Countrywide, myCIO.com and Upside Choose F5 Networks to Help Maintain Their
Online Advantage
Business/High Tech Editors
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 2000--F5 Networks, Inc.
(Nasdaq:FFIV), the leading provider of Internet traffic and content
management (iTCM) products, today announced that Countrywide Home
Loans (NYSE:CCR), Inc., myCIO.com, Inc., a Network Associates, Inc.
(Nasdaq:NETA) business, and Upside Media have selected F5 Networks'
iTCM products to support their online e-Business initiatives.
These leading companies leverage F5 Networks' products to help
their business-critical sites stay competitive -- delivering reliable,
fast online service to their customers.
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (www.countrywide.com) was founded in
1969. Countrywide, a national leader in residential finance, produces,
purchases, sells and services loans for single-family homes. In
addition to helping people secure mortgage loans or refinance existing
homes, Countrywide's web site is a bountiful resource center for
homeowners and prospective buyers. To keep its comprehensive site
operating smoothly, serving as a 24x7 financing tool for house hunters
and homeowners, Countrywide employs F5 Networks' BIG-IP(R) Controllers
to manage its expansive server farm and applications.
"Countrywide reaches out to the community by giving customers
choices; enabling people to interact with us in the way that's most
productive and comfortable to them -- face-to-face, by browser, by
phone, by wireless device, or any combination of the above," said
Richard Jones, Chief Technology Officer for Countrywide Home Loans.
"Customers who interact with us online need the assurance that their
sensitive financial and personal information is always available and
secure. With F5 Networks' products supporting our network, customers
have dependable, secure, and fast access to our site and to their
accounts."
myCIO.com (www.mycio.com), one of the world's first infrastructure
ASPs, leverages leading technologies from Network Associates to
deliver managed security application services via the Internet.
myCIO.com is committed to providing continuous, uninterrupted
protection against the growing number of security threats to critical
e-Business networks. To ensure that its distributed data centers and
applications are always available and deliver the highest quality of
service to customers, myCIO.com uses F5 Networks' BIG-IP and 3-DNS(R)
Controllers to manage local and wide-area Internet traffic.
"Every morning we have thousands of customers who access our site
to check for security and virus updates, so web site uptime and
providing a seamless connection is critical to the success of our
business," said Duran Holycross, Manager of IT Operations at
myCIO.com. "F5 Networks' 3-DNS Controller acts as our primary DNS
server and also handles the global load balancing between our multiple
sites-- all in one box-- to maximize site reliability and performance.
3-DNS saves us approximately 20 to 30 hours a week with its point and
click GUI interface and also helps us save on data center space, which
is at a premium right now."
UpsideToday (www.upside.com), a division of Upside Media, is a
daily business information site covering the people, companies and
capital shaping the digital era. UpsideToday offers up-to-the-minute
news, opinionated columnists, market analysis, new company profiles
and selected in-depth articles from its print magazine, UPSIDE. To
uphold its superior reputation for providing insider views on the
business of technology, UpsideToday takes advantage of BIG-IP to
ensure high availability of its site and to allow readers to quickly
access the content they are looking for.
"As a trusted source of technology information, UpsideToday
maintains its edge by utilizing the most effective new technologies to
make our editorial content easy to access," said Gini Talmadge,
President and Group Publisher, Upside Media. "We turned to F5
Networks' BIG-IP Controllers to provide high quality service and the
most productive web experience possible. F5's products give us the
added insurance we need to deliver on this goal."
"Most businesses using the Web to gain a competitive edge and
streamline efficiencies are deploying mission-critical applications,"
said Steve Goldman, Senior Vice-President of Sales, Marketing, and
Services at F5 Networks. "This escalates the requirement that their
Internet sites are highly dependable, responsive, and mirror the
quality service and dependability that they're already known for. F5
helps businesses maximize their sites' ROI and optimize their
web-based applications to make sure that they're always delivering the
right content, always available, and always fast."
About F5 Networks
F5 Networks is the leader in Internet Traffic and Content
Management (iTCM). Our award winning integrated suite of
high-performance best of breed products provide an end-to-end solution
for automatically and intelligently managing Internet content and
traffic-- globally. Our products remove bandwidth congestion and
optimize the availability and speed of mission-critical Internet
servers and applications, including web publishing, content delivery,
e-commerce, caching, firewalls and more. F5 Networks helps companies
avoid the risk of being burdened with ill-performing networks that do
not meet end user expectations, while enabling network administrators
to better control and predict the performance of their e-Business
infrastructure. Our products are widely deployed in large enterprises,
the top service providers, financial institutions, government
agencies, healthcare, and portals throughout the world. The company is
headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has offices in Atlanta,
Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Diego,
San Francisco, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Australia, China, Hong Kong,
India, Japan, Korea, Germany, Singapore, Sweden and the United
Kingdom. F5 Networks is located on the web at www.f5.com.
F5 Networks (Nasdaq:FFIV) Internet Traffic Management products
support a wide range of operating systems and hardware platforms
including those from: Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), Hewlett Packard
(NYSE:HWP), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Apple
(Nasdaq:AAPL), IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Intel (Nasdaq:INTC). F5 products
work with leading IP-based applications, including legacy host,
mainframe, Java, CORBA-based, and client/server applications from
vendors such as SAP (NYSE:SAP), BAAN (Nasdaq:BAANF), Novell
(Nasdaq:NOVL), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT).
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predictions and actual results could differ materially from those
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including those identified in the Company's filings with the SEC.
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CONTACT: F5 Networks, Inc.
Alane Moran, 206/505-0850
a.moran@f5.com
or
Connect Public Relations
Holly Hagerman, 801/373-7888
hollyh@connectpr.com
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