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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
FineGround, F5 Networks To Deliver
High Performing Web Apps
FineGround Networks, a leading provider of Web Application Optimization
solutions, announced a partnership with F5 Networks, a leading provider of
secure Application Traffic Management products. The partnership is aimed at
helping customers address the problems of delivering reliable, high
performance Web applications. The relationship leverages the successful
interoperability testing between the vendors' solutions.
"As organizations look to consolidate their efforts and minimize impact on
other aspects of the IT organization, solutions like those from F5 Networks
and FineGround add tremendous value," said Peter Firstbrook, principal analyst
of the META Group. "Because these solutions do not require changes to the
applications or the desktop, customers can gain the performance boosts in the
least intrusive way."
F5's market leading Application Traffic Management products enable
organizations to build secure, high-performance and reliable application
infrastructures. They help optimize and scale any application or Web service,
while simplifying deployments by automating the interaction between the
application and the network. The FineGround Performance Suite provides
additional application optimization capabilities over an organization's
existing network infrastructure. Together, these solutions ensure that
customers gain maximum throughput and reduce client download times over their
existing investments.
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"The combination of server load balancing and application optimization is a
potent one as organizations move forward with Web application deployments,"
said Jay Mellman, vice president of marketing with FineGround. "We are excited
to be able to provide a complement for F5's leading solutions. The partnership
should yield immense dividends for customers."
Using the FineGround Performance Suite is the proven way that leading
organizations optimize and monitor the performance of their Web-based
applications. Implemented as a layer-7 reverse proxy, the Suite integrates
with application traffic managers like those from F5. The Suite includes the
Condenser Optimization Software, the AppScope Performance Monitor and the
FineGround Management Console.
The Suite is now delivered as either software or preconfigured on the new
Velocity appliance. Organizations deploying the solution see an average of
nearly 300 percent performance gains for end-user access to Enterprise-class
applications.
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