1 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Presented by: your name, your title

2 Getting Users to the Best Available Data Center Router L-DNS BIG-IP GTM BIG-IP LTM Corporate Servers Site 1 (Primary) Client Router BIG-IP LTM Corporate Servers Site 2 (Back up) BIG-IP GTM

3 Powering Mission-Critical Events

4 High Cost of Downtime “47% of the businesses cited that disaster recovery was a prime target for IT Spending” – Network Computing Survivor’s Guide to 2006 survey 33% of businesses did not have Disaster Recovery plans in place 16% of businesses lost between $100-$500K/day 26% of businesses don’t know how much they lost Source: AT&T and IAEM report

5 “Microsoft's websites were offline for up to 23 hours - the most dramatic snafu to date on the Internet - because of DNS equipment misconfiguration affecting more than 72 million users.” “We screwed up. This is the worst day of my professional life “ – Network Administrator at Microsoft DNS Management Errors Remain Pervasive

6 Struggling to Deliver Multi-service Applications Clinical records down in Dallas data center! Clinical Record Services Employee Information Services Personal Information Services Service Oriented Architecture

7 Manual Recovery is Difficult Error Prone Slow to Implement Costly Labor Intensive Network Administrator

8 SOA Application Management San Francisco Data Center Washington DC Data Center High availability Persistence Ease of maintenance Delivering unique flexibility and intelligence to meet emerging application challenges

9 Benefits Lower complexity, ease management Reduced management overhead Cost savings from reduced staff Eliminate cost of downtime BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Solution - Data Center A Data Center B NewCar App One step failover Manage Service Dependencies Challenge Hundreds of applications Manual failover is slow, error prone Multi-step failover to shut down each application service No instantaneous failover

10 Benefits Better end-user experience Improved profitability through recovery of lost revenue Reduced security overhead Reduced management overhead Retirement Portfolio Data Center Dallas Data Center Boston Session 1 10:38am Session 2 11:27am StocksBondsFunds StocksBondsFunds BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Solution - Intelligent Session Persistence Challenges Client’s transaction history was lost Clients forced to relogin, extra security overhead No way to track application state based on client information Corrupted data and lost revenue

11 Distributed Application Management Manage multiple services as part of a collective application

12 Eliminate Downtime from DNS Errors Easy DNS management Auto population of protocols Validation/error checking Rollback to the last transaction Importation of zones Automatic reverse lookups ZoneRunner ® Only integrated DNS Management Utility

13 New GUI for Superior Manageability

14 Unmatched Intelligence, Management, and Performance SOA Application Management ZoneRunner ® - Eliminate DNS Errors New BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Advanced application and component monitoring iRules - Flexibility to define distribution policies IPv6 AAAA record support 40K Res/s ) Leading DNS performance (40K Res/s ) TMOS Raising the bar for global application delivery

15 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Application Health Features Composite monitors Application-specific monitors Distributed application monitoring Management Features New and improved user interface ZoneRunner - New zone file management tool New and improved IP classifier Support for IPv6 networks Distributed application model Performance Features Client continuity iRules 3x performance increase $26,990 - Standalone system ( new platform) $23,990 - Add-on module to BIG-IP Optional modules: IPV6

16 BIG-IP GTM Platform Transition BIG-IP 1000 BIG-IP 2400 BIG-IP 51X0 BIG-IP 520/540 BIG-IP 1500 BIG-IP 3400 BIG-IP 6400 BIG-IP 6800 GTM v9.x Standalone GTM v9.x Module * * * 3-DNS 520 * Requires a memory upgrade. See Internal FAQ for trade-in promotion. *

17 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Benefits Reduces TCO and improves uptime Eliminates lost revenue from broken data transactions Visibility into application health and faster recovery times Only solution with simplified zone file management to reduce DNS risks High performance DNS server built-in First and only solution in the industry to manage SOA applications Only solution that supports 3rd party LB vendors Features TMOS and iControl Reduces TCO and improves uptime Eliminates lost revenue from broken data transactions Visibility into application health and faster recovery times Only solution with simplified zone file management to reduce DNS risks High performance DNS server built-in First and only solution in the industry to manage SOA applications Only solution that supports 3rd party LB vendors Features TMOS and iControl

18 GTM Delivers Unmatched Services F5 Composite Monitors Application Specific Monitors Distributed application monitoring Load balancing Integrated Zone File Management Support for IPv6 Distributed Application Management Secure Web Management Client Continuity iRules High Performance DNS Authoritative DNS CDN Support Cisco Radware Limited Availability Management Performance Limited NortelNetscaler Limited

19 Why Should You Buy GTM? Does your business have a disaster recovery plan for natural disasters? Does your business have global clients that need regionalized access to content? Does your business want to maximize your investment in the secondary data center? Is DNS management error prone and cumbersome? Do you follow a multi-step manual failover process? Are you rolling out SOA applications soon? Does your business have a disaster recovery plan for natural disasters? Does your business have global clients that need regionalized access to content? Does your business want to maximize your investment in the secondary data center? Is DNS management error prone and cumbersome? Do you follow a multi-step manual failover process? Are you rolling out SOA applications soon?

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