Roy Zisapel
Analyst · Needham. Please go ahead
Thank you, Meir. We're pleased with the results of our first quarter demonstrating consistent growth in both revenues and profitability. We continue to execute on our strategy with the following key points. First, continue to be very focused on providing a comprehensive integrated solution for data center application delivery and security. Second, lead innovation in the market, as it relates to data center attack mitigation, secure hybrid cloud and SDN, NFV application for secure networking. Third, we've increased our market footprint through traditional channels OEMs and alliances, as well as cloud and CDN channels. The first quarter was very busy for us in terms of the new product in solution introduction clearly demonstrating our progress in executing our strategy. I will cover some of the key announcements later on in remarks however the new defense for high end attack mitigation platform, our latest addition to our cloud security offering, the Cloud WAF. Our announced integration of both application security and application delivery with Cisco ACI and our alliance with Lockheed Martin, around cyber security are all significant examples of the progress we made. On the business side the Americas continued to grow with double digit growth as there are lower growth rate than we’ve experienced in the past. We continue to see North American revenues growing above market growth in 2015 which will be the fourth year in a row of strong market share expansion in this market. In the past quarter, we did not perform in South America which weighted down the overall performance of the Americas. EMEA posted very good performance and we continue to deliver our execution thee is improving and are encouraged by the results especially given the foreign exchange headwinds. One of the announcements we made was the integration of our Alteon and Defense Pro that’s into Cisco ACI. This integration to Cisco ACI fabric provides our customers with a fully automated ADC and DDoS service controlled and managed by Cisco application policy for structure controller. We’re seeing high level of interest from Cisco customers on this integrated solution and are expanding the used cases we can serve together with Cisco. Furthermore Cisco press release from yesterday on ACI and PCI compliance mention Radware as one of the six security ecosystem partner alongside Symantec, Inter Security and Check Point. On the product front, we believe a very important and existing announcement for us was the release of our new high end attack integration platform. The new DefensePro platforms offer up to 300 gig of mitigation capacity and handles 230 million packet per second of attack traffic while allowing to customers to enjoy the widest range of datacenter cyber attract defence in the industry. Beyond being the fastest and most scalable mitigation platform in the industry to the first dedicated attack mitigation product to offer 100 gigabit interfaces. We’re specifically design this platform for multitenant environment providing the ability to support up to 1,000 active policy of tenant with separate processing capabilities and reporting for each one. The new DefensePro is an excellent answer to address fast growing volumetric attack sizes, while at the same time its enables our [daily] customers to monetize their investment in security through our managed cyber protection service for their customers. We’re seeing a lot of interest in the market from carriers and cloud providers on monetizing these services. A good example is our latest announcement from BlackMesh. In the past BlackMesh which is our hosting and cloud provider implemented various chosen techniques to repeal attacks such as access controllers, cashing, filtering, et cetera. Despite these efforts they still experience service degradation as well as downtime that last between 45 to 60 minutes during each cyber-attack. Our attack mitigation system proved again its superiority in blocking live attacks without customer downtime. The strengths of the solution comes from our patent protected real time behavioral signature technology that detects and mitigate emerging network attacks, all without the need for human intervention and without blocking legitimate user traffic. Our security algorithms are far superior to the thresholds that limits our competition users, as the primary means to detect and block attacks, a method that is prone to false-positives by design and require constant manual intervention. Another important announcement was our hybrid cloud web application firewall. As part of our strategy to expand our cloud services we relieved a new cloud security offering that provides always on, WAF, IPS and DDoS protection for our customers. As integration to the Cloud continues and expand companies today faced the more distributed network infrastructure. This transition of web-based applications to the cloud requires organizations to protect their applications both on premise and in the Cloud. Our new offering the Hybrid Cloud WAF service is an industry first that provides fully managed enterprise grade web application, firewall, IPS and DDoS that protects both on premise and cloud-based applications using the single technology. In addition and leveraging the strength of our attack integration system our Hybrid Cloud WAF takes advantage of our auto policy and behavioral security technology dramatically reducing the amount of human intervention required to provide the effective cloud security. In the first quarter we saw record booking from our cloud and product subscription offerings. We believe we are progressing well on creating a new stream for Radware, complimenting and expanding our existing product and maintenance revenue stream. On the ADC side, we announced our LinkProof NG, a new enterprise gateway solution that extends service level assurance for on-premise and cloud application access over the WAN or internet connectivity. The LinkProof NG builds on the success of our patent protected LinkProof family of multi-homing load balances that allow our customers to ensure 24x7 availability of the WAN connectivity with optimized performance for accessing enterprise and cloud application. Our NG family of Alteon ADC switches provides full application SLA insurance, by offering dedicated virtual ADC instances per application, complete isolation between instances and innovative application services such as FastView application acceleration and APM application performance monitoring, these services which are offered and subscription services are further expanding the potential revenue stream of our offering. To summarize, we continue to execute in our strategy, we continue to deliver innovative solution for a constantly evolving cyber security landscape and evolving datacenter requirements. And we continue to steadily grow our revenue and profitability. We believe that our strong focus on cyber security and cloud solutions will enable us to continue these trends throughout 2015. Before concluding I'd like to also thank our customers and partners for their continuous support and trust, I'd like to thank the Radware team for all their efforts and commitment in growing our business. With that, I'd like to open the discussion for Q&A.