salesforce.com Standardizes on F5 Networks to Deliver High Availability and Fast Performance of its Mission-Critical Customer Relationship Management Applications Global Leader in Online CRM Requires 24x7 Availability, Superior Scalability and Optima
SEATTLE, Jul 18, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIV), the
leading provider of Internet Traffic and Content Management (iTCM) products,
today announced that salesforce.com, a global market leader in online customer
relationship management (CRM), has deployed F5's iTCM products within its
network to ensure that its customers have the best experience when using its
award-winning online CRM application.
salesforce.com provides their users with immediate, dependable, and secure
access to a central repository of mission-critical online customer data and
information. F5's products provide salesforce.com with the market's most
advanced intelligent traffic control capabilities required by complex,
database-driven CRM applications.
"salesforce.com provides global companies with feature-rich, reliable, and
scalable CRM services previously available only to those willing and able to pay
the high prices associated with traditional enterprise software," said Jim
Cavalieri, vice president of systems engineering at salesforce.com. "Our systems
and network infrastructure is the cornerstone of our business and F5's iTCM
products have enabled us to live up to our commitment of delivering robust CRM
applications that are always accessible, very secure, and able to scale to
accommodate the growth requirements of any company."
salesforce.com uses F5's BIG-IP(R) HA+ Controllers and SEE-IT(TM) Network
Manager to help ensure 24X7 availability and scalability of the production
applications, content and servers used to host the salesforce.com CRM online
service. Delivering enterprise CRM as an online service is inherently complex
due to the systems infrastructure and back-end database requirements. BIG-IP
delivers a superior return on investment (ROI) by reducing the complexity and
increasing the reliability and scalability of the infrastructure while
accommodating salesforce.com's rapid growth. BIG-IP brings standard layer 2-3
networking and innovative layer 4-7 traffic management together to significantly
increase existing web server, application server and network capacities.
"salesforce.com caters to a demanding group of professionals who require secure
and reliable access to business-critical customer information whether in their
offices, on the road, or in their homes," said Jeff Pancottine, senior
vice-president of marketing and business development at F5 Networks. "F5's
products are a perfect complement to salesforce.com's CRM services by making
sure that the right people get to the right content -- all the time. In
addition, F5 products help salesforce.com securely and cost-effectively scale
its applications." |
