Redline Networks is a company in Silicon Valley that is doing some very interesting stuff. Not only do they make best in breed solutions in the area of load balancing, server load balancing, application front end, server consolidation, ssl termination, compression, and caching but have their competitors F5 Networks, Radware, Netscaler, and Fineground shaking in their boots.
I decided to start looking at companies in Silicon Valley that seem to have a eye for the next big thing. Not only do they make a good product but they are doing some innovative marketing around creating user groups and viral marketing via blogs.
Redline Networks is a company to watch. In the last two years: they’ve scored InfoWorld’s highest 2003 rating (9.5) across all networking categories (and also won an InfoWorld 2004 load balancing competitive test); they won Best In Test in a highly competitive October 2004 Network World review of application front ends (and were recently acknowledged as a Best in Test finalist for all of 2004); and today they announced that eWeek has selected them as an Excellence Award finalist the second year in a row.
What does Redline do that is so special? They have a leading edge Web tier appliance for delivering Web applications like PeopleSoft/Oracle, Siebel, SAP, Notes/Domino Web Access and custom apps and portals. The leading enterprise software makers are moving their customers to Web-enabled versions of their leading applications, creating an attractive opportunity for a best-of-breed private company to grow revenue and margins.
Best of Breed
Redline’s E|X application front end reduces page download times by offloading critical and compute intensive server processes, terminating SSL (so servers don’t have to tie up resources), load balancing and reducing network traffic via compression, among other things. Word has it that it is one of the few inside the firewall application front ends that have succeeded in delivering enterprise class compression while others struggle. They also have a unique Redline OverDrive™ environment that allows customers to have unprecedented control over HTTP traffic.
And… if you’re a Gartner client and have access to the Magic Quadrant for Web Application Delivery, you’ll notice that Redline Networks is one of few private companies who ever make it to the leader quadrant in their respective category. If you aren’t a Gartner client, try the recent Gartner Webcast on Web Application Delivery (available upon registration to anyone with a browser). Redline Networks is in good company, competing with the likes of F5 Networks (FFIV- PE ratio of 40+) and Radware (RDWR- PE of 33+).
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