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F5 Networks Appoints Joseph Signorelli as Vice President, Data Solutions for APAC and Japan

F5 Networks

(Personnel Announcements, 17/3/2008)

F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Del

Hong Kong, March 17, 2008 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the appointment of Joseph Signorelli to the newly created role of vice president for Data Solutions in Asia Pacific and Japan. Signorelli will be responsible for driving sales of F5 Acopia Data Solutions across the region. He will be based in Tokyo, Japan and report directly to Christopher P. Lynch, Senior Vice President of Data Solutions for F5 Networks. In this role, Signorelli will support the broader efforts of Song Tang Yih, Vice President of Asia Pacific and Tada Nagasaki, Vice President Country Manager of Japan, and ensure the success of the F5 Acopia Data Solutions product portfolio in these regions. As businesses continue to consolidate IT resources in order to provide centralised control of application and file services, there is an increasing need to manage data storage assets more efficiently and in a cost-effective manner. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, enterprises want to address these issues with integrated technology solutions that virtualise applications and IT services. For years, F5 has focused on bridging this gap by providing networking technologies that virtualise web and application servers. F5 Acopia Data Solutions help extend this virtual functionality to the file domain by offering automatic, policy-driven migration, tiering, load balancing, and replication across multi-vendor storage environments. “By optimising the network storage layer that is entrusted with an organisation's data, F5 is able to help companies make information and applications more easily and securely available to its users. F5 Acopia Data Solutions are a natural and important extension to F5's data center vision, and we see great potential in this segment of the business across the region. Coming into this role, Joe will inherit significant market momentum in Asia Pacific and Japan,” said Lynch. “Customers today are wrestling with escalating acquisition and management costs associated with unstructured data, the largest expense in most IT budgets,” said Signorelli. “F5 is in a perfect position to help enterprise customers remove the complexity and cost associated with unstructured data, while providing unprecedented levels of service.” Signorelli brings over 20 years of experience in sales, and has held senior management positions at several leading technology companies. Prior to joining F5, he was with Symantec, Japan where he served as director of Enterprise Sales. Previously Signorelli served as director of Network Storage Sales for EMC Japan and as area sales manager in Rochester, New York for EMC USA. Signorelli attended the State University of New York where he majored in Computer Science and Economics. About F5 Networks F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast, and available for everyone. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications and optimise the data storage layer, F5 extends the power of intelligent networking to all levels of application delivery. F5’s extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimisation, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability. Over 16,000 organisations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For more information, go to www.f5.com. This press release may contain forward looking statements relating to future events or future financial performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as 'may,' 'will,' 'should,' 'expects,' 'plans,' 'anticipates,' 'believes,' 'estimates,' 'predicts,' 'potential,' or 'continue,' or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number of factors including those identified in the company’s filings with the SEC.

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