BANGALORE / MUMBAI- Array Networks Inc., a global leader in application, desktop and cloud service delivery, today announced that Network Products Guide, an industry-leading technology research and advisory guide, has named Array’s SpeedCore™ application delivery networking platform and APV9650 application delivery controller (ADC) as winners for the 6th Annual 2011 Hot Technology and Best Application Delivery Product Awards. These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world’s premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 during the 6th annual dinner and presentations.

The winner for the 2011 Hot Technology award, Array SpeedCore is an application delivery networking platform that integrates access, security, acceleration, control and availability on a parallel, multi-core architecture to achieve breakthrough performance and economies-of-scale. A true platform for data center modernization, SpeedCore supports bi-directional integration with proprietary and third-party monitoring and management systems for optimizing traditional and virtual infrastructure. It also provides exportable application and network level intelligence for optimizing the performance of complementary data center technologies as well as an open development environment and SDK that gives ISVs visibility into delivery infrastructure for optimizing application performance.

The Array APV9650, the winner for the 2011 Best Application Delivery Product award, is a next-generation, 60Gbps ADC that delivers more L4 throughput and more Layer 7 throughput than the closest competing ADC appliance as well as unbeatable price-performance. Capable and fast, the APV9650 introduces enhancements for optimizing service delivery and lowering costs in the enterprise and service provider data center including application-aware traffic management, dynamic caching and adaptive compression and SSL acceleration. The APV9650 also supports next-generation standards including IPv6, 2048-bit SSL, 10GigE and virtualization integration.

An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Company, Hot Technology and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, support and customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology.

“This esteemed industry and peer award recognition of Array SpeedCore and Array’s APV9650 by Network Products Guide is a great honor in the IT industry,” said Michael Zhao,President of Array networks. “This further validates our position as a company poised to successfully overcome the application delivery and secure application access issues faced by organizations today.”