VIPRION
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#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...
Overview This week’s coverage highlights stem from the release of the Infonetics Research 1Q10 Data Center Network Equipment Market Share and Forecast Report. According to Infonetics Research, the ADC market experienced a 28% worldwide increase in sales in Q1 over the same period a year ago. The report notes that F5 has grow its lead in the ADC market to almost 20-points over Cisco. Notable Quotes Though worldwide sales of ADCs are up 28% in Q1 over the same period a year ago, F5 continued to grow its...
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®...
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...
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...
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...
For the past few years, F5’s VIPRION Application Delivery Controller chassis-based hardware platform has led the ADC market in application delivery performance and scale. As a bladed system, VIPRION scales linearly to meet customer need for ADC resources: As application and network demands increase, VIPRION can grow and scale to meet those needs without adding additional new hardware platforms, all the way up to 1 Million layer 4 connections per second. Under the hood VIPRION’s scale and massive application delivery performance is achieved using clustered multiprocessing – a technology that creates a virtualized application processing platform which can...
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...
