Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Thu, April 7, 2011
SNW Honors F5 ARX Customer with Spring 2011 Best Practices Award
SEATTLE--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ F5 Networks, Inc. ] (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that [ Storage Networking World ] (SNW) and the [ Storage Networking Industry Association ] (SNIA) have named Illinoisa™ Bloomington School District #87 as the winner of the aBest Practices in Virtualization and Cloud Computinga award. SNWa™s Spring 2011 Best Practices Awards program identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of IT management solutions and approaches.
"Best Practices in Virtualization and Cloud Computing"
aManaging ongoing data growth can pose significant challenges for the [ education vertical ] and enterprise organizations alike,a said Nigel Burmeister, Director of Product Marketing at F5 Networks. aWith F5® solutions, Bloomington was able to create an easy to manage, scalable [ cloud storage ] environment to support Illinois schools by offloading the operational overhead from individual districts. In particular, F5a™s [ ARX ]® product enabled Bloomington to implement a [ storage tiering ] strategy, reducing storage costs by as much as 75 percent per district and cutting backup windows by up to 80 percent.a
To assist Illinois area schools in managing storage environments and conserving IT resources, the Bloomington school district helped create [ IlliniCloud ], a non-profit cooperative that hosts applications for school administration, facilities management, student performance tracking, and other services for Ka"12 school districts. With F5 solutions, IlliniCloud provides cost-effective and highly reliable cloud-based applications and data storage to member districts. Following deployment, storage costs were significantly reduced, and the organizationa™s investment in ARX was recouped in less than one year.
aTo build out our cloud platform, we needed a solution with very low up-front and ongoing administrative cost,a said Jason Radford, System Administrator for IlliniCloud and Bloomington Public Schools. aThe ARX storage virtualization solution exceeded our expectations in terms of capabilities; I wouldna™t run a data center without it.a
Winners of [ SNWa™s Spring 2011 Best Practice Awards ] were selected by a panel of industry judges. Five finalists and one winner from each category were recognized during an awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 6, as part of this weeka™s spring SNW conference in Santa Clara, California. Following [ Clackamas Countya™s win ] in fall 2010, this marks the second time an F5 ARX customer has captured a prestigious Best Practices award at an SNW event.
To learn more about Bloomington/IlliniClouda™s use of F5 solutions, check out the customer success story here: [ http://www.f5.com/pdf/case-studies/illinicloud-cs.pdf ]
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F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5a™s flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value. F5a™s vision of unified application and data delivery offers customers an unprecedented level of choice in how they deploy ADN solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organizations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers trust F5 to keep their business moving forward. For more information, go to [ www.f5.com ].
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