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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...
#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...
#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 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...
F5 BIG-IP LTM and ASM Customer Success Story Customer: Human Kinetics Vertical: Publishing and e-Commerce F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM BIG-IP ASM Partner: CDW The improvement in functionality, performance, security, and support with F5 has been outstanding. It’s difficult to compare the improvement because it’s just done so much for us.” - Brad Trankina, Director of Network and Information Systems, Human Kinetics Business Challenge: Illinois-based Human Kinetics (HK)...
F5 BIG-IP LTM and WebAccelerator Customer Success Story Customer: Riachuelo Vertical: Retail F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, WebAccelerator Country: Brazil With BIG-IP WebAccelerator, we achieved a 60 percent reduction of bandwidth use. Rubens Serrano Muchao, Technology Manager, Riachuelo Business Challenge: Riachuelo retail chain is one of several companies that belong to Grupo Guararapes. The company consolidated its IT and telecom administration centers, which support the retail stores as...
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: ooba Vertical: Finance F5 Solution: LTM & Oracle Country: South Africa Partner: Enterweb F5’s close relationship with Oracle helps us as a customer because there are many proven certified configurations that are available to us. This dramatically reduces our testing.” - Dominique dhotman, Manager of Enterprise Architecture, ooba Business Challenges To support the many homebuyer financial services...
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: 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: 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®...
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...
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...
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...
As the virtualization boom continues, many practitioners are looking to expand beyond the server and into other aspects of their architecture. Their intent is simple: if server virtualization provides such flexible and simple deployment, then virtualizing other aspects of the network should provide even more flexibility and simplicity; you could run an entire application segment, including switches, routers and firewalls all with the confines of a single physical hardware device. Moving that application segment to a new datacenter or backup facility would be as simple as copying files. Consequently, many manufacturers of network and application delivery equipment have rushed virtual...
Server virtualization is booming. Enterprise organizations and mom-n-pop operations alike are experiencing a whole new level of flexibility within their IT operations. Server virtualization not only provides cost savings through consolidation, but also provides reduced deployment times and greater control over the use of finite resources. The sophisticated tools provided by today’s leading hypervisor vendors create the ability to dynamically balance the resource needs of applications across the available resources. Instead of having to invest in resources to meet the needs of every application’s peak requirements, they can dynamically move unused resource to augment applications experiencing peak traffic....
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...
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...
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: Northrop Grumman Corporation Vertical: Security F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM, GTM, WebAccelerator, and multiple modules (see below) The Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online (AKO/DKO) Emerging Technologies Laboratory (ETL), established by Northrop Grumman Corporation, is a scaled replica of the AKO/DKO production environment that allows realistic testing, rapid prototyping, and preliminary integration of new capabilities prior to implementation. The AKO/DKO ETL officially opened on August 10, 2009. “ From the beginning of our implementation, key factors for success with the AKO/DKO ETL included...
One of the challenges with deploying advanced application delivery controllers as a way to improve the security, performance, and scalability of specific applications is the wealth of user-configurable options available. It can take network and application server administrators days if not weeks to optimize a configuration for their specific environment using all the knobs and buttons available.
A full-proxy based application delivery solution has a variety of specific configuration options that can be “tweaked” to gain optimal performance for application environments like IBM WebSphere. For example, it is possible to configure the client side (WAN) and the server side (LAN)...
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...
