F5 – IT agility. Your way.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, F5 has offices all around the world, serving over 16000 customers running more than 30000 units.

F5 helps organizations create an agile infrastructure that aligns with their business demands. With F5 solutions in place, business gain strategic points of control wherever information is exchanged in the IT infrastructure.

F5 has established deep partnerships with the world's largest software application vendors, including Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. F5 works with these strategic partners to design, deploy and manage integrated, application-specific network infrastructures to ensure successful application deployments.

F5 enables IT organizations to take control of their network architecture to achieve their business objectives. Through its open architectural framework, F5 offers new ways to enhance IT agility so organizations can deliver services that generate true business value.

Managing the delivery of applications across the entire IT infrastructure is a complex challenge. F5 takes this challenge at its core, where customers network, storage, servers and security come together giving strategic points of control throughout customers IT infrastructure.

Deploying F5 products at key points in the infrastructure gives customers an adaptable and scalable foundation allowing them to address their changing business needs and IT challenges proactively and cost-effectively.

F5 Product families are structured as per the bellow:

• Application Delivery Controller – BIG-IP Product family
• File Virtualization – ARX Series and Data Manager
• SSL VPN – FirePass Product family
• F5 Device Management – Enterprise Management Product family

BIG-IP Product Family
BIG-IP product family is a system of integrated application delivery devices that work together on the same best-in-class hardware. From load balancing, SSL offload, and web acceleration to application security, access control and more, a single BIG-IP device can do the work of a dozen single-purpose appliances.

ARX Series
F5's ARX file virtualization devices enable customers to simplify data management and reduce storage costs. By introducing intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, ARX eliminates the disruption associated with storage administration and automates many storage management tasks. The result is dramatic improvement in cost, agility and business efficiency.

FirePass Product Family
The FirePass SSL-VPN, available as appliance and in a virtual edition, provide security, flexibility, and ease of use. It grants access to corporate applications using a web browser technology. Users can have secure access from anywhere they have Internet connection, while FirePass ensures that connected computers are fully patched and protected.

Enterprise Manager Product Family
F5 Enterprise Manager significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing multiple F5 devices. Customers gain a single-pane view of their entire application delivery infrastructure and the tools they need to automate common tasks, ensure optimized application performance, and improve budgeting and forecasting to meet changing business needs.

Data Manager
F5 Data Manager enables customers to reap the full benefits of the technology by simplifying deployment of the virtualization solutions, improving ongoing management and creating a more efficient and cost-effective storage environment.

F5 Technologies offering is structured as per the bellow:

• TMOS Platform
• Data Management Operating System
• Open APIs

TMOS Platform
TMOS is a universal, shared product platform that is the foundation of the F5 products. TMOS has been designed from the ground group up to make networks applications aware and to let F5 products communicate with each other, which allows intelligent control of the network and ensures that applications are delivered exactly as intended, protected from security threats, traffic congestion and network failures.

Data Management Operating System
The Data Management Operating System is at the core of F5's intelligent file virtualization solutions. It is a reliable, scalable software helping customers to manage unstructured file data more efficiently, by automating storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks.

Open APIs
F5 uses an open API to give application developers and network professionals complete control on F5 devices, making them scalable and adaptable. 

For more information please visit: www.f5.com