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A10 Thunder & AX SeriesCustomer Quotes
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AX Series | EX Series | ID Series
AX Series
123inkt.nl
We chose A10 Networks due to reliability and hardware capabilities. During our initial load test, performance increased by 22 percent over our installed systems, right out of the box! The AX also had double digit performance gains over other tested systems.
Tim de Wolf, CIO, 123inkt.nl
Bat Blue Corporation
We selected A10's AX 1000s for our managed service practice because it represents the value trinity--better, cheaper, faster--that Bat Blue has built its practice around. The AX 1000s are more innovative, high performance and cost-effective server load balancers than any other solution we found on the market. With the AX 1000, Bat Blue gains a competitive advantage that it can easily translate into increased value for our customers.
Babak Pasdar, President & CEO
Bentley University
We considered adding application acceleration features to our F5 BIG-IP server load balancers, but the licensing fees were very high. After evaluating A10's AX Series, we learned that we could provide faster acceleration, at half the price. With A10 all features are included, so we no longer have to dip into our budget in the future for more features or performance. In addition, we now have the latest state-of-the art architecture - and our entire school is benefiting from faster, more responsive applications.
Todd Marsh, Principal Network Engineer
Box.net
We researched incumbent solutions but discovered the products used older technologies and designs, while including a significant expense. The price/performance and cutting edge technology value proposition delivered by A10's AX Series is a perfect fit for our Web 2.0 business.
Jeff Queisser, VP of Technical Operations
Brainshark, Inc.
After the cutover to the AX Series Application Delivery Controllers, when I look at the AX's traffic statistics page, none of the CPUs have gone over 5 percent during our peak hours. So that's a lot of headroom for my organization - both now and in anticipation of our future growth.
Jim Long, Director of Information Technology
Buienradar.nl
Our legacy load balancers had reached end of life and we needed a new solution capable of intelligently load balancing traffic across our two data centers. In evaluating solutions on the market, we were impressed with the AX Series' sophisticated GSLB capabilities. We were pleased to learn that the AXs could provide an additional layer of protection for our DNS infrastructure. The AXs have helped us improve network response times, and this translates to a better experience for our end users.
Stefan Rijkaart, Co-founder
Bussan Networks
A10 Networks' AX Series is an application acceleration switch that delivers an industry leading price-performance architecture. With its unique Advanced Core Operation System and flexible aFleX scripting language, the AX Series easily integrates with existing application infrastructures to help customers provide high levels of scalability and flexibility, to ensure availability for business critical services.
Kazutaka Kiuchi, CEO
CGA Ontario
I took an interest in A10 Networks based on the company's stellar reputation in the online community. When I implemented the AX Series in our network environment, I was pleased by the ease of use and flexibility of the product.
Philip Philippides, Senior Network Administrator
Club One
At Club One, we differentiate our business with the ability to provide streaming video and interactive fitness applications to our customers and partners throughout the US and Canada. To ensure these applications are always running, our servers must always be performing behind the scenes. A10's AX Series balances the server traffic to ensure our applications run non-stop.
Michael Nielson, IT Operations Manager
Core Mobility
As the provider of end-to-end services for mobile carriers and millions of wireless handsets around the world, our network must always be fast and reliable. We chose A10 Networks' AX Series new generation server load balancers to enhance our carrier-grade network because they provide a new industry price/performance milestone that leaps ahead of incumbents' offerings in this market – which allows our service to be more competitive.
Willy Lee, Senior Director Of Operations
Cyso
The AX devices offer a high performance, multi-featured solution that allows us to offer a wide range of enterprise services for our customers.
Stanley Westerveld, Senior Systems & Component Architect at Cyso
econda GmbH, Karlsruhe (Germany)
We evaluated a number of different high-performance server load balancers. Among them were appliances from Cisco, F5, Coyote Point and Foundry. A10's AX series are new generation server load balancers that convinced us the most. They offer the highest performance and scalability and ensure fast and secure Web applications for end users. With the A10 AX Series Application Delivery Controllers we are ready for future growth.
Ulrich Nägele, Team Leader Technical Services
ElectronicPartner (Germany)
After having implemented the A10 Networks' 64bit AX 2500 we got the confirmation that our initial thought of a high level solution is correct: the general technology, the intuitive GUI, the redundant power supplies, the very efficient storage tapes and the very high performance of the 64bit platform; additionally the simple licensing and the excellent performance in price convinced us. With this solution we received a huge competitive advantage. On the one hand side we can provide high performance applications for employees and members faster, on the other hand side administration volume has been reduced. For example SSL encryption is no longer scheduled on the webservers but on the load balancers. I think that encryption of EP:Infonets is a real milestone. It never resulted in a decline in making web application available. It was opposite: While deploying two 64bit AX 2500 in a cluster we can save 30 percent of the web traffic although delivering the applications faster. This is more than we ever expected.
Sascha Krinke
Ericsson
We selected A10 Networks as it delivers the most capable solution. We look forward to a successful partnership with A10 to deliver powerful, carrier class IPv4/IPv6 solutions to help our global customers preserve investments while providing a clear path to IPv6, efficiently and affordably.
Melih Tufan, Head of Product Line Packet Networks at Ericsson
Excite Japan Co., Ltd.
Whatever the product, some sort of problem will always occur. The important point is how quickly support is provided when that happens. The swift service provided by A10 is very reliable.
Excite Japan Co., Ltd.
FFF Enterprises
We found the AX Series at the perfect time. After reading positive stories about its price/performance advantage over incumbents we tested the AX in our environment and discovered that the claims we read were true. A10's AX Series provides us with a high-performance server load balancer solution to ensure MyFluVaccine™ is always performing and available.
Bob Coates, VP of Technology
Florence County
We researched incumbent solutions but discovered the products used older technologies and designs, while including a significant expense. We chose A10's AX 2100s as they deliver 3X the hardware capability at half the cost, plus unique features such as aXAPI and a support team that we can trust.
Joshua Suggs, Web Developer
GAIN Capital
The AX Series helps GAIN Capital increase our SSL performance and overall capacity for our business critical applications, while its compact size and lower power requirements help us meet green data center goals within our current ecosystem.
Todd Wojcik, Director of Network Engineering
Game Flier
We chose A10's AX Series because it is the best price/performance server load balancer on the market and the first in the Web application delivery market that is tuned for multi-core CPU systems. The A10 team is staffed with Layer 4-7 networking experts that carefully designed the server load balancing solution that is tuned for our exact needs. As a result, we have the best server load balancer technology on the market, and our customers are happy with our application speed.
Rick Ku, MIS Assistant Chief
Gamania
We considered adding more F5 BIG-IP server load balancers, but then decided to research competing solutions and evaluate market innovations since our last deployment. After evaluating A10's AX Series, we were impressed with the performance, scalability, reliability and headroom for growth, which led to our selection. With the help of AX Series, we increase our competitive edge by providing an enhanced level of service to our end users.
Jerry Shao, Manager Infrastructure Department
Go Daddy
Small business customer success online is largely influenced by the technology and support employed. Using A10, we are able to provide the same, top-level service our nearly 11 million customers have come to expect while improving reliability and keeping costs down.
Tim Parker, Director of Networking, Go Daddy
Gomez - Web Performance Division of Compuware Corp
The AX 1000 has proven to have a lot of performance in a small 1U, non-modular form-factor. We were maxing out the processing power of our legacy load balancer in terms of concurrent connections and SSL handshakes per second. The AX 1000 has proven to have at least 6x the capacity on both counts, at less than half the price of our legacy load balancer, and including feature parity with the "big boys." A10 has made a technical marvel. Plus, their staff is very technical, responsive, and helpful.
Shawn Carroll, SaaS Network Engineering Manager 
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Hawkins
We chose A10's AX 2000s as our server load balancer platform because of their impressive interface and competitive price, plus the first class customer service and response from the A10 team. A10's AX Series balance the user connections over our JD Edwards ERP software and Windows 2003 Terminal Servers. We believe we are achieving a more even distribution of load after implementing A10.
Paul Veeneman, Chief Technology Engineer
IT Interactive Services
Our upgrade to the AX Series Advanced Application Delivery Controllers was a critical business decision as our user community is continuously growing and we must always provide fast web performance to our users to meet service level agreements. The AX Series was the best high-end solution for our requirements, offering not only leading performance and scalability, but also innovative Web acceleration features that give us a competitive edge.
Barbara Manning, President & CEO
Jaguar Network
We looked at three vendors, including A10, Cisco, and Brocade, and with A10, we had a great experience during the evaluation. We were impressed with how easy the AX Application Delivery Controller was to configure and manage. In addition to being very easy to set up, the AX Series offered superior 64-bit hardware and could support our IPv6 migration plans. We have installed AX 2500s in our production network and we are very pleased with the results.
Kevin Polizzi, Founder
Jinjiang, a subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment
We deployed A10's AX Series and the appliances easily handled our rapidly increasing traffic. We were surprised at the dramatic performance increases upon enabling the advanced server load balancing and application acceleration functions that are included without additional fees."
Mr. Ye Ning, Technical Director
McMaster University
We researched the major Application Delivery Controller solutions on the market and were impressed to learn we could deploy A10's AX Series for the most superior performance at the best price. The AX Series is particularly useful as it can load balance the application server clusters within the two Blackboard applications. I recommend A10's AX Series as a key component for online learning infrastructures.
Herman Poon, Systems Administrator
Meebo, Inc.
The ServerIron boxes that we'd purchased a year before weren't scaling as well as we'd hoped and had essentially become obsolete. When first installed, the ServerIron CPUs were at about 10–20 percent utilization. However, we have experienced tremendous growth in the last year, and we offer a unique solution that causes our users to come to our site and to remain continuously connected with our servers for sessions that sometimes last for several for days. Under these circumstances, the ServerIron load balancers were soon at 100 percent CPU utilization, while the A10 Networks 64-bit AX Series appliances were at only 5–10 percent CPU utilization for same price point.
Simon Yeo, Senior Director of Operations
MEVIO
The price/performance value proposition delivered by A10's AX Series is a perfect fit for our business. The AX platforms are operating at 2 percent CPU usage, versus 50-60 percent with the previous solution. We are now receiving twice the performance at half the price, and an immediate ROI with server offload features.
Dan Benson, Director of Operations
NTT Plala
After a comparative test with competitive server load balancer products, we selected A10's AX Series for its advanced architecture, stable and superior IPv6 performance, outstanding cost effectiveness, and prompt support from A10 and partner Bussan Networks.
Mr. Shinro Nakagawa, General Manager of the Network Engineering Dept.
Nxs Internet
Our customers use different applications with increasing performance demands; we needed more flexibility in offering load balancing functionality. By investing in AX 1030 Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) from A10 Networks, we now have dedicated equipment for increasing our customers’ application performance. We can also offer high-end ADC functionality to more of our customers, for an attractive price.
Henk Nijland, Managed Services Director
Peak Hosting
As a Managed Hosting provider, Peak Hosting must provide multi-tenancy for customers with the ability to manage their load balancing needs directly without sacrificing performance, scalability and availability. After evaluating competing platforms, no solution could match A10 Networks' value, which sets the bar with 128 high performance ADC instances and over four million Layer 4 connections per second per unit. Coupled with the ability to centrally manage and scale a cluster of up to eight units as we need them with a Virtual Chassis (aVCS) configuration, no vendor can match the flexibility, performance, savings and peace of mind that A10 Networks provides.
Jeffrey Papen, CEO
Rakuten, Inc.
Rakuten has been developing its business worldwide, even though it is based in Japan. We appreciate A10 Networks' support system that provides reliable and quick technical support with many engineers in its Japanese subsidiary. Follow-up service is provided even when escalated to A10's headquarters in America. We have received enthusiastic support from A10, for example, their participation in regular pre-installation meetings, and preparation of a quick support system just in case there are any problems while switching. Thanks to this support, switching was successfully completed on schedule.
Mr. Yoshimasa Suzuki, Rakuten, Inc.
Sega
AX Series provides not only high performance, but also the local language GUI delivers high usability through relevant traffic reporting options.
Yusuke Kanekon, Sega Corporation Research and Development Solution Headquarters
Sentri
Sentri is partner of the Year with Microsoft and specializes in Unified Communications and Collaboration (Lync, Exchange, SharePoint), along with several other areas. We design, install and manage Microsoft Lync solutions. Our High Availability deployments include A10's 64-bit AX Series Application Delivery Controllers. We find the AX Series server load balancing functionality to be very fast and easy to install and configure, and work exceptionally well with Microsoft Lync.
Alex Beletsky, CEO
Servers Australia
What immediately drew our attention to the A10 product was the ability for multi-tenancy within a single device. This gave us the opportunity to offer our customers a solution where they could directly manage their load balancing requirements
Craig Smithers, Sales Manager, Servers Australia
ShareCompany
For our second data center, due to increased Internet traffic from large, high-profile customers, we required an application delivery solution that was more scalable. After evaluating A10's AX Series load balancers at the recommendation of Quanza Engineering, we learned that we could achieve higher performance without any additional license fees for features. In addition, we now have the latest state-of-the art architecture - and our customers are benefiting from faster, more responsive applications.
Mr. Sander Hilkman, Deputy Director
Shasta County
We researched the three major load balancing solutions on the market and were delighted to learn we could deploy AX Series for the most superior technology at a fraction of the price. Now everyone is happy: we stayed well within budget, our users notice faster response times and my team delivered on its charter to serve the public.
Tom Lee, IT Supervisor for Infrastructure
SHI Labs
Our customers are demanding a higher level of sophistication in cloud environments versus a few years ago. A10's aCloud ecosystem offers the right ADC form factor and management tools that are essential to offering a successful feature rich service.
Andrew Rosser, Research Fellow at SHI Labs
Shopzilla
We deployed multiple AX 3200s prior to the 2008 holiday shopping season, and the appliances easily handled the increased traffic. AX delivers the new generation of server load balancers required to ensure our eCommerce site is highly scalable with consistent low latency, and always operational.
Burzin Engineer, VP of Technology
SK Life
We deployed A10's AX Series for our employee's mission critical Web applications and they quickly returned on investment by allowing us to serve more customers. The AX Series delivers the advanced Application Delivery Controller solutions required to ensure our Web applications are highly available with consistent low latency, and always operational.
Mr. Chen, CTO
SkyMesh
I was surprised how easy the AX 3030 was to work with. The CLI has a very Cisco-like feel to it, the web based GUI is very straightforward, and the documentation is easy to follow. Some small changes were required to accommodate the switchover to the A10 product, but there was nothing too onerous.
Terence C. Sweetser, Chief Technical Officer, SkyMesh
St. Petersburg College
We chose A10 Networks primarily for the flexibility of the architecture. The ability for us to create various virtual Application Delivery Controllers within the AX Series and still maintain performance was very important. Additionally, ease of configuration and cost compared to our previous solution was very appealing.
David Creamer, Director Network Systems & TV Operations, St. Petersburg College
Subaru Canada, Inc.
Once a potential buyer test drives one of our vehicles, the rest is easy. I feel the same way about A10's AX Series of appliances - once you try them you'll be sold... While we were originally drawn to the AX's application acceleration features, the recent enhancements to the AX Virtualization Multi-tenancy feature will allow us to consolidate our Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment and our web environment to a single pair of appliances, with high availability. This reduces the amount of Application Delivery Controllers in our network and saves us money in the process.
George Hamin, Director eBusiness & Information Systems
Taobao
We were impressed with the higher Layer 4 and Layer 7 performance that A10's AX Series deliver versus the existing systems. This enables operational efficiency by allowing us to consolidate from two platforms into one. The AX Series met our business requirements not only with performance, but also with stability, scalability and tremendous value. With the AX Series, we not only ensure a fast user experience, but also lower our cost per transaction.
Cao Yi Feng, Operation Director
Tweakers.net
With A10 Networks' technology, we have implemented the perfect solution for our Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) needs. With this solution in place we have the scalability for further growth against a good price as well as quality.
Patrick Kuiper, Manager of Technology at Tweakers.net
University of the Arts London
Our existing server load balancer platform was incapable to meet the needs of our new Web service project. We chose A10's AX 2100s as they met and exceeded the project's functional requirements, including scalable performance for growth.
Andrew McClements, Network Services Manager
USA 800
The AX Series easily handled the record customer traffic we received over the 2008 holiday season. With AX, our eCRM platform is extremely scalable, highly available and fast, so that our employees are constantly able to handle customer demand. At twice the performance & half the price, AX is the best solution for us.
Tom Davis, President & CEO
VerticalScope Inc.
I am quite impressed with A10 Networks; not a single issue using almost every major feature on a pair of AX 1000s in our new production environment. The devices are great and some of the best I've worked with.
Brandon Seibel, Manager, Operations and Systems Architecture
ViaWest
ViaWest is a leader in the managed service market, and we have standardized on a combination of A10's AX Series hardware and SoftAX virtual appliances for our cloud offerings. We chose A10 for many reasons including tight SoftAX integration with VMware vCloud Director, flexibility of hardware and software platforms and the advanced feature set. All of these advantages directly translate to value we can offer to our customers.
Jason Carolan, CTO of ViaWest
wilhelm.tel GmbH
We have found excellent partners in A10 Networks and System Integrator BMAnetworks. They can entirely fulfill our existing and future requirements for load balancing. A10's simple and manageable licensing model is very cost-effective and we can make use of all functions without additional investments in licenses. Furthermore, A10 provides us with the reliable solution we require for our IPv6 implementation.
Malte Kock, Manager for System Integration, Planning Department, wilhelm.tel GmbH
Wire and Wireless Co., Ltd.
The AX Series is a highly cost-effective product, and A10 quickly responded to our request for application transparency functions. With devoted support from A10's sales partner, we could start the service very quickly.
Shuichiro Asagai, Technical Department Manager
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
So far we've been very happy; the AX Series hardware performs exactly as advertised. When evaluating the AX, we verified that it was feature complete with enough performance to cover us for the next 5 years with anticipated load, and then went back and looked at pricing and that's when the differentiator made it a very easy choice. With the extra budget saved, we were able to buy more hardware and outfit the lab as well.
Frank Sweetser, Manager of Network Operations for Worcester Polytechnic
World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE operates a real-time web voting system, which causes frequent and unpredictable "flash crowds" during our wrestling events that result in peak traffic conditions. The aFlow™ feature in A10's new AX Series software release will add another intelligent layer on top of the existing AX rate and limit controls to protect our servers from being overwhelmed, ensuring our viewers can continue to vote for their favorite wrestlers in real-time and uninterrupted.
Phillip James, Manager, Digital Media Operations
Yahoo Japan Corporation
We have peace of mind with A10's proven IPv6 and virtualization solutions.
Miyuki Tsunekawa, Network Engineer, Yahoo Japan Corporation
EX Series
etòn Corporation
etòn needed a better way to manage network bandwidth so that required business applications never suffer in performance. We chose the EX Series from A10 Networks because it allows us to manage bandwidth with unprecedented application and user identity visibility so that we can intelligently provision enough capacity for necessary business applications at all times.
Asad Sarabi, VP of operations
Bentley University
We just bought a pair of EX 2110's, we had a pair of Packeteer 10ks but they could not handle the 500Mb connection we have. We've been running the EX inline with no issues what so ever. The management interface is easy to use and pretty straight forward. The reporting capabilities are head and shoulders above the Packeteer. Support is responsive and easy to work with. We also have A10's AX Series load balancers as well. Overall we are very satisfied with the products and the company.
Todd Marsh, Principal Network Engineer
Laramie County Community College
Using A10's EX Series allows us to have a more complete view of the traffic on the network, and the ability to zero in from high-level reports to the exact action we need to investigate. The ID Series appliances also pinpoint exactly the user behind an IP address without any additional wasted time of tracking them down.
Ted Wickham, Senior Network Analyst
PT Asuransi Jiwa Sinarmas
The EX Series delivers bandwidth management, link load balancing and unique application and user visibility features to deliver non-stop network operations for our applications that run over multiple Internet links. As a result, our employee productivity is increased.
Iwen Lender, IT Division Head
ID Series
ArcSec Technologies
IDsentrie is a strong identity management product that is quick to deploy and easy to use. Its IP-to-ID reporting tool is unique and can easily provide justification for purchasing the product based on the amount of time that can be saved by automating a very manual analysis process.
Mandy Andress, President
etòn Corporation
By leveraging the IDsentrie's IP-to-ID service within etòn Corporation's existing network, I can save an average of 30 minutes while troubleshooting an incident by eliminating the manual step of back-tracking MAC and IP address information to user identity. Now, I can also quickly identify the users involved in a security attack or network alert so that immediate action can be taken before more damage is done. Finally, our IT department can save countless hours annually while reducing time to problem resolution and improving security, reporting and internal controls.
Asad Sarabi, VP of Operations
Framingham State University
The IDsentrie provides a user-friendly, web-based, self-service portal that allows students and faculty to reset their passwords. This has reduced the number of calls to our help desk for password-related issues, which is by far our most common request. Within two weeks at the start of this fall semester, we were able to get approximately 6,000 users to change their passwords without any major issues or difficulties. The IDsentrie offers a very stable platform that requires minimal administrative overhead to support.
Mike Zinkus, Director of Systems and Networking, ITS Department
From30
To properly control and secure From30's diverse network and business assets, we needed an identity management system that understands which users are accessing the development and account servers, in real-time, so that users without sanctioned access are not permitted on the network.
Kevin Im, CEO
Interline Brands
Interline Brands now has a system in place that ensures our users can update their own passwords and account information. As a result, we now receive 17% less help desk calls. IT Staff and end users are more productive as end users can now update password and attribute information without interaction from IT Staff.
Fred Odell, Systems Engineer
Kyungpook National University
Kyungpook National University needed specific features to update our wireless infrastructure. We were pleased to find the unique feature mix in a simple to deploy and cost effective solution with A10 and the ID Series line. We found an offering that is not available from other vendors and has improved the service we offer students as well as decreasing the amount of admin work required significantly on an ongoing basis.
Dong-Ji Bang, team manager
Postini
We've only begun to tap some of the exceptional capabilities of the IDsentrie appliance. As we continue to delve into its many features, we're seeing more and more opportunities to make use of its authentication and logging architecture.
Brad Robinson, Information Security Administrator
Shinyoung Securities
Shinyoung Securities now has a system in place that ensures we can update users across multiple systems even though they operate independently. The ID Series appliances offer a comprehensive amount of functionality for a fraction of the price of the other solutions currently on the market. Our user provisioning, de-provisioning and password management issues have been solved effectively.
Tae-Joon Choo, IT Manager
Silicon Valley Web Hosting
The ability to quickly track critical firewall events back to the originating host using IDsentrie has simplified Silicon Valley Web Hosting's troubleshooting and forensic activities significantly.
Michael Montgomery, Network Operations Manager
Smart City
With the combination of superior authentication performance, a highly redundant architecture, and 24X7 support, A10's IDsentrie serviced all the event's authentication requests without a single issue, allowing Smart City to provide a seamless experience to all the network users at CES 2008.
David Langford, VP of Technology
Tokyo Zokei University
Tokyo Zokei University now has a system in place that ensures we can update users across multiple systems even though they operate independently. The ID Series appliances offer a comprehensive amount of functionality and highperformance platform for the best price on the market today. Our user account management issues have been solved effectively.
Koichi Taguchi, Manager of System Section