F5 has worked with Microsoft during the beta cycle and beyond to ensure a high level of interoperability and optimization with the entire Windows Server 2008 platform. F5’s Application Ready Network for Windows Server 2008 not only helps optimize end-to-end performance, availability, and scalability for Windows Server 2008 deployments, but reduces the costs associated with deployment, management, and operation.
APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE
MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2008Comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure that enhances the security, availability, and performance of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 deploymentsSUMMARY
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 is much more than just a new release from
Microsoft. From a next generation TCP/IP stack to new versions of Windows
Terminal Services and Internet Information services, as well as new technologies
like Windows PowerShell and Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, Windows
Server 2008 helps information technology professionals maximize control over
their infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management
capabilities. F5 has worked with Microsoft during the beta cycle and beyond to
ensure a high level of interoperability and optimization with the entire Windows
Server 2008 platform. F5's Application Ready Network for Windows Server 2008
not only helps optimize end-to-end performance, availability, and scalability
for Windows Server 2008 deployments, but reduces the costs associated with
deployment, management, and operation.
2F5 APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE: MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2008
Bene? ts and F5 Value
are ready for this inevitable change. With control of Windows Server 2008. This takes User Experience and F5's IPv6 support, organizations have a clear the workload off of the Windows Server 2008 Application Performance strategy for staging network migration as IPv6 devices for increased server ef? ciency. By Microsoft Windows Server 2008 gives traf? c grows, without wholesale network and reducing unnecessary protocol communication organizations a powerful new platform that application upgrades. Additionally, F5 devices across the network, F5 improves application is designed to power the next-generation of can perform IPv6/IPv4 translation, translating response times and utilization for Windows networks, applications, and Web services. traf? c for consumption by either IPv4 or IPv6 Server 2008 deployments and other Windows Server 2008 includes some exciting end points. This allows organizations to stage applications on the network.new components such as Microsoft's new their migration gradually as demand for IPv6 Even high-powered and ef? cient applications TCP/IP stack, Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol increases. F5 enables you to freely intermingle and servers, like Windows Server 2008, as well (SSTP), and new versions of industry standard IPv4 and IPv6 services on Windows Server as other devices on the local area network applications like Windows Terminal Services 2008; for example, F5 can serve as an IPv4 (LAN), are not much help over the wide area and Internet Information Services. F5 has been front end to Windows Server 2008 Web network (WAN). Network latency across the working closely with Microsoft to ensure that Access servers that only use IPv6. With F5, WAN is one of the biggest challenges facing F5's Application Ready Network for Microsoft organizations have a strong solution for today IT departments around the world, and is a Windows Server 2008 provides the highest level and well into the future. major concern for organizations deploying of application availability, performance, and end Windows Server 2008 is extremely effective applications like Windows Terminal Services user satisfaction. at what it was designed to do: provide a solid where users can access applications from One of the highlights of Microsoft Windows foundation for server workload and application anywhere. Simply increasing bandwidth Server 2008 is a next generation TCP/IP stack requirements. One of F5's core strengths is the does nothing to solve the problem. F5 helps that has been completely redesigned from ability to enhance end-user experience while drastically reduce the impact of latency in a the ground up. F5 solutions include a host increasing application and server performance. number of ways. In addition to the bene? ts of TCP/IP optimization technologies that are We do this by taking on many of the duties from TMOS, F5 solves latency problems with a compatible with Microsoft's new stack. These that servers traditionally have to perform. If group of capabilities that eliminates the need optimizations, which combine session-level each server has to carry out processor-intensive for the... [download for more]
