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| Non-GAAP gross margin was 82.5%, an improvement of more than 200 basis points sequentially |
| Our global services team delivered strong 8% growth, driven by a continuation of customer trends from the first half of the year, including strong maintenance renewals and price realization |
| Despite the tough environment, our team is executing well and we delivered third quarter revenue at the midpoint of our guidance range, with earnings per share well above the high-end of our range |
| That has allowed us to profile application traffic at a very granular level, which is an incredible powerful capability |
| Q3 demand played out slightly above our beginning of quarter forecast, which was up from Q1 and Q2 this year, though still off from FY '22 levels |
| In terms of share gains, Meta, we have -- so in the ADC -- traditional ADC market specifically, we believe that we are gaining share, largely because of the investments we've made in next-generation platforms and next-generation software and the flexibility of the model we are delivering |
| But we're really, really happy with the progress that we made, the leverage that we're seeing, particularly in our gross margins and operating margins |
| We're really happy about that |
| In contrast, we are seeing some positive signs in software demand |
| And we are seeing a stabilization right now in the demand environment, which is better than what I can say for the last couple of quarters |
| Number two, we are seeing demonstrable proof points that the differentiated solutions portfolio we are creating through a combination of organic and inorganic innovation and technology integration is well-aligned with how application architectures are evolving |
| This reflects strong growth in our software renewals and interim expansions or true forwards, as well as some stabilization in new term subscriptions from the first half |
| We are also demonstrating operating discipline and driving operating leverage |
| Our Q3 non-GAAP gross margins of 82.5% improved more than 200 basis points from Q2 |
| And so it was a positive sign to see, again, as Francois mentioned earlier, some of the irrationality come out of the buying behavior |
| In addition, our Q3 non-GAAP operating margins of 33.2% improved 600 basis points from Q2 and more than 400 basis points from Q3 FY '22 |
| As a result of these improvements as well as some tax favorability, we significantly overachieved our non-GAAP EPS expectations in the quarter and now expect to deliver double-digit non-GAAP earnings per share growth for FY 2023 |
| And you're seeing this quarter gross margin made a step improvement as they -- we started to work out through these expensive components, and we have been quite disciplined around price realization with the price increases that we drove last year |
| You saw that we took a number of actions to drive earnings growth this year, and we're confident we'll achieve double-digit earnings growth |
| On the software side of the equation, we have seen great traction |
| Security -- stand-alone security has been more resilient than in ADC |
| On the software side, BIG-IP's data point performance, automation capabilities and lower total cost of ownership continues to differentiate our offering and drove multiple wins in the quarter, including wins at a major American airline, a multi-national automobile manufacturer and a major UK retail and commercial bank |
| We also saw strong demand for F5 NGINX in the quarter |
| And so obviously, it's been a boost to our recognized revenue in relation to where the demand has been for FY '23 |
| So these are areas where we feel we are gaining share, and hopefully, we’ll continue to gain share in quarters to come |
| We saw this in several NGINX growth opportunities in the quarter, including a multi-million dollar term-based subscription renewal that grew by an extraordinary 10x from initial inception |
| We have also seen strong demand for NGINX |
| We had quite a strong quarter on demand for NGINX for largely modern application deployments, as well as renewal and expansion from existing opportunities |
| It is early days still, but we also are seeing encouraging signs that our distributed cloud services are intercepting the markets, specifically in two emerging categories, API security and multi-cloud networking |
| Deferred revenue increased 9% year-over-year to $1.79 billion, driven by the high service maintenance attach rates we've seen throughout the year and continued growth in subscription as a percent of our software mix |
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| Software revenue totaled $174 million, down 3% from a tough compare in the year-ago period |
| Total software revenue was down 3% year-over-year, against a strong Q3 2022 compare |
| As it relates specifically to hardware, Samik, as you know, we have -- demand has been soft on hardware throughout the year |
| Obviously, in the renewals as we mentioned, we have seen a challenging new environment so far |
| Their existing this application (ph) security and complex policy tuning was a challenge as was managing apps and APIs across distributed environments with a small team |
| Overall, customer caution persists, with customers continuing to sweat assets amidst tight budgets and lingering macroeconomic uncertainty |
| These are just some of the customer challenges we help tackle in Q3 |
| So we're -- as I said, the hardware demand has been soft |
| As a result, we have worked through our backlog and our backlog has come down significantly, which is why you're seeing hardware, where it is in Q3 |
| Over the last couple of years, if you just look at revenue, of course, there's been substantial disruptions |
| I think last quarter, there was some weakness in new deals |
| But the new business opportunities that we see, those are the ones that are still challenged in relation to what we expected to do at the beginning of the year |
| Obviously, last quarter was a challenging quarter |
| Until now, customers have been forced to manage and secure these layers in isolation, often leading to operational complexity, network latency and weak security |
| I think in our March quarter, there was a lot of uncertainty, specifically in the financial services sector right after the bank failures |
| But when you back to where we were at the end of June, we didn't feel things have further worsened |
| We're not ready to guide for where revenue would be in 2024, but it's clear that, that 6- to 8-point headwind is going to challenge growth for next year |
| The supply chain has been a negative one |
| The demand side of the equation has been challenged in both |
| The macro has been a negative one |
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