Radware Collaborates With IBM to Help Customers Achieve Superior Value From Cloud Computing and Virtualization

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Radware Collaborates With IBM to Help Customers Achieve Superior Value From Cloud Computing and Virtualization

Aligns with Juniper Networks and Virtela Technology Services Incorporated in providing multi-tiered, ADC solutions for the IBM SmartCloud

MAHWAH, New Jersey, April 30, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

    Radware [http://www.Radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of application
delivery [http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ] solutions for
virtual and cloud data centers, today announced it is collaborating with IBM to deliver
increased business agility, mobility, and cost-effective integration of virtual
application delivery controller (ADC) solutions for customers building applications with
IBM SmartCloud.

    The solution includes Radware's Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI(R))
- Radware's strategy that transforms computing resources, ADCs and virtualization services
into an integrated, agile and scalable ADC infrastructure on demand. Customers can use the
Radware virtual appliance when designing intelligent load balancing solutions that quickly
and easily integrate into IBM SmartCloud orchestration and provisioning systems.

    Radware further announced it will align with technology partners Juniper and Virtela
to deliver a range of virtual ADC solutions that provide a multi-tiered ADC model which
includes the ability to optimize on the customer's infrastructure, the SmartCloud network
edge, or in the IBM SmartCloud. As a result, IBM and Radware customers can now leverage
Radware's virtual ADC on their own premise, in IBM SmartCloud for off-premise solutions,
as well as over a hybrid cloud.

    Radware VADI enables IBM SmartCloud to ensure customer application delivery
resilience, performance predictability, and dramatically reduces customer cost of
application delivery deployments. The solution can enable IBM SmartCloud customers to
extract more value from their application deployments by accelerating application response
time and reducing their overall cost of application deployments.

    "Radware offers multi-tiered ADC solutions designed for enterprises and cloud
providers deploying IBM SmartCloud by becoming an IBM SmartCloud Ecosystem Partner and
aligned with Juniper Networks and Virtela offerings for IBM SmartCloud," said Yossi Vardi,
vice president, Global Business Development, Radware. "Radware's VADI provides full
business agility while isolating between vADC tenants to guarantee SLAs. With these
solutions, cloud providers can benefit from performance predictability and dramatically
reduce the cost of application delivery deployments."

    Multi-tiered ADC Collaborations

    Radware's multi-tiered ADC solutions delivered in conjunction with Juniper and Virtela
represent an end-to-end service delivery strategy that simplifies, accelerates and secures
the cloud experience for IBM's SmartCloud customers. Radware will align with Juniper
Networks to provide ADC solutions integrated into Juniper edge routers for carriers and
cloud service providers deployed as part of IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform (CSP2).

    "Our partnership with Radware allows us to offer improved carrier cloud service
quality and repeatable automated application service creation and orchestration," said Liz
King, Juniper Vice President, IBM Global Alliance. "The Radware ADC add-on, part of our
IBM CSP2 solutions, enables customers to improve application availability and response
time while concurrently avoiding the cost and complexity of deploying and maintaining
ADC-specific appliances."

    Radware's alignment with Virtela, the world's largest independent managed services
company, also will enable ADC solutions for IBM SmartCloud. Radware will leverage
Virtela's Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC), which provides the virtual network overlay to
IBM SmartCloud, to offer multi-tiered vADC capabilities that improve the end-user
experience for customers worldwide. Virtela ESC features 50 Local Cloud Centers (LCCs)
strategically located around the world to dynamically deliver services closest to
enterprise end-users for the highest performance.

    "We are excited to work with partners such as Radware to enable high performance
delivery of applications hosted in IBM SmartCloud environments," said Ron Haigh, Virtela's
vice president of customer solutions and cloud architecture. "Virtela ESC gives technology
and cloud providers the ability to deliver seamless services worldwide with the highest
service quality and scalability while lowering capital expenses and infrastructure
management overhead."

    More on Radware VADI

    Radware's VADI is designed to bridge the gap across underlying hardware resources and
serve the various application needs in terms of SLAs and performance predictability while
delivering maximum agility to application delivery services. In essence, Radware's VADI
transforms a standard application delivery infrastructure into an agile virtual
application delivery control plane.

    Radware VADI overcomes the inherent challenges of ADC consolidation, while delivering
maximum agility for the application delivery services. Furthermore, it transforms a
traditional application delivery infrastructure into a virtual application delivery fabric
that provides application delivery services to the whole data center.

    About Radware

    Radware [http://www.radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a global leader of application
delivery [http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ] solutions for
virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions portfolio delivers full
resilience for business-critical applications, maximum IT efficiency, and complete
business agility. Radware's solutions empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier
customers worldwide to adapt to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity
and achieve maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please
visit http://www.radware.com.

    Radware encourages you to join our community and follow us on; LinkedIn
[http://www.linkedin.com/company/165642 ], Radware Blog [http://blog.radware.com ],
Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/radware ], YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/radwareinc ] and
the Radware Connect [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/radware-connect/id391124100?mt=8 ] app
for iPhone(R).

    This press release may contain statements concerning Radware's future prospects that
are "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. These statements are based on current expectations and projections that involve a
number of risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that future results will be
achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and estimates. These
risks and uncertainties, as well as others, are discussed in greater detail in Radware's
Annual Report on Form 20-F and Radware's other filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. In particular, there can be no assurance that Radware will recognize
significant revenues from the collaborations described above. Forward-looking statements
speak only as of the date on which they are made and Radware undertakes no commitment to
revise or update any forward-looking statement in order to reflect events or circumstances
after the date any such statement is made. Radware's public filings are available from the
Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov or may be obtained
on Radware's website at http://www.radware.com.

   
    Corporate Media Relations:
    Michael Lordi
    +1-201-785-3206  (office)
    +1-201-574-3840  (cell)
    mikel@radware.com

Source: Radware Ltd

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