RADWARE and WebTrends Announce Strategic Partnership on Server Farm Management.PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 1999-- RADWARE, a leader in load balancing and high availability solutions, and WebTrends Corporation (Nasdaq:WEBT WEBT Whole Earth Blazar Telescope ), the leader and pioneer in enterprise management and reporting for Internet-based systems, today announced a joint initiative to provide best of breed solutions for server farm management. The combined solution provides RADWARE's high availability and load balancing with WebTrends(R) market leading traffic analysis, management and reporting for Internet-based server clusters. The companies will be promoting the joint solution to each of their customer bases, beginning with the bundling of trial evaluations of WebTrends enterprise reporting products with RADWARE's load balancing solutions. As companies seek fault tolerance, improved cost-performance, and scalability for their Internet and intranet sites, they are moving from single server architecture to clusters of servers, or server farms. A complete server farm solution requires a load balancer to ensure high availability and load balancing, which increases the need for a complete server farm management solution that provides accurate traffic analysis, quality control and monitoring. Both the WebTrends Enterprise Suite and the recently released Enterprise Reporting Server feature ClusterTrends(tm) technology that automatically combines and analyzes multiple log files from local or geographically dispersed servers. Accurate reports are created for items such as true user sessions, top paths through site, most requested pages, percentage of load per server, bandwidth served by server and geographic origin of visitors by server. "We are excited to partner with WebTrends as they offer a robust management and reporting solution ideal for our web farm customers," said Doron Meirom, president of RADWARE Inc. "We will continue to seek new alliances with industry leaders like WebTrends in order to bring the best available solutions to our customers." "Our Web site is experiencing phenomenal growth and we are deploying additional Web servers to distribute the load," said Ian Barraclough, Sr. Networking Analyst of BMC Software. "RADWARE's load balancing solution combined with WebTrends Web traffic analysis products provides us with a complete solution allowing us to service and monitor the ongoing needs of our customers." "RADWARE's expertise in load balancing, combined with WebTrends market leading products for multi-server reporting and management, provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution to server farm customers," said Eli Shapira, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of WebTrends. "The alliance enables these customers to maximize the return from their RADWARE based server farms through the continuous analysis, reporting, and management capabilities that WebTrends enterprise solutions provide." About WebTrends Founded in 1993, WebTrends Corporation (http://www.webtrends.com) is the leading provider of enterprise management and reporting solutions for Internet and intranet servers and firewalls. WebTrends offers organizations a comprehensive set of solutions that are integrated, scalable, modular, and easy-to-use. Products include WebTrends Enterprise Suite, WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server, WebTrends Log Analyzer, WebTrends Professional Suite, WebTrends Security Analyzer, and WebTrends for Firewalls and VPNs. They are used by thousands of customers such as ISPs, corporate, government, and educational institutions, including American Express, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Comcast, DIGEX, Dow Jones & Company, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Firstar, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Microsoft, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Pharmacia & Upjohn, PSINet, Verio, USWeb/CKS, and UUNet. WebTrends many strategic partners include Cable & Wireless, CheckPoint Software (Nasdaq:CHKPF), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), DIGEX, Hewlett Packard (Nasdaq:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Internet Dynamics, Lotus Development (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL NOVL Novell, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ) and WatchGuard Technologies. About RADWARE RADWARE pioneered the field of IP load balancing with its 1997 introduction of the Web Server Director (WSD WSD Word Sense Disambiguation (computational linguistics) WSD Web Services on Devices (Information Technology) WSD Water Supplies Department (Hong Kong) ) and today is the only company that offers a complete IP load balancing solution for all local or global applications. RADWARE Ltd. is a member of the $500 million dollar RAD Group, a family of 13 independent companies serving diverse markets and technological niches within the networking communication industry. RADWARE was established in 1997 to focus on load balancing technology following the success in that field of its parent company, RND Networks. RADWARE's award-winning products are already installed in many Fortune 500 companies and are deployed by major Internet Service Providers worldwide. RADWARE"s products have won numerous awards, including the prestigious PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award; Network Magazine's Product of the Year Award; ZD Internet Lab's NetBest Award; and Network Computing's Editor's Choice Award. For more information, visit our Internet site at http://www.radware.com. WebTrends is a registered trademark and ClusterTrends is a trademark of WebTrends Corporation. All brands or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products and services of, their respective owners. |
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