 John McAdam President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, F5 |
John McAdam John McAdam has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of F5 Networks, as well as on the board of directors, since July 2000. Just after his arrival at F5, McAdam successfully navigated the company through the turbulent post-dot-com era, bringing F5 to profitability and positioning it for further growth. During his tenure at F5, McAdam has grown the company's annual revenue from $108.6 million to over $650 million. He has overseen numerous successful acquisitions, guiding F5 into new and adjacent markets that build on the company's Application Delivery Networking solution offerings. Under his leadership, F5 has been named the 'Best Company to Work for in Seattle' and identified by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 25 hottest tech stocks. Prior to joining F5, McAdam served as General Manager of the Web server sales business at IBM. From January 1995 until August 1999, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM in September 1999. McAdam holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. |
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F5 Virtualization Expert Discussion F5 Virtualization Experts Ken Salchow, F5 Technical Marketing Manager and Charlie Cano, F5 Solutions Architect lead a discussion on how F5 customers are implementing virtualization with F5 solutions and how F5 works with VMWare and Microsoft. |
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Aligning Application Infrastructure with Business through Service-Oriented Application Delivery
A successful SOA implementation relies as much on the flexibility of your network as it does the services which will be delivered on it. Just as brittle, inflexible application integration technologies have been deemed unsuitable and unable to meet today's volatile business needs, so too have the static, inflexible network technologies of the past become a hindrance to the delivery of dynamic, flexible service-oriented applications. |
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Keeping Your Head Above the Cloud: Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual
One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center. |
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Management Networks-Living Outside of Production
Creating a global personal or business presence today is only a few clicks away, thanks to the new capabilities in Information Technology (IT). Data communications has also changed dramatically. Many of today's applications are housed in large data centers; because of that, they are distributed to remote users who operate these applications away from the central data center. |
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The F5 Acceleration Portfolio
Applications don't always perform as expected, especially when running across large or complex networks. Bandwidth is often underutilized, and sluggish response times frustrate users. This paper provides an overview of the acceleration features available across three F5 product lines. |
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Vulnerability Assessment Plus Web Application Firewall (VA+WAF)
Inside an enterprise lives an IT security professional responsible for website security. He takes his job seriously, because if his employer's websites get hacked, he gets the late night call from the boss upstairs. |