F5 Upgrades Software

SEATTLE -- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced its BIG-IP version 10 software release. The innovative solution helps organizations align IT and business by streamlining application delivery, reducing CapEx and OpEx costs, and improving workforce efficiency. BIG-IP v10 unifies application security, optimization, and acceleration onto a single device, paving the way for enterprises and service providers to establish a more dynamic IT infrastructure. This software release complements the introduction of F5’s new BIG-IP 8900 hardware platform, also announced today.

BIG-IP v10 is a milestone release supporting F5’s vision of Unified Application and Data Delivery Services, which redefines how application, server, storage, and network resources are aligned and managed to deliver services that fluidly adapt to changing business requirements. These services provide an agile framework of simple and efficient mechanisms to integrate emerging dynamic computing models, such as virtualization, cloud computing, and SaaS (software as a service), without having to completely re-architect existing systems.

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