Alane Moran

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking and Gold member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced the release of a new solution developed in cooperation with Oracle that optimizes the use of F5® BIG-IP® Application Delivery Controllers with Oracle Enterprise Manager. Working together, F5 and Oracle have created the Oracle® Enterprise Manager plug-in for BIG-IP, now available for download at F5 DevCentral and from the Oracle Technology Network. In addition, customers can access both an Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture White Paper on Oracle’s website and an F5 Deployment Guide on www.f5.com. “The Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in for F5 BIG-IP is a great example of how Oracle partners can extend Oracle Enterprise Manager. With this plug-in, our mutual customers can improve application availability by managing t... (more)

F5 Optimizes Microsoft Solutions Enabling the Dynamic Data Center

F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking (ADN), has announced enhanced application delivery capabilities to help Microsoft customers implement dynamic infrastructures that can quickly respond to changing business needs and variables. With F5 solutions optimized to work with Microsoft technologies, customers gain strategic points of control throughout the infrastructure, giving IT the ability to access and allocate resources on demand. Specifically, F5 is announcing the advantages of deploying the F5 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager and ... (more)

F5 and VMware Improve Long Distance Live Migration

Virtualization Conference & Expo on Ulitzer F5 Networks has announced deployment guidance and test results that illustrate and validate the value of deploying F5 and VMware solutions in concert to extend live migration capabilities across long distances for VMware vSphere 4 environments in a secure, accelerated manner. Building on the previous announcement and demo at VMworld 2009, these test results confirm that organizations can securely migrate live, virtualized web applications - and their associated storage - between data centers thousands of miles apart without downtime or u... (more)

F5 Helps SEGA Reduce Data Management Costs by 66% with ARX File Virtualization Solution

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that the SEGA Corporation has deployed the F5®ARX® solution to simplify their file management and archiving systems. In recent years, SEGA faced growing data management challenges with the increase of high-quality videos and multimedia files adding a significant burden to the file servers used by the company's nearly 4,000 employees. As a result, weekly backup operations took 40 hours to complete. SEGA began looking for ways to simplify the operation of its file servers and make... (more)

F5 Unlocks True Potential of ‘On-Demand IT’

F5 Networks has  introduced its BIG-IP Version 10.2 software to help extend enterprise data center architecture to the cloud, and enable enterprises and service providers to realize the potential of ‘On-Demand IT' through a dynamic services model. To help customers unlock the power of ‘On-Demand IT,' F5 is detailing a comprehensive approach that integrates disparate technologies for application delivery, security, optimization, data management, and infrastructure control-all critical technologies needed to realize the true flexibility and agility of virtualization and cloud com... (more)