Turkey’s Leading HR Site Handles Growing Traffic Efficiently Using Crescendo Networks

– Kariyer.net handles growing traffic while reducing bandwidth and server costs using Crescendo’s AppBeat™ DC –

TEL AVIV, Israel & MENLO PARK, Calif. – February 23, 2009 – Crescendo Networks, Ltd., the recognized performance leader in Web application delivery, today announced that Kariyer.net, Turkey’s largest online recruitment and HR site, is using AppBeat DC to improve the performance, security and availability of its web site. With AppBeat DC, the company has reduced web server spending and bandwidth requirements while accelerating application performance.

“Kariyer.net has been the leading online HR site in Turkey since our inception in 1999. Today, we handle over 250,000 unique visitors daily and this number continues to grow. Providing reliable service to our growing user population is essential,” said Dr. Askin Karakas, CTO of Kariyer.net. “Crescendo Networks helps us protect our site’s stability and performance without increasing our server infrastructure. Using AppBeat DC, we have cut our bandwidth usage by 30% and reduced our planned server expenditures for 2009 by 60%, enabling us to expand our business without additional budget.”

AppBeat DC is the best performing application delivery controller, using a purpose-built platform capable of delivering multiple features concurrently, including TCP and SSL offload, compression, and load balancing. By offloading process-intensive tasks from servers, AppBeat DC frees server resources while reducing datacenter costs. By switching from server-based compression software to AppBeat DC, Kariyer.net improved compression rates, freed server cycles for application processes, and cut software licensing costs. The site also benefits from the TCP offload and intelligent load balancing capabilities of AppBeat DC, improving reliability and performance under load. Kariyer.net plans to use of the global server load balancing capabilities of AppBeat DC to distribute traffic to different data centers.

“In today’s global economy, recruitment and employment sites like Kariyer.net are bound to experience increased traffic, without a corresponding increase in resources to manage that traffic. AppBeat DC gives Kariyer.net the bandwidth and server capacity to handle its growing traffic load with reliability and optimal performance, and the ability to scale to meet their continued expansion and growth,” said Adoram Ga’ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks.

About Kariyer.net
Kariyer.net is the first and the biggest online recruitment Web site in Turkey. It was established in 1999, marking the emergence of online recruitment sector in the country. In the following years, several other online recruitment sites were added to the market, but holding the advantage of being the pioneer and dynamically adjusting to the demands of the market, Kariyer.net has been the leader of the sector for the last 10 years. Today, Kariyer.net has 11 regional offices all around Turkey and communicates a widely known customer-oriented brand that is closely associated with modern human resources management applications.

About Crescendo Networks
Crescendo Networks is the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, Web-enabled applications. The company’s unique multi-tier application delivery architecture dramatically improves the operation of today's demanding application infrastructure. The world’s largest corporations and fastest growing Web properties rely on Crescendo for the application performance and efficiency needed to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue. To learn more about Crescendo Networks application delivery solutions, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.