA WLS users with stateful application distribution and increases fault-tolerant performance. AFE provides load and client proximity information which, enhances the scalability and availability of BEA applications over WAN, MAN or LAN infrastructures.

Radware successfully completed interoperability testing with BEA's WebLogic SIP Server™ (WLSS) for both local and global architectures. The AFE solution constantly monitors the health of BEA’s WebLogic SIP servers. When a WLSS becomes unavailable, AFE automatically switches to other available SIP servers. In addition, the AFE solution maintains persistency of SIP sessions, allowing SIP servers to see both session initiation and termination and enabling critical SIP services such as accounting and billing. This strong interoperability and integration provides a solution that delivers industry leading scalability, security, and performance for those deploying SIP services using WebLogic SIP Server.

Radware also successfully completed interoperability testing with the WebLogic Network Gatekeeper™ (WLNG), providing high-availability and scalability to BEA's carrier-grade network infrastructure platform that facilitates third-party service provider access to carrier network infrastructures, in a controlled, secure, optimized, and automated fashion.

Alliance Highlights: Comverse

Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology, specializes in unified communications systems. The company's Total Communication SM portfolio includes value-added messaging, personalized data and content-based services, and real-time converged billing solutions. Over 450 communication and content service providers in more than 120 countries use Comverse products to generate revenues, strengthen customer loyalty and improve operational efficiency. In 2000, Comverse Network Systems and Radware entered into an OEM agreement wherein Comverse’s unified message systems would integrate with Radware’s application delivery products and sell them through their OEM channels. Subscribers of Comverse’s unified message system are generally able to access their email, voice and fax messages from a single mailbox, from anywhere, using home, work or mobile phones, a PC or fax. By integrating Radware’s Application Front End solution for SIP, which is powered by AppDirector, users experience optimization of resources, fault tolerance and scalability in addition to transparent and highly available end-to-end security. Together Radware and Comverse provide subscribers with a highly secure unified communications service that can be accessed from anywhere at anytime.

Alliance Highlights: Forum Systems

As a part of its ongoing strategy to partner with best-of-breed solution providers, Radware has teamed with Forum Systems to leverage the capabilities of its award-winning Sentry™ web services security gateway. Commercially available from Radware as AppXML™, the combination of leading technologies from Radware and Forum provides secure, high-performance XML and Web services communications for mission-critical applications between an enterprise and its business partners. Enterprises benefit from the optimization of their service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments, resulting in higher ROI and safeguarded transactions. The integrated product also provide the industry's first certified Web services security solution to meet standards requirements for managing the exchange of sensitive data as outlined in Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12).

Alliance Highlights: Forum Systems

Radware has been a proud member of the HP Blade Server Alliance Program since 2002 following a rigorous and meticulous structured testing process for interoperability and compatibility under HP standards. A primary goal of the HP Blade Server series is to increase efficiency with end-to-end blade server solutions. Radware's APSolute product line helps customers leveraging HP blade servers to achieve that objective by enabling the server and network to do more work and handle more traffic, without adding more equipment. When incorporated on an HP-certified blade, Radware's integrated application delivery products will provide enhanced high availability and security across an enterprise's infrastructure and applications running inside the HP Blade Server.

Alliance Highlights: Imperva

Radware and Imperva collectively offer the industry’s most-advanced, automated web application firewall (WAF) service. The joint solution, delivered as an add-on application delivery service, leverages Radware’s AppDirector™ and AppXcel™ for application optimization, acceleration, and security along with Imperva’s SecureSphere® to provide comprehensive, real-time protection against application-specific attacks, worms, platform exploits, and network attacks.

The powerful combination, which doesn’t require manual tuning or configuration, allows companies to cost-effectively ensure the availability and performance of mission-critical applications for end-users while concurrently safeguarding them against the latest security threats (e.g., Phishing or scanning) through an adaptive security layer.

Alliance Highlights: Infosys

Infosys and Radware developed an Alliance Partnership in 2006 to promote high availability for Finacle, Infosys’ universal banking solution. The combination of Finacle's high availability architecture and Radware's AppDirector™ ensures maximum application availability of the Finacle application for its demanding banking customers.

This modular solution addresses the core banking, treasury, mobile banking and web-based cash management requirements of retail, corporate and universal banks worldwide. During a demonstration in partnership with HP, Radware and Oracle, Finacle was subjected to 31 different failure scenarios. During the performance benchmark, Finacle was highly resilient with minimal interruption due to hardware and software component failures. The failures were either none or less than 0.01% at high throughput. The results of this test validate Radware’s contribution to the highly available Finacle banking application.

Alliance Highlights: Intellitactics

Intellitactics provides the world's leading enterprise security management solution used by security analysts, operations, and risk officers to achieve cost-effective regulatory compliance; mitigate risk by automating security operations; and accelerate incident resolution to ensure the availability of critical business services.

Intellitactics and Radware have joined forces to provide businesses and government agencies a real-time capability to detect fraud and thwart identity theft. This alliance combines Intellitactics Security Manager software and Radware's real-time intelligence solution, Inflight, to provide security and operational teams with a way to monitor the activity of authenticated users accessing online portals and web applications and then, upon identification of security breaches or suspicious activities, initiate comprehensive forensic and remediation efforts.

The integrated product offering delivers real-time fraud detection and remediation by combining the actionable business events from Radware’s Inflight with the powerful correlation and security event management capability from Intellitactics Security Manager. The joint solution delivers a multitude of business benefits, including reduced financial loss, real-time visibility into applications, increased operational efficiencies, and regulatory compliance.

Alliance Highlights: Juniper

Juniper Networks, the leader in high-performance networking, provides solutions that create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. The top 40 service providers, 93 of the Fortune 100, and large government agencies and institutions are among the many demanding businesses that rely on Juniper Networks. Based on an established working relationship and interoperability testing of multiple products, Radware, with its award-winning APSolute product suite, has joined Juniper’s J-Partner Solutions Alliance program for application delivery solutions.

Optimization of SSL VPN traffic is one of many initiatives that Juniper and Radware have teamed to provide. Due to the dispersed and increasingly mobile or remote nature of businesses today, extranets have become more and more critical to successful operations. Many enterprise systems or collaboration tools have been webified, placing increased demands on the network. As networks get more congested, SSL VPN traffic needs to be optimized in order to avoid web application performance degradation and loss of revenue and productivity.

By combining the unique strengths of Radware’s AppDirector application delivery controller and Juniper’s Secure Access SSL VPN products, the joint solution provides a best-of-breed infrastructure for highly available and scalable secure mobile/remote access for employees, customers, and partners. The enhanced infrastructure ensures the best quality of experience for end users while providing a future vehicle for incremental growth. In addition, the solution leverages AppDirector’s local and global traffic redirection capabilities with session persistency to eliminate single point of failures (SPOFs) to ensure business continuity.

Alliance Highlights: Microsoft

Radware has been a member of the Microsoft Partner program since 2001, resulting in hundreds of joint customers and implementations. The collaboration has resulted in a number of successful deployments of Radware™ products with Microsoft offerings. Here are just a few.

• Radware’s SecureFlow™ and LinkProof^® products provide the highest degree of network security, performance, reliability, scalability and fault tolerance for the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server.
  
  
• By using Radware’s Application Front-End (AFE) solution, session connections entering a farm of Microsoft terminal servers are distributed in a balanced manner. This use of Microsoft Terminal Services improves both the availability and performance of the server farm.
  
  
• The AFE solution also facilitates increased availability and performance of Microsoft's Live Communication Serverby letting multiple Enterprise Edition servers run as part of a server pool against a back-end Microsoft SQL Server™ database.
  
  
• Radware's AFE solution was tested with the global media solution for Enterprises and ISPs (Microsoft Media Server [MMS]) to provide streaming services to customers who demand optimal availability and redundancy according to destination. A unique proximity mechanism in the AFE solution supports multisite implementations where the primary site includes Radware's AFE solution that load-balances Microsoft Windows 2003 MMS servers and redirects clients to secondary sites.

Alliance Highlights: Oracle

A proud Oracle Certified Partner, Radware provides availability, performance and security to Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications solutions.

Radware’s APSolute™ Application Front End solution provides an accelerated application delivery solution that is fully integrated into an Oracle application environment.

APSolute AFE ensures maximum application availability, rapid response time, optimized performance and comprehensive application security helping to optimize and secure large-scale application server implementations.

Customer benefits from Radware joining the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) include

• Improved productivity and significant costs savings due to eliminated costs of downtime and service degradations
• Reduced costs of application servers and bandwidth required through optimized utilization of resources
• Dynamic business oriented scalability
• Reduced cost of maintenance and ownership

Additionally, seamless implementation lets developers ignore application infrastructure issues and focus on the core application functionality.

Alliance Highlights: Riverbed

With ongoing data center and server consolidation, the requirement for branch office networking optimization is a mandate. Solutions are in demand to

• Increase WAN efficiency
• Bypass bottlenecks and service provider outages
• Manage bandwidth consumption
• Reduce the expense of costly WAN access
• Ensure WAN application security

The joint solution provides increased data security and compliance, as well as effortless management and load balancing across multiple ISP connections. Branch offices can also enjoy uninterrupted LAN-like access to consolidated data centers, other remote locations and the Internet.

Radware is a member of the Riverbed Technology Alliance Partner Program, a group providing high-performance solutions to complex application, network, and storage challenges for enterprise customers.

Alliance Highlights: SAP

SAP provides collaborative business solutions for over 33,000 global enterprise customers in all industries and all major markets. Through SAP's Eco-System (ES) initiative, Radware and SAP have tested and certified joint solutions that maintain highly available, performance-optimized and secure SAP applications.

As a result of this collaboration, Radware products deployed with SAP applications have resulted in improved productivity and reduced costs for enterprises around the world. These companies are enjoying a reduced cost of maintenance and ownership, as well as

• An elimination of downtime and service degradations
• Reduced costs of application servers and required bandwidth
• Optimized utilization of resources
• Business-oriented scalability

Alliance Highlights: VMware

With more than 700 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers. Radware is a proud member of this program and has worked with VMware’s staff and APIs to develop an integrated solution for automating and optimizing the management of virtualized environments running on VMware.

Radware`s VirtualDirector is an application delivery optimization solution for the virtualized data center providing real time dynamic allocation of data center resources based on business events, ensuring positive user experience and improving response time. The solution aligns virtual data center operations with business policies while optimizing the use of virtual resources to further generate CAPEX and OPEX savings.

Full integration with VMware® VirtualCenter, the management console for the VMware Infrastructure suite, provides VirtualDirector with the ability to immediately influence the virtual environment using standardized methodologies. By leveraging its tight integration with Radware`s leading application delivery solution, AppDirector, VirtualDirector can influence network traffic from outside the virtual environment. This alleviates measurement and management constraints native to virtual machines, which typically limit their focus to CPA and memory utilization rates. VirtualDirector is thus free to monitor and take action on a wide variety of determinants essential to SLA and QoE effectiveness.