Radware Intros VirtualDirector

MAHWAH, N.J. -- Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced its new optimization solution for the virtualized environment, VirtualDirector, as part of a larger initiative – Radware’s Business-Smart Data Center strategy – designed to ensure the alignment of key business drivers for the next generation data center.

Reducing costs, increasing productivity and enhancing business agility are considered to be the key business drivers of data centers. Radware has continually introduced industry-leading solutions specific to the data center, based on ten years of experience as a key player in the application delivery space. The company’s approach is unique as it offers customers a range of innovative capabilities essential to facilitating these business drivers all while being fully integrated into the existing infrastructure. These capabilities are inclusive of: “pay-as-you-grow” procurement models, state-of-the art on demand platforms, real-time behavioral security and the alignment of network behavior based on business events.

Next-generation data centers are being influenced by new IT trends such as consolidation, SOA, convergence, and virtualization, which present new IT complexities. These complexities are introducing additional obstacles to the successful achievement of data center business drivers. Therefore, companies are looking for solutions that offer the best way to resolve these challenges. This is the core of Radware’s Business-Smart Data Center strategy – providing its customers with tailor-made application infrastructure solutions for next generation data centers to help them overcome IT complexities and ensure cost effective procurement and full investment protection.

As part of its Business-Smart Data Center strategy, Radware is combining its application delivery expertise with virtualization capabilities, to launch VirtualDirector, a new solution for real-time optimization of data center resources. This launch is the first in a series of announcements that will be made over the next 18 months.

Radware Ltd.