Radware Optimizes Global Corporate Network for HRS
MAHWAH, New Jersey, December 15, 2008 - Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application
delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced today that Hotel
Reservation Service (HRS), Europe’s leading online hotel reservation portal,
has successfully deployed Radware’s intelligent Application Delivery solution
to ensure the high availability and accelerated performance of HRS’ network
systems and offer the best user experience - simple, secure and fast.
Online booking is more popular than ever. That is why Europe’s leading
electronic hotel reservation system put its trust in Radware technology.
Radware’s scalable OnDemand Switch platform keeps HRS and its global
corporate network running smoothly, even when faced with constantly rising
demand. The OnDemand Switch enables HRS to work with confidence, knowing that
its applications have high availability around the clock - even during
extreme peak periods.
HRS has been working with Radware’s proven product portfolio for many
years. Radware’s new generation of platforms based on the OnDemand Switch,
allows its AppDirector to provide optimal application delivery through
real-time traffic redirection, local and global server load distribution, and
comprehensive dynamic bandwidth management. Radware’s AppXcel product also
helps HRS put its full network resources to work. This includes compressing
web content as well as keeping access and transfer times consistently low.
The quick processing of SSL transactions and digital certificates lowers the
workload on application server CPUs and ensures quick and reliable process
flows. As a result, HRS customers experience a noticeably faster booking
process.
“HRS has to be available for our customers 24/7,” explains Carlton B.
Woestmann, CIO at HRS. “Our day-to-day business cannot be interrupted at any
time. At the same time, we also need to ensure that every customer query is
captured and answered by the database in a quick and appropriate manner.”
Not surprisingly, HRS’s expectations for a high availability solution
were demanding: “To also guarantee the future growth of the portal, load
distribution must be structured toward scalability, including implementation,
while the system is running,” explains Frank Pursch, Director of the HRS data
center. “A solution was also required to ensure complete security for the
SOA/XML environment without compromising performance,” he added.
After extensive research, the IT experts at HRS found their attention
drawn to Radware solutions. A single deployment test of one Radware solution
was enough to convince the HRS team - not just in terms of functionality, but
also in terms of support: “We were quite surprised at how much individual
support the experts at Radware gave us,” Pursch remembers. “Our IT
infrastructure is large and quite technically complex. This made the
integration of the AppDirector units anything but easy. All the same,
Radware’s team was able to implement our customization requests quickly.”
Satisfied with their experience, HRS quickly switched from pilot operations
to full deployment.
“We offer our customers the tools that not only guarantee availability
but also improve response time for applications, provide optimal coverage in
the security area and which can be customized to future standards and
requirements,” says Markus Spahn, Regional Sales Manager at Radware.
The implementation partner for this project was Networkers AG, a
subsidiary of Controlware GmbH. As an elite partner, the company not only has
years of expertise in the area of network and infrastructure technology but
also boasts more than 10 trained Radware specialists on its German staff.
About HRS
HRS operates a free, global, electronic hotel-booking system based on a
database of more than 230,000 hotels in all categories in 180 different
countries. HRS’s free reservation service enables direct bookings to be made
with immediate confirmation and at daily best-buy prices guaranteed to be the
cheapest available on the market. The room prices quoted for selected hotels
are guaranteed for the booking in question. Credit cards are not required to
make a hotel booking since prices are paid directly at the hotel rather than
in advance. Bookings can be changed or cancelled free of charge right up
until 6pm on the day of arrival, while more than a million hotel evaluations
by customers for customers rovide an ideal decision-making aide when choosing
hotels. Further information can be found at http://www.hrs.de
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 6,000
enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute(TM), 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 http://www.radware.com.
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 or
Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or
Network Security 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.
Source: Radware Ltd
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