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solution facilitates virtual workload mobility and policy-driven application delivery to significantly reduce operating costs without compromising on consistent, scalable network and L4-L7 services. F5 Networks has also benefited from a strong partnership with VMware, which includes interoperable solutions around technologies such as End User Computing, network virtualization, data centre and cloud management, and VMware vCloud® Air™ hybrid cloud platform. Security has been high on the agenda for the past year, as highlighted by the company’s acquisition of Defense.Net in May 2014. The cloud-based security services company gives F5 a competitive edge in providing solutions to defend against application-layer, networklayer, and data center threats delivered via the Internet such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.The acquisition of Defense. Net complements existing F5 solutions such as its Advanced Firewall Manager. In November 2014, F5 announced new hybrid service capabilities to help organizations scale IT resources across dynamic cloud and data center deployments. Under the company’s new Silverline™ banner, F5 will offer extended security, optimization, and availability services from hosted and managed infrastructure, marking F5’s entrance into the cloud services delivery space. The F5 Silverline services delivery platform expands the company’s F5 Synthesis™ architecture to enable application services
‘Powered by an elastic multi-tenant and high performance services fabric, F5 Synthesis enables customers to rapidly and cost effectively provision layer 4-7 services. customers’
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