Taobao Selects A10 Networks

By Anil Sharma

TMCnet Contributor

 

Taobao, a subsidiary of China-based Alibaba Group and an online retail site, reportedly has selected and deployed A10 Networks’ high performance AX Series appliances as its application delivery and server load balancing platform.

 

“We were impressed with the higher Layer 4-7 performance that A10’s AX Series delivers versus the old systems we’ve been using. This enables operational efficiency by allowing us to consolidate from two platforms to one,” said Cao Yi Feng, operation director at Taobao, in a statement.

 

Feng said that the AX Series met the company’s business requirements not only with performance, but also with stability, scalability and tremendous value.

 

He said that with AX Series, the company not only ensures a fast user experience, but also lowers overall cost per transaction.

 

“We are proud to deliver Taobao, China’s largest online retail site, the advanced, high-performance application delivery platform it requires for its multiple data centers and content delivery network sites,” said Lee Chen (News - Alert), founder and CEO of A10 Networks.

 

Chen said that the AX Series delivers tremendous value to the world’s largest online retail websites.

 

A10 Networks (News - Alert) says that it makes high-performance products that help organizations accelerate, optimize and secure their applications. A10 Networks is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan.

 

Back in November nForce Security had announced that it has been appointed an authorised distributor in Thailand for enterprise networking and security firm A10 Networks.

 

The partnership allows A10 Networks to expand on its network of value added channel partners in Thailand, leveraging nForce’s channel management and technical expertise.

 

Under the agreement, A10 Networks and nForce will jointly implement channel development and marketing programmes to recruit new channel partners and accelerate business growth for existing ones.

 

nForce Security Systems is a supplier with channel marketing development of advanced information security solutions that enables organizations of all sizes to better leverage and control their investments in Internet and related information technology.