F5 Networks optimizes Microsoft Solutions Enabling by introducing the F5 Management Pack

face="Times New Roman, serif">F5
Networks
announced enhanced application delivery capabilities to help
Microsoft customers to implement dynamic infrastructures that can
quickly respond to changing business needs and variables. With F5
solutions, optimized to work with Microsoft technologies, customers
gain strategic points of control throughout the infrastructure giving
IT the ability to access and allocate resources on demand.
Specifically, F5 is announcing the advantages of deploying the F5
Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager and the
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Edition
in concert with Microsoft products, in addition to expanded
partnership efforts.

face="Times New Roman, serif">Virtualized
environments
require sophisticated tools to help IT provision and
unify computing, network, and storage resources for maximum
utilization and efficiency. F5's solution portfolio promotes seamless
application delivery for virtualization and cloud deployments running
on Microsoft platforms. In addition, F5 solutions provide enhanced
visibility into application delivery environments so that IT
resources can be tailored to meet an organization's business
objectives while supporting users with optimized services.

“ face="Times New Roman, serif">Customers
looking
to deploy Microsoft's on-premise cloud and virtualization
solutions will find F5 solutions to be a powerful complement for the
enhanced application delivery, infrastructure visibility, and
automation capabilities,” said Dai Vu, Director of Virtualization
Solutions Marketing, Microsoft. “F5 shares our vision for the
dynamic datacenter, and joint customers looking to deploy solutions
in a number of distinct physical, virtual, and hybrid computing
models will see added value” he added.

face="Times New Roman, serif">To
support
Microsoft's vision for dynamic infrastructure with flexible
deployment options and simplified management, F5 delivers:

face="Times New Roman, serif">Increased
support
for virtualization and cloud architecture models. Within
this, F5 offers a solution portfolio with both physical and virtual
deployment options, providing comprehensive integration with
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008
R2 Hyper-V, and more. With F5s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual
Edition, customers can conveniently scale their data center
environments without incurring the added cost and time associated
with deploying traditional hardware.

face="Times New Roman, serif">F5
has
joined the Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Alliance (DDA) to further
its commitment in providing joint customers with the IT agility, for
which they need to support their organizations and maximize the value
of their technology investments. Recently, Microsoft announced that
it would open its Dynamic Datacenter Alliance to technology partners,
including company's compute, network, and storage partners. F5 is the
first ADN partner in this alliance and one of the 'founding' network
partners.

face="Times New Roman, serif">Integration
with
Microsoft's new Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit reduces the time,
which is required to deploy new virtual machines, and simplifies
integral functionality such as virtual application provisioning,
reconfiguration of network traffic, and holistic health monitoring.
Additionally, flexible F5 solutions, like the iControl API and iRules
programming language, enable administrators to customize alert
thresholds, reporting parameters, and resource provisioning. F5
provides comprehensive functionality, visibility, and management
capabilities to this level of granularity.