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We are a pharma company
mainly dedicated to hand over rates.
Ninety percent of our business comes from this market where we are
third player in the world. We have about
12,000 employees around the world split among
about 200 sites. Right now we are using Alteon 5224s
and basically we're using them
to have virtual ADCs for load balancing
and SSL offloading. We're using
virtual ADCs on the
devices, the 5224s, in order to separate
the applications,
having separate ADCs for each application but
also because we are in a very highly-regulated
and compliant environment with two separate environments also inside
each application. We have four environments for application development
and there's
validation and production.
Radware gave us the ability to have a separate ADC,
virtual, for each environment making sure that we have
this piece of the network integrated on the system.
When we started the
finding for virtualization, we had several
legacy boxes in the house but we were not using
the server in an intensive way.
The main key factors where obviously price, scalability
and also vendor involvement on the deal.
Then Radware came out to us with this box,
it was a new box in the market with the virtual ADC's, and that gave us that
the ability to
separate the environments, to separate the applications and this was
one of the key factors to choose them.
The second one, as I was saying, was
having Radware the vendor involved on the deal
at any state. I mean in pre-sales, solution design,
negotiation and implementation.
They have been helping us also migrate the legacy boxes to the new environment.
The main benefit
that we get from Radware was that right now we have really
separate network environment and integrated with
any system and environment in our data center.
The first business impact that we felt
was the increasing availability and
performance of any web application
that we had in the data center. Just putting the
box in front of the server, the reverse proxy
functionality was giving us better performance. Availability, as an example,
we had an application that
when we were making announcements and every once in awhile
everybody was clicking at the same time to watch them,
50 users,
opening an SSL session on the application servers
was hanging the server
because they were overloaded. Right now with SSL offloading
we can have 250 users opening simultaneously
the SSL session and the CPU in the server is just 20 percent.