The fact that performance and availability views from F5 Networks, Inc. devices are now available in the NetQoS Performance Center has been announced by NetQoS® Inc. Supporting multiple devices from F5, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, the integration provides real-time performance metrics in a single Web-based management console. Joint customers, in addition to ease of access and strengthened security, will benefit from the NetQoS Performance Center’s analysis and alerting capabilities to more quickly address network problems and improve application delivery across the network.

Vice president of business development at F5, Jim Ritchings, declared: “F5 devices are a critical component of the application delivery infrastructure that network, operations, and infrastructure personnel must optimize to keep their businesses running smoothly.” He continued: “By integrating with F5, NetQoS can help simplify the increasingly complex challenge of monitoring network and application performance across an organization. For joint customers this means a single view into an unlimited number of F5 devices and detailed performance metrics delivered in real time through the NetQoS Performance Center.”

The most comprehensive performance visibility available for the F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ solutions is delivered by the NetQoS Performance Center. The combination enables IT professionals to better plan investments in new content delivery hardware, accurately size and configure new IT deployments, verify the impact investments have on application delivery, and solve performance issues in complex data center environments.

Senior vice president of corporate development for NetQoS, Gordon Daugherty, stated: “Customers have been requesting that NetQoS integrate F5 statistics into the NetQoS Performance Center for a more comprehensive view of network and application performance across an organization.” He added: “By incorporating the performance and availability metrics from F5 devices, the NetQoS Performance Center will help joint customers solve problems faster and make more informed decisions in infrastructure changes and capacity planning.”