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AmberPoint and F5 have integrated AmberPoint's leading service oriented architecture (SOA) runtime governance software with BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking solutions. As a result of this integration, organizations can implement a multi-tiered approach to SOA policy management and enforcement, bringing greater agility, performance and control to evolving services-based systems.

By combining the stateful fail-over of BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall with F5's BIG-IP devices, organizations achieve unprecedented levels of email availability, reliability, scalability, and security. With this unique solution, email systems now benefit from high availability load optimization that had been previously dedicated only to other business-critical applications.

Many customers have deployed identity and access management solutions to deliver secure application access for internal users and would like to extend access to remote users on home computers, kiosks, and other devices. The FirePass controller can authenticate users against a CA SiteMinder server and then present the session cookie provided by the server to Web applications on the internal network. Thus, a user only enters credentials once and can remotely access any authorized internal web application.

CA and F5 have partnered to ensure that CA eHealth interoperates with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager, helping assure that applications are always available, fast, and secure.

The BIG-IP device provides high availability load balancing, administration, management, security, and extensibility for Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 deployments utilizing their state synchronization capabilities. The BIG-IP product also provides the ability to log events to the Check Point NG Management Server utilizing Check Point's OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) interfaces.

F5 Networks' BIG-IP devices add significant value to a Citrix MetaFrame/Presentation Server Web interface extension implementation. And the FirePass SSL VPN provides secure Web-based access to Citrix MetaFrame/Presentation Server devices and supports automatic downloading and installation of the correct Terminal Services remote-platform client component if it is not currently installed on the remote device.

The FirePass controller provides remote users with direct, secure access to internal servers and applications, like Domino Web Access, as easily as from inside the corporate LAN. The FirePass controller includes a mode specifically designed to support Domino Web Access for clients who want to access their email remotely without authenticating to the internal LAN.

IBM and F5 Networks provide a solution that provides security, scalability, intelligent performance, and high availability for WebSphere servers. This integrated solution reduces network complexity, increases efficiency, and improves customer satisfaction, while significantly reducing costs.

F5 Networks' BIG-IP product, a uniquely featured, high availability and security solution, adds significant value to Adobe/Macromedia network enterprise server implementations by increasing their performance, providing high availability, and reducing management duties and their associated costs.

Through F5's iControl API, F5 integrates Mercury's Topaz application performance management solutions with its Application Delivery Networking products to receive information, such as alerts and performance data, to affect traffic management decisions, and to provide maximum application uptime and performance.

All of F5 Networks' IP Application Switches and networking products are now .NET enabled. Now, applications and services using Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework can communicate with and influence the behavior of the underlying network in a variety of functions; from a local and global load balancing and traffic management perspective, to a content delivery and fulfillment infrastructure, or both.

The F5/Microsoft joint solution with the BIG-IP and Microsoft Application Center not only can manage and direct increasingly complex applications, but can interact with the network, making decisions based on pre-configured parameters, without manual intervention. Microsoft is using F5 Networks iControl interface to enable the web servers and applications within Microsoft Application Center to seamlessly integrate and communicate with each other.

F5's comprehensive Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 allows organizations to easily provide additional performance, security and availability, to ensure maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work. F5 has all the tools to help organizations optimize their entire network and achieve a truly dynamic infrastructure for Exchange Server 2007.

F5 has all the tools to help organizations optimize their entire network and achieve a truly dynamic infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange Server. From providing custom-built Exchange application templates to optimizing and securing Exchange 2010 traffic over the WAN, ensures maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work.

F5 Networks' BIG-IP product, a uniquely featured, highly available and secure solution, adds significant value to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 implementations by increasing performance, ensuring mission-critical availability, and reducing management duties and associated costs. The FirePass controller also provides features specifically designed to extend access to Exchange email without requiring the client to be running Microsoft Windows.

F5 Networks' BIG-IP application traffic manager provides superior, high availability firewall load balancing, administration, management, and security for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) deployments. Organizations deploying the BIG-IP product with Microsoft's ISA benefit through enhanced performance, security, uptime, and scalability.

By combining F5's Application Delivery Networking devices with Microsoft Mobile Information Server (MMIS), mobile computing solutions delivering applications based on the .NET Framework experience continuous uptime, increased performance, enhanced security, and greater scalability.

Microsoft and F5 have collaborated on a highly effective way to intelligently direct traffic for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with the F5 BIG-IP application traffic management device. Microsoft and F5 have conducted extensive interoperability testing between the BIG-IP system and Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005. The resulting solution enables customers to achieve higher uptime and better scalability, while increasing the return on investment of their infrastructure.

F5 has specifically developed and tested a comprehensive Application Ready Solution that enhances the security, availability and performance of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments, whether it's over the LAN or across a global WAN. F5 has a complete suite of application infrastructure technologies that can help simplify infrastructure and management, reduce costs and increase ROI, and improve security for SharePoint Server 2007 deployments.

With advanced optimization features, the BIG-IP system provides impressive performance enhancements for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 deployments, improving application response time by over 120%. The F5 FirePass controller SSL VPN offers remote users this same level of performance and secure access to the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 network, from any device in any location.

F5 has worked with Microsoft during the beta cycle and beyond to ensure a high level of interoperability and optimization with the entire Windows Server 2008 platform, including new versions of industry-standard applications like Windows Terminal Services and Internet Information Services (IIS). F5's Application Ready Solution for Windows Server 2008 not only helps optimize end-to-end performance, availability, and scalability for Windows Server 2008 deployments, but reduces the costs associated with deployment, management, and operation.

F5's Application Ready Solution for Oracle Application Server 10g provides a unique and comprehensive application delivery platform that greatly enhances the productivity and agility of both the Oracle applications and the organizations who rely on these devices.

With the proven compatibility of F5 Networks BIG-IP application delivery networking device and the WebLogic server from BEA, organizations benefit from a solution that is secure and scalable, providing intelligent, optimized performance and the highest availability for today's enterprise applications. Updated for WebLogic 10.

With F5 Networks’ solutions and the Oracle® E-Business Suite 11i, organizations can achieve high availability, scalability, optimal performance and enhanced security for enterprise applications and services. With the multi-tiered architecture of Oracle E-Business Suite, F5 Networks Application Delivery Networking devices provide a secure, fast, and highly available platform for Oracle 11i deployments.

F5’s Application Ready Network for Oracle E-Business Suite optimizes application performance, ensures availability, and increases user productivity with a comprehensive solution designed and tested specifically for Oracle E-Business Suite.

Oracle and F5 Networks have validated the interoperability between F5's BIG-IP application traffic management solution and Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9i AS). Customers running Oracle9i AS benefit from the BIG-IP solution by achieving unmatched scalability and high availability for their Web services and applications.

F5 has designed and painstakingly tested a comprehensive Application Ready Solution infrastructure for PeopleSoft Enterprise applications, ensuring your organization achieves maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work.

F5 Networks and Quest Software are helping enterprises maximize the efficiency of their networks with a joint solution that provides security, high availability, and reduced administration for their application management solutions. Integrating F5 products and Quest Software's SharePlex provides enterprise organizations with a complete load balancing, synchronization, and fail-over solution for local and globally distributed applications that use Oracle databases.

F5's FirePass controller enables organizations of any size to provide secure remote access to employees, partners, and customers, while significantly lowering support costs associated with legacy client-based VPN solutions. Using the FirePass controller with RSA SecurID two-factor authentication provides organizations with extremely secure and ubiquitous remote access to the corporate network.

With F5's SAP Application Ready infrastructure, tested and validated at SAP, organizations can achieve a secure, fast, and available network infrastructure that reduces the total cost of operation and increases ROI. F5 provides an adaptable network framework for SAP deployments that allows organizations to ensure quality of service and manageability, apply business policies and rules to content delivery, and remain flexible to future application and infrastructure changes to protect their investments.

Oracle|Siebel and F5 Networks have created a solution for the successful delivery of versions 7 through 8 of Siebel Business Applications with F5's BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system. The BIG-IP system is the only 3rd party traffic management product to be a Siebel Supported Platform for version 7.8. F5 and Siebel have developed integration with the BIG-IP system that automates much of the BIG-IP device configuration with Siebel 7.7 and 7.8, saving time and reducing errors. F5's Siebel 8 solution has been validated by Siebel.

When the FirePass controller is integrated with the Symantec's WholeSecurity Confidence Online Server, the security perimeter is extended to where organizations need protection the most - at the endpoint. Organizations using the FirePass controller with the Symantec Confidence Online server provide their employees and partners flexible access to the network without sacrificing security.

When F5 Networks' BIG-IP product, a uniquely featured, high availability and security solution, is combined with Trend Micro InterScan anti-virus products, enterprises benefit from a scalable, secure solution that provides high performance, comprehensive protection against viruses, and easy to use management tools to help monitor and control the type of information that enters or leaves via the gateway.

F5 Networks and webMethods have created an integrated solution that delivers security, scalability, high availability, and intelligent performance for enterprise applications. Today, customers can achieve superior performance and high availability of their overall network infrastructure, including their Web Services, by deploying the combined webMethods and BIG-IP product solutions.