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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...
“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,...
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...
Building #F5 solutions into its core architecture enabled a scalable, secure platform for SaaS provider SingularLogic. Vertical: IT Services Location: Greece F5 Solutions: BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM), BIG-IP Link Controller (LC), iRules BUSINESS CHALLENGE SingularLogic provides applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), accountancy, finance, and hospital. It can’t afford to skimp on security to gain the scalability and performance required to successfully deliver software as a service. With 40,000 customers, SingularLogic is the leading software and integrated IT...
Find out why and you can win an iPad at #vmworld #SUP007 #F5 Amidst what appears to be impending disaster in the data center, one man stands calm. No, he’s not James Bond; he’s the Director of IT. Join F5 Networks’ SVP Marketing & Business Development, Dan Matte, and SVP Product Development & CTO, Karl Triebes, on Wednesday, Aug 31 @ 11:30am in Palazzo Ballroom O at VMworld and find out why he’s able to keep his cool despite the chaos that surrounds him. Learn his secret and you may win an iPad but...
“ 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...
#v11 Preventable attacks Today’s malware and other penetration techniques are custom-made, can adapt, and can cover the tracks of those seeking the information. An assault may start at the network level with DNS, ICMP, or SYN flood attacks, then move to the application with layer 7 DoS, SQL injection, or cross-site scripts (XSS); once the system is compromised, the attacker goes after the data. Attackers also often leave “back doors” so they can easily come and go before being detected. Many organizations do a decent job of securing their infrastructure components, but are challenged when...
#v11 Manageable When an application is deployed into a scalable architecture there’s a lot of work that needs to be done behind the scenes. Service-based load balancing offerings hide the complexity of the configuration from the customer by either eliminating many options or by presenting a simplified interface. It is the simplicity – the elegance – of these cloud-hosted availability services that make them appealing and which make it possible to reduce the time required to complete the often lengthy application deployment process. Human error, too, is often avoided by service-based offerings by eliminating differences in...
We knew there were more than #50waystousebigip. Turns out so did many of you! F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, is pleased to announce the winners of its “50 Ways to Use BIG-IP” contest. After evaluating the submissions, the Technical Marketing Team selected four data center professionals for their innovative use of BIG-IP® in their environments. The winning entries are among the best at addressing real-world application delivery challenges and showing the diverse use of F5® technology in the data center. This contest showcased the BIG-IP platform’s flexibility and applicability...
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...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at optimization and visibility. 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP System - Optimization & Visibility View more presentations from F5 Networks Connect with F5: ...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at optimization and visibility. OPTIMIZATION and VISIBILITY Optimization and visibility, on the surface, don’t seem to have...
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 ...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at architecture. 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP System - Architecture View more presentations from F5 Networks FIND OUT MORE, SHARE YOUR STORY, GET FREE STUFF How do you use your BIG-IP system? We want to know, so tell us about it. If you’re one of the first 100 to share your story you’ll get an awesome cool t-shirt. If you’re one...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at architecture . ARCHITECTURE Architecture is not something one often considers as a “feature” of data center...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at performance. 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP System - Performance View more presentations from F5 Networks FIND OUT MORE, SHARE YOUR STORY, GET FREE STUFF How do you use your BIG-IP system? We want to know, so tell us about it. If you’re one of the first 100 to share your story you’ll get an awesome cool t-shirt. If you’re one...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at performance. PERFORMANCE No one deploys an application with the intent that it be slow or unresponsive to...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at security. 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP System - Security View more presentations from F5 Networks FIND OUT MORE How do you use your BIG-IP system? We want to know, so tell us about it. If you’re one of the first 100 to share your story you’ll get an awesome cool t-shirt. If you’re one of the Top 4 stories...
#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.
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#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...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at security. SECURITY Security is one of the three core operational risks. Failure to maintain security means failure...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at availability. 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP System - Availability View more presentations from F5 Networks FIND OUT MORE How do you use your BIG-IP system? We want to know, so tell us about it. If you’re one of the first 100 to share your story you’ll get an awesome cool t-shirt. If you’re one of the Top 4 stories (hint: don’t...
#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...
It’s #interop time again, and here's your quick guide to finding opportunities to hear from and speak with F5 at the show! Connect with F5: Latest F5 Information F5 News...
#50waystousebigip Everyone knows the BIG-IP system does great load balancing, right? Right. But there’s a ton of other things it’s great at. This week we look at availability.
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May is just around the corner and that means that it’s time to get on your bike and take part in the Commute Challenge! It’s not often that you can participate in an activity that’s not only great for your health but good for the environment. Efforts like recycling are certainly beneficial to the environment, but don’t necessarily make an impact on your fitness (unless you’re carrying recyclables one by one, back and forth to a recycling center or the end of a really long driveway, of course). That’s why the Commute Challenge is so exciting...
There’s no reason to sacrifice security for high-availability, or vice-versa. On March 31, VeriSign announced that the top-level domain for .com—the Internet’s largest domain with more than 90 million domain name registrations worldwide—now supports DNS Security Extensions. With this development, all major generic top-level domains (.org, .edu, .net, and .gov) support DNSSEC, signifying that the broader DNSSEC infrastructure is ready for production. Organizations seeking to take advantage of DNSSEC to protect their critical DNS infrastructure, however, may find that it isn’t as simple as flicking a switch – unless you’ve got the right infrastructure. This is...
IlliniCloud/Bloomington School District just won the SNW 2011 Best Practices Award for Virtualization and Cloud Computing! Congratulations! “he ARX storage virtualization solution not only exceeded our expectations in terms of capabilities, it paid for itself within a year. I wouldn’t run a data center without it.” -- Jason Radford, System Administrator, IlliniCloud and Bloomington Customer: IlliniCloud Vertical: Education F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM and ARX Business Challenge: IlliniCloud wanted...
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...
The F5 solution beat the competition because it promised more functionality for a comparable price. We saw it as a strategic investment that would support our growth. --Arthur Braune, Manager of Information Technology, Sysmex America Vertical: Healthcare F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange...
Collaboration is critical component of successful private cloud computing implementations
Many of the cost savings calculations involving cloud computing revolve directly around the cost of resources. A public cloud computing model is able to achieve these cost savings through economy of scale.
For private cloud computing implementations, however, the cost savings so closely associated with cloud computing are rarely found through economy of scale at the resource level, but are instead realized through the economy of scale of people and processes; through automation and orchestration of operational processes that ultimately not only reduce operational costs both hard and soft, but...
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Media Coverage No Jitter Is There Another Wave of Growth on the Horizon for F5? The State Of the Union Seattle Times : Grumbling grows over corporate tax breaks Financial Coverage American Banking News Analysts' Weekly Ratings Changes for F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) Stocks Gapping Up for February, 3rd (CELL, CRT, EL, FFIV, FIG,...
Overview Five editors were briefed on the Jan. 24 news of the channel accreditation program. The coverage included the message of F5 releasing a completely new certification program that “enhances profitability” and demonstrates F5’s focus on channel partners. Outreach resulted in seven pieces of coverage in channel specific publications. Notable Quotes CRN: "We're the Swiss Army Knife of the data center," said Darwin in an interview with CRN. "Historically, we had so many networking partners, but now we're getting storage, and into the Microsoft (NSDQ:...
Notable Quotes John McAdams quotes: CNBC: McAdam said the company is hiring aggressively, especially in sales, and has racked up an increase in multi-million dollar projects. He added that an entirely new “product refresh” will debut in the last half of 2011. Investor Business Daily: “The thing that gives us a lot of confidence is our pipeline of business is very strong,” he said. “Our focus now is to get back to basics and execute.” CNN Money: “We feel good about our business. All the market...
Notable Quotes Processor Magazine: Bursts Of Cloud Capacity: Alan Murphy, senior technical marketing manager with F5 Networks: “A successful cloudbursting deployment hinges on total control of the cloud infrastructure and the ability to control what is provisioned into the cloud, when it is provisioned, and under what conditions and circumstances,” he says. “Monitoring and real-time feedback plays an integral part of managing the cloudbursting infrastructure, as well—something that should be factored in when choosing a cloud solution.” Media Coverage eChannel Line: KEMP...
Notable Quotes Investor’s Business Daily—F5 CEO: Busy Helping Clients ‘Re-Archetect’ IBD: Does the market growth imply that the company needs to invest more in technology? John McAdam: “There's no question. Every year we look at what are the key things we need to do for the oncoming year, and technology leadership in one form or another is always there. When you compete with quality companies like Cisco, you really need to have superior technology, so we are aggressively hiring right now in sales and service, and in...
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...
Overview Once again, a great deal of the F5 news relates to the performance of F5 stock, but there were also several pieces of coverage that comment on the release of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for ADC’s—specifically on how some notable stalwart competitors of F5 continue to slide from the leaders position. Lastly there continued to be some pick up of the F5 Service Delivery Networking architecture announcement for Service Providers and several reprints of F5 blogs on various topics. Notable Quotes Vendors Team Up On Video...
F5 BIG-IP LTM Customer Success Story Customer: MakeMyTrip Vertical: Online Travel Portal F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM , iRules Country: India With the F5 Application Delivery Controller in place, our system load has decreased by up to 30 percent and there are no more failures at the back end - Sanjay Kharb, Assistant Vice President – Technical Operations, MakeMyTrip (India) Pvt Ltd Business Challenge: MakeMyTrip is India’s leading online...
Overview This week brought a fair amount of coverage of F5’s announcements in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, a great write-up on John McAdam in Seattle Magazine and continued coverage of F5’s earnings announcement and continued growth. Notable Quotes F5 was 64th on Fortune’s 2010 list of the world’s 100 fastest-growing companies. Forbes has ranked F5 among its top 25 technology stocks, and this year cited its aggressive hiring—the company added more than 300 employees since last October, bringing worldwide employment to 1,900. – Leslie...
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...
F5 BIG-IP LTM and ASM Customer Success Story Customer: Human Kinetics Vertical: Publishing and e-Commerce F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM BIG-IP ASM Partner: CDW The improvement in functionality, performance, security, and support with F5 has been outstanding. It’s difficult to compare the improvement because it’s just done so much for us.” - Brad Trankina, Director of Network and Information Systems, Human Kinetics Business Challenge: Illinois-based Human Kinetics (HK)...
Overview There was a significant amount of financial coverage after F5 posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter and gave an upbeat outlook for the current period. Also, Frank Ohlhorst published a favorable review in eWeek on F5’s application ready solution for VMware View 4.5. Notable Quotes F5 networks brings added oomph to VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure deployments with its Application Ready Solution for VMware View 4.5, an add-on capability for F5’s BIG-IP Edge Gateway that consists of a set of best practices, guidelines and...
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...
Overview This weeks media is, once again, centered mostly around F5 stock price (FFIV) and the various opinions of analysts and other market watchers. With the quarterly and FY10 earnings announcement only days away, there seems to be little else on the minds of most people. Notable Quotes But guys like me? The Mid Caps? C’mon already! We ARE the market – we are the heartbeat of the tape and the future of American big business. Bring our stories into the fold and you will...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by a number of F5 spokespeople demonstrating thought leadership in core areas such as Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Application Delivery. As part of the CTO blog series, Karl Triebes’ blog on “Integrating Virtual Network Appliances into the Infrastructure” appeared in Virtualization Review. Don MacVittie was featured in Network World’s Tech Debate on the topic of application acceleration. Alan Murphy was also featured heavily in a Network World article on cloud technology. Also, F5 customer, Schalk Theron of Spring CM, was quoted touting the benefits of F5 solutions. ...
Overview This week’s coverage was dominated by the wild week in the stock market and concerns over the true impact of cloud computing to the revenue streams of various high-tech companies; although there still seems to be a significant disagreement on what the impact is. One component that seems to prevail is that F5 is dominating its current enterprise market against stalwarts like Cisco, and that their role in cloud computing is all upside, incremental potential; something that the industry blogs make clear even if the financial reporting hasn’t caught up. Notable...
In this week’s news, telecommuting makes a splash Notable Quotes F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) is on the cutting edge of an emerging trend in business: telecommuting. The company’s application delivery controllers and software programs help make networks run faster and more efficiently. This allows companies to conduct business over great distances. F5 also develops file virtualization, WAN optimization and remote access products that further help customers “decentralize” their businesses. I travel a lot so I...
F5 BIG-IP LTM and WebAccelerator Customer Success Story Customer: Riachuelo Vertical: Retail F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, WebAccelerator Country: Brazil With BIG-IP WebAccelerator, we achieved a 60 percent reduction of bandwidth use. Rubens Serrano Muchao, Technology Manager, Riachuelo Business Challenge: Riachuelo retail chain is one of several companies that belong to Grupo Guararapes. The company consolidated its IT and telecom administration centers, which support the retail stores as...
Overview Oracle OpenWorld was highlighted by healthy attendance, significant product announcements, and continued momentum for enterprise movement to the cloud. F5’s Ron Carovano supported the Application Ready Solution for Oracle DB technologies announcement through three media briefings with IT Business Edge, Network Computing and SearchEnterpriseWAN.com. Ron also participated in a short video from the trade show floor with Wikibon-SiliconAngle TV. Below are several highlights from the resulting coverage. Another highlight from this week’s news included Seattle Business Magazine’s report that Seattle-based F5 Networks made Forbes’ list of midsize companies hiring the most right now....
Customer: Bezeq International Vertical: Telecommunications F5 Solution: BIG-IP ASM Bezeq International’s prime security concerns are around data integrity and compliance with the regulations that surround data integrity. BIG-IP ASM delivers on both counts.” - Ami Hoffman, Information Security Director. Bezeq International Business Challenge: Bezeq International is an ISP and hosting provider with more than 1 million customers, ranging from small businesses to large...
Overview The highlight of this week’s news was the joint customer story on F5 and Ooba that appeared in Oracle’s Profit Magazine. The article, in which Ron Carovano was prominently quoted, detailed Ooba’s successful implementation of Oracle Application Server with F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager. Also, Karl Triebes’ latest blog posting on “On-Demand Cloud Bursting” appeared in Virtualization Review. Additionally, there was significant coverage around HP or IBM’s possible Radware acquisition with F5 included in the coverage as a major contender in the ADC market. Notable Quotes ...
Customer: ZACKS Vertical: Finance F5 Solution: LTM & iRules The advanced features and iRules functionality makes the BIG-IP LTM the most powerful load balancer on the market.” - Chris Dunlop, Manager, Networks and Infrastructure Business Challenges: With rising numbers of subscribers tapping into site tools such as stock screeners and research wizards, Zacks.com’s web infrastructure was beginning to show the strain. The IT team worried about how a single server unavailability...
Overview One of the highlights of this week’s news was John McAdam’s exclusive interview with CNBC due to F5’s leadership in the ADC market and financial performance; the interview covered core areas such as cloud computing and highlighted F5’s aggressive hiring efforts in the U.S. This week’s additional coverage highlights include Processor Magazine’s customer profile on Human Kinetics and its deployment of F5 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP ASM to help with web site security and load balancing. Additionally F5 and Human Kinetics were featured in an article on Web App Firewalls (WAF) that appeared in Network...
Overview This week’s coverage was dominated by F5’s presence at VMworld. F5's VMworld announcements were well received and continued the company's momentum as a virtualization and cloud innovator. Network World pointed out that VMware's relationships with companies like F5 need further definition - a compliment to the strength of F5's portfolio. Coverage from the show indicates that the industry has bought into F5's cloud strategy and understands the value that F5 offers. Coverage included three slide shows, three videos and seven unique articles. We saw additional coverage in Dark Reading for which Nathan Myers provided...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by the news of F5 being named to FORTUNE’s list of “Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies” which was picked up by eWeek. Additionally Kathleen Ferraro was prominently quoted in a feature article on Storage Virtualization that appeared in Processor Magazine. Also, F5 Networks was included in the list of “Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing” by Cloud Computing Journal. Notable Quotes Managing data growth is a challenge faced by companies of all sizes, but it is particularly acute for small to midsized...
Overview This week’s coverage gives further evidence that F5’s message around cloud computing and the infrastructure needs of the cloud are gaining traction. Lori MacVittie was featured in Michael Brandenburg’s SearchNetworking.com article on multi-tenant private clouds. Alan Murphy’s contributed article on cloud infrastructure appeared in Internet Telephony. Notable quotes and all of this week’s coverage is below. Notable Quotes As data centers become more focused on applications and service, the network switches and gear that reside within those data centers must become focused on more...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was Chad Berndston’s feature article on F5 in which he interviewed Gary Abad, Nexum and Trace 3 to learn more about the objectives of the F5 partner summit. Also, F5 Networks was ranked #1 in Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Washington’s Best Workplaces” award for the extra large business category. Please see notable quotes and full coverage below. Notable Quotes It's been a year of strong gains for F5 Networks, and the challenge now is for the company to keep growing...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was the Investor’s Business Daily feature article on F5 that included a great photo of John McAdam. F5’s was recognized as a key leader and expert on application delivery and the cloud. Notable Quotes F5 Networks (FFIV) has become one of cloud computing biggest beneficiaries, revving up earnings and widening its lead over bigger rivals by helping make network-delivered software faster and more reliable. The Seattle-based company dominates an obscure but crucial $1-billion market for application delivery controllers, and that lead...
EDITORS NOTE: We would like to apologize for the tardiness of this week’s “in review” of last week. Many of our team had the privilege of meeting with some 500 F5 customers and partners over the last three days at the F5 North American Summit in Chicago. It’s such a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with people who have just as much passion about F5 as we do that we couldn’t resist . . . and consequently let our normal duties slip. Thank you for your patience—and another thank you to all the folks...
Customer: Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Vertical: Education F5 Solution: LTM & iRules Partners: Dell, VMware, Oracle, Microsoft, Blackboard The BIG‑IP devices … have been very reliable and have freed my time to focus on other systems, and to drive our strategic initiatives—such as virtualization—forward.” - James Duncan, Senior Systems Administrator, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Business Challenges: ...
Overview This week was a significant coverage week for F5, with numerous bloggers highlighting F5’s technology and accomplishments as a result of Gastalt Tech Field Day; and the financial press is continuing to take notice of F5’s leadership in the ADC market and financial performance, with FFIV appearing in the Seattle Times, Business Week and CNBC to name a few. Our first piece of Baatar coverage also appeared this week; the article includes a photo of the Baatar Hero car and highlights that F5 will be demonstrating the more adventurous side of remote working later in...
Tomorrow, July 24th, approximately 350 cars will swarm the streets of England as they depart from Goodwood to start the Mongol Rally, a 10,000 mile drive across unmapped roads from the UK to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. But this is no ordinary rally, and these aren’t ordinary rally drivers. The Mongol Rally is made up of regular people from real life who are driving in the rally to raise money for various charities around the world. Real people who need normal internet access in extreme locations, internet access that we all take for granted when we’re tethered to a...
Customer: ooba Vertical: Finance F5 Solution: LTM & Oracle Country: South Africa Partner: Enterweb F5’s close relationship with Oracle helps us as a customer because there are many proven certified configurations that are available to us. This dramatically reduces our testing.” - Dominique dhotman, Manager of Enterprise Architecture, ooba Business Challenges To support the many homebuyer financial services...
Overview In this week’s news, F5 was included in several blog posts from Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day; F5 hosted bloggers that were interested in learning more about F5’s solutions. Also, this was another strong week for F5’s evangelists with two contributed pieces appearing in Virtualization Review and Dr. Dobbs Journal. Notable Quotes We’re on to our 3rd and final presentation here at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day. After a short road trip into beautiful downtown Seattle, we’ve arrived at F5. At 1,800 employees strong,...
Customer: U.S. Midwest-based financial services institution F5 Solution: ARX file virtualization Partner: AE Business Solutions with Data Domain By using ARX, the client can optimize what it already has installed.” - Sean O’Brien, Data Center Line of Business Manager, AE Business Solutions. Customer Business Challenge: One of AE Business Solutions’ clients, a financial services institution, turned to AE for help when...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by F5 spokespeople demonstrating thought leadership in core areas such as Cloud Computing and Virtualization. Storage Magazine featured a contributed piece by Renny Shen on the impact virtualization is having on storage. It was strong opinion piece in a reputable forum. Also, both Pete Silva and Lori MacVittie had articles appear in Cloud Computing Journal and My Interop. Media Coverage Virtual Strategy Magazine: Storage in a Virtualized Environment Financial Coverage Benzinga: Top Performing Industries for...
Technology workers are probably one of the most difficult employees to motivate and keep productive. It’s the nature of the work and the people. Many technologists simply aren’t motivated with extrinsic rewards and generating intrinsic motivation is generally beyond the ability of an employer or manager. The best that you can hope to do is to eliminate de-motivating behavior and provide the opportunity for the technologists internal passion to flourish and bloom. When almost your entire organization is built of these technology personas, it is exceptionally difficult to maintain a culture and atmosphere that makes this possible. ...
Virtualization has provided a significant boon to enterprise data center operations. Not only has OS virtualization enabled organizations to consolidate and curb the growth of server hardware, but provided a means to reduce power and cooling costs that had become a major component of operating expense. It has also increased the efficiency of enterprise IT, giving them the ability to provision new servers in minutes instead of weeks or months. Virtualization is certainly here to stay. Virtualization alone, however, is not enough to enable organizations to realize the true potential of on-demand IT and bridge traditional...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was some contributed content featured in Dell Power Solutions on F5’s BIG-IP and WAN Optimization Module technology. The financial press is continuing to take notice of F5’s leadership in the Application Delivery Controller market and financial performance, with FFIV appearing as a featured tech stock in Investor’s Business Daily this week. This week’s full coverage appears below: Notable Quotes FirePass version 7.0 offers many enhancements over older versions. Firstly, it includes enhanced endpoint security features, such as firewall, anti-malware software, and antivirus...
Customer: AutoScout24 Vertical: E-Commerce F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, GTM Business Challenge: With more and more consumers turning to the Internet to make purchases of all kinds, AutoScout24 has been able to expand rapidly following its early adoption of an e-commerce business model. At peak times of the day, there can be a quarter of a million users online concurrently, with an average of 5.4 million people using the website each month. To...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was around an Infonetics research report on the application delivery controller space, in which F5 is named the clear market leader beating out Cisco by almost 20 points. Also, Firepass 7.0 received a favorable review in The VAR Guy. More coverage and notable quotes can be found below. Notable Quotes Infonetics reported that Cisco has taken a considerable hit in their application delivery controller (ADC) market share. They are trailing behind F5 Networks by 12 points, Cisco having dropped to...
Customer: Medavie Blue Cross
F5 Solution: LTM with caching, compression and SSL acceleration, iRules
The [BIG-IP LTM] caching module saved us about six months of development work and sped up the application by 60 percent. It’s the only part of the environment that hasn’t had an outage in the last five years I have had no unexplained downtime with my F5 devices, ever. They’re rock solid.”
Vince Power, Integration Architect, Medavie Blue Cross Blue Cross
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Overview This week’s coverage highlights included a positive article on F5’s latest optimization solutions for Microsoft, in which James Hendergart was prominently quoted. The article was syndicated in several Redmond publications including Virtualization Review, Microsoft Certified Professional and Visual Studio Magazine to name a few. Also, Karl Triebes first blog appeared in his new blog series, “App Delivery On-Demand,” that will appear bi-weekly in Virtualization Review. Notable Quotes Application delivery networking (ADN) company F5 Networks has been discussing its latest application and network performance optimization solutions at the Microsoft...
Customer: The First American Corporation F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, GTM, SSL VPN Partner: VMware F5 is providing two fairly large services—content delivery and disaster recovery—and we didn’t find that with any other company.” - Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architect, The First American Corporation Business Challenge: The First American Corporation supplies businesses and consumers with online information in five primary industry segments, including title insurance and services, specialty insurance, and data and analytics. A $6.2 billion...
Overview This week we saw the first article on the Microsoft news with more coverage expected to appear during the TechEd show next week. Also, Zeus Kerravala of Yankee Group posted a flattering piece, calling F5 a key leader in cloud computing for being one of the first vendors to bring security to the cloud. Notable Quotes Despite this fact, there really hasn’t been any vendor addressing the unique security needs of cloud computing. At Interop last month, Application Delivery Networking market leader F5 announced enhancements to its...
It seems to be a universal phenomenon, but every vendor’s solution is somehow perfect for every customer, every application and every instance. It seems that the Pareto Principle no longer applies; at least if you listen to the marketing. More likely, these statements or suggestions are more like those of a famous marketing quote: Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. – Henry Ford In the real-world, different customers and different application have unique requirements that may not fit nicely...
Overview This week’s coverage gives further evidence that F5’s message around cloud computing and the infrastructure needs of the cloud are gaining traction. This week featured four articles that specifically quoted Lori MacVittie about the infrastructure needs of the cloud. Also, we saw some additional local coverage around F5 Bike to Work Day. Notable Quotes Lori MacVittie seems to think not. In a recent column, the technical marketing manager and blogger at F5 Networks argues that PaaS is proprietary by nature, and so any portability and choice are likely only...
Overview This week was a big coverage week for F5 customers as John Engates of Rackspace and Tom Hall of Orbital Sciences were quoted touting the benefits of F5 solutions. The highlight of the customer coverage was SearchEnterpriseWAN.com where the virtual edition of BIG-IP LTM was featured. Also, a significant amount of the coverage was on ‘F5 Bike to Work Day,’ and F5’s efforts to promote the health and environmental benefits of biking to work. The event was well covered by local media. Notable Quotes While others during the...
“On-Demand IT” is the reason that many organizations continue to pursue the promise of cloud computing despite the challenges that still remain to be solved. The notion that new applications can be provisioned and deployed, or new users can be provisioned with all the applications they need, with the click of a button is a seductive prospect. It promises to finally align Business and IT by removing the time barrier between the identification of a need and the ability of IT to deliver the tools to capitalize on it. Everyone seems to have bought...
Overview In this week’s news, CIO.com featured a contributed piece by Ken Salchow on the need for enterprises to be cloud-ready. It was a strong opinion piece in a reputable forum. Additionally, in his Network World article on Interop, author John Dix reinforced F5’s value proposition around the BIG-IP portfolio that builds on the vision of a dynamic control plane. There was also significant coverage around the Imperva patent infringement lawsuit filed by F5 Networks after the company released a controversial statement calling the suit “baseless”. Notable Quotes One...
The whole goal of any IT organization is to provide value to the business. That value is generally created by connecting users to the applications they need in order to get the job done. So, the goal of IT is really about connecting users to applications. It may involve many components in between and a lot of complexity; certainly this is increasingly true in today's world of mobile users and mobile (virtual) applications. It is all about the user and the application. That’s what IT is measured on. All applications, however, are not the same. Even two...
Customer: Orbital Sciences Vertical: Aerospace and Defense F5 Solution: ARX, Data Manager Partner: Trace|3 Business Challenge: One of the world’s leading space technology companies, Orbital Sciences Corporation has pioneered new classes of rockets, satellites, and other technologies that help make the benefits of space more affordable, accessible, and useful to millions of people on Earth. As the business has grown, its use of complex engineering applications and the need to keep data accessible...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by a number of F5 spokespeople demonstrating thought leadership in core areas such as Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Security. As part of SC Magazine feature story, Nathan Meyer provided interesting opinions on the current barriers in DNSSEC. Renny Shen was quoted heavily in an article on file virtualization for Enterprise IT Planet. And Lori MacVittie was quoted in an article on Cloud Computing in IT Business Edge, reinforcing her role as a thought leader on the technology. Notable Quotes But the days of...
Customer: Swisscom Vertical: Telecommunications F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, VIPRION Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecommunications provider, with 5.5 million mobile customers and 1.8 million broadband connections. Business Challenge: Swisscom embarked on a project to provide free Internet access for all Swiss schools. With more than 5,000 primary and secondary schools in the country and a potential user base of 900,000 pupils and teachers, Swisscom needed a best-in-class solution for load balancing, URL filtering, proxy management, and security. F5® VIPRON® and F5 BIG-IP®...
Peter Silva talks with F5's Lori MacVittie about Web 2.0, Infrastructure 2.0, the dynamic network, interoperability standards, what 3.0 looks like and a few other things from the Cloud Connect conference in Santa Clara. Latest F5 Information F5 News Articles F5 Press Releases F5 Events ...
Overview This week’s coverage highlights focus largely on the Interop announcements. PR worked to secure 13 briefings with the trade press around the the BIG-IP 10.2 announcement, which generated quite a bit of coverage. The ExtraHop and F5 alliance news was also picked up by local press. Notable Quotes By declaring open war on HP, IBM, and Dell, Cisco has made networking relevant again for the major OEMs who need a networking story — and subsequently turned them into potential startup acquirers. The market capitalizations of Juniper, F5 and...
Customer: PensionsFirst Vertical: Pensions (Financial) F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM Access Policy Manager Partner: Dell “We’ve built an iron fence around our web application with BIG‑IP APM. It not only secures the application; it helps us manage the traffic and the user experience.” Dean Newman, Director of Information Technology, PensionsFirst Business Challenge: As PensionsFirst moved the application to a web-based platform, the company turned to F5...
Just like our customers, F5 has a business to run as well and faces many of the same challenges with doing that in the face of today’s fast past technology landscape. Roughly 60% of F5 employees work outside the corporate campus and even those that do are often mobile moving from corporate LAN to WiFi to Mobile Data Services and home broadband. Compounding this issue is that a majority of F5’s mobile work force also tend to be above average when it comes to technology savvy. At the same time, security is a big concern. These remote...
Customer: The City of Diamond Bar Vertical: Government F5 Solution: BIG-IP Link Controller FirePass SSL VPN “ The remote access control provided by FirePass SSL VPN is a key shield in our defense.” Ken Desforges, IS Director, City of Diamond Bar, California Business Challenge: The City of Diamond Bar provides a host of online services. Residents can buy transit passes online, for example, while...
One of the most important aspects of F5 technology is the integration of services, not just from F5 but from technology partners, independent developers and custom solutions built by our customers. While F5 believes that our solutions are the cornerstone of application delivery and the dynamic services model necessary for the evolution of on-demand IT, there has always been an understanding that the real value to customers comes from working with their existing infrastructure and other best of breed solutions. While attending the 2010 RSA Conference, F5’s Peter Silva talked with several of these best of breed...
One of the most important aspects of F5 technology is the integration of services, not just from F5 but from technology partners, independent developers and custom solutions built by our customers. While F5 believes that our solutions are the cornerstone of application delivery and the dynamic services model necessary for the evolution of on-demand IT, there has always been an understanding that the real value to customers comes from working with their existing infrastructure and other best of breed solutions. While attending the 2010 RSA Conference, F5’s Peter Silva talked with several of these best of breed...
One of the most important aspects of F5 technology is the integration of services, not just from F5 but from technology partners, independent developers and custom solutions built by our customers. While F5 believes that our solutions are the cornerstone of application delivery and the dynamic services model necessary for the evolution of on-demand IT, there has always been an understanding that the real value to customers comes from working with their existing infrastructure and other best of breed solutions. While attending the 2010 RSA Conference, F5’s Peter Silva talked with several of these best of breed...
Peter Silva of F5 sits down with IOActive's Dan Kaminsky at RSA 2010. In this extremely informative and lively discussion, the Domain Name System is the topic. DNS infrastructure, DNS vulnerabilities including DNS Cache Poisoning, DNSSEC and what's happened since the discovery of the flaw are all discussed. In 3-10 minute segments. Dan Kaminsky Interview, Part 1: Dan Kaminsky Interview, Part 2: Dan Kaminsky Interview, Part 3: ...
Not long ago F5 argued that in this highly competitive and and dynamic market it is often difficult for customers to make informed product decisions. There are so many quality products in the marketplace with so many complex features, and there is little time and money to do full-blown evaluations of all the possible solutions. However, choosing the wrong product can be disastrous. One solution is to consult industry analysts like Gartner, Forrester, IDC, or ESG who can provide a vast amount of information, experience and knowledge to provide an insight both into the products as...
Customer: University of Groningen Vertical: Higher Education F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM Business Challenge: The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ranks among the top European research universities. In total, 9,000 staff members and 25,000 students are active across nine faculties, divided among approximately 150 buildings in and around the city of Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. The university also maintains strong ties with many of its 60,000 registered alumni. Problems with the university’s IT...
Customer: SIDN Vertical: Internet F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM Business Challenge: The Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (Netherlands Internet Domain Registration Foundation, or SIDN) is responsible for issuing and registering all Dutch domain names. SIDN currently has more three million customers using .nl domain names. The organization provides its services to the public through 2,000 independent Internet service providers (ISPs). To keep up with customer needs and provide better availability and security, SIDN was looking to...
Customer: RelayHealth, a division of McKesson Vertical: Healthcare F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM BIG-IP GTM Business Challenge: RelayHealth provides an SaaS platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. They securely process more than 12 billion financial and clinical transactions a year. With a tremendous diversity of operating systems and protocols used throughout its data centers, RelayHealth was looking to simplify its application delivery infrastructure and improve the performance, reliability, and...
In today’s fast paced, Internet driven world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find reliable, verifiable information concerning the real-world performance of technology. Every vendor has performance reports and “third-party” testing, but so few of them are really independent and almost none of them come even close to approximating the real-world. Technologists know that every environment is unique and the most important metric is how the technology works in their specific environment. A close second, however, is knowing how the technology has worked in other, albeit different but, similar environments at organizations that have many of the same...
Server virtualization is booming. Enterprise organizations and mom-n-pop operations alike are experiencing a whole new level of flexibility within their IT operations. Server virtualization not only provides cost savings through consolidation, but also provides reduced deployment times and greater control over the use of finite resources. The sophisticated tools provided by today’s leading hypervisor vendors create the ability to dynamically balance the resource needs of applications across the available resources. Instead of having to invest in resources to meet the needs of every application’s peak requirements, they can dynamically move unused resource to augment applications experiencing peak traffic....
A complete guide to news and media coverage for F5 Networks for the week of March 8th, 2010. Notable Quotes: Nathan Meyer, product manager at F5, said the benefits in upgrading systems during the deployment will be new systems that provide policy automation and key management. For example, Meyer said F5; a mid-level enterprise has over 100 different zones making the process of managing them a fairly daunting task. "The task of managing each zone individually with individual keys and maintaining all the roll over periods would be...
With each new incarnation of IT architecture and design, complexity and management seem to continually be a point of contention. The advent of server virtualization and ‘VM sprawl’ has certainly highlighted the need for new ways to tackle the existing dilemma. If managing a datacenter full of physical machines was difficult, managing the increasing number of virtual machines is another challenge all together. In fact, one in four poll respondents admits to using the “wink and a prayer” method of managing VMs and hypervisor hosts.(Hernick,...
Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global IT services company. CSC provides innovative solutions for industry and government customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. In this podcast, we talk to Evan Loats, Remote Access Product Manager, Australia and Asia CSC, about the requirements of remote access users in today’s rapidly evolving mobile environment and the solution F5 Networks provides to their customers. ...
Customer: Confucius Institute Online Vertical: Education F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, GTM, VIPRION ARX Partner: Digital China Sinogrid Information Technology Business Challenge: Confucius Institute Online was launched in March 2009. Just as the portal’s contents and services are quickly expanding, so, too, is traffic to the website. This quick growth requires a scalable and secure portal infrastructure to best serve people worldwide. With a content delivery network built on F5 devices and solutions, Confucius Institute Online is prepared for the future, and it...
A recent article asserts with its title that “95% of email is spam.” The article backs up its title with information gleaned from a recent study conducted by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) on the subject of spam: The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) released its new spam report which looks at spam budgets, impact of spam and spam management. The survey targeted email service providers of different types and sizes, and received replies from 100 respondents from 30 different countries, throughout the EU (26/27...
The challenges associated with cloud computing and remote data center locations are strikingly similar, particularly with regards to performance and transfers of large files across bandwidth constrained, e.g. WAN, links. Congestion, latency, and prioritization of other applications can slow down the transfer of data across data centers, whether traditional or cloud-based. Conversely, the utilization of Internet-connected WAN-speed links to provide both transfer of large data files and application service to myriad remote employees and users via mobile devices, roaming laptops, and dedicated desktops in remote offices, can cause performance challenges.
The challenges are only going to become more complex as...
Many IT departments are struggling with rapid increases in both traffic volumes and users. Simultaneously, organizations continue to leverage social media, mobile devices, and an expanding array of web services to achieve business goals. These demands result in many companies pushing the limits of their current application delivery infrastructures. Even the most capable of chassis based solutions may need a boost in performance and total capacity to support highly trafficked sites that are more on par with the demands placed upon the infrastructure of a service-provider class organization than a traditional enterprise. Service-providers, too, are feeling the pressure as more...
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is the evolution of Microsoft’s Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG 2007). Forefront UAG is a secure remote access solution focusing on applying application intelligence and granular access control across applications to enable easy management of access to enterprise applications by mobile and remote employees and partners. Forefront UAG provides centralized management and policy control across all users, devices, and network resources. Scaling solutions such as Forefront UAG is often challenging because of the unique requirements raised by such solutions, such as routing server generated connections in situations where the client has a...
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...
One of the challenges with deploying advanced application delivery controllers as a way to improve the security, performance, and scalability of specific applications is the wealth of user-configurable options available. It can take network and application server administrators days if not weeks to optimize a configuration for their specific environment using all the knobs and buttons available.
A full-proxy based application delivery solution has a variety of specific configuration options that can be “tweaked” to gain optimal performance for application environments like IBM WebSphere. For example, it is possible to configure the client side (WAN) and the server side (LAN)...
The growth rate amongst mobile users continues to outpace traditional access methods. According to IDC Research “Users will access the Internet through more than 1.5 billion devices worldwide in 2008, including PCs, mobile phones, and online videogame consoles. By 2012, the number of devices accessing the Internet will double to more than 3 billion, half of which will be mobile devices.” The increase in mobile users and devices accessing the Internet through service-provider offerings creates unique challenges for service-providers primarily due to the peculiarities of the protocols used – particularly for AAA services - and a lower tolerance...
On Monday, November 16th, F5 announced a partnership and OEM agreement with Quova, Inc, providers of IP geolocation data. IP geolocation is technology that allows physical location information to be extrapolated from an end-user’s IP address. For example, geolocation data can be used to identify if a user is accessing a website from North America. Where Quova technology differs from standard geolocation data is the granularity of information they provide. One of the challenges of using geolocation is the accuracy of the information and the ability to use that information to reliable make network and application decisions. Not only...
DNS is insecure. Rogue DNS servers can impersonate real ones and compromise your infrastructure. DNSSEC addresses this particular flaw, but the complexity of the solution has been hampering adoption, leaving hundreds of thousands of DNS servers vulnerable. While DNS has many known security flaws, most have been solved with configuration changes and best practices. However, recent, more serious exploits have drawn greater attention and have prompted the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to mandate all federal agencies deploy DNSSEC by the end of 2009. DNSSEC deployment has so far been hindered by the complexity of available solutions,...
Customer: Datacenter Stockholm Vertical: Web hosting F5 Solution: FirePass, BIG-IP LTM Business Challenge: Datacenter Stockholm is a leading IT resource provider, focusing on the online media and retail industry. Datacenter Stockholm enhanced its secure remote access customer proposition using FirePass. Additionally, the need for additional bandwidth, together with a drive towards consolidation, were addressed using BIG-IP 3600 devices. New virtual servers can be added on a daily basis to meet expanding customer requirements without disruption to existing services or architecture. Customer Benefits: ...
RelayHealth provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to facilitate the exchange of information between pharmacies, hospitals and health systems, payors, physicians, and patients. It operates pharmacy data centers in Atlanta and Sacramento, and employs hundreds of physical and virtual servers in a heterogeneous operating system environment to support the approximately 11 billion retail pharmacy financial and clinical transactions it processes per year. Security, availability, and responsive applications are paramount to its business and to the customers it ultimately serves. F5 handles routing of application traffic to both its data centers, and using advanced features in BIG-IP LTM, such...
Two good, full years into the virtualization revolution in the data center and things are going swimmingly. You can’t walk into a data center today without seeing physical servers running Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere 4, or another virtual server platform, and IT departments are already moving past basic deployment of those platforms into other areas where they can become more mobile and agile such as cloud computing and data center to data center virtualization. And yet despite this overwhelming acceptance and adoption of virtualization, management of virtual assets – both discretely as well as part of a larger unified...
For decades now there have been warnings - some dire, some simply informational - that the depletion of IPv4 address is imminent. We’ve (meaning IT) known about this eventuality for a long time but now it’s starting to hit the mainstream media and of course the sky is falling. These dire warnings of peril continue to surface more frequently as the actual ticking of the IPv4 timebomb grows louder and louder. Some comments on articles related to this topic dismiss the urgency, claiming that because we (meaning IT, of course) have known about...
“ [Our users] never complain about file shares being slow anymore because it’s so easy for us to create shares when we need them. We just set it up and forget about it.” -- Tim Lee, Senior Network Analyst Customer: Suzuki Motor Corporation F5 Solution: ARX500 Data Manager Channel Partner: Trace3 Business Challenge: American Suzuki Motor Corporation prides itself on providing value-packed automobiles, motorcycles, ATVs, scooters and marine engines. Its IT organization shares that commitment to customer satisfaction. When...
“F5 is providing two fairly large services—content delivery and disaster recovery—and we didn’t find that with any other company.” -- Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architect, The First American Corporation Customer: The First American Corporation F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, GTM, SSL VPN Partner: VMware Business Challenge: The First American Corporation supplies businesses and consumers with online information in five primary industry segments, including title insurance and services, specialty insurance, and data and analytics. A $6.2 billion company comprising 200 business units, First American is...
“ F5 is far above the competition. In fact, Nexum only offers F5 BIG‑IP LTM and GTM, because other vendors do not have the level of performance and value that F5 delivers for our clients.” --David Lesser, President & CTO, Nexum, Inc. Customer: Multinational energy (oil and gas) F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM & GTM with Web Accelerator Modules Partner: Nexum Business Challenges: Nexum’s client, a FORTUNE 1000 multinational leader in the oil and gas industry, has a complex environment...
Customer & Partner: Fortify Security Vertical: Information Technology – Security F5 Solution: BIG-IP v10 Fortify Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG-IP® Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With BIG-IP v10, Fortify Security has experienced a 60 percent reduction in server load, and believes that the new version will result in performance improvements as well as significant data center...
Rotary International deployed a new public-facing website using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. To encourage viewership and achieve optimal return on its SharePoint investment, Rotary uses the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 3400 device from F5 Networks to manage site traffic. With F5 devices, Rotary maintains high website availability, has simplified administration, and has freed-up server processor usage as much as 20 percent, resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings. Customer: Rotary International Vertical: Non-Profit F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM iRules Application Ready Solution for SharePoint Server 2007 ...
With everybody’s head in the “Clouds” these days, GoGrid’s (the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath) Michael Sheehan and Telemachus Luu join F5 in a lively discussion covering Cloud Computing and how ServePath extended their unique hosting solutions to include the Cloud. We talk about their extension of their traditional hosting company into their branded “Cloudcenter,” how they addressed the challenges when developing GoGrid and how F5 was instrumental to their success. Customer: ServePath / GoGrid Vertical: Technology – SaaS, Cloud Computing F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM ...
Griffith University is one of Australia’s largest higher education institution with an enrolment of more than 37,000 students from 122 countries, and a teaching staff of 3,500. Founded in 1975, the university has five campuses across three cities in Australia. Griffith University is regarded as one of Australia's most innovative tertiary institutions, and one of its key initiatives is the development of its electronic learning facilities. However, the university faced application performance and availability issues, which included PeopleSoft applications. They required more advanced traffic management capabilities than its previous load balancer offered. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic...
DNSstuff.com is the leading source for on-demand troubleshooting and problem-solving tools for DNS and networking issues. The 100,000 users who visit DNSstuff.com each day rely on the site when they are experiencing critical DNS and network configuration problems. Any downtime can have a serious impact on customers’ businesses as well as on DNSstuff.com’s revenue and reputation. Customer: DNSstuff.com Vertical: E-Commerce (DNS Diagnostics) Business Challenge: When businesses have critical problems with email, websites, or connectivity, they turn to DNSstuff.com. Sixteen million unique users access the site annually and it produces about 15,000 DNSreports...
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is the largest of China's "Big Four" state-owned commercial banks, and also the largest bank in the world in terms of market value. ICBC has 170 million individual customers and 2.72 million corporate customers, with online banking users numbering 50 million. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, about 500,000 overseas visitors and one million domestic travelers were expected in Beijing. ICBC's self-serve terminals, including POSs and ATMs, covered 98 percent of the core Games venues areas in the city. · Customer: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China...
I have the pleasure and honor to announce that version 6.0.3 of F5's SSL VPN, FirePass, has been released! This version of FirePass includes a plethora of enhancements included new client support (Vista SP1, XP SP3, and Firefox 3 on Windows, Mac, and Linux) as well as support for the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. About F5 FirePass: FirePass is a robust, secure SSL VPN providing remote access to business applications from a wide range of client devices, including Windows Mobile devices and the Apple iPhone. Using full-tunnel...
F5 is expanding on the previously announced ARN for Oracle to provide tested and documented deployment, configuration, and optimization guidance for customers using F5 and Oracle's Siebel CRM applications in concert. Benefits of deploying the new Oracle Siebel ARN: Up to 3-7x performance increases, resulting in improved user experience Leveraging F5's optimization technologies, Siebel CRM users can now experience LAN-like performance over the WAN. Reduced infrastructure and OpEx cost F5's intelligent compression achieves 87 percent bandwidth reductions for Siebel CRM,...
One of the things about F5 that continues to be unique is the depth of our partnerships with application vendors like Oracle. It's not just marketing for marketing's sake; we're intimately involved with Oracle deployments across many of their applications and solutions. We've deployed them, testing them, and tweaked our configurations and solutions until we're sure that deploying Oracle with F5 solutions will provide you the best possible deployment experience. This week we're at Oracle OpenWorld, so stop by and say hello (booth #1730) and ask how our solutions can ensure a successful deployment of Oracle solutions. ...
With VMWorld going on this week, everyone is talking cloud computing and virtualization. Whether it's enabling cloud computing or integrating with VMWare, everyone has some news and F5 is no exception. BlueLock, powered by F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, has just launched a unique cloud computing offering that takes advantage of F5's unique integration capabilities to enable a VMWare centered infrastructure. BlueLock delivers pre-configured, virtual IT environments that are secure, resilient, and scalable on-demand. Clients pay a monthly fee for the infrastructure they use plus a retainer for reserve...
Certification helps assure customers that F5's WANJet and BIG-IP Application Security Manager products interoperate with the SAP NetWeaver platform and provide network performance and security benefits for SAP applications SEATTLE, December 12, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that the F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM™) version 9 with Application Security Manager™(ASM™) and WANJet® version 5 products have achieved SAP® Certified Integration for third-party networking appliances that interoperate with SAP solutions using the SAP NetWeaver® platform and an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). As a complement to F5's...
Financial Services firm standardizes on F5's Application Delivery Networking solutions to support hundreds of banking, securities, and insurance companies; Ensures best possible experience for users accessing financial data WELLINGTON and SEATTLE, December 12, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that FNZ has successfully deployed F5 products to build its Application Delivery Network to support more than 110,000 investors in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Using the F5® BIG-IP® system and other F5 products, the company equipped itself from the onset to support an expanding customer base with fast,...
F5 recognized as Best Large Company and Best High-Tech Company; Tops list for Coolest Office Space and Most Unusual Perks in online survey sponsored by the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer SEATTLE, November 7, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it was named winner of four categories in the annual People's Picks awards, sponsored by NWjobs, the online job listing service of the Puget Sound area's two major newspapers, the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. F5 captured the region's top spot in these categories: Best Large Company in...
F5 joins Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council to help promote broad adoption of PCI standards SEATTLE, November 6, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has joined the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council as a Participating Organization. As a company, F5 has a rich level of expertise across application and network security. The company's solutions, including BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™, FirePass®, and BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ products, help customers achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (DSS). "The PCI Security Standards...
Increased integration with F5's application delivery portfolio delivers a 9x performance boost, provides robust, transparent security for Web 2.0 applications SEATTLE, November 6, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a new version of its BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) solution. BIG-IP ASM delivers a new level of integration by further leveraging the plug-in architecture of TMOS™, the modular architecture platform for F5's application delivery solutions. With this integration-along with manageability and feature improvements-F5 has delivered the industry's foremost comprehensive application delivery security solution for enterprises and other organizations. ...