NWC News Network, Dec 13, 2007, 11:00 hrs
Global benefit delivery leader CitiStreet has selected Foundry’s ServerIron 450 and 850 Series Layer 4-7 application delivery switches to provide content switching and load balancing for their customer-facing application and database servers which support more than 11 million users across 16,500 benefit plans 24x7x365.
CitiStreet is the second-largest defined contribution provider in the US measured by number of participants served; they offer a broad range of products and services for defined contribution, defined benefit and health and welfare plans of all sizes in all industries. The company serves over 11 million participants and has 16,500 plans across all markets and clients,which range from Fortune 500 to small businesses.
CitiStreet is using the ServerIron 450 and 850 switches in two data center locations to manage the content switching and load balancing of their application and database servers that interface with customers and clients on a daily basis in order to retrieve important information in real time about benefits plans and services. As the integral networking platform for their geographically distributed infrastructure, the ServerIron 450 switches are used in conjunction with the front-end customer-facing servers, and the ServerIron 850 switches are used with the back-end application and database servers. With Foundry in their network, CitiStreet benefits from higher performance, lower total cost of ownership, and superior customer support and service.
“As CitiStreet continues to grow its benefits services customer base, we will require networking hardware that scales efficiently and without performance degradation,” said Barry Strasnick,CIO for CitiStreet. “Foundry’s ServerIron application delivery switches provide us manageability, content-switching and load-balancing features with high availability, scalability and high performance. Foundry provided us solid customer service as we teamed to design and implement a networking solution that addresses our current needs while allowing us functionality and feature flexibility in the future.”
The ServerIron 350, 450 and 850 Series are high-performance application delivery switches in a choice of three respective form factors. These switches are built with business-critical resiliency features and are customizable for performance, port density and SSL acceleration to meet a range of application and data center infrastructure needs. All three switches are
designed with a modular architecture for superior performance and scalability, and can be expanded to meet growing traffic demands including 10GbE application delivery. These application delivery switches accelerate Web-based applications and eliminate downtime caused by server and application failures.
Corrigendum: We had mentioned CitiSteet as a Bangalore-based company in an earlier upload of this release done on November 28, 2007. The correct version is the one given above. The error and the difficulties it may have caused CitiStreet is regretted - NWC Editorial
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