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F5 Gives Enterprises Superior Application Control with BIG-IP® Solutions for Amazon Web ServicesLAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)-- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today introduced a BIG-IP® virtual edition for AWS, which leverages F5's complete portfolio of BIG-IP products for the AWS cloud. This announcement addresses organizations' escalating demand to extend their data center and applications to AWS, maintaining enterprise-class reliability, scale, security, and performance. F5's new AWS offering is also the featured attraction at the company's booth (#506) at the AWS re: Invent conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, November 27-29. "Enterprise customers have come to rely on BIG-IP's strategic awareness that provides important information on how applications, resources, and users interact in order to successfully deliver applications," said Siva Mandalam, Director of Product Management and Product Marketing, Cloud and Virtualization Solutions at F5. "Since BIG-IP for AWS will have equivalent features to physical BIG-IP devices, customers can apply the same level of control for their applications in AWS. With BIG-IP running in enterprise data centers and on AWS, customers can establish secure tunnels, burst to the cloud, and control the application from end to end." The BIG-IP solution for AWS includes options for traffic management, global server load balancing, application firewall, web application acceleration, and other advanced application delivery functions. With the new F5 offering:
"As enterprises consider which applications to move to the cloud, many customers have asked for the same advanced application control they have in their local data centers," said Terry Wise, Head of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at Amazon Web Services (News - Alert). "The BIG-IP solution for AWS enables enterprises to quickly move complex applications to AWS while maintaining high levels of service at a lower overall cost." "Enterprises want the flexibility and scale of cloud services, yet they can struggle with application complexity and sufficient control," said Rohit Mehra, VP of Network Infrastructure at IDC (News - Alert). "The challenge lies in easily expanding IT's service portfolio with cloud and hybrid capabilities while keeping the applications fast, secure, and available. BIG-IP's native availability inside Amazon Web Services allows enterprises to deeply embed a strategic awareness of how applications behave in cloud adoption scenarios." To learn more about how F5 enables organizations to realize the full potential of cloud computing, visit F5 (booth #506) at the AWS re: Invent conference. During the event, Siva Mandalam from F5 will deliver a presentation focused on "Optimizing Enterprise Applications and User Access in the Cloud" at 1 p.m. PT on Wednesday, November 28. Availability BIG-IP solutions for AWS will be available for purchase by the end of calendar year 2012. Additional Resources
1 Gartner, Inc. "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 2Q12," Joe Skorupa and Nhat Pham, Sept. 24, 2012 About F5 Networks (News - Alert) F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world's largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at "strategic points of control" across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com. You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter (News - Alert) or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html. F5, BIG-IP, and DevCentral are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. This press release may contain forward looking statements relating to future events or future financial performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," or "continue," or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number of factors including those identified in the company's filings with the SEC.
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