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IBM WebSphere
The IBM® WebSphere® customizable family of products provides the industry's most scalable e-Business software foundation and application services, and delivers a flexible and open platform on which to build next-generation e-Business applications. Based on WebSphere Application Server, the WebSphere family supports business applications from simple Web publishing through enterprise-scale transaction processing.
F5 is a member of IBM PartnerWorld and has completed interoperability testing between F5's BIG-IP and IBM WebSphere. Together, IBM and F5 provide a solution that provides security, scalability, intelligent performance, and high availability for WebSphere servers. This integrated solution reduces network complexity, increases efficiency, and improves customer satisfaction, while significantly reducing costs.
Read the following documents for more information about F5's solutions for IBM WebSphere
Why do I need F5 for my WebSphere deployment?
F5's portfolio of Application Delivery Networking devices are essential for any IBM WebSphere implementation. F5 devices enhance web application performance from any location to decrease download times for static and dynamic data, reduce bandwidth usage, improve interactive performance, and lower the cost of delivering web applications.
Benefits of F5 for IBM WebSphere
- F5 technology dramatically speeds page load times and increases server performance with extensive connection management and TCP optimizations
- F5 solutions enhance WebSphere security by providing granular, application-level security
- F5 enables greater capacity for WebSphere servers and can lower bandwidth costs by up to 20% by maintaining a single TCP connection for HTTP traffic to reduce overhead on the network, server, and client.
Solution Documents
How do I deploy WebSphere with F5?
Thanks to F5's Application Ready Network, deploying IBM WebSphere with F5 solutions is quick and easy. For example, to configure F5's advanced web acceleration for WebSphere devices, simply choose the custom IBM WebSphere policy from the list for the optimal configuration. F5 has also rigorously tested our devices with IBM WebSphere and carefully documented the results in our step-by-step deployment guides, making initial configuration a snap.
