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Internet trafficmanagement software developer is poised for growth
I was recently walking around-and freezing-inside Exodus Communications Inc.'s Web-hosting facility and couldn't help but take inventory of what was inside the cages. What jumped out at me was the number of F5 controllers in almost every cage.
I'm not talking about wild animals, though some of the people working inside the cages may qualify. I'm talking about F5 Networks Inc. (FFIV-Nasdaq), a leading provider of integrated Internet traffic-management software designed to enhance performance of Internet servers and applications. The company's products help monitor and manage local and distributed servers, and direct loads to the most readily available server. The usual result is better performance as well as fewer system failures. To Internet businesses, F5's products are critical.
With the boom in E-commerce traffic, managing and optimizing Web traffic is becoming critical. Most IS managers developing E-commerce or Web applications, either internally or in externally hosted environments, will understand the value of F5's leading products.
F5's...