IBM WebSphere's 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. Through modular, integrated application services, the WebSphere family transforms the way businesses manage customer, partner and employee relationships. For more information on the IBM WebSphere family of products, please visit www.ibm.com/websphere.

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.

Working Together
Through alliance programs involving product roadmap alignment, certification, and joint development, F5 focuses on delivering secure, fast and available IBM solutions. With F5, IBM customers enjoy improved availability, scalability, security and performance gains of up to 5X for their web and enterprise applications, thus enhancing end user experience, productivity and return on investment.

Market Leading Solutions for IBM
F5 is a worldwide IBM PartnerWorld member. While F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions can be applied to almost any deployment of IBM Technology and Application, F5 has validated and documented the interoperability of F5's BIG-IP solution with WebSphere.