F5 hands CC Gold status

New partnership fills f5 with confidence

F5 led Cisco in the application delivery market in 2005

Application delivery vendor F5 Networks is confident its new alliance with Computacenter will boost its ability to serve large UK firms running Microsoft applications.

F5 already counts Integralis, Affiniti and Vistorm among its UK Gold partners, but EMEA director Sara Buttle said Computacenter would increase its enterprise clout.

“One of the growth opportunities we are seeing is with large companies that have SharePoint implementations. Computacenter’s size means it has strength and depth with Microsoft capabilities,” she said.

According to IDC figures, F5 led Cisco in the application delivery controller market in 2007, with a 35.5 per cent share.