GoGrid and F5 Networks Team Up for Cloud Load Balancing Webinar

San Francisco, CA - August 22, 2010 - GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, and F5 Networks, Inc will host a webinar titled "Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime" on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. GoGrid currently offers customers free F5 load balancing services as part of every account, providing users access to enterprise grade hardware and infrastructure, as well as GoGrid and F5 cloud implementation expertise.

"Although load-balancing is just one of the many benefits F5 solutions provide, it is a key function in any high-availability, on-demand application delivery architecture," said Kirby Wadsworth, VP of Marketing at F5. "We are pleased to work with GoGrid to offer improved availability and scalability of customer applications, helping GoGrid to truly distinguish itself as a provider of enterprise-quality cloud services."

GoGrid's free load balancing services from F5 have been a premier and popular feature since the launch of the GoGrid public infrastructure cloud in March 2008.

In this informative webinar, users will learn:

•     How to prevent application downtime
•     The process for effectively scaling infrastructure
•     The 1-2-3 process for deploying F5 load balancing services for free within the GoGrid Cloud
•     Multi-data center resource provisioning
•     Other advanced configurations available to GoGrid users

Registration: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825

Webinar details:
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Speakers: Doug Lohf (Senior Systems Engineer – F5), David Michael (Sales Engineer – GoGrid), Rob Larson (Product Manager – GoGrid)
Bonus: All webinar attendees will receive a $50 GoGrid Service Credit
Register Now by visiting: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825

GoGrid includes fully integrated and redundant F5 application delivery controllers which can be provisioned using the customer portal or API. The f5 load balancing services are part of the standard GoGrid offering and setup takes just a few minutes.

"GoGrid pioneered making load balancing part of the cloud experience when we first introduced services from F5 over three years ago," said Jeffrey Samuels, CMO for GoGrid. "Today, our customers increasingly rely on GoGrid to make their complex infrastructure easy to manage by providing multifaceted load balancer services as an important part of our offering. We are proud of our partnership with F5 and look forward to continued collaboration."

About GoGrid

GoGrid is the #1 pure-play Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider specializing in Public Cloud and Private Cloud Infrastructure solutions. Currently powering thousands of customers globally, GoGrid makes complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments with the cloud. In just minutes, GoGrid customers can deploy and begin managing applications and workloads on our proven, secure and reliable public cloud platform. With GoGrid's Public Cloud and Private Cloud offerings, sysadmins, developers, and IT professionals create, deploy, and control cloud environments and complex virtual and physical server networks with full administrative control; with GoGrid's Private Cloud customers utilize a private, hosted and managed server, single-tenant environment with zero capital expenditure. To further leverage the GoGrid cloud, the Partner Exchange provides users with an evolving ecosystem of cloud solutions from GoGrid's partner community. GoGrid is proud to have been recognized as a "Visionary" two years in a row by Gartner and as a "Champion" by Info-Tech Research Group in 2011. For more information, please visit: www.GoGrid.com.