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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 1, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 35

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Breaking News - Networking:

Tech Data And Radware Sign Distribution Agreement

Radware, a leader in Intelligent Application Switching (IAS), ensuring end-to-end availability, performance and security of networked applications, and Tech Data Corporation, a leading worldwide provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services, announced that Tech Data has signed a North American distribution agreement with Radware. Tech Data will carry the manufacturer's entire product line of award-winning application switching solutions including Web Sever Director, Cache Server Director, Content Inspection Director, FireProof, LinkProof, Peer Director and CertainT 100.

"By partnering with Radware we can enhance our customers' solution offerings and their ability to differentiate themselves from the competition," said Roy Appelbaum, vice president of network product marketing for Tech Data. "Our resellers are looking for solutions that help their customers enhance network performance and security while controlling costs. Radware's intelligent application switches provide high availability, optimization and security to any network, no matter the size. This lets resellers offer business enhancing services to a broad range of organizations."

"Partnering with Tech Data extends our reach further into the networking market and will further increase our mind share and recognition among resellers, VARs and end users," said Vikram Desai, chief operating officer of Radware. "Our choice of Tech Data as a distributor was based on their proven success in distributing local and wide area networking solutions, their success providing pre and post-sales configuration assistance and their network design expertise."

Kenneth Long, general manager of e-Systems Division at Lewan & Associates, a Denver-based solution provider specializing in systems infrastructure integration stated, "The Radware/Tech Data partnership means that we'll be able to leverage Tech Data's strengths in technical support, training and logistics management along with Radware's application switching and security products to provide our customers with network applications that will enhance their competitive position."

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