F5 unveils LTM virtual edition

F5 Networks has released a free trial version of its new virtual appliance, the Big-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition, reports The Standard.

"The application delivery network is the foundation for a flexible architecture, and F5's Application Delivery Controllers are the enabling solution that allows organisations to deliver services dynamically," says Erik Giesa, VP of product management and marketing at F5.

"IT departments can shorten their testing time by simply spinning up a virtual Big-IP to immediately begin testing on different configurations, iControl and iRules programs, and other variables, with confidence that the test results will match live operation of a physical Big-IP appliance in their production network."

AppDynamics has unveiled AppDynamics 2.0, designed to handle the challenges of managing application performance in virtual, cloud and service-oriented architecture environments, says Network World.

AppDynamics uses software agents on servers and virtual images allowing them to communicate with an AppDynamics management server. The software discovers the application topology, including application dependencies and relationships with other elements in the environment.

IT managers work with the software to identify key business transactions to be monitored, with the software learning the environment and its normal behaviour.

ICAP has selected Tervela and its TMX platform as the foundation for the global messaging infrastructure of its electronic broking division, ICAP Electronic Broking, states PRNewswire.

Tervela was chosen to address the information distribution demands of a worldwide network of electronic fixed income trading customers in both established and emerging markets.

ICAP Electronic Broking will deploy a high-availability, fault-tolerant network of Tervela TMX-500 message switches and high-performance Tervela TPE persistence engines.