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IBM FileNet P8 Platform

The IBM® FileNet® P8 Platform is a next-generation, unified enterprise foundation for the integrated FileNet P8 products. It combines the enterprise content management reference architecture with comprehensive business process management and compliance capabilities. FileNet P8 addresses the most demanding compliance, content, and process management needs for your entire organization.

Deploying F5 products with IBM FileNet P8 implementations provides intelligent, comprehensive and simplified traffic management and security for IBM FileNet P8 components such as the web servers, content engine, and process engine.

Why do I need F5 for my IBM FileNet P8 deployment?

Organizations count on their mission-critical IBM FileNet P8 implementations every day. Constant availability, security, and the highest levels of performance, are a no longer a luxury but a necessity. Downtime can mean loss of revenue, and more importantly, the loss of customers. F5's Application Ready solutions ensure your IBM FileNet P8 applications are secure, fast, and always available, so you get the best possible user experience while minimizing the costs and impacts to your business.

Benefits of F5's Application Ready Solutions for IBM FileNet P8

  • Advanced health monitors not only verify that IBM FileNet devices are up, but are serving the expected content.
  • F5 improves application response times and utilization for IBM FileNet P8 deployments.
  • F5 streamlines the business process and improves the productivity and efficiency of operational personnel with administrative domains which allow a single F5 device to be managed by multiple application teams.
  • Offloads processor intensive tasks (such as caching, compression, and SSL processing) and provides centralized certificate management and authentication.
  • From DoS protection, to cloaking and to filtering out application attacks, F5 adds critical security features that simply cannot be addressed elsewhere in the network.

How do I deploy IBM FileNet P8 with F5?

F5 and IBM have collaborated on a highly effective way to configure F5 devices with IBM FileNet P8 deployments, taking the trial and error out of the configuration process. As a result of rigorous testing, IBM has published a High Availability Redbook for IBM FileNet P8 which includes step-by-step procedures for configuring F5 devices, ensuring the highest levels of interoperability and integration.

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DevCentral Community

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F5 Knowledge Base

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What F5 offerings do I need for an IBM FileNet P8 solution?

We encourage you to take a look at our entire suite of Application Delivery Networking devices for your IBM FileNet P8 deployment.

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