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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 17 June 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 2 It was also critical of F5's licensing policies which it said could create an expensive solution, and of its marketing. "F5 must improve its marketing to differentiate itself from the competition, and to drive greater use of its advanced features among its installed base."Featured Whitepaper
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The company already has a strong presence in the region with Dimension Data and IBM among its channel partners and according to Hansen, "hundreds of customers" in Australia and New Zealand. These include three of the Big Four banks, Telstra, Optus, Hutchison and Vodafone, Qantas and Virgin Blue and a number of Federal Government departments. Globally the company claims 90 percent of the top financial service firms as its customers and 60 percent of the global 1000. • Sinclair Knight Merz picks F5 to optimise Share Point Australian headquartered global engineering consultancy, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), has optimised the performance of its recent Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment by implementing F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) with WebAccelerator. Richard Percy, SKM's telecommunications and security manager, said: to "Our initial testing showed a four times performance improvement through the use of F5's solutions with SharePoint." The company has 48 offices and 6,500 employees around the world, and recently embarked on a global rollout of Microsoft SharePoint to host its corporate Intranet, performance dialogue system, and other key business applications. "We needed SharePoint to work - and work well - from day one. If employees experience excessive latency with an enterprise application like SharePoint, they won't use it," Percy said. "F5's solutions ensure that we get top performance from SharePoint so that our employees can leverage this new collaborative environment to better serve our clients. This translates directly into a positive return on our SharePoint investment."
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