An emergency. VIPRION blade down. But this wasn’t the worst of it. In Denmark, the F5 expert team at security and networking reseller Snex faced a dire situation. The F5 Yo Yo had broken. The Technical Support team at F5 swung into action immediately. First, the secondary, non business-critical stuff. Snex had a new VIPRION blade the following day, and were able to maintain their ability to demonstrate the advantages of the world’s only application delivery controller able to scale on-deman...
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End user computing means that a wide range of mobile devices from laptops to tablets and from desktops to smartphones are being used. The diversity of these mobile devices and the sheer number of them in the workplace can overwhelm IT and strain your resources. Access and performance are key support concerns. And, since many mobile devices are personal, security is absolutely critical. F5 provides intelligent mobile device support for VMware View. This benefits IT with greater access and compl...
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VMware View is a leading solution for desktop virtualization offering simplified administration while increasing security and control. When deploying VMware View, there are several issues your business must deal with: from the management of a wide range of devices, to ensuring availability, scalability, and performance. F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. More information about F5’s solution for VMware View can be found at http://www.f5.com/view
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While purpose built technology provides much higher levels of accuracy is it killing the excitement? Both tennis and cricket have adopted technology with little resistance. And, personally, I think it’s become an important part of the game. Referee accuracy pushes back on the sportsperson’s skill. On the other hand, football supporters have very different views and hating the Ref is part of the game.... what rhymes with GLTS (Goal Line Technology System)?. But for how long: BBC Sport – ‘Premier ...
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WIRED ran this article on Tuesday the 3rd: Wikimedia reaches funding targets, fights SOPA (Wired UK) http://bit.ly/AgHetX Great news on the funding, Wikimedia. As a frequent user of your Wikipedia service I think this is excellent news. The second part of this article, however, fighting SOPA, is fuel for many a heated debate. If you don't have time for the full article: “…SOPA - the USA's proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which effectively facilitates internet censorship in the name of ...
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Yesterday I was having a meeting with one of our global System Integrator Partners on the subject of their information security portfolio and how F5 might fit into it. These things generally follow a similar format: ideally they first tell me about their business, how they go to market, what services they offer and why they are successful. This has the twin advantages of helping me understand them better and, more importantly, work out what it is that I’m going to say. I’ve broadly given up r...
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F5 is pleased to be at HP Discover next week, showing off the result of extensive work between F5 and one of our strategic partners, HP. F5’s data centre and security solution architects will be on hand throughout the event to discuss your HP orchestration, virtualisation, cloud, application transformation and enterprise security projects and business challenges. We will also be highlighting HP Network Consulting Services Reference Architecture for the deployment and/or migration of Microsoft E...
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When F5 sent out a global survey to 1000 large organisations worldwide, concentrating on complex attacks and how people defend against them, some of the questions related to what people use to protect their web-facing applications. In one section – prompted by what we had seen amongst our customer base, especially after the Wikileaks attacks – we asked if Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) had a role to play. In my less positive moments, the question I pose above was the response I was exp...
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CHAPTER FOUR: DATA CENTRE BURSTING ‘Inflatable competence.’ That’s what I've been calling it. Well, this week… At a recent VMware User Group (VMUG) event, VMware Chief Cloud Technologist, Joe Baguley, shared how he explained data centre bursting to his mother: ‘It’s like a taxi that can get bigger when there are more people to get in.’ I thought that was brilliant - once I'd substituted 'taxi' with 'service capability' and 'people' with 'people with computers'! Today's blog entry is not a...
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As of yesterday…read more here
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