F5 Networks and Oracle Announcement

September 2010

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Announcement Highlights, September 21

• F5 unveils new portfolio of solutions for Oracle Database

• Solutions combine F5 BIG-IP platform with Oracle Database technologies

• Inserts F5 as a strategic point of control in the database tier to deliver business value:– Improved operations and agility– Faster replication– Global scaling

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F5 in the Oracle Technology Stack

Oracle Fusion Middleware (WebLogic, SOA, Identity Management, WebCenter)

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Customer Challenges

• Maintain the database without user and business disruptions

• Meet for business continuity SLA’s and disaster recovery RPO’s and RTO’s at realistic cost

• Scale to a global user base

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Database Operations and Management

• Respond quickly to planned and unplanned outages• Improve monitoring of the database health and nodes for

faster failure detection• Provide new tools for database management

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Accelerate data replication and backups over the WAN

• Save bandwidth and encrypt communications

• Meet business operational and regulatory requirements

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Global Scaling

• Improve scale, performance, and user response time

• Easily scale a globally distributed database architecture

• Add redundancy

• Optimize database replication

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F5 Networks and Oracle

• Delivering a strategic point of control to the database tier to enhance agility and optimize data replication over the WAN

• Driving joint customer engagements

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