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#VDI Deploying virtual desktops involves many different elements and be complex. Rolling out your deployment across data centers is time-consuming and prone to human error. F5 iApp technology is a user-customizable framework for deploying application. With iApp for VMware View, you can easily roll out configuration across your F5 devices, to cut deployment time from hours to minutes. 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 F5 - iApp for VMware View Resources: ...
#mobile #vdi #virtualization 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 compliance control, while at the same time, allowing your employees the freedom to use...
#vdi #fasterapp #infosec End-user acceptance will suffer if access to desktops is complicated or slow. In addition, without strong security, confidential information might be exposed, critical data lost, or regulatory compliance requirements unmet. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) offers users unified, secure access as well as broad support for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) mechanisms and stringent access policies. These features are combined with security endpoint check, plus multi gigabit-per-second SSL encryption, thousands of logins per second, and optimized connections. F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. More information about...
Rackspace Hosting wanted to broaden its product portfolio by offering customers an easy way to link dedicated managed servers to cloud-based servers. The company used Application Delivery Networking devices from F5 to help build a hybrid service called RackConnect. Now, Rackspace customers can mix and match dedicated managed and cloud hosting platforms for ultimate scalability, flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs. As part of its standard hosting infrastructure, Rackspace uses BIG-IP devices to accomplish a number of tasks. BIG-IP LTM automatically directs customers’ traffic among web and application servers. It offloads CPU-intensive content caching and TCP connections from the...
#virtualization #vdi Scaling VMware View from hundreds to thousands of devices can strain the network and data center connectivity. Additionally, if poor performance hinders access to virtual desktops, end-user productivity will suffer. F5 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP GTM Application Delivery Controllers support redundant tiers of infrastructure within and across data centers, for maximum availability. In addition, the patented, unified F5 TMOS product platform provides tremendous scalability -- from thousands to millions of transactions per second. F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. More information about F5's solution for VMware View can be found...
#virtualization #vdi 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 Overview: F5 for VMware View ...
Human Kinetics publishes and sells print, online, and multimedia materials related to kinesiology. It hosts its own e-commerce website and nearly 40 other educational and storefront sites, which together get about half a million unique visits per month. A year after its deployment, HK's third-party network solution had become unstable, was inflexible and difficult to support, and impaired performance. HK replaced the solution with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Application Security Manager. Human Kinetics - F5 Case Study More resources: Human Kinetics ...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBSKC) is the area's largest health benefits provider. As a prominent local healthcare provider with a strong reputation for quality, BCBSKC recognized the need to ensure high availability and strong security for their website, which typically receives more than 30,000 hits a day. By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). ...
#mobile #IPv6 Mobile devices. Plants. Cars. Cows. It’s time to get serious about that move to IPv6. Until recently the motivation for migrating from IPv4 to IPv6 has been, well, less than urgent. If consumerization hasn’t been enough of an impetus to get you seriously thinking about migration, maybe the reality that even cows are now being Internet-enabled might. (Check out the infographic linked below for the story) There has been some contention about the number of connected things and by when. Cisco's prediction of 50 billion devices by 2020 matches Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg's...
#infosec #adcfw #LOIC Did you rush out to check if a site was really taken down? If you did, you may have unintentionally helped The focus on Anonymous’ self-described retributive attacks on a variety of sites last night has been on its use of LOIC – Low Orbit Ion Cannon – as a means to achieve maximum effect with minimal resources. It’s a connection-based attack, pure and simple. A DDoS at the application layer, which makes it nearly impossible to detect, let alone stop. The tool isn’t really anything special in execution. Its ability...
#infosec #F5 and #Oracle have partnered together to deliver a unique integration Many organizations rely on Web applications powered by Oracle databases to run their missions critical business applications. The requirement to protect both the Web tier and the Database tier from unauthorized access, malicious attacks, and SQL Injection is more important than ever. F5 Networks and Oracle have partnered together to deliver a unique integration of the F5 Application Security Manager web application firewall with the Oracle Database Firewall. This recorded demo is designed to show the benefits of enhanced reporting, better security, and a defense in depth...
Dynamic Provisioning of IBM Smart #Cloud Enterprise (SCE) with #F5 BIG-IP. Creating a truly elastic data center that is flexible enough to dynamically expand compute resources based on planned or unplanned requirements has many real world applications. Peak demands driving end of month or quarter batch processing is a common enterprise computing challenge. Other opportunities include situations where the need for resources is not as easily predicted such as test / development deadlines, e-commerce, ticketing or social media. Whatever the application, the need for more and more agile infrastructures to facilitate the intelligent use of the cloud will become...
“F5 delivers the performance that citizens want and the security we need.” -- Ivo Tuytens, IT Security Manager, RVP Customer: RVP Vertical: Government F5 Solution: BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager / BIG-IP Application Security Manager Summary: The Rijksdienst voor Pensioenen (RVP) is the government agency that handles pension information for the citizens of Belgium. When RVP it decided to make pension data accessible over the Internet to all employed people and pensioners in the country, it had two key concerns. First, it had...
#infosec #fasterapp This video sets the stage for IT having to manage multiple networking challenges when faced with a natural disaster causing their data center to shut down. With careful planning, the evolution of the network and application delivery allows the single point of control to automate, provision and secure their virtual and cloud environments. The F5 Dynamic Data Center Resources F5 Security Vignette: Proactive Security F5 Security Vignette: DNSSEC Wrapping F5 Security Vignette: Hacktivism Attack ...
#infosec #cybersecurity Security is a never ending battle. The bad guys advance, we counter, they cross over ... you're just never done. To give our side an edge we do a lot of research. If we were going to sum up the role of security in corporate IT today we'd have to say it's to "be prepared." This series looks at many of those security concerns which can be addressed proactively, before they are exploited or become a fire drill. F5 Security Vignette: iHealth Related: F5 Security Vignette: Proactive...
#infosec If we were going to sum up the role of security in corporate IT today we'd have to say it's to "be prepared." This series looks at many of those security concerns which can be addressed proactively, before they are exploited or become a fire drill. When we hear about an Apache vulnerability, it gets our attention. In this case the issue was the way Apache handles HTTP RANGE headers, which are used to request individual sub-ranges of a given response, instead of the entire response. The problem is that responding to an HTTP RANGE request...
The consequences of exposing hundreds of thousands of customer credit card numbers is unthinkable. Fines, lawsuits, damaged brand -- the effects can be catastrophic. Even if it was accidental, the effect would be the same. If we were going to sum up the role of security in corporate IT today we'd have to say it's to "be prepared." This series looks at many of those security concerns which can be addressed proactively, before they are exploited or become a fire drill. F5 Security Vignette: Credit Card iRule Related: F5 Security...
The premise of the SSL Renegotiation DOS attack is simple: "An SSL/TLS handshake requires at least 10 times more processing power on the server than on the client". If a client machine and server machine were equal in RSA processing power, the client could overwhelm the server by sending ten times as many SSL handshake requests as the server could service. The counter measure against the attacks was to write an iRule to limit renegotiation requests to 5 per minute per session. If we were going to sum up the role of security in corporate IT today we'd...
#mobile For IT and security professionals, Android 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich) is a big deal For most people (who don’t live in the midwest), talking Ice Cream in the middle of the winter may be a bit odd, unless you’re talking about Google’s latest Android release (4.x). “Ice Cream Sandwich” is an important step forward for the mobile operating system platform in that it includes much needed enterprise security features including support for MDMs and a SSL-VPN Framework. This is an important step forward because of the growing demand upon IT by employees to...
If we were going to sum up the role of security in corporate IT today we'd have to say it's to "be prepared." This series looks at many of those security concerns which can be addressed proactively, before they are exploited or become a fire drill. The F5 Security Vignette series looks at various security concerns, vulnerabilities and attacks which can cause headaches for Corporate IT and the business integrity overall. F5 Security Vignette: Hacktivism Attack Related Resources: F5 Security Vignette: Proactive Security F5 Security Vignette: DNSSEC Wrapping...
Answer: All the time #infosec Despite the fact that web application firewall (WAF) solutions have been around for quite a number of years, there still seems to be confusion around what it is they do. In particular, there’s a troubling trend that tries to compare WAF with IPS (Intrusion Prevention Systems). This is essentially the same as trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. Or, if you prefer, viewing everything as a nail because all you have is a hammer. While it is true that IPS technology is increasingly looking up...
The dirty little secret of the Internet is how insecure DNS really is. The good news is, there's a solution -- DNSSEC. It secures the DNS query and response process. The F5 Security Vignette series looks at various security concerns, vulnerabilities and attacks which can cause headaches for Corporate IT and the business integrity overall. F5 DNSSEC Wrapping Resources: F5 Security Vignette: Proactive Security F5 YouTube Channel Latest F5 Information F5 News Articles ...
#infosec Security is such a small word considering the breadth of concerns it must address. Welcome to the F5 Security Vignette series, in which we’ll look at various security concerns, vulnerabilities and attacks which can cause headaches for Corporate IT and the business integrity overall. If we were going to sum up the role of security in corporate IT today we’d have to say it’s to “be prepared.” This series looks at many of those security concerns which can be addressed proactively, before they are exploited or become a fire drill. This video covers SSL Certificates....
“BIG-IP LTM does exactly what we need it to do…I highly recommend #F5.” -- George Pagaremos, IT Manager, Greek Yellow Pages Customer: Greek Yellow Pages Vertical: eCommerce F5 Solution: BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Summary: Every year, millions of people turn to Greek Yellow Pages to look up information, and they expect to find answers almost instantly. The company consequently has to ensure that its website provides exceptionally fast performance. At the same time, Greek...
Scaling #VDI requires scaling its entire supporting infrastructure as well as operations Something application developers have known for years is that the success of an application deployment depends as much on scaling dependencies as it does on scaling the focal application. Integration with other application services for a variety of functions requires scalability across all interconnected functions. Operations has similar concerns when it comes to deploying the application - authentication, authorization, access management, logging, and more. With the increasing push for flexibility and more rapid response by IT, this means paying careful attention to the ability...
Seamlessly Integrating Deduplication Storage into a Tiered Storage Environment Time to Face the Facts: You Can Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Managing Unstructured Data Here are two facts for you to consider: Fact: Unstructured data in your organization is going to continue to grow fast. ...
F5 BIG-IP ASM earns a five-star rating from SC Magazine Every day seems to bring word of a new threat vector, many of which are simply new twists on old attack techniques. Still others are exploiting the trust relationship between client and application, while yet another avenue takes the tried and true network-based approach to attacking sites. A comprehensive security strategy is necessary to combat the increasing frequency of attacks as well as the broadening spectrum of techniques used that span the entire network and application stack. Whether in the data center...
Getting ready to migrate to #IPv6? Not sure where to start? F5 services offers advice to help you jumpstart your initiative… The F5 BIG-IP product family has natively supported IPv6 for several years, and all BIG-IP devices are dual stacked. As a result, F5 is able to provide two separate IPv6 solutions, such as those provided at Interop. The first one, implemented in the San Francisco colocation, enabled IPv6 users in Las Vegas (and any other users globally) to connect to the Interop.com website through an IPv6 address. The second implementation enabled Las Vegas conference attendees...
#infosec A look at common security headaches plaguing IT. This week – SSL certificates. The F5 Security Vignette series looks at various security concerns, vulnerabilities and attacks which can cause headaches for Corporate IT and the business integrity overall. This video covers SSL Certificates. Connect with F5: ...
#v11 Carrier-grade DNS is critical to supporting the growth and stability of large-scale carrier infrastructure.
Remember little Oliver in Charles’ Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”? More specifically, recall his famous early line in the orphanage, “I’d like some more, please.” Now imagine millions of Oliver Twists around the globe asking of carriers, “I’d like some more, please.” Only they aren’t interested in breakfast, they want bandwidth and services and speed and stability.
Carrier networks are the first to feel the strain under the increasing burden of more and more mobile devices and users consume more and more multimedia resources. Video, audio, games,...
#F5s new hardware platforms include FIPS 140-2 level 2 compliance for HSM through the ADC. If you are in one of the more heavily regulated industries, or work for the federal government, then you know that FIPS is a fact of life, and that both certification and performance are not always available. While there are plenty of devices that are certified, they are often designed for limited uses, or have performance limitations based upon the harsh CPU requirements of encryption. Security always comes at a price, but sometimes the price seems steep in terms of performance. F5 BIG-IP...
Experience has taught us transitioning to #IPv6 is not a trivial task. Transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 is fast becoming an imperative as the availability of IPv4 addresses dwindle and the number of IPv6-only devices continue to increase. But it’s not a trivial exercise by any stretch of the imagination. Such a core transition can impact every aspect of the data center, posing a potential risk to operational stability during the transitional period. F5 has not only undergone that transition – and experienced the ups and downs along the way – but has subsequently...
#v11 SlowLoris? DDoS? HTTP flood? We’ve got your back … and your front. Whether critical applications live in the cloud, in the data center, or in both, organizations need a strategic point of control for application security. F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) provides the security, intelligence, and performance that today's dynamic infrastructure demands. F5 BIG-IP ASM version 11 is cloud-ready, offering flexible deployment and cloud security for virtualized applications, including the ability to sync policies among BIG-IP ASM cluster members. BIG-IP ASM also has the deepest vulnerability assessment integration, which gives organizations the most comprehensive vulnerability...
BEAST continues to follow the trend of exploiting protocol behavioral flaws The Internets are a buzz with the latest SSL/TLS exploit known as BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS). BEAST appears to be a combination of man-in-the-middle and CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks that could result in the theft of protected data stored in encrypted cookies, such as login or account information exchanged with sites through which payments and other privacy-sensitive transactions are made. Some of the reaction to BEAST has been hyper-inflated. The exploit requires fairly elaborate CSRF before the SSL/TLS vulnerability can even...
#v11 #vcmp ScaleN is a significant change from traditional scalability models The F5 ScaleN architecture provides organizations with the ability to scale up or scale out on demand, creating an elastic Application Delivery Controller processing platform that can grow as your business needs change. The ScaleN approach delivers a superior way to scale application delivery services that creates true deployment flexibility and simplifies system and application level maintenance. It achieves a higher level of application uptime and helps you meet stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs). v11 Video Series: F5...
#infosec Scaling security
This is a guest post from Garret Grajek is CTO and a co-founder of SecureAuth and is reposted with permission. The original post can be found here: F5 APM/SecureAuth – “The” Way to Deploy/Secure Large Scale Web/SaaS Apps
“I.T.” is a wonderful thing, when it’s allowed to be…
What I mean by that – it I.T. really the bastion of the “right idea”. The right idea will eventually win in I.T. – it’s never a guarantee who will capitalize on the idea, or who will even be the dominant purveyor of the “idea” – but regardless the right...
#v11 DNS: Critical to availability and performance, susceptible to attack. DNS is one of the key elements in the network that delivers content and applications to the user. However, DNS also manages a distributed and redundant architecture to ensure high availability and quality user response time. Due to the crucial role it plays in a network, DNS is also a high-value security target. Security attacks can flood DNS servers to the point of failure. To prevent this, a high-performing, secure DNS architecture and DNS offload capabilities must be integrated into the network. DNS Express manages authoritative...
#v11 #iApp F5's iApp™ is a powerful new set of features in the BIG-IP system that provides a new way to architect application delivery in the data center, and it includes a holistic, application-centric view of how applications are managed and delivered inside, outside, and beyond the data center. The majority of an iApp policy is geared toward configuring the traffic management components required to deliver applications. iApp Analytics provides real-time application performance statistics, and diagnostic and troubleshooting information such as application response time, network latency, and connection statistics for the entire application,...
#v11 #iApp F5 Networks recently launched its BIG-IP v11 solution, which includes a new application-centric paradigm that revolutionizes how organizations deal with data center consolidation, cloud computing, application security and massive traffic diversification.
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The powerful new iApps technology visually shows how organizations can optimize performance and enable swift deployment within the data center. iApps™ technology simplifies deployment of application service, enabling 10--100x faster provisioning and deployment. Individual iApps leverage easy-to-use templates to associate specific sets of services with single, per-application policies that are portable—even as the application itself moves beyond the walls of the physical data center.
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For the sixth consecutive year, Information Security readers voted to determine the best security products. F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway was named a “Gold Winner” in TechTarget’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards in the Best Secure Remote Access Product category. BIG-IP Edge Gateway combines the capabilities of BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, BIG-IP WebAccelerator, and BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager as a standalone appliance. BIG-IP Edge Gateway provides secure remote access, web access management, web and WAN acceleration and optimization in a single, easy to manage device. With the increasing number of mobile devices used by both employees and customers...
#vmworld F5, VMware, and EMC collaborate once again to improve live migration between data centers and to streamline virtual desktop deployments One of the benefits of leveraging cloud computing is to enable cost efficient cross-site resiliency for critical business applications. To successfully architect such a solution requires a variety of moving parts that span teams within the data center as well as vendors across technology components. One of the advantages of choosing a well-connected vendor with depth and breadth in its partnerships is that the technology component integration can be designed, tested, and documented by engineers well-versed in...
“ For organizations that need to provide IPv6 connectivity immediately but want to gradually transition their internal infrastructures, an F5 solution gives them a huge advantage.” -- Paul Vesper, Director, Consulting, F5 Networks Event: INTEROP 2011 F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM • BIG-IP GTM • WAN Optimization Manager • WebAccelerator • Access Policy Manager • Professional Services Summary: Interop organizers selected F5 to participate in InteropNet, a temporary multi-vendor network built by vendors for each Interop event. For Interop 2011 in Las Vegas, F5 Professional Services provided...
#v11 #infosec Few operating environments are as security-strict as found in government agencies. BIG-IP v11 provides capabilities necessary to improve security and efficiency in those environments. Both government agencies and public sector organizations are embattled with attackers leveraging increasingly complex attacks. Government agencies saw a 39 percent growth in cyber incidents in 2010 (Federal Cyber Incidents Rose 39% in 2010, Government Information Security News, March 24, 2011), a 445 percent increase in cyber attacks since 2006 (Government IT contractors remain optimistic about future, Homeland Security Newswire, January 12, 2011). And in recent years, government agencies and public sector...
#v11 #F5agility The next generation of infrastructure from F5 is ready and ABLE to meet the challenge Today F5 has introduced the next generation of its application delivery infrastructure, v11. This new generation of BIG-IP is ready to meet the challenges arising from a variety of external forces driving IT toward a dynamic data center by being more able – manageable, scalable and mitigating preventable attacks while being more adaptable than ever. One of the hallmarks of an F5 infrastructure solution is that it offers the ability to take advantage of contextual intelligence at...
#v11 Preventable Massive DDoS Attack Hit DNS Root Servers - www.esecurityplanet.com Oct 23, 2002 – The 'ping-flooding' attack interrupted Web traffic on nine of the 13 DNS root servers but experts dismissed the overall threat as 'minimal.' DNS DDoS Attack Takes Down China Internet | Darknet - The Darkside May 22, 2009 – The latest news is a few million Chinese Internet users had trouble accessing any websites yesterday due to a DDoS attack on the DNS system ... Major DNS DOS attack Posted (April 8th, 2007 at 1:29...
It can be done…but it takes coordination, collaboration and strategy. The Bloomington Public School District turned to a cloud computing model to meet the challenge of tighter budgets, inadequate resources and rising costs across disparate school districts. Its efforts allow statewide districts to share hardware, applications, services and IT support it might not otherwise have had access to. Doing more – with less – and doing it more efficiently is key to the success of their efforts. Building a Fortune 500 class cloud computing environment on a public school budget is no trivial feat, but thanks...
World #IPv6 Day may shape up to be a test of not only IPv6 support, but of security as well Tomorrow, June 8, is World IPv6 Day, when hundreds of participants will be – in the tradition of “live demos” – performing a full scale test of IPv6 interoperability with one another, with core Internet infrastructure and with any IPv6-enabled endpoint (that’s possibly you, by the way). Because of the nature of what’s being tested (it is called Internet Protocol v6, after all) it apparently may not be only a test of interoperability but also a...
Accreditation is more than just validation of your knowledge, it’s a path to a mutually beneficial partnership. F5 is excited to announce the availability of its F5 Partner Accreditation program. Comprising convenient, web-based modules across F5’s solution portfolio, accreditation provides the knowledge partners need to get ahead. Both Technical Sales and Sales training is available and like F5 solutions, they’re on-demand. With many modules under 60 minutes, you can log on at lunch and apply what you learn that afternoon. It’s that fast. And that relevant. F5 Technical Sales Accreditation ...
#emcworld F5 and EMC Speed Deployment of Cloud Services
Cloud computing is indeed disruptive to business and IT, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it has to disrupt operations and the data center. Realizing the ability to transparently migrate big data from one location to another may seem like it would cause some disruption, but with F5 Data Solutions products new support for EMC Atmos organizations can automatically, securely, and non-disruptively move data from file-based storage platforms to EMC Atmos, accelerating both public and private cloud deployments so organizations can more quickly realize the benefits of cloud storage.
Enhancements to F5 ARX®...
#msteched Your unified communications infrastructure is strategic, shouldn’t the infrastructure supporting it also be strategic? Everyone is gearing up for Tech•Ed North America 2011 (May 16-19, Atlanta) and F5 is no exception. We’ll be exhibiting at the show (Booth # 1509) as well as hoping to take home top honors in the Best of Tech•Ed 2011 awards in the networking category. F5 was honored to be named a finalist in the Networking category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, DevProConnections and SharePointPro. F5’s long-term partnership with Microsoft...
#vcmp #interop If a network can’t go virtual, then virtual must come to the network.
There has been a great deal of prediction that the always nebulous “network” is the next piece of the data center to go “virtual.” There’s several reasons for such predictions, although a few key concepts tend to be reiterated regardless of who may be prognosticating.
What organizations are demanding from the network is flexibility; flexibility of provisioning, of architecture and in supporting diverse business and operational requirements. That flexibility naturally leans toward a virtualized solution because of the traditional inflexibility of networking-based hardware. While networking-based...
#vcmp #interop As enterprises grow and expand their use of virtualization while trying to manage explosive data growth, so too must their infrastructure.
In the past, organizations are traditionally segmented into “sizes” by number of employees it has. But with the explosive growth of data caused by natural growth, new devices, and even the use of new standards such as HTML5, we may need to start looking at alternative ways of determining just what “size” an organization may be. “SMBs have caught up to their large enterprise brethren in recognizing that their data is the lifeblood of their companies.” and...
#F5 is in the NOC at #Interop supporting its #IPv6 environment
Interop Las Vegas 2011, happening May 8–12 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, is just around the corner and the folks setting up the world’s largest temporary network servicing Interop exhibitors and attendees alike is well under way. The Interop NOC is as mission-critical as it gets for UBM (United Business Technologies), the organization behind the biggest industry show in technology. Over 10,000 organizers, vendors and attendees will make use of the Interop network to socialize, connect, demonstrate solutions and products as well as broadcast and report on the...
The signing of dot com will enable 100 million domains to deploy DNSSEC MARCH 31, 2011 (THE INTERNETS) In what has been many long years coming since the finalization of the DNSSEC specification circa 2004/2005, the rollout of the signed .COM top level domain (TLD) should, based on the projected schedule and the fact that there’s only one day left in March, happen tomorrow. This event is expected to trigger widespread DNSSEC deployments around the world as organizations hope to leverage the enhanced security mechanism to assure the accuracy of DNS data. .COM is the last...
Discussion and analysis of VDI initiatives and the rapid expansion of mobile platforms December 15th 2010 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET Please join Zeus Kerravala, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Yankee Group as he talks about the growing challenges for IT professionals attempting to deliver complex applications to multiple platforms and user bases. Zeus will help you navigate the complexities around these issues and provide valuable insight on his vision of the future. Zeus has spent many years speaking with both IT leaders and vendors about responding to ever increasing...
TechEd Europe • Berlin • Nov 8-12 Our Microsoft-focused team hasn’t even unpacked their bags after a great week at Connections 2010 and they’re on the road again, this time visiting the city of Berlin for TechEd Europe. Our big announcement last week was, of course, our Application Ready Solution for Microsoft’s unified communications server, Microsoft Lync . We’ll be talking more about that at TechEd Europe so be sure to stop by the booth ( #E95-96 ) and check out why an application delivery controller like BIG-IP is so very important...
November 1-4 · Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas F5 will be exhibiting at Connections 2010 in Las Vegas Nov 1-4. Key themes for Windows Connections this year are: Virtualization Windows 7 ...
If you’ve got a BIG-IP you can ease their concerns in about 3.5 seconds*. The big security news this week has been all about Firesheep and the insecure nature of social networking sites – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, yada, yada. The problem is, to get to the point, that many sites (not just the big names, mind you) only leverage SSL during the exchange of credentials. You know, the login page. Everything else – including cookies – are exchanged in the clear and easily sniffed out on a public WiFi connection. Or your corporate...
The majority of DNS infrastructures are vulnerable today. More and more customers are looking for a way, and allocating larger budgets, to protect and secure their DNS Infrastructures. Recently there have been several high profile attacks on the DNS systems. F5 and Infoblox together are uniquely positioned to solve these problems and secure the DNS infrastructures. Every organization should be thinking about the security and scalability of their DNS infrastructure. The combination of F5’s and Infoblox’s appliances provide enterprise customers an opportunity to build authoritative DNS infrastructure without giving up either global server load...
“F5 is the market leader in application availability and performance, and also the market leader in data center redundancy solutions. The customer loved F5 for its ease of management, ease of use, overall capabilities, and performance.” -- Jerry O’Brien, Enterprise Account Executive, FishNet Security Customer: Publically traded U.S. financial services institution F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM & GTM Partner: FishNet Security Customer Business Challenge A publically traded U.S. financial services institution based in the Midwest recently came to FishNet Security with two problems. First, the company needed...
Because we’re bound up in technology the term “rack space” immediately brings to mind rows of racks replete with servers humming and lights blinking merrily. But there’s another kind of rack that’s much quieter, has no lights, but still incurs similar costs associated with temperature control and circulation, requires maintenance and staff to manage, and that requires a whole lot of floor space. That’s right, it’s your local library. There are so many similarities between libraries and data centers – and in particular storage requirements – it’s amazing the analogy doesn’t crop up more in...
Customer: Hobsons Vertical: Education F5 Solution: BIG-IP GTM, LTM, WebAccelerator, iRules Business Challenge: Hobsons provides web-based SaaS solutions for colleges and universities for course planning, student retention, and career planning. Needing to push all of these services over the public internet while maintaining SLAs for their customers, Hobsons turned to F5 to ensure their mission-critical application delivery network was always available. Hobsons had to plan – while not over-provisioning – for traffic spikes, application migrations, and planned and un-planned maintenance periods by managing traffic direction and...
Customer: Northrop Grumman Corporation Vertical: Security F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, GTM, WebAccelerator, and multiple modules (see below) The Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online (AKO/DKO) Emerging Technologies Laboratory (ETL), established by Northrop Grumman Corporation, is a scaled replica of the AKO/DKO production environment that allows realistic testing, rapid prototyping, and preliminary integration of new capabilities prior to implementation. The AKO/DKO ETL officially opened on August 10, 2009. “ From the beginning of our implementation, key factors for success with the AKO/DKO ETL included...
