TechFacts: F5 BIG-IP Research Findings

These research findings – or TechFacts – are validated real-world statistics, testimonials, and deployment diagrams sourced directly from verified F5 BIG-IP users. They are grouped according to the value proposition they relate to.

Customer Satisfaction TechFacts

93% Recommend F5

93% Recommend F5

93% of surveyed F5 customers would recommend F5 to an IT peer (responding a 5 or higher on a 1 to...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 6B1-360-AD9

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: "It IS Our Business"

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: "It IS Our Business"

"The F5 BIG-IP _IS_ our business. It is not possible to do what we do without it. I cannot co...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: DFC-A02-1B0

Customer Satisfaction with F5 and Microsoft solutions

Customer Satisfaction with F5 and Microsoft solutions

76% of surveyed F5 customers would recommend F5 to an IT peer responsible for Microsoft applicati...

Validated On: 10/22/09, TVID: 4CC-C74-4E1

62% of BIG-IP Users Link iRules with Success of Virtualization Initiatives

62% of BIG-IP Users Link iRules with Success of Virtualization Initiatives

62% of IT organizations consider F5 iRules important to the performance, availability and agility...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: A8D-243-231

Testimonial: F5 BIG-IP Improves Site Reliability

Testimonial: F5 BIG-IP Improves Site Reliability

"We've been using BIG-IP devices for 8 years in our web environment. It has added greatly to our...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: D55-943-2EB

DevCentral Viewed as Useful BIG-IP Resource

DevCentral Viewed as Useful BIG-IP Resource

66% of surveyed IT organizations stated that F5's DevCentral is a valuable resource.

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: D2C-0C4-3DA

84% Recommend F5

84% Recommend F5

84% of F5 customers gave F5 a 7 or higher when asked if they would recommend F5 to an IT peer. (R...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: FF4-902-979

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Confidence From Management & Engineering

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Confidence From Management & Engineering

"Whether delivering or deploying new applications models to service our clients, F5 is the only s...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: A90-EFE-C46

Operational Efficiency & Agility TechFacts

21% Use F5 BIG-IP For Virtualization

21% Use F5 BIG-IP For Virtualization

21% of surveyed IT organizations use their F5 BIG-IP to achieve their server virtualization initi...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 802-A76-F3B

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: PCI Compliance

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: PCI Compliance

"F5 BIG-IP has made a major contribution to our PCI compliance and ability to process credit card...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 2FA-797-31A

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Supporting a Large SharePoint Implementation

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Supporting a Large SharePoint Implementation

"We were able to effectively provide load balancing, SSL offloading, and fault tolerance for our ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: AB0-63F-D3D

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Rapid Application Deployment

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Rapid Application Deployment

"The F5 BIG-IP solutions we've implemented allow us to more rapidly deploy applications while swi...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 840-61F-5B0

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Managing Hundreds of Servers

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Managing Hundreds of Servers

"F5 BIG-IP allows us to easily manage several hundred servers at a time."

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 62B-15D-664

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: "Rock Solid"

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: "Rock Solid"

"The F5 BIG-IP's are rock solid network devices that handle a lot of our web and intranet applica...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 880-19C-B99

56% Using F5 BIG-IP For iRules

56% Using F5 BIG-IP For iRules

56% of IT organizations discovered that their F5 BIG-IP could be used for iRules in additional to...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: EFB-373-F51

61% Using F5 BIG-IP For SSL Offloading

61% Using F5 BIG-IP For SSL Offloading

61% of IT organizations discovered that F5 BIG-IP could be used for SSL offload in addition to lo...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 6BB-CBF-6E8

64% Say F5 BIG-IP Improves Flexibility

64% Say F5 BIG-IP Improves Flexibility

64% of IT organizations agreed that they can respond more quickly to changing business needs afte...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: C50-C7F-274

43% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Flexibility With iRules and iControl

43% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Flexibility With iRules and iControl

43% of IT organizations state that they selected F5 BIG-IP over other alternatives because of the...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 2F4-B3D-234

72% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Strength of Features

72% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Strength of Features

72% of IT organizations state that they selected F5 BIG-IP over other alternatives because of the...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 168-4C3-5B5

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Deployment Speed

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Deployment Speed

The F5 products allow me to build out new environments quickly. Many times our solutions are not ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 662-EE6-E44

71% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Product Features

71% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Product Features

71% of IT organizations selected their F5 BIG-IP over other alternatives because of the strength ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 05B-365-629

43% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Flexibility

43% Selected F5 BIG-IP For Flexibility

43% of IT organizations selected their F5 BIG-IP over other alternatives because of flexibility o...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 6E0-B18-63D

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Solving Development Challenges

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Solving Development Challenges

"We were able to quickly solve web development and server build out challenges. Without it, I wo...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 6D2-443-1AF

Big-IP Manages Network Traffic for Virtualized Custom Apps

Big-IP Manages Network Traffic for Virtualized Custom Apps

45% of IT organizations reported that they use their F5 BIG-IP to manage network traffic for virt...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: FED-14C-1DA

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Drop-in Security

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Drop-in Security

"F5 BIG-IPs enabled us to improve security for an existing application instead of having to inves...

Validated On: 03/10/10, TVID: 0C0-126-2FB

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Secure Deployments

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Secure Deployments

"We were able to publish applications in a secure, reliable manner providing new lines of service...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 673-FBF-F15

Inter-Data Center VM Movement Critical for Cloud Providers

Inter-Data Center VM Movement Critical for Cloud Providers

62% of IT organizations reported that the ability to move virtual machines between data centers (...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: A6D-C70-242

Over One-third BIG-IP Users Indicate Major Gains in Deployed VM Density

Over One-third BIG-IP Users Indicate Major Gains in Deployed VM Density

34% of surveyed IT organizations stated that they were able to increase their deployed VMs by 40%...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 427-F69-F97

BIG-IP Enables Overall Availability Gains for Virtual Infrastructures

BIG-IP Enables Overall Availability Gains for Virtual Infrastructures

49% of IT organizations improved availability by combining server virtualization with F5 BIG-IP s...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 9DA-175-F63

F5 Customers Confirm VM Density Improvements

F5 Customers Confirm VM Density Improvements

31% of surveyed IT organizations report that they improved their VM density (placing more VMs on ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 19A-09C-61F

IT Organizations Desire Architectural Similarity In Their Cloud Providers

IT Organizations Desire Architectural Similarity In Their Cloud Providers

61% of IT organizations consider it important that cloud providers have similar BIG-IP infrastruc...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: FD7-FE4-9F4

Application Provisioning Improved With Combination of BIG-IP and Virtualization

Application Provisioning Improved With Combination of BIG-IP and Virtualization

29% of IT organizations achieved faster application provisioning by combining their server virtua...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: C9D-0CA-1A8

Local Load Balancing Viewed as Critical for Virtual Infrastructure

Local Load Balancing Viewed as Critical for Virtual Infrastructure

73% of IT organizations consider F5's advanced local load balancing features important to the per...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 24A-E66-FBF

Customers Cite SSL Offload Criticality for Virtualization

Customers Cite SSL Offload Criticality for Virtualization

67% of IT organizations consider F5 SSL offload important to the performance, availability, and a...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 46E-649-BD1

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Network Flexibility With iRules

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Network Flexibility With iRules

"We were able to build a very flexible and adaptive network utilizing the F5 BIG-IP 8800 features...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 859-A34-472

Majority of BIG-IP Users Report at Least a One-fifth Gain in VM Density

Majority of BIG-IP Users Report at Least a One-fifth Gain in VM Density

54% of IT organizations were able to run at least 20% more VMs on their physical servers using BI...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: D9D-0E8-8BA

Customer Leverages F5 BIG-IP to Save Time

Customer Leverages F5 BIG-IP to Save Time

"The F5 BIG-IP solutions allow us to perform server maintainence during the day instead of over w...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: B5F-E24-74C

Performance TechFacts

F5 BIG-IP's SSL Offload Valuable with Microsoft Technologies

F5 BIG-IP's SSL Offload Valuable with Microsoft Technologies

64% of IT organizations consider F5 BIG-IP's SSL offload important to the performance, availabili...

Validated On: 10/26/09, TVID: FF6-B47-450

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Handling Traffic Spikes

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Handling Traffic Spikes

"F5's BIG-IP allowed us to expand our capacity dramatically. This allows us to handle the spikes...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: FB9-EC0-259

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Improving Speed With HTTP 1.1 Caching

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Improving Speed With HTTP 1.1 Caching

"Using the F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerators we were able to convert legacy applications to conform with ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: F87-97D-665

Multi-Data Center Capabilities Important for Cloud Providers

Multi-Data Center Capabilities Important for Cloud Providers

55% of IT organizations reported that the ability to redirect, split or rate-shape application tr...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 3D4-C64-27A

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Improves Application Performance With Microsoft

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Improves Application Performance With Microsoft

61% of IT organizations improved application performance by deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions with Mi...

Validated On: 10/28/09, TVID: 4C5-720-CAE

Improved Oracle Performance

Improved Oracle Performance

71% of IT organizations consider the local load balancing methods of F5 BIG-IP solutions importan...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: 3CC-4CD-5DE

iRules Important to Oracle Deployment

iRules Important to Oracle Deployment

39% of IT organizations consider F5 iRules important to the performance, availability, and securi...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: C50-CDD-791

Application Delivery Important to Global Oracle Deployment

Application Delivery Important to Global Oracle Deployment

40% of IT organizations consider the global load balancing methods of F5 BIG-IP solutions importa...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: AE8-591-1FE

ROI & Financial Impact TechFacts

Global 500 Healthcare Company Saves Big on OPEX

Global 500 Healthcare Company Saves Big on OPEX

A Global 500 health care company reduced operating expenditure (OPEX) by between 60% and 80% for ...

Validated On: 12/10/09, TVID: B1A-CE6-178

F5 BIG-IP Enabled OPEX Savings

F5 BIG-IP Enabled OPEX Savings

49% of surveyed IT organizations state that they reduced their annual Operating Expenditure (OPEX...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: E18-E63-A3C

Reduced CapEx for Oracle Solutions

Reduced CapEx for Oracle Solutions

44% of IT organizations reduced CapEx by 10% or more for their Oracle environment using F5 BIG-IP...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: 0C9-314-4EB

43% Use F5 BIG-IP To Align Business & IT

43% Use F5 BIG-IP To Align Business & IT

43% of surveyed IT organizations stated that they use F5 BIG-IP to better align IT with business ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: DC0-8B7-5B7

Huge Savings in OPEX with Microsoft & F5 BIG-IP Portfolio

Huge Savings in OPEX with Microsoft & F5 BIG-IP Portfolio

A state & local government reduced operating expenditure (OPEX) by between 60% and 80% for their ...

Validated On: 12/10/09, TVID: AF8-91F-CDA

F5 BIG-IP Payback Period

F5 BIG-IP Payback Period

64% of surveyed organizations with F5 BIG-IP report a payback period of 18 months or less.

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: C0D-031-1FF

Large Teleco Company Reduces CAPEX With Oracle and F5 Solutions

Large Teleco Company Reduces CAPEX With Oracle and F5 Solutions

A large enterprise telecommunications services company reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by bet...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: 7EB-4B7-1AA

Oracle User Notices Significant Savings on Capital with F5 Solutions

Oracle User Notices Significant Savings on Capital with F5 Solutions

A S&P 500 health care company reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by between 40% and 60% for thei...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: 977-B29-6CE

Global 500 Bank Saves Significantly on CAPEX

Global 500 Bank Saves Significantly on CAPEX

A Global 500 banking company reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by between 60% and 80% for their...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: 116-43B-26C

Educational Institution Saves Big

Educational Institution Saves Big

An educational institution reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by between 40% and 60% for their O...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: AA6-516-153

Large Telecommunications Company Saves OPEX

Large Telecommunications Company Saves OPEX

A large enterprise telecommunications services company reduced operating expenditure (OPEX) by be...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: 646-C03-059

Educational Institution Sees Huge Savings in OPEX

Educational Institution Sees Huge Savings in OPEX

An educational institution reduced operating expenditure (OPEX) by between 40% and 60% for their ...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: C2B-5B9-031

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Leveraging New Opportunities

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Leveraging New Opportunities

"Our business was able to leverage a new opportunity and increase revenues because we could cost-...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 90C-904-939

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Cost Savings

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Cost Savings

"F5 Big IP enables us with the ability to abstract WAN connectivity to a point that allowed us to...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 62B-053-234

Federal Government Agency Saves BIG with F5 Solutions

Federal Government Agency Saves BIG with F5 Solutions

A federal government reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by between 60% and 80% for their Microso...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: 7DC-EFC-524

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Reduces Microsoft Users OPEX Significantly

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Reduces Microsoft Users OPEX Significantly

61% of IT organizations reduced operating expenditure (OPEX) by 10% or more for their Microsoft e...

Validated On: 11/04/09, TVID: 0F1-13A-B2C

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Saved Time & Resources

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Saved Time & Resources

"F5 BIG-IP saved us time and resource-power that would have been wasted with implementing an alte...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: CEE-A41-7DE

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Flexibility

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Flexibility

"Our business was able to leverage BIG-IP to meet the demands of a changing environment cost effe...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: DAC-F6B-5D0

Healthcare Company Sees Drastic CAPEX Savings

Healthcare Company Sees Drastic CAPEX Savings

A large enterprise health care company reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by between 60% and 80%...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: 174-97E-A34

Large Enterprise Banking Company Sees Huge CAPEX Savings

Large Enterprise Banking Company Sees Huge CAPEX Savings

A large enterprise banking company reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by between 40% and 60% for...

Validated On: 12/09/09, TVID: A41-7A2-EED

CAPEX Savings Identified by BIG-IP Customer in Education Field

CAPEX Savings Identified by BIG-IP Customer in Education Field

An educational institution saved or deferred between 60% to 80% on CAPEX purchases over the past ...

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: EAB-401-581

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Offloading SSL

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Offloading SSL

"Our business was able to save CapEx using F5 BIG-IP LTMs to offload SSL certificates and SSL pro...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 420-53F-8C5

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Load Balancing & Security

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Load Balancing & Security

"We were able to combine Load Balancing and Security into one box by using the ASM on the F5 BIG-...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 570-019-F67

F5 BIG-IP Enabled CAPEX Savings

F5 BIG-IP Enabled CAPEX Savings

47% of IT organizations saved or deferred 10% or more on CAPEX purchases over the past two years ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: B62-091-BD7

44% Use F5 BIG-IP To Align IT & Business Needs

44% Use F5 BIG-IP To Align IT & Business Needs

44% of surveyed IT organizations confirm that they use F5 BIG-IP to better align IT with business...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: A60-5AA-8E0

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Unexpected Uses

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Unexpected Uses

"We've been able to leverage the F5 in ways that we didn't expect when we purchased it."

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 956-3C2-AD6

F5 BIG-IP OPEX Savings

F5 BIG-IP OPEX Savings

50% of IT organizations report that they reduced annual Operating Expenditure (OPEX) budgets by b...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 5DD-99E-9B6

F5 BIG-IP CAPEX Savings

F5 BIG-IP CAPEX Savings

47% of IT organizations saved or deferred between 10% to 20% or more on CAPEX purchases over the ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: B0B-D17-FA8

F5 BIG-IP Payback Period Statistic

F5 BIG-IP Payback Period Statistic

65% of organizations using F5 BIG-IP reported a payback period of 18 months or less.

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: 4F3-02B-15B

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: iRules & Load Balancing

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: iRules & Load Balancing

"We leveraged powerful iRule functionality to manage our sessions, improve load balancing of our ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 98A-3FB-81B

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Performance & Certificate Management

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Performance & Certificate Management

"Our business is able to manage certificates more effectively across our webfarms, as well as imp...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 66E-0A0-846

OPEX Savings Identified By BIG-IP Customer

OPEX Savings Identified By BIG-IP Customer

An educational institution reduced their annual Operating Expenditure (OPEX) budget by between 40...

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: B63-E2C-B00

Majority of F5 BIG-IP Solutions Reduce CAPEX for Microsoft Environments

Majority of F5 BIG-IP Solutions Reduce CAPEX for Microsoft Environments

62% of IT organizations reduced capital expenditure (CAPEX) by 10% or more for their Microsoft en...

Validated On: 11/04/09, TVID: 847-400-622

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Adapting to New Opportunities

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Adapting to New Opportunities

"Our business was able to leverage a new opportunity and increase revenues because we could cost-...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 03C-717-358

Scalability TechFacts

Responding to Increased Demand with BIG-IP

Responding to Increased Demand with BIG-IP

"We were able to quickly expand our systems to meet increased demand using F5's BIG-IP solution."

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: CE7-0FF-8D6

66% Use F5 BIG-IP For Scalability

66% Use F5 BIG-IP For Scalability

66% of IT organizations use their F5 BIG-IP to achieve scale and growth initiatives.

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 8E6-FE1-34E

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Scaling Without Client Configuration

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Scaling Without Client Configuration

"The BIG-IP allows us to scale our services by allowing us to add servers without any client conf...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: FE1-368-224

88% of F5 Big-IP Users Report VM Density Gains

88% of F5 Big-IP Users Report VM Density Gains

88% of IT organizations improved VM density between 10% and 40% on a typical server with F5.

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 975-FFD-F8D

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Scaling Utilization

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: Scaling Utilization

"Our business is able to scale utilization to accomodate additional revenue opportunities with th...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: E0E-C83-CF1

66% Use F5 BIG-IP For Scale & Growth

66% Use F5 BIG-IP For Scale & Growth

66% of surveyed IT organizations use their F5 BIG-IP to achieve scale and growth initiatives.

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 930-01A-DF8

System Uptime & Data Availability TechFacts

85% of IT Organizations Achieve High Availability With F5 BIG-IP Solutions

85% of IT Organizations Achieve High Availability With F5 BIG-IP Solutions

85% of IT organizations gained high availability by deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions with Microsoft ...

Validated On: 10/28/09, TVID: FB3-597-92D

F5 BIG-IP Adresses Application Downtime

F5 BIG-IP Adresses Application Downtime

68% of IT organizations addressed application downtime by deploying their F5 BIG-IP with Microso...

Validated On: 10/26/09, TVID: 2FA-03C-03C

F5 BIG-IP Local Load Balancing Beneficial to Microsoft Technologies

F5 BIG-IP Local Load Balancing Beneficial to Microsoft Technologies

90% of IT organizations consider F5 BIG-IP's local load balancing methods important to the perfor...

Validated On: 10/26/09, TVID: A1A-888-05D

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: "99.99% Uptime"

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial: "99.99% Uptime"

"Our business is able to meet customer SLA requirements, providing 99.99% uptime for customer app...

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: 602-7C6-FFF

36% Use F5 BIG-IP For Disaster Recovery

36% Use F5 BIG-IP For Disaster Recovery

36% of IT organizations use their F5 BIG-IP to achieve disaster recovery initiatives.

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 7FD-A3B-DBD

User Experience TechFacts

BIG-IP achieves DR redundancy and reduces hardware

BIG-IP achieves DR redundancy and reduces hardware

It provided a cross site solution to better use our MS hardware by reducing the amount of redunda...

Validated On: 12/07/09, TVID: 73E-C95-B1C

Testimonial Regarding VMs and F5 BIG-IP

Testimonial Regarding VMs and F5 BIG-IP

"Our VMs don't work without F5 BIG-IP."

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: DAE-C18-732

F5 BIG-IP and VMware

F5 BIG-IP and VMware

"Using VMware we have been able to expand our enterprise quickly and develop simplified solutions...

Validated On: 08/24/09, TVID: BF6-E88-7DA

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial Regarding Virtualization and Availability

F5 BIG-IP Testimonial Regarding Virtualization and Availability

"Although many virtualization products have built-in load balancing capabilities, we continue to ...

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: 7D3-F10-42E

Using BIG-IP to Address Traffic Challenges

Using BIG-IP to Address Traffic Challenges

"F5's BIG-IP solutions have allowed us to distribute our traffic requests across several pool mem...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 90C-34F-462

Onetime Cost of $500K Saves Electronics Company Annual $3M in Expenditures

Onetime Cost of $500K Saves Electronics Company Annual $3M in Expenditures

Using our F5 BIG- IP GTM as part of a distributed video player, we were able to avoid a change in...

Validated On: 10/27/09, TVID: 3D8-F74-ABC

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Increases User Experience With Microsoft Technologies

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Increases User Experience With Microsoft Technologies

65% of IT organizations gained better end-user experience by deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions with M...

Validated On: 10/28/09, TVID: CFC-86B-33D

One Customer's Rationale for Deploying F5 BIG-IP

One Customer's Rationale for Deploying F5 BIG-IP

An educational institution stated that their strategic purpose in deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions i...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: D0F-521-202

A Customer's Perspective on BIG-IP

A Customer's Perspective on BIG-IP

"The F5 BIG-IP solution allows us to deploy applications quickly. "

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 31F-F49-936

F5 BIG-IP Impact at an Educational Institution

F5 BIG-IP Impact at an Educational Institution

An educational institution uses the F5 BIG-IP solution to speed up their application deployment, ...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 0C0-7F3-8FC

Consumer Services Company Expands IT Infrastructure with F5 BIG-IP Portfolio.

Consumer Services Company Expands IT Infrastructure with F5 BIG-IP Portfolio.

Our business was able to move from a single server solution to a multiple server HA Environment f...

Validated On: 10/29/09, TVID: DA6-41C-536

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Saves Organization “Excessive Overhead” Costs

F5 BIG-IP Portfolio Saves Organization “Excessive Overhead” Costs

The ability of the F5 BIG-IP Portfolio has enabled us to load balance with content sensitive swit...

Validated On: 10/29/09, TVID: 27F-208-379

Secure Credit Card Transactions

Secure Credit Card Transactions

With the use of F5 iRules, we were able to encrypt credit card information before it was stored i...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: AFB-1C8-EA0

Customer Sees Gains from F5 and VMware

Customer Sees Gains from F5 and VMware

"Using F5 BIG-IP and VMware we have been able to consolidate some physical servers, allowing us t...

Validated On: 08/24/09, TVID: 0EB-BC7-F76

Testimonial: F5 BIG-IP and ERP

Testimonial: F5 BIG-IP and ERP

"The F5 BIG-IP devices have really helped us with an important Global ERP application roll out."

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: 9AB-D40-A7D

Testimonial for F5 BIG-IP and Virtualization

Testimonial for F5 BIG-IP and Virtualization

“BIG-IP allows us to develop and deploy web servers quickly and safely. With BIG-IP we use virtua...

Validated On: 08/19/09, TVID: 585-9BC-B9D

F5 BIG-IP Solution Handles New Challenge with Ease for Telecommunications Giant

F5 BIG-IP Solution Handles New Challenge with Ease for Telecommunications Giant

Our platform faced a new challenge when new requirements were introduced. Fortunately for us, we ...

Validated On: 10/29/09, TVID: F46-131-852

F5 BIG-IP Solution with PeopleSoft Delivers

F5 BIG-IP Solution with PeopleSoft Delivers

F5 BIG-IP Solutions for Oracle allows us to leverage a very flexible and dynamic combination of h...

Validated On: 10/29/09, TVID: 1F6-946-655

BIG-IP increases SharePoint users and reduces hardware costs

BIG-IP increases SharePoint users and reduces hardware costs

It enabled us to improve our SharePoint application performance and increase our number of users,...

Validated On: 12/07/09, TVID: A47-213-2A5

Testimonial: F5 BIG-IP & VMware

Testimonial: F5 BIG-IP & VMware

"Using VMware with F5 BIG-IP, we were able to consolidate our physical servers from 40 to 15. We ...

Validated On: 08/24/09, TVID: 63A-F20-E8F

BIG-IP LTM optimizes Exchange 2007

BIG-IP LTM optimizes Exchange 2007

For Exchange 2007 we were able to use the F5 LTM as a reverse proxy from our DMZ to our inside ne...

Validated On: 12/07/09, TVID: 34C-80D-2E2

Testimonial: VMware, F5 BIG-IP and Traffic Manager

Testimonial: VMware, F5 BIG-IP and Traffic Manager

"We are utilizing VMware to consolidate server space and to minimize the footprint of new applica...

Validated On: 02/16/10, TVID: E27-D88-18A

F5 BIG-IP Delivers High Availability, Increasing Customer Satisfaction

F5 BIG-IP Delivers High Availability, Increasing Customer Satisfaction

Our F5 BIG-IP has enabled high availability within our portal environments, virtually eliminating...

Validated On: 10/27/09, TVID: ACB-8BC-7B3

F5 BIG-IP Provides A "True High Availability Solution"

F5 BIG-IP Provides A "True High Availability Solution"

The F5 BIG-IP provides a true high availability solution for applications and servers. It also p...

Validated On: 10/27/09, TVID: FEC-F3E-24A

BIG-IP LTM for a highly available and scalable Microsoft unified communications solution

BIG-IP LTM for a highly available and scalable Microsoft unified communications solution

Using Big-IP LTM in our Microsoft environment has allowed us to architect and implement highly av...

Validated On: 12/07/09, TVID: 974-532-449

BIG-IP LTM enables management of larger numbers of virtual machines

BIG-IP LTM enables management of larger numbers of virtual machines

The F5 LTM has been an essential tool for our organization and load balancing our hundreds of Vir...

Validated On: 12/07/09, TVID: C3E-AC7-46E

Customer Experience with Consolidation and F5 BIG-IP

Customer Experience with Consolidation and F5 BIG-IP

"We have consolidated server numbers from the 100's down to under 20 physical servers. We have al...

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: 75C-2DF-3E8

BIG-IP increases application access and user response during system failure

BIG-IP increases application access and user response during system failure

Our BIG-IP load balances SharePoint Servers, increasing application access during a single system...

Validated On: 12/07/09, TVID: A82-9C9-1D1

F5 BIG-IP's iRules Increases User Experience

F5 BIG-IP's iRules Increases User Experience

58% of IT organizations consider F5 BIG-IP's iRules important to the performance, availability an...

Validated On: 10/26/09, TVID: A05-797-843

Customer Identifies Efficiencies with F5 BIG-IP

Customer Identifies Efficiencies with F5 BIG-IP

"We eliminated over 100 IP addresses from the host layer of our internet facing servers because o...

Validated On: 08/20/09, TVID: B60-CBB-A9F

F5 BIG-IP Allows Diverse Expansion

F5 BIG-IP Allows Diverse Expansion

BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP GTM allowed us to move one of our two geographically diverse data centers t...

Validated On: 10/26/09, TVID: 185-803-662

Large Financial Enterprise Provides Better Service with F5 BIG-IP

Large Financial Enterprise Provides Better Service with F5 BIG-IP

We are now able to provide a better, more robust service to the nearly 6 million banking customer...

Validated On: 10/26/09, TVID: B9F-9BF-A46

Significant Reduction in IIS Application Downtime

Significant Reduction in IIS Application Downtime

We reduced our IIS application downtime significantly, enabling us to honor our 99.9% uptime SLA.

Validated On: 11/05/09, TVID: 2A5-DF1-38A

Global Collaboration

Global Collaboration

F5 BIG-IP solutions enabled all of our remote users, especially those on high latency links, to u...

Validated On: 10/23/09, TVID: DAC-8A6-FB0

F5 BIG-IP Enables Non-Profit Agency to Expand Internationally

F5 BIG-IP Enables Non-Profit Agency to Expand Internationally

The F5 BIG-IP LTM's gave us the ability to configure Oracle IDM along with all of the other compo...

Validated On: 10/21/09, TVID: 542-000-FB7

Importance of F5's iSessions for Cloud Enablement

Importance of F5's iSessions for Cloud Enablement

44% of IT organizations reported that the ability to have a secure, accelerated connection betwee...

Validated On: 10/07/09, TVID: 3A7-DA2-6D3

F5 Compression Saves Bandwidth

F5 Compression Saves Bandwidth

Our business was able to purchase a 3 Mbps MPLS pipe instead of a 5 Mbps pipe due to F5 compressi...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: C99-804-0BF

Improved Oracle User Experience

Improved Oracle User Experience

We have been able to deploy Oracle globally and mitigate the effects of latency with F5 web accel...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: D48-242-166

BIG-IP LTM Simplifies Connectivity and Improves User Experience

BIG-IP LTM Simplifies Connectivity and Improves User Experience

The use of the BIG-IP LTM in our infrastructure simplified connectivity and ensured that future p...

Validated On: 09/02/09, TVID: 488-760-9A5

BIG-IP Provides "Single Solution" to Oracle Applications

BIG-IP Provides "Single Solution" to Oracle Applications

We were able to efficiently load balance among our eCommerce server clusters with a good single s...

Validated On: 09/02/09, TVID: 85D-331-26E

F5 Solutions Support Network Management

F5 Solutions Support Network Management

From a networking perspective, our systems are extremely easy to manage due to the flexibility of...

Validated On: 09/02/09, TVID: B4A-781-62B

Flexibility for Oracle Solutions

Flexibility for Oracle Solutions

F5 BIG-IP provides flexibility to quickly adapt to our ever changing Oracle based solution sets.

Validated On: 09/02/09, TVID: E1E-900-E1F

Improved Customer Service

Improved Customer Service

We are better able to service our customers by enabling our call centers to have quicker access t...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: B10-737-353

Microsoft solution partner sees increased ROI when using F5 with Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft solution partner sees increased ROI when using F5 with Microsoft SharePoint

BIG-IP integrates extremely well into MS Sharepoint and web services, increasing customer ROI and...

Validated On: 12/07/09, TVID: 67C-D35-158

Miscellaneous TechFacts

Reduced OpEx for Oracle Solutions

Reduced OpEx for Oracle Solutions

39% of IT organizations reduced OpEx by 10% or more for their Oracle environment using F5 BIG-IP ...

Validated On: 09/21/09, TVID: 47E-6D2-26A

Improved Slow Page Loads and Response

Improved Slow Page Loads and Response

29% of IT organizations addressed slow page load, slow response times for end users, or poor appl...

Validated On: 09/22/09, TVID: F4C-DAF-6E0

Improved Application Performance

Improved Application Performance

40% of IT organizations gained better end-user experience or improved application performance by ...

Validated On: 09/22/09, TVID: 582-0FE-14D