Florence County Selects A10 Networks AX Series to Scale Application Delivery for...

Florence County Selects A10 Networks AX Series to Scale Application Delivery
for Government Sector

AX Series Delivers Florence County a Flexible Server Load Balancer Solution,
including Application Acceleration and Optimization for VMware Cluster

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A10 Networks(R) today announced that
Florence County Government, located in Florence South Carolina, has selected
A10's AX Series Advanced Traffic Managers to ensure that the county's Website,
online information and applications are always available and performing for
its users. The Florence County Website includes the Sheriff's county Website,
Intranet and internal applications for Florence County, with three million
unique viewers a month.

Running a demanding Web environment, Florence County's traffic relies on Web
servers in a clustered VMware environment and SQL server cluster. To optimize
and accelerate its virtualized server clusters, a cost-effective, fast and
very feature rich server load balancer platform was essential. To meet this
requirement, Florence County selected A10's AX 2100 new generation server load
balancers as they deliver a high-performance, carrier-grade solution at a very
competitive price.

"We researched incumbent solutions but discovered the products used older
technologies and designs, while including a significant expense," said Joshua
Suggs, Web developer for Florence County. "We chose A10's AX 2100s as they
deliver 3X the hardware capability at half the cost of competing solutions,
plus unique features such as aXAPI and a support team that we can trust."

Florence County's compelling reasons for choosing A10's AX Series resulted
from Application Delivery requirements and core server load balancing
functionality, including:

-- Application Acceleration and Optimization for VMware: Allowing
flexibility to offer increased user capacity and/or the number of
virtual servers that can be run
-- aXAPI for Custom Management: RESTful approach offers key benefits
versus
competitors' more cumbersome and hard to use SOAP/XML APIs
-- aFleX for Flexible Advanced Layer 7 Scripting: Minimizes and corrects
security issues with third party applications, and ensures
availability
through external health check on backend servers

Additional key features within the AX Series include:

-- Revolutionary Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) to provide the
most
scalable server load balancing solutions
-- Comprehensive Layer 4-7 features and performance, SSL acceleration,
hardware compression and RAM Cache at a cost-effective price
-- Superior reliability and redundancy through comprehensive application
layer health checks and load balancing algorithms, while running on a
platform with carrier-grade hardware components

"We are proud that Florence County ensures a positive Web experience for its
users with the help of our award-winning AX Series family," said Lee Chen,
founder and CEO of A10 Networks. "The AX Series provides a competitive
advantage for government customers by delivering more than twice the
performance at half the price of competing solutions, including innovative
features and functionality."

To read the full case study, please visit:
http://www.a10networks.com/resources/files/CS-FlorenceCounty.pdf

About A10 Networks
A10 Networks was founded in Q4 2004 with a mission to provide innovative
networking and security solutions. A10 Networks 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, Europe, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. For more
information, visit http://www.a10networks.com

About Florence County
Florence County is in the center of northeastern South Carolina at the
junction of interstates 95 and 20. With nearly 75 percent of the nation's
population within a day's drive, it is an ideal location for construction,
manufacturing and retail. The County provides basic and necessary services
consistent with the needs of its citizens in a cost-effective, efficient, and
customer friendly manner. County Government assumes a proactive leadership
role in determining the future direction of the county. Florence County
Government exists to serve the needs of its citizens for a safe, secure, and
healthy environment. It seeks to foster planned and managed growth and
desirable economic development that creates prosperity and job opportunities
for all its citizens. For more information, visit: www.florenceco.org

SOURCE A10 Networks

Kelly LeBlanc, A10 Networks, +1-408-325-8668, kleblanc@a10networks.com