F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), a global leader in application delivery networking (ADN), today announced that its BIG-IP Edge Client App and BIG-IP Edge Portal App are now available at the App Store. These apps provide iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users with convenient, secure, and accelerated access to corporate materials and ensure IT teams can confidently support both corporate and personal devices.
“As iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch further establish themselves in the corporate space, organisations have been pressed to support the products their employees want to use to stay connected,” said Erik Giesa, VP of Product Management and Product Marketing at F5. “The need for IT managers to enable access and encourage productivity without compromising security or control led F5 to develop apps for Apple's iOS devices. This approach provides seamless corporate access that both users and IT departments can rely on.”
The new apps work in tandem with F5's BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, and FirePass products to centralise application access control for mobile users of iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices. With these solutions, organisations can provide reliable, optimised mobile access for employees, partners, and contractors, and IT administrators can grant full VPN access or limit access to specific applications, depending on business priorities and personnel requirements. F5's flexible access solutions, including the new apps, help organisations boost productivity and allow users to enjoy seamless access wherever they are, and whatever device they're using.
The BIG-IP Edge Client App and BIG-IP Edge Portal App allow organisations to:
* Provide secure access for corporate and personal devices to enhance productivity
Historically, IT and helpdesk staff have been called on to support both managed and unmanaged devices in the corporate environment. Without direct control of endpoints, IT risked alienating users by limiting support to certain corporate devices, or accepted the consequences of granting unsecured access to company resources. F5's BIG-IP apps address this need by providing secure, managed access to corporate resources from iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch via F5 access solutions. With F5's new apps, IT teams can broaden their support of user devices and help keep employees productive.
* Ensure corporate systems uphold security, compliance requirements
The new apps enable F5's BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, and FirePass products to provide flexible, policy-based access capabilities for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. This allows IT to extend the proper level of access to corporate resources for specific groups or employees. In addition, F5's sophisticated security, logging, and accounting capabilities help ensure that access to company materials adheres to the organisation's specific policies as well as any applicable industry compliance mandates. As an example, F5's dynamic access policy capabilities enable customers to firewall access based on user identity, endpoint context, geolocation, and the user's directory attributes. Layer 7 access control and geolocation capabilities are unique to F5 among other vendors' solutions.
* Improve mobile user performance with accelerated client access
Data centre consolidation efforts, coupled with the growing use of mobile devices, continues to put more physical distance between users and corporate data. F5's BIG-IP Edge Gateway solution optimises access between clients, gateways, and data centres, enabling iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users to enjoy optimised performance regardless of location. By leveraging technologies like acceleration and compression to improve performance levels, these apps enable users to enjoy a superior experience. F5 solutions combine to deliver 28x better application performance than competing products.
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F5 Networks is the global leader in application delivery networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5^1s flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organisations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery offers customers an unprecedented level of choice in how they deploy ADN solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organisations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers trust F5 to keep their business moving forward. For more information, go to http://www.f5.com. You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit http://www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html. F5, BIG-IP, Edge Client, Edge Portal, Access Policy Manager, Edge Gateway, and FirePass are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks in the US and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. This press release may contain forward looking statements relating to future events or future financial performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "predicts", "potential", or "continue", or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number of factors, including those identified in the company's filings with the SEC.
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