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	Guest View: Lowdown on virtualization hype October 1, 2008 - SD Times
	View News Article - Session Lessons: Global Blending F5 Networks blends instructor-led training, synchronous and asynchronous forms of e-learning, and a content management system to bolster worldwide sales training. October 1, 2008 - Manage Smarter
	The Evolving Data Center F5 Networks CEO John McAdam talks about how the way we manage IT infrastructure is going to rapidly evolve over the next few years. September 9, 2008 - eWeek
	Not your father's VLAN What the network becomes in a virtualized enterprise August 18, 2008 - Network World
	Lifeboat Exercise IT How to Pave the Way for Fast Applications July 30, 2008 - Oracle
	XSS Evasion: Hiding in Plain Sight Is there a holistic solution for ensuring the secure, fast, and reliable delivery of applications? July 29, 2008 - Enterprise Systems
	Virtualization and the Other Green Computing Initiative Reducing power consumption and management expenses July 28, 2008 - Virtualization Journal
	F5 enjoying momentum, research firm says A common operating system keeps F5 Networks' product lines well integrated July 24, 2008 - Network World
	Ritz speeds up page loads and reduces server load with web accelerator July 8, 2008 - InternetRetailer.com
	Giving Telecoms a Competitive Edge with Web 2.0 Services June 26, 2008 - TMCnet
	Korea's Pohang U Accelerates and Secures SAP and Web Apps with F5 System June 13, 2008 - Campus Technology
	Shopzilla turns to file virtualization for data management June 5, 2008 - SearchStorage
	Pool Your Resources With File Virtualization A look at the drawbacks and benefits of this compelling technology, which makes disparate storage resources look like a single system. May 16, 2008 - Information Week
	Secure, Unified, Web Application Delivery with F5 BIG-IP and Dell Blade Servers Dell and F5 Networks provide a comprehensive delivery system for Web applications designed for high performance and scalability as well as tight security to help safeguard critical data. May, 2008 - Dell
	F5 Showcases VIPRION Application Delivery Controller at Interop F5 showcased its F5 VIPRION Application Delivery Controller, which redefines performance and scalability at Interop Las Vegas 2008. May 6, 2008 - Aving Global News Network
	Scale smart to balance traffic April 9, 2008 - Communication News
	Virtualization Defined-Eight Different Ways February 25, 2008 - Enterprise Innovator
	Tips to Consider Before You Begin a Data Migration Project February 28, 2008 - CompTIA
	Virtualization: F5 Expands Acopia Intelligent File Virtualization Solution Offerings February 14, 2008 - AJAX World
	A look inside F5's Acopia buy Former Acopia CEO talks about the companies' complementary technologies February 14, 2008 - Network World
	Future-Proofing the Data Center: Will you be seen as a Visionary or a Fool? February 13, 2008 - The Data Center Journal
	F5's Acopia unwraps file virtualization upgrades New management platform among the additions February 12, 2008 - Network World
	F5's VIPRION Integrated with Flash Networks' Mobile Internet Platforms February 8, 2008 - TMCnet
	F5 launches storage management system update February 6, 2008 - Techworld
	F5 expands file virtualization software February 5, 2008 - InfoStor
	The Case for Low-Latency File Virtualization February 4, 2008 - Wall Street and Technology
	File-area networks: the key to managing data growth January 31, 2008 - Network World
	The Impact of AJAX on the Network AJAX is one of the most exciting -- and disruptive -- programmatic innovations of the past few years January 29, 2008 - Dr. Dobbs
	Internet Connections on the High Seas For a luxury cruise line, fast Internet connections aren't a luxury. They're a competitive requirement. January 28, 2008 - Bitaplanet
	F5: The Next $1 Billion Networking Company? January 21, 2008 - The VAR Guy
	F5 Steers Partners Toward Services January 17, 2008 - Redmond Channel Partner Online
	Engineering Firm Saves Cash with WAN Optimization January 4, 2008 - Baseline Magazine
	Best Practice Deployment of Acceleration Solutions Based on ROI December 11, 2007 - Enterprise Networks & Servers
	The breakdown in network security design December 5, 2007 - SC Magazine
	Financial Consulting Firm Fixes Security Flaws InCharge Institute of America runs F5 Networks's BIG-IP Application Security Manager to shore up security November 16, 2007 - Dark Reading
	Disaster Recovery in a Web 2.0 World October 1, 2007 - Web 2.0 Journal
	F5 Introduces "BIG-IP" Local Traffic Manager for Scaling IMS September 24, 2007 - Converge!
	Multimedia, IMS focus for F5 traffic management September 20, 2007 - SearchTelecom.com
	F5 pitches new approach to scaling IMS September 19, 2007 - Telephony
	F5 expands offices in state September 05, 2007 - Seattle PI
	SOA + WOA = NOA How to head off performance bottlenecks. September 20, 2007 - Redmond Developer
	F5 Rolls Out New SSL VPN Version F5 Networks introduces application ready access with new release of FirePass SSL VPN controller. September 19, 2007 - Dark Reading
	SSL VPN for Secure Wireless LAN Access Using an In-House Approach to Delivering a Wireless Solution. September 14, 2007 - Information Systems
	ACCELERATION 2.0: Symmetric and Asymmetric Web Acceleration in One Solution A key to business success today is flexibility. August 20, 2007 - Enterprise Networks & Servers
	Network World's Network Optimization Newsletter The application deployment quagmire. August 16, 2007 - NetworkWorld
	F5 Networks Snaps Up Acopia File Virtualization F5 Networks on Aug. 6 announced its intent to acquire Acopia Networks for $210 million in cash, thus snatching up the last independent file virtualization vendor left standing. August 6, 2007 - Paula Musich
	Downtime at 365 Main puts disaster recovery in question The recent power outage at colocation provider 365 Main Inc. in San Francisco has put the question of disaster recovery (DR) first and foremost in data center managers' minds. August 10, 2007 - Bridget Botelho
	Network World's Network Optimization Newsletter This week roughly 24,000 athletes competed in the 111th Boston Marathon -- and an estimated 40 times as many Internet users surfed to the marathon organizer's Web site during the six-hour event. May 10, 2007 - NetworkWorld
	Independent Research Firm Reveals Disconnect between Bandwidth Expense and Disaster Recovery Objectives in Study Commissioned by F5 Networks F5 Networks Inc. has commissioned a Forrester Consulting study, the Impact of the WAN on Disaster Recovery Capabilities. May 10, 2007
	Stopping Spam Before It Stops You The volume and sophistication of attacks that threaten business e-mail networks and systems are growing at exponential rates. April 30, 2007 - Information Systems
	Service Maintenance Contracts Part 2 -- 7 Things to Consider in Determining Value. April 18, 2007 - CP Wire
	Disaster recovery options improve with WAN optimization Disaster recovery and business continuity policies and plans can improve greatly when enterprises use some sort of WAN optimization solution, according to a recent Forrester Research study commissioned by F5 Networks. April 12, 2007 - Kate Dostart
	Boston Marathon Web site to run with load-balancing software F5 donates technology that will reduce need for more servers. April 9, 2007 - Computer World
	Service Maintenance Contracts Service Maintenance Contracts, Part 1- Preventing 5 Key Costs. April 4, 2007 - CP Wire
	Addressing disaster recovery Investing in more bandwidth is an incomplete approach to strengthening disaster recovery plans, Forrester Research. April 3, 2007 - NetworkWorld
	Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: Why You Should Consider An SSL VPN As Part of Your Overall Plan Access to corporate applications and data is obviously vital to help keep a business running as usual. April 2, 2007 - Connections Magazine
	Bandwidth Expense at Odds with Disaster Recovery Objectives, Study Shows Investing in more bandwidth is an incomplete approach to strengthening disaster recovery plans, Forrester Research. March 27, 2007 - Enterprise Systems
	F5 Exploits Web 2.0 for User Community March 1, 2007
	F5 Networks' Big-IP Grows Up with the Market January 31, 2007
	Load balancing is Plan B for financial services firm Perth-based financial services firm Plan B Financial Services has installed link management appliances to balance incoming traffic between its two ISPs. January 31, 2007 - NetworkWorld
	Remote Access Keeps Physicians Connected Remote access was a struggle for IPC, a private-practice hospitalist company. IPC employs physicians who work in hospitals across the country, but those doctors aren't affiliated with specific hospitals. Because of this, they have no offices. January 18, 2007 - Andrew R. Hickey, Senior News Writer
	The AJAX Application Delivery Challenge Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX can have far-reaching consequences when it comes to security and performance. January 8, 2007 - Dr. Dobb's Portal
	The Myth of Bandwidth and Application Performance Despite a growing world-wide thirst for bandwidth, supply has outpaced demand by a wide margin. During the rapid expansion of the Internet in the 1990's, the data communications industry created an infrastructure that was capable of delivering cheap bandwidth in high volumes. January 1, 2007 - Enterprise Networks Server
	F5 Networks Earns High-Fives From Investors F5 NETWORKS is in the complicated business of creating products that help Internet applications run more smoothly and efficiently over networks. December 13, 2006 - Smart Money
	Spam -- stop it at the network edge F5 wants to defeat the spam and zombies with the Big IP Message Security Module. November 30, 2006 - Search Networking
	Blue Cross improves performance, stays compliant with F5 Networks F5 products make Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City secure and compliant. November 28, 2006 - NetworkWorld
	Online Holiday Shopping Safer, Easier, Thanks To F5 This year, the number of U.S. consumers turning to the Web for some or all of their holiday shopping will increase 6% from 2005, brining the total to nearly 115 million shoppers, according to Jupiter Research. F5 Networks makes products that can help make the holiday online shopping experience quicker, more convenient and more secure. November 21, 2006 - Investor's Business Daily
	F5 Adds Secure's Rep Filters to Big-IP F5 Networks Inc is taking its first steps into the anti-spam game with the announcement yesterday that it has licensed TrustedSource, Secure Computing Corp's source-based reputation database, for use in its flagship Big-IP load balancer device. November 21, 2006 - Data Monitor
	F5 Networks, Secure Computing bring reputation filtering to the edge The TrustedSource reputation system analyzes IP addresses, domains and URLs for valid e-mails. November 20, 2006 - NetworkWorld
	Security module to eliminate 70% of unwanted e-mail New module blocks spam before entering the network. November 20, 2006 - ComputerWorld
	F5 Moves to Guard E-Mail Against Spam November 20, 2006 - Paula Musich
	The Benefits of Going Virtual Business continuity is critical, so operations must be up and running 24x7. Data center virtualization could be the key IT needs. November 7, 2006 - Enterprise Systems
	Encryption Everywhere: Ensuring Access Compliance beyond a Doubt As enterprises, particularly those in the financial and healthcare verticals, become increasingly concerned with not only the availability of their data but also the confidentiality and integrity of that data, they are investigating architectures that hearken back to the days of centralized computing, a time when immense security could be obtained by simply locking the door to the mainframe room. September 20, 2006 - Information Systems Security
	Not So Simple Are you ready to rid your enterprise of a client-based VPN in favor of simple SSL? Tread carefully. We sort through five SSL VPNs, and uncover which best conquer the many challenges. September 20, 2006 - Information Security
	Great Support Doesn't Have To Be Expensive Support services for application and hardware is nothing new to the IT industry. What is new are the creative methods vendors employ to support their products. Support providers need to be creative with their methods to provide quality support tools and techniques that yield high customer satisfaction. September 19, 2006 - ITOBServer
	Remote Access is Nothing without Security As more health care organizations are moving to electronic medical records, an increasing amount of electronic medical information flows over the Internet between health care providers and payers. In this environment, health care organizations such as Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) are finding themselves increasingly vulnerable to attacks. The complex challenge of securing information and maintaining strict levels of patient confidentiality has become increasingly difficult since Web-based systems now provide easy and ubiquitous access to authorized users. September 7, 2006 - Advance News Magazine
	F5 Debuts Web App Acceleration Technology F5 Networks Monday unveiled new application traffic management products, spoils from its acquisition of Swan Labs last fall. July 31, 2006 - CRN
	F5 announces Web acceleration revisions One NetJets user has already seen big improvements on its portal. July 30, 2006 - ComputerWorld
	F5 Integrates Web Acceleration into BigIP Seven months after completing its acquisition of Swan Labs, F5 Networks on July 31 will introduce new version of Swan Labs' WebAccelerator integrated with F5's Traffic Management Operating System architecture. July 28, 2006 - Paula Musich
	F5 Sees High Margin Channel Play in Application Delivery F5 Networks is pushing its top-level partners to enter the application delivery space, a market that offers high margin opportunities for solution providers, according to the vendor's channel chief. July 24, 2006 - CRN
	PDXLAN 6 Cuts Monthly Bandwidth Bills; Reduces Setup and Ongoing Maintenance Costs PDXLAN employs F5's BIG-IP Link Controller to manage both incoming and outgoing traffic, to direct users over the best link, and to ensure that gamers at PDXLAN events have the best experience possible. July 23, 2006 - Enterprise Innovator
	SOA success depends on a SON Jeff Browning, director of product management for F5 Networks, looks at how network technology has evolved to better support service oriented architectures, and why incorporating a service oriented network is criical for SOA success. July 7, 2006 - Jeff Browning, Reach Magazine
	Identities: The New Black Market Currency It's a public relations nightmare happening to organizations around the globe-the public disclosure of exposed or stolen customer information. July 1, 2006 - ISSA
	F5 Seeks to Bridge Divide Between Networking, Apps F5 Networks on June 12 will seek to take advantage of the growing success of its DevCentral online user forum and iRules customization technology when it introduces a new iRules script editor and expansion of DevCentral to cover other F5 products and additional media outlets. June 9, 2006 - Paula Musich
	The Critical Need for User Defined Scripting An emerging catch phrase in the networking industry is the "application aware network." June 6, 2006 - IT Defense
	Devices speed CIFS WAN traffic Acceleration devices increase data access. June 5, 2006 - NetworkWorld
	Network World Newsletter: Denise Dubie On Network Optimization Today's focus: Navio Systems speeds apps traffic with WANJet. May 23, 2006 - NetworkWorld
	F5 Revamps Secure VPN Offering F5 Networks announced the newest version of its FirePass Controller VPN software on May 22, moving to cash in on growing demand for Secure Sockets Layer VPN technology. May 22, 2006 - Matt Hines
	F5 tweaks SSL VPN software for easier use, management F5 adds single sign-on to FirePass 6.0; gets rid of confusing pop-ups. May 19, 2006 - NetworkWorld
	F5's FirePass SSL VPN named April 2006 Hotpick F5 Networks bills its FirePass 4100 Controller as an SSL VPN remote access server. That's like calling the Batmobile a car. Great flexibility, a broad range of access capabilities and ease of use make FirePass a superior SSL VPN. April, 2006 - Information Security
	Speed Bumps Await Cisco In App Accelerator Market The market for application acceleration jumped more than 30% last year to $1.2 billion, and it's expected to grow even faster this year, according to Gartner. The potential isn't lost on Cisco Systems, which is trying to elbow its way back to the No. 1 spot. April 17, 2006 - Information Week
	Vendors Jockey For Position In Application Acceleration Market F5 Networks and Packeteer led the two segments that made up the $1.2 billion worldwide application acceleration market in 2005, respectively displacing rivals Cisco Systems and Stratacache, according to a recent report. April 14, 2006 - CRN
	F5 Networks to tackle file-sharing WAN optimization The introduction of its WANJet appliances is part of a trend away from file servers. April 17, 2006 - ComputerWorld
	F5 Integrates WANjet, Meets Cisco Head-On F5 Networks Inc. on Feb. 27 will launch a new release of the WAN optimization appliances it acquired with Swan Labs last year with new Wide Area File Services capabilities. February 23, 2006 - Paula Musich
	Voice of Experience: Healthy Dose of Control Lake Forest Hospital FirePass Case Study. February 7, 2006 - Todd Spangler
	Secure Connections Get Web-Simple Forget special-purpose encryption software. Many companies say the Web's built-in security is better for serving data to remote employees and partners. February 7, 2006 - Todd Spangler
	Aventail and F5 Extend Their Reach During the past few years, SSL VPNs have matured from devices offering very basic application support to enterprise-ready security jacks-of-all-trades, capable of handling thousands of users and a wide range of connectivity options. F5's FirePass is still one of the most complete SSL VPN solutions available. FirePass provides a wide range of application and network support, enhanced and powerful end-point control, SSL offload to the BIG-IP appliance, and the Visual Policy Editor a tool that graphically depicts each step of the log-on sequence and allows admins to craft end-point policy quickly. February 6, 2006 - InfoWorld
	F5 Delivers Next-Gen Traffic Management F5 Networks on Monday continued its leapfrog game with competitors in the application delivery arena when it introduced a new 10G-bps hardware platform, a next-generation global link controller, and support for monitoring and managing traffic from loosely coupled Web services applications. January 30, 2006 - Paula Musich
	F5 Debuts Traffic Manager Gear F5 Networks Inc. today announced three new network hardware devices that expand on the growing market for network traffic management products. January 30, 2006 - ComputerWorld
	F5 Updates Data Center, WAN Devices F5 Networks this week is expected to announce three updates to its BIG-IP family of data center and WAN traffic-control devices; on tap are 10G Ethernet upgrades for F5's data-center switches and advanced traffic-shaping features for the vendor's wide-area load balancing and WAN-link optimization products. January 30, 2006 - NetworkWorld