F5 Networks announced a free trial version of its new virtual appliance, the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Virtual Edition (VE). The combination of virtual and physical Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) is a major milestone in delivering on F5’s vision for dynamic IT infrastructure.

1. BIG-IP LTM Virtual Edition Trial

2. What is F5 Announcing February 16th? Free Trial of BIG-IP LTM Virtual Edition (VE) The leading ADC on the market, now virtual Foundation for an Enterprise ready cloud

3. Virtualization Maturity to Cloud Data Center Orchestration Faster Deployment Seamless access to resources Scale Optimization Enterprise Ready Cloud Integration of technologies & processes, and people Self-Serve Provisioning Server Consolidation Private & Public Clouds Automation

4. Customer Challenges with Application Delivery Business Challenges Rapidly changing business models Need to spin up new solutions overnight IT Challenges Slow response time due to long development, test, and deployment cycles

5. Now Available: Trial of BIG-IP LTM Virtual Edition Full-Featured version of BIG-LTM F5 Online Support & Community Support through DevCentral Free BIG-IP LTM web-based training https://www.f5.com/trial

6. BIG-IP LTM VE Simplifies App Development Configs, iRules Development Production Quickly build a development environment Save time and money for the lab

7. Best of Breed Application Delivery Architecture Enterprise Cloud Ready

8. Vision: Extend & Unify the Enterprise Control Plane Enabling Virtualization & the Cloud Customers & Employees Employees Secure & Optimized Cloud Connections (F5 iSessions) F5 Application Delivery Controller Internal Cloud External Cloud On-Premise Applications & Servers

9. Product DetailsTrial of BIG-IP LTM VE Available for download today on www.f5.com/trial Full featured trial of BIG-IP LTM for testing and evaluation Runs on VMware Workstation v7 & VMware ESX v4 Rate Limited to 1Mbps