iRules
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“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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
