F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in application delivery networking (ADN), today introduced Application Ready Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. To support customers using Microsoft Corp's new release of Exchange Server, F5 provides solutions to ensure efficient application delivery, improved scalability, and enhanced performance for Exchange Server 2010.
F5 Application Ready Solutions enable customers to fully leverage the advanced messaging functionality in Exchange 2010. With these new solutions, Exchange Client Access Servers (CAS) can now handle all client connections (including MAPI), enabling F5 technology to optimise all messaging traffic in an Exchange deployment.
"With the amount of business being conducted via e-mail, messaging is a critical application for enterprises," said Calvin Rowland, VP of Application Partner Programs at F5. "Downtime can significantly impact business performance. These new F5 solutions extend the value of the enhancements Microsoft has made in Exchange 2010, ensuring high-availability of messaging to end-users in the enterprise."
Highlights of Application Ready Solutions for Exchange 2010:
* Deployment guidance and ready-made application templates for joint deployments F5 provides comprehensive configuration and deployment guides along with solution briefs to help customers efficiently deploy BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WebAccelerator products with Exchange 2010. F5's simple, fast implementation aids result in fewer errors than manual configuration methods. Ready-made application templates include a 60-second wizard to configure BIG-IP solutions with Microsoft Exchange 2010.
* Advanced application delivery optimisation
Application Ready Solutions outline configuration and deployment strategies to optimise application delivery and provide optimum scalability for Exchange 2010 deployments. F5 BIG-IP solutions' advanced application delivery capabilities include SSL offload, acceleration, compression, and caching. By offloading server resources, BIG-IP solutions improve capacity of Client Access Servers and reduce time to download email attachments by up to 90%.
* Exchange messaging optimisation
Tested, validated solutions help users optimise and scale messaging applications. Solutions include optimised e-mail attachment downloading, encrypted transfer of transaction logs during cluster node failover, spam filtering, endpoint trust management for Web clients, and BIG-IP application templates for easy configuration.
* iControl API Support
F5's customisable iControl API enables integration into heterogeneous environments and message traffic routing between geographically dispersed data centres.
"Microsoft is pleased to see F5 support the extensive improvements we've made in Exchange 2010 by updating their deployment guides and application templates," said Julia White, Director of Exchange Product Management at Microsoft. "Advanced application delivery optimisation is an integral component of our recommended Exchange 2010 deployment architecture for customers who require the highest availability and performance for their end-users."
Availability:
The F5 Application Ready Solutions documentation for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and supporting resources are currently available at www.f5.com/solutions/applications/microsoft/exchange-server. Learn more about how F5 and Microsoft solutions work together at www.f5.com/solutions/applications/microsoft.
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