F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is focused on ensuring the secure, reliable and fast delivery of applications through advanced network architectures and virtualization. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery is designed to offer customers a choice in how they deploy solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources with the objectives of streamlining application delivery and reducing costs.
In late 2007, F5 acquired Acopia, a company that developed appliances that virtualize heterogenous storage systems. The company achieved rapid adoption and success prior to the acquistion and the F5 flexible network philosophy has proved to be a good fit.
Obital Sciences is a customer of F5 that uses the company's technology to avoid tier 1 storage expenditures and automate the migration of less frequently used data to lower cost storage tiers. Here's an inteview with Bryan Pretre, an IT practitioner that has experience with the F5 solution.
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