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	Cash Goes Virtual

Cash Goes Virtual

Technology Category	Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Remote Control Predictive Maintenance Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Handle Financial initially relied on a traditional on-premise solution for load-balancing, security, and traffic management. As the company grew, it moved all resources, applications, and workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, this created two significant problems: the large volume of workloads in AWS led to razor-thin margins, and the Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) lacked technical capabilities such as static IPs and SSL client-server authentication. Handle Financial needed better solutions for managing, securing, and controlling its environments. Read More
About Customer	Handle Financial Inc. is a cloud-based financial technology provider operating under industry-leading compliance and security standards. The company offers a robust money movement platform that provides secure, real-time bill payments for consumers, an extensive network of retail locations for businesses to collect cash payments, and best-in-class bill presentment technology for financial services companies. Founded by Danny Shader in 2009, Handle Financial aims to assist consumers who rely on cash for transactions, enabling them to pay rent, utility bills, repay loans, buy tickets, make online purchases, and more at over 28,000 trusted locations, including CVS, 7-Eleven, and Family Dollar stores. Read More
Solution	Handle Financial deployed the advanced A10 Lightning ADC (Application Delivery Controller), a cloud-native, software-defined solution that provides integrated load-balancing, performance optimization, application security, and per-application analytics. The solution addressed issues with SSL certification authentication and offered a web application firewall (WAF) and cloud-native load-balancing. The entire infrastructure, including security, workloads, and traffic, is managed by the A10 Harmony Controller, which can be self-managed or utilized as a SaaS-based offering managed by A10. This centralized management and per-application analytics solution helps reduce troubleshooting time and enables automation and self-service to streamline app provisioning. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Remote Control

Predictive Maintenance

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Handle Financial initially relied on a traditional on-premise solution for load-balancing, security, and traffic management. As the company grew, it moved all resources, applications, and workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, this created two significant problems: the large volume of workloads in AWS led to razor-thin margins, and the Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) lacked technical capabilities such as static IPs and SSL client-server authentication. Handle Financial needed better solutions for managing, securing, and controlling its environments.

About Customer

Handle Financial Inc. is a cloud-based financial technology provider operating under industry-leading compliance and security standards. The company offers a robust money movement platform that provides secure, real-time bill payments for consumers, an extensive network of retail locations for businesses to collect cash payments, and best-in-class bill presentment technology for financial services companies. Founded by Danny Shader in 2009, Handle Financial aims to assist consumers who rely on cash for transactions, enabling them to pay rent, utility bills, repay loans, buy tickets, make online purchases, and more at over 28,000 trusted locations, including CVS, 7-Eleven, and Family Dollar stores.

Solution

Handle Financial deployed the advanced A10 Lightning ADC (Application Delivery Controller), a cloud-native, software-defined solution that provides integrated load-balancing, performance optimization, application security, and per-application analytics. The solution addressed issues with SSL certification authentication and offered a web application firewall (WAF) and cloud-native load-balancing. The entire infrastructure, including security, workloads, and traffic, is managed by the A10 Harmony Controller, which can be self-managed or utilized as a SaaS-based offering managed by A10. This centralized management and per-application analytics solution helps reduce troubleshooting time and enables automation and self-service to streamline app provisioning.

Impact #1	Handle Financial implemented an agile, cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) plan with the A10 Lightning ADC solution. The team developed a production facility with a dozen application servers, software routers, and VPN connections, and replicated the necessary databases. In the event of a disaster, the company can spin up the application stack in real time.
Impact #2	The A10 Lightning ADC solution provided real-time analytics capabilities, allowing Handle Financial to connect its AWS environments to the Harmony Controller and access real-time data. This helped the company prove that issues were not caused on their end, improving customer satisfaction.
Impact #3	The A10 Lightning ADC solution enabled Handle Financial to manage, secure, and control its environments more effectively, reducing troubleshooting time and streamlining app provisioning through automation and self-service.

Impact #1

Handle Financial implemented an agile, cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) plan with the A10 Lightning ADC solution. The team developed a production facility with a dozen application servers, software routers, and VPN connections, and replicated the necessary databases. In the event of a disaster, the company can spin up the application stack in real time.

Impact #2

The A10 Lightning ADC solution provided real-time analytics capabilities, allowing Handle Financial to connect its AWS environments to the Harmony Controller and access real-time data. This helped the company prove that issues were not caused on their end, improving customer satisfaction.

Impact #3

The A10 Lightning ADC solution enabled Handle Financial to manage, secure, and control its environments more effectively, reducing troubleshooting time and streamlining app provisioning through automation and self-service.

Benefit #1	Reduced operating expenses (OpEx) by a third.

Benefit #1

Reduced operating expenses (OpEx) by a third.

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