Sharekhan gets Juniper DX platforms

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Wipro Infotech has implemented Juniper Networks’ DX 3280 load balancing and application acceleration platforms at Sharekhan, an India-based securities trading firm, boosting the responsiveness, security and scale of stock-trading website of the trading firm.

According to Sharekhan, the DX platforms have increased the scalability of its customer-facing website by up to 100 times, improving performance and responsiveness for an increasing number of users without spending more on additional Web servers.

Juniper said in a statement that while accelerating Web application performance, including secure SSL-based trading transactions, the DX platforms also further protect Sharekhan's Web infrastructure with ”internal firewall" functionality in the critical transaction zone where Web-enabled applications reside. The DX platforms also authenticate Sharekhan's users and protect servers from denial-of-service (DoS) and SYN flood attacks.

Ketan Parekh, Sharekhan's CTO, said, "The DX platforms have eliminated the need to constantly add new ervers to keep up with our quickly expanding customer base. Such a brute-force solution would have increased administrative complexity and overhead costs, and still not have delivered the efficiency and security we now have. The DX solution gives us a greater return on investment from our Web trading infrastructure thanks to the confidence of continued scalability."

This project marks the beginning of a focused initiative between Juniper Networks and Wipro Infotech to jointly address opportunities to accelerate application performance across enterprise WANs and Data Centers in the Indian sub-continent.

Anand Padmanabhan, vice president, Technology Infrastructure Services, Wipro Infotech, added, "The need for Indian IT to accelerate application performance has never been more critical. The booming economy, not to mention the stock market, the demands of the consumer and the industry, has made it necessary to optimize performance and return on investment."

Part of the extensive Juniper Networks portfolio of application acceleration solutions, the DX 3280 offloads core networking and I/O responsibilities from Web and application servers to improve the performance of Web applications.

With the ability to server load balance (SLB) up to half-a-million concurrent sessions, 20,000 concurrent SSL sessions and 5,000 concurrent SSL transactions per second, the DX platform also simplifies and improves data center architectures by replacing multiple point products.

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) capabilities allow the DX platform to load-balance traffic across geographically distributed data centers. By incorporating critical security functionality and providing enhanced Web performance and application availability in an easy-to-manage, flexible appliance, the DX load balancing and application acceleration platform is designed to be a critical element of the new data center.