Author: Olga Macedo

F5 fatura US$ 533,3 milhões no segundo trimestre fiscal de 2018

Resultado representa um aumento de 2,9% em relação ao total de US$ 518,2 milhões do mesmo período no ano anterior; o ano fiscal da F5 Networks termina em 30 de setembro

A F5, líder em soluções que garantem a segurança e a entrega de aplicações corporativas, anuncia receita de US$ 533,3 milhões de dólares no segundo trimestre fiscal de 2018, encerrado em 31 de março. Se equiparado ao mesmo período de 2017, isso significa um aumento de 2,9%, o que equivale a US$ 15,1 milhões a mais.

A F5 encerra seu ano fiscal no dia 30 de setembro.

François Locoh-Donou, Presidente e CEO da F5, apontou que o crescimento em relação ao segundo trimestre do ano fiscal de 2017 foi impulsionado pelas ofertas de soluções de software e serviços. “Soluções como o BIG-IP Cloud Edition e o Advanced Web Application Firewall, que permitiram às empresas acrescentar, de maneira simples e com total facilidade, serviços críticos e sob medida em ambientes de nuvem privada, pública e híbrida agregaram enorme valor aos nossos clientes e um forte desempenho financeiro”.

De olho no futuro

Para o próximo trimestre fiscal que se encerra no final de junho, com a aceitação, a F5 estabeleceu uma meta de US$ 535 a US$ 545 milhões. “Estamos apoiando nossos clientes à medida que suas aplicações evoluem mais e mais em um mundo multinuvem”, disse Locoh-Donou.

Uma reconciliação dos lucros GAAP e não-GAAP esperados pela empresa aparece na tabela abaixo:

Francis J. Pelzer Appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The company also announced the appointment of Francis “Frank” Pelzer as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective May 21, 2018. Pelzer joins F5 from SAP where he was most recently President and Chief Operating Officer of the Cloud Business Group, where he has been responsible for the execution of strategy and operations of SAP’s Software-as-a-Service portfolio, including Concur, Ariba, Fieldglass, SucessFactors, and Hybris. Previously, Pelzer served as Chief Financial Officer of Concur Technologies, a cloud-based travel and expense management solution provider that was purchased by SAP in 2014.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the continuing strength and momentum of F5’s business, future financial performance, sequential growth, projected revenues including target revenue and earnings ranges, income, earnings per share, share amount and share price assumptions, demand for application delivery networking, application delivery services, security, virtualization and diameter products, expectations regarding future services and products, expectations regarding future customers, markets and the benefits of products, and other statements that are not historical facts and which are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and other factors that, if they do not fully materialize or prove correct, could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: customer acceptance of our new traffic management, security, application delivery, optimization, diameter and virtualization offerings; the timely development, introduction and acceptance of additional new products and features by F5 or its competitors; competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into F5’s markets, and new product and marketing initiatives by our competitors; increased sales discounts; uncertain global economic conditions which may result in reduced customer demand for our products and services and changes in customer payment patterns; global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment; overall information technology spending; litigation involving patents, intellectual property, shareholder and other matters, and governmental investigations; natural catastrophic events; a pandemic or epidemic; F5’s ability to sustain, develop and effectively utilize distribution relationships; F5’s ability to attract, train and retain qualified product development, marketing, sales, professional services and customer support personnel; F5’s ability to expand in international markets; the unpredictability of F5’s sales cycle; F5’s share repurchase program; future prices of F5’s common stock; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K that we may file from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. The financial information contained in this release should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in F5’s most recent reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K as each may be amended from time to time. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. F5 assumes no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements.

GAAP to non-GAAP Reconciliation

F5’s management evaluates and makes operating decisions using various operating measures. These measures are generally based on the revenues of its products, services operations and certain costs of those operations, such as cost of revenues, research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses. One such measure is net income excluding stock-based compensation, amortization of purchased intangible assets, acquisition-related charges, net of taxes, and certain non-recurring tax expenses and benefits, which is a non-GAAP financial measure under Section 101 of Regulation G under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This measure consists of GAAP net income excluding, as applicable, stock-based compensation, amortization of purchased intangible assets and acquisition-related charges. This measure of non-GAAP net income is adjusted by the amount of additional taxes or tax benefit that the company would accrue if it used non-GAAP results instead of GAAP results to calculate the company’s tax liability. Stock-based compensation is a non-cash expense that F5 has accounted for since July 1, 2005 in accordance with the fair value recognition provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 718 Compensation—Stock Compensation (“FASB ASC Topic 718”). Amortization of intangible assets is a non-cash expense. Investors should note that the use of intangible assets contribute to revenues earned during the periods presented and will contribute to revenues in future periods. Acquisition-related expenses consist of professional services fees incurred in connection with acquisitions. In addition, restructuring charges have been excluded from GAAP net income for the purpose of measuring non-GAAP earnings and earnings per share in fiscal 2017, and litigation expenses primarily related to a jury verdict and other associated costs of that patent litigation have been excluded in fiscal 2016 and 2017.

Management believes that non-GAAP net income per share provides useful supplemental information to management and investors regarding the performance of the company’s core business operations and facilitates comparisons to the company’s historical operating results. Although F5’s management finds this non-GAAP measure to be useful in evaluating the performance of the core business, management’s reliance on this measure is limited because items excluded from such measures could have a material effect on F5’s earnings and earnings per share calculated in accordance with GAAP. Therefore, F5’s management will use its non-GAAP earnings and earnings per share measures, in conjunction with GAAP earnings and earnings per share measures, to address these limitations when evaluating the performance of the company’s core business. Investors should consider these non-GAAP measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial performance measures in accordance with GAAP.

For reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, please see the section in our Consolidated Income Statements entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

• Consolidated Balance Sheets
• Consolidated Statement of Operations
• Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

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Sobre a F5

 A F5 aumenta a velocidade, a inteligência e a segurança das aplicações de algumas das maiores organizações do mundo: corporações, provedores de serviços de Telecomunicações, órgãos governamentais e grandes empresas consumer. A F5 entrega soluções de nuvem e de segurança que permitem às organizações atender às demandas da sua infraestrutura de aplicações; isso é feito com rapidez e controle.  Para mais informações, visite www.f5.com. Você pode, também, seguir @f5networks no Twitter ou nos encontrar no LinkedIn e no Facebook.

GO Smarter, da F5 Networks Brasil, leva CIOs e CISOs à nuvem pública, privada e multi-nuvem

Encontro que acontece no dia 16 de maio, em São Paulo, o GO Smarter usa a metáfora de uma viagem à nuvem para propiciar experiências reais com esse modelo; palestras e mesas redondas mostram como garantir a disponibilidade e a segurança das aplicações rodando nesse ambiente

 A F5, líder em soluções que garantem a segurança e a entrega de aplicações corporativas, anuncia seu evento GO Smarter (https://www.f5networksmkt.com/landing/f5-microsoft-go-smarter-br/). Encontro que acontece a partir das 8:00 horas do dia 16 de maio no hotel Pullman SP Vila Olímpia – Rua das Olimpíadas, 205, Vila Olímpia –, o GO Smarter colabora para que empresas consigam melhorar o desempenho e a segurança de suas aplicações missão crítica. “O GO Smarter é, na verdade, uma viagem à nuvem que proporciona ao gestor de TI e de negócios uma experiência com a velocidade, a escalabilidade e a agilidade deste modelo”, aponta Hilmar Becker, Country Manager da F5 Networks. O GO Smarter trará uma mesa redonda com empresas usuárias e parceiros como a Microsoft – representada por Rodolpho Ugolini, Product Manager for Apps&Infra/ Azure – para discutir o avanço dos negócios para a nuvem.

“A vida real é o grande tema do GO Smarter”, comenta Becker. O evento é totalmente baseado nos desafios vividos por Cláudia, gestora de TI de uma empresa imaginária – a Acme Airlines. A partir daí, aprofunda-se as questões do uso da nuvem. “Essa abordagem insere desafios técnicos dentro de um quadro muito próximo da realidade vivida por nossos clientes aqui no Brasil”.

Na era da transformação digital, as aplicações já estão rodando na nuvem, seja no modelo público, privado ou multi-nuvem. “Em todos os casos, a nuvem cria oportunidades mas, também, traz desafios para o gestor de TI e para o gestor de negócios”, diz Becker. As palestras do GO Smarter mostram como gerenciar as aplicações na nuvem de forma a preservar a segurança e minimizar os custos.

Temas como Containers, Multi-Cloud Apps e otimização e proteção de aplicações rodando na nuvem serão abordados durante o encontro.

O GO Smarter conta com o patrocínio da Microsoft, Agility Networks, Compugraf, Dimention Data, ISH, Logicalis e Niva.

Para participar do GO Smarter é necessário registrar-se no link   https://www.f5networksmkt.com/landing/f5-microsoft-go-smarter-br/ .

Sobre a F5

A F5 aumenta a velocidade, a inteligência e a segurança das aplicações de algumas das maiores organizações do mundo: corporações, provedores de serviços de Telecomunicações, órgãos governamentais e grandes empresas consumer. A F5 entrega soluções de nuvem e de segurança que permitem às organizações atender às demandas da sua infraestrutura de aplicações; isso é feito com rapidez e controle.  Para mais informações, visite www.f5.com. Você pode, também, seguir @f5networks no Twitter ou nos encontrar no LinkedIn e no Facebook.