load balancing
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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...
“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...
#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...
#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: ...
#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...
“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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
