Telecom sector, Government, PSUs fuel Radware’s rapid growth in India

NEW DELHI: Cyber security and application delivery solutions company Radware has released its 2015 growth report for India. The customer base and revenues both registered an uptick during 2015. Radware's customer base has grown immensely with the increase in demand for application delivery controllers and application security solutions, and the company believes that it is well on track to acquire leadership position.

Radware's India revenues in 2015 saw an impressive increase of 24.5% over 2014. The company's acquisition of new clients jumped 33% while its revenues from existing clients saw an uptick of 11%. The company also experienced robust growth of 20% in its security solutions offering and 14% in its Application Delivery Controller (ADC) offerings.

By the close of 2015, Radware has made impressive gains across telecom, government, BFSI and enterprise sectors. Company's revenues from telecom sector alone saw an upsurge of 54%.

Pointing towards the global trend holding ground in India too, Nikhil Taneja, Managing Director, India & SAARC at Radware said, “Rising demand from cloud and communications service providers, and prioritization of ADCs for IPv4-IPv6 address translation are the key driver of the application delivery and application security solutions market in India, as it is globally. ADC market in India is expected to grow between 8 to 10 percent till 2018, and we intend to leverage upon this growth as well. We feel great about the fact that we have been able to understand the customers' emerging requirements and serve them with the right kind of products.”

"The emphasis on ease of application delivery to stakeholders and application security for virtual, cloud and software-defined data centers has fueled Radware's growth in India," said Roy Zisapel, President and Chief Executive Officer of Radware. "We have remained committed to the India market for the past 14 years. Because of this dedication, along with our comprehensive application delivery and attack mitigation technology and customer centric approach, we are in the perfect position to grow our market share in this region."

The ADC and application security solution industry is expected to grow a faster clip in 2016, and Radware aims to solidify and strengthen its market position and be poised for future growth. Placed in the Leaders' quadrant by Gartner, Radware has focused on its core strengths - innovating and evolving its technology - and delivered them to the customers across different market domains.

Radware's India charge has been ably led by its Managing Director for India & SAARC region, Nikhil Taneja. Mr Taneja lead Radware's India presence to its leading position since the time it started, with his connects with the large enterprises and key channel partners. Some of the biggest customer acquisitions have his stamp on them.

"Through Taneja's successful management over the past 14 years, Radware has grown to become a trusted leader for Application Delivery and attack mitigation in India," added Zisapel. “We are proud to elevate him to Managing Director, India & SAARC region for Radware, and we trust he will continue to play an instrumental part in our future growth."

Radware's technology portfolio allows the organization to utilize advanced application delivery services in the most efficient and cost-effective way. This ensures businesses see an optimal service level delivery and receive a fast return on their investment. Alteon NG is Radware's next generation application delivery controller (ADC) is the only ADC that guarantees application service levels with the ability to assign a fully isolated vADC per application or service. Alteon NG has a deep set of integrated security capabilities, including DDoS, SSL inspection, device/user fingerprinting, and defense messaging capabilities. Radware leads the industry with their unified management and orchestration framework for ADC and security technologies. Radware application delivery architecture supports SDN and NFV environments to meet the evolving data center environment requirements.

Radware intends to expand its business units and partners in the SAARC countries by setting up dedicated team and is expecting good business growth from this region.