
As Global Business Partners, IBM and F5 Networks® have joined forces to deliver best-of-breed solutions that deliver IT agility to their customers. Through a dynamic architecture, IBM and F5 joint solutions virtualize, optimize, and secure application and network resources and enable organizations to customize and automate IT. This provides support for user service-level agreements, a reduction of capital and operating expense, and a superior experience for global users.
Enterprise organizations, service providers, and Web 2.0 content providers worldwide trust IBM and F5 solutions to keep their applications and IT infrastructures running. Together, IBM and F5 have deployed solutions to strategic outsourcing customers, commercial clients, business continuity resiliency service clients and the public sector.
The Application Network Performance Optimization Solution IBM and F5's Application Network and Performance Optimization solution combines F5's BIG-IP Application Delivery Controller devices and a set of IBM best practices to improve application delivery and user access.
With this joint solution, customer can easily address latency issues without investing in additional bandwidth, enhance network performance to meet application initiatives, and help consolidate the infrastructure to meet growth challenges.
Available as a comprehensive offering from IBM, ANPO provides the following services to help customers to leverage their application delivery environments: application performance assessment, application optimization for wide area networks, and application optimization for data center networks.
"IBM chose to include F5 as one of our technology partners in the ANPO offering after a rigorous product assessment. As part of an extensive vetting and technology integration process, F5 BIG-IP solutions were installed and tested in the IBM Lab in Toronto. IBM's selection of F5 illustrates the importance of Application Delivery Controller technology to ensure high quality application performance."
Cindy Klepich, Director, Network Strategy, Optimization and Integration Services in IBM's Integrated Communications Services Product Line.