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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...
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 ...
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: ...
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...
“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...
When F5 recently announced the Access Policy Manager (APM) one of the exciting elements was the ability to add access control and single-sign-on (SSO) capabilities to existing application delivery controllers. This allows customers to simplify their application deployments and provides a significant cost savings. Of course, releasing a new product offering that promises amazing new capabilities and enormous cost savings is something that anyone can do. Once the customer has it, it is often left up to them to figure out how to integrate it into their environment—a task which often decreases the value of the...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
F5's BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ helps optimize end-to-end performance of unified communications technologies from Microsoft; Helps ensure users experience optimal performance and reliability from their communications tools SEATTLE, October 31, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has expanded its Application Ready Network™ for Microsoft to include Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. F5's Application Ready Network provides Microsoft customers with high availability, scalability, and performance for their unified communications environments. "Unified communications is a key enabler of the Anywhere Enterprise," said Zeus Kerravala, SVP of Enterprise Research...
