Alpha-Bank Selects Crescendo Networks for Optimal Online Banking Efficiency and Performance

AppBeat DC Delivers Web Application Speed and Availability for Millions of Clients Worldwide

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – February 17, 2011 – Crescendo Networks, the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing application delivery for web properties, announced today that Alpha-Bank has selected its AppBeat DC application delivery controller to ensure the performance, predictability and availability of their web based financial applications.

Founded in 1990, Alfa-Banking Group offers a wide range of products and operates in all sectors of the financial market.  Alfa-Banking Group has maintained its position as the top Russian private bank by total assets, total equity and customer accounts. As of July 2010, Alfa-Banking Group has served over 38,000 active corporate customers and 4.3 million retail clients from over 300 branch offices in Russia and abroad.

“In the banking arena, application availability and security is an important of tenet building brand confidence,” said Adoram Gaash, CEO for Crescendo Networks.  “AppBeat DC ensures Alpha-Bank’s online resources can grow and scale at a phenomenal pace while providing superior performance and availability globally. We are honored to have been chosen as one of Alpha-Bank’s select vendors.”
 
AppBeat DC delivers optimal application performance while increasing server efficiency. Deployed on a purpose-built platform using dedicated hardware engines with parallel processors, AppBeat DC offloads processing-intensive tasks from servers and combines multiple acceleration features in one highly scalable appliance. Its unique distributed architecture outperforms other solutions that experience performance degradation and resource contention when multiple features are enabled. With AppBeat DC’s sophisticated N+i HyperScale  architecture, ADC infrastructures can now be built gradually, deploying what is needed today and scaling as demand and capacity requirements grow — up to a 100 Gbps.

About Crescendo Networks
Crescendo Networks offers the industry's only "future-proof" application delivery solution to support business growth in today's volatile online world. Our unified application delivery solution offers innovative HyperScale technology, cloud intelligence, and massively scalable processing for performance that knows no boundaries. The company’s products are used by many of the world’s most sophisticated and fastest-growing Web properties to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue. For more information, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.

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Leah Stanton
Crescendo Networks
Tel (408) 730-5669
lstanton@crescendonetworks.com