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| F5 Networks Extends Its Application Ready Network for Microsoft F5 Networks has extended its Application Ready Network (ARN) for Microsoft to include Windows Server 2008. Building on the previously announced solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Exchange Server 2007, and Office Communications Server 2007, F5 is the only Application Delivery Networking vendor to offer validated, application-specific solutions to optimise end-to-end performance, availability, and scalability for key Microsoft applications. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is an advanced Windows Server-based operating system, designed to power the next-generation of networks, applications, and Web services. The F5 ARN for Windows Server 2008 will help enable enterprises achieve powerful deployment advantages, featuring support for the updated versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and Terminal Services, as well as Microsoft technologies such as Windows PowerShell and SSTP (Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol). With ARNs, F5 delivers a comprehensive application-specific products, tools, templates, and deployment guides to reduce the costs associated with application deployment, management, and operation. F5 ARNs offer step-by-step procedures with thorough deployment and application guides to help facilitate cooperation across organisations' application and networking groups, reducing the risk of missed deployment deadlines, over-budget projects, and failed or poorly adopted application deployments. Each ARN solution has been meticulously tested in F5's Technology Centre, with repeatable deployment configurations documented to enable customers to reap the benefits of F5's application delivery expertise. F5's long-standing relationship with Microsoft has resulted in several key achievements on the development side, yielding significant features that differentiate F5: - New Terminal Services Engine – Ensures enterprise-class user persistence on both IPv4 and IPv6 networks, shielding users from the consequences of unanticipated network drops. - Unique IIS acceleration technologies – Enables the F5 solution to deliver more content faster to users. This is accomplished through the BIG-IP product's intelligent browser level caching, compression, and HTTP/TCP optimisations. - New flexible Windows PowerShell tools – Provides customers with a much wider variety of useful options to maintain and configure their F5 devices. For example, customers can integrate their BIG-IP system configurations with third-party applications for seamless management. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |