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Hivelocity Depends on the Corero SmartWall® Threat Defense System to Maintain High Performance and Service Availability for a Global Customer Base

Company Size

200-1,000

Region

America
Asia
Europe

Country

United States

Product

Corero SmartWall® Threat Defense System
SecureWatch® Analytics

Tech Stack

DDoS mitigation solutions
Brocade networking equipment

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Brand Awareness
Customer Satisfaction

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

Hivelocity is a company that provides data center services and cloud hosting from its privately-owned data center in Tampa, Florida. The company serves a wide range of customers from more than 130 countries around the world. The company’s network, which features 8 transit providers and 300+ private peers, has been designed to provide high levels of availability, reliability, and performance for every customer regardless of their geographic location. Hivelocity was founded in 2002 with the mission to create an exceptional company with a singular focus on simplifying hosting. That mission has been so successful that today, the company has expanded to its own 30,000 square foot data center that is home to hundreds of server racks containing more than 10,000 physical and virtual servers. The company provides dedicated servers, colocation, and cloud hosting solutions to thousands of businesses from practically every corner of the world.

The Challenge

Hivelocity, a data center services and cloud hosting provider, serves a wide range of customers from more than 130 countries around the world. The company’s network, which features 8 transit providers and 300+ private peers, has been designed to provide high levels of availability, reliability, and performance for every customer regardless of their geographic location. However, with DDoS attacks on the rise and being a global concern, Hivelocity needed to deploy a solution that would ensure that its customers stay online. The demographic of their customer base varies widely, hosting web applications, online games, audio and video streams as well as credit card processing services and health service companies who require a HIPAA compliant data center. These customers count on Hivelocity to provide them with a highly reliable network that keeps their businesses online at all times.

The Solution

Hivelocity had tested various DDoS mitigation solutions, prior to exploring Corero. They had been using alternative solutions in the past but encountered limitations in capacity and rule sets. Ultimately they felt that other vendors were boxing them in, so they started looking around for a different answer. They explored developing their own mitigation tools internally, but ultimately decided their development time was better used on their core projects. Corero being an on-premises solution is “critical for us” adds Protich. “Some of our clients looked at cloud-based DDoS solutions, and regardless of the vendor, our customers don’t want the latency that results when traffic has to get routed off the network to a scrubbing facility just to get back to their server here. That’s why we made the decision early in the process to deploy equipment directly on premises, which doesn’t add latency and allows better control. Basically, if we can have full control, we have a full picture of what’s going on and can provide a more timely response—which is what our customers expect from us,” says Protich.

Operational Impact

DDoS attacks are automatically shut down, providing a secure environment for Hivelocity's customers.
The solution offers low latency, more control, and visibility, enhancing the overall performance of the network.
The system has the capacity and scalability to handle large attacks, ensuring uninterrupted service for customers.
The Corero solution complements existing security measures, enhancing the overall security infrastructure of Hivelocity.

Quantitative Benefit