One day after Barclays Capital analyst Jeff Kvaal turned bullish on F5 Networks, J.
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Three companies that come to mind as likely take-overs: Rackspace Hosting, F5 Networks, and Riverbed.
The larger opportunity for F5, and investors, is in the large shift happening to cloud computing.
The government sector has also traditionally been a large source of revenue for F5.
By pushing into firewall market, F5 is taking on another networking major Juniper Networks .
F5 has also entered the Internet firewall market, which is aimed at protecting data centers.
Using the HDMI 1.4a, the F5 can output 2K and HD up to 60p.
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F5 currently holds roughly half the market, having long overtaken Cisco as the number one ADC supplier.
F5 Networks (FFIV) reports its first quarter earnings on Wednesday, January 23, 2013.
The bad news is that Cisco faces significant competition from more specialized competitors like Juniper and F5 Networks (FFIV).
By comparison, merely 26 F3-to-F5 tornadoes have struck the U.S. on average each year since the turn of the century.
From 1967 through 1977 at least 30 F3-to-F5 tornadoes assaulted the U.S. each year, with an annual average of 50.
F5 Networks manufactures network controllers which are widely used in data centers for bandwidth optimization and speeding up of data.
However, with the current economic slowdown especially in Europe, government spending is slowing which will weigh on F5 as well.
F5 is especially pricey, and a recent-run up makes it even more expensive than 3Par is now, after the bidding frenzy.
F5 Networks ( FFIV) is also getting support above its 10-week line, and has shown some heavy-volume buying in recent days.
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F5 and Riverbed speed up the software that travels via the Web, which is how software is delivered in a cloud world.
Both years saw major storms (F4 or F5 on the F0-F5 Enhanced Fujita scale) plow very long paths through densely populated territory.
F5 Networks (FFIV) shares are poised for a huge sell-off this morning, after just slightly disappointing results for the December quarter.
Also reporting after the close Wednesday, among others, are Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN), F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK), and Western Digital (NYSE:WDC).
F5 competes broadly against Cisco Systems, Citrix Systems and Juniper Networks.
F5 Networks (FFIV) announced that it expects net income in the second quarter to come in below expectations due to disappointing North American business.
These numbers are very important, as F3-to-F5 tornadoes produce the vast majority of damage and inflict the overwhelming majority of human casualties each year.
The NEX-IFR5 also allows the use of compatible media, file naming conventions, metadata and the RAW workflow used by Sony's PMW-F55 and PMW-F5 CineAlta 4K cameras.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data, for example, show the number of strong to violent (F3-to-F5) tornadoes have been sharply declining since the mid-1970s.
At the time of his hiring at Yahoo, Thompson served on 5 outside boards - F5 Networks (FFIV) and Splunk (SPLK), plus 3 private companies.
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It uses the web application acceleration features that F5 usually deploys in front of web servers to allow faster access to those applications in a secure manner.
Analysts are expecting F5 to report earnings of 89 cents per share, up 7.2% from a year ago when it reported earnings of 83 cents per share.
Nearly 120 F3-to-F5 tornadoes struck the U.S. in 1974 alone.
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