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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). ...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“F5 is the market leader in application availability and performance, and also the market leader in data center redundancy solutions. The customer loved F5 for its ease of management, ease of use, overall capabilities, and performance.” -- Jerry O’Brien, Enterprise Account Executive, FishNet Security Customer: Publically traded U.S. financial services institution F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM & GTM Partner: FishNet Security Customer Business Challenge A publically traded U.S. financial services institution based in the Midwest recently came to FishNet Security with two problems. First, the company needed...
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...
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: 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: ...
“ [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 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 ...
Slow email delivery and a high volume of spam messages had resulted in an increasing number of customer complaints. By implementing F5 MSM, American Internet Services gained greater control over the processing and delivery of its email and dramatically reduced email delivery times and spam volumes for its customers. Customer: American Internet Services Vertical: Data center and Internet services F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM Message Security Module (MSM) Provided an...
Election Day 2008 was a long-awaited culmination of an historical political competition. With many news venues vying for viewership, msnbc.com’s expansive coverage resulted in nearly 250 million page views*—nearly double the traffic msnbc.com experienced on Election Day 2004. To support this increase, the company relied on devices from F5 Networks to manage site traffic and ensure high availability despite unprecedented traffic volumes. Customer: msnbc.com Vertical: Multimedia news and information services F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM BIG-IP GTM ...
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...
PacificSource Health Plans is one of the largest independent, nonprofit health plans serving the Pacific Northwest. It provides medical and dental benefits to more than 4,000 Pacific Northwest employers and covers more than 143,000 people with its group and individual health insurance plans. Customer: PacificSource Vertical: Healthcare Insurance F5 Solution: Clustered ARX500 devices F5 migration policies Partner: Structured Communication Systems “With F5 ARX we were...
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...
