Yesterday we had a meeting with f5 guys at HP’s office at Stockholm. HP is now investing a lot on Networking and trying to dominate the enterprise networking market. While at the same time F5 helps organizations create an agile IT infrastructure that aligns with their business demands.
They demonstrated what f5 WAN Optimization might be able to do for international companies. Just like most IT organizations with multiple locations connected by WANs, networks are stretched beyond where they should be, and they suffer from latency issues. The result is poor user performance for the kind of applications (Exchange, SharePoint, SAP etc.) that run in nearly every enterprise. (more…)