HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that, spans Converged Infrastructure solutions, enterprise services, software, IT infrastructure as well as printing and personal computing to solve customer problems.

F5 and HP have teamed to deliver best in class solutions and services for our customers. F5 works with HP to deliver an agile, automated infrastructure that collectively, aligns with customers' business demands in real time. F5 also partners with HP's services delivery teams to help drive thought leadership, reputable solutions and value for customers.

HP BladeSystem and F5

HP, the world's largest technology company, announced in November 2009 an extension of its BladeSystem Solution Builder program to enable solutions created by and with F5 Networks and other partners so that customers can quickly deploy and easily manage in a Converged Infrastructure.

HP BladeSystem Matrix is the ultimate platform for shared services delivering converged infrastructure today. It lets enterprise customers stand up a complete infrastructure environment ready for applications in minutes - by automating the provisioning of servers with storage and networking connections. BladeSystem Matrix converges compute, storage and network resources and can be easily purchased and quickly deployed. Every HP BladeSystem Matrix is pre-configured and installed by HP professionals to quickly get customers' shared-service platform ready for business.

Simplifying Application deployments with new Matrix templates

New Matrix templates let customers provision complete and appropriately sized application infrastructures for specific business applications. The templates provide infrastructure pre-designs of servers, network and storage resources that represent best practice implementations. This allows for fast expansion of infrastructure resources to respond to business changes.

F5 with HP BladeSystem have created a template focusing on offering the automation and power of Server Flexing for Matrix customers to leverage via the template. Other templates available today include Microsoft^® Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as well as Oracle^® Real Application Clusters 11g, Oracle Single Instance Database 11g, Oracle PeopleSoft with Oracle Database 11g in a three-tier architecture, and SAP^® NetWeaver. More Matrix templates are planned to be available in early 2010 to cover applications from F5, McAfee^®, MicroStrategy^®, Novell^®, Red Hat^®, SAS, Siemens PLM Software, Inc., SunGard^®, Symantec^®, TIBCO and VMware^®.

HP is working with industry-leading virtualization vendors to integrate technologies such as VMware vSphere 4 and vCenter and Microsoft Windows^® Server Hyper-V, making it easier for customers to purchase and implement these solutions with Matrix.

Additional information on HP BladeSystem:

• Introducing HP BladeSystem Matrix: Integrated shared services infrastructure for Cloud Computing HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program Overview

HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. HP is an F5 global Gold partner and recently named F5 as one of its five Marquee partners for a new program that focuses on addressing the changing needs of data center networks and increase the operational efficiency of network applications.

ProCurve ONE and F5

HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (ProCurve ONE) is a new multi-vendor alliance program that delivers industry-leading network applications along with tested and certified interoperable solutions that are supported and optimized for HP's ProCurve Adaptive Network. HP ProCurve ONE customers can now leverage F5's market-leading Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solutions for superior flexibility, scalability, and security within the ProCurve ONE infrastructure.

ProCurve ONE gives enterprise customers access to best-in-class technologies and frees them from proprietary, single-vendor environments when building or transforming their IT infrastructure. F5 gives customers the flexibility to deploy solutions that scale and adapt on demand, as well as accelerate adoption of next-generation data centers.

Adaptive Network and Reducing Data Center Complexity

To see how F5 is already enabling adaptive networks and agile data centers to improve performance, lower cost, and better utilize bandwidth, read the HP Solutions Engineering Group's research on F5 BIG-IP LTM with Web Accelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Additional information on HP ProCurve:

• F5 joins the HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem program
• HP ProCurve online press kit and news