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#infosec #adcfw #LOIC Did you rush out to check if a site was really taken down? If you did, you may have unintentionally helped The focus on Anonymous’ self-described retributive attacks on a variety of sites last night has been on its use of LOIC – Low Orbit Ion Cannon – as a means to achieve maximum effect with minimal resources. It’s a connection-based attack, pure and simple. A DDoS at the application layer, which makes it nearly impossible to detect, let alone stop. The tool isn’t really anything special in execution. Its ability...
Experience has taught us transitioning to #IPv6 is not a trivial task. Transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 is fast becoming an imperative as the availability of IPv4 addresses dwindle and the number of IPv6-only devices continue to increase. But it’s not a trivial exercise by any stretch of the imagination. Such a core transition can impact every aspect of the data center, posing a potential risk to operational stability during the transitional period. F5 has not only undergone that transition – and experienced the ups and downs along the way – but has subsequently...
Media Coverage No Jitter Is There Another Wave of Growth on the Horizon for F5? The State Of the Union Seattle Times : Grumbling grows over corporate tax breaks Financial Coverage American Banking News Analysts' Weekly Ratings Changes for F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) Stocks Gapping Up for February, 3rd (CELL, CRT, EL, FFIV, FIG,...
Overview Five editors were briefed on the Jan. 24 news of the channel accreditation program. The coverage included the message of F5 releasing a completely new certification program that “enhances profitability” and demonstrates F5’s focus on channel partners. Outreach resulted in seven pieces of coverage in channel specific publications. Notable Quotes CRN: "We're the Swiss Army Knife of the data center," said Darwin in an interview with CRN. "Historically, we had so many networking partners, but now we're getting storage, and into the Microsoft (NSDQ:...
Notable Quotes John McAdams quotes: CNBC: McAdam said the company is hiring aggressively, especially in sales, and has racked up an increase in multi-million dollar projects. He added that an entirely new “product refresh” will debut in the last half of 2011. Investor Business Daily: “The thing that gives us a lot of confidence is our pipeline of business is very strong,” he said. “Our focus now is to get back to basics and execute.” CNN Money: “We feel good about our business. All the market...
Notable Quotes Processor Magazine: Bursts Of Cloud Capacity: Alan Murphy, senior technical marketing manager with F5 Networks: “A successful cloudbursting deployment hinges on total control of the cloud infrastructure and the ability to control what is provisioned into the cloud, when it is provisioned, and under what conditions and circumstances,” he says. “Monitoring and real-time feedback plays an integral part of managing the cloudbursting infrastructure, as well—something that should be factored in when choosing a cloud solution.” Media Coverage eChannel Line: KEMP...
Notable Quotes Investor’s Business Daily—F5 CEO: Busy Helping Clients ‘Re-Archetect’ IBD: Does the market growth imply that the company needs to invest more in technology? John McAdam: “There's no question. Every year we look at what are the key things we need to do for the oncoming year, and technology leadership in one form or another is always there. When you compete with quality companies like Cisco, you really need to have superior technology, so we are aggressively hiring right now in sales and service, and in...
Overview Once again, a great deal of the F5 news relates to the performance of F5 stock, but there were also several pieces of coverage that comment on the release of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for ADC’s—specifically on how some notable stalwart competitors of F5 continue to slide from the leaders position. Lastly there continued to be some pick up of the F5 Service Delivery Networking architecture announcement for Service Providers and several reprints of F5 blogs on various topics. Notable Quotes Vendors Team Up On Video...
Overview This week brought a fair amount of coverage of F5’s announcements in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, a great write-up on John McAdam in Seattle Magazine and continued coverage of F5’s earnings announcement and continued growth. Notable Quotes F5 was 64th on Fortune’s 2010 list of the world’s 100 fastest-growing companies. Forbes has ranked F5 among its top 25 technology stocks, and this year cited its aggressive hiring—the company added more than 300 employees since last October, bringing worldwide employment to 1,900. – Leslie...
Overview There was a significant amount of financial coverage after F5 posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter and gave an upbeat outlook for the current period. Also, Frank Ohlhorst published a favorable review in eWeek on F5’s application ready solution for VMware View 4.5. Notable Quotes F5 networks brings added oomph to VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure deployments with its Application Ready Solution for VMware View 4.5, an add-on capability for F5’s BIG-IP Edge Gateway that consists of a set of best practices, guidelines and...
Overview This weeks media is, once again, centered mostly around F5 stock price (FFIV) and the various opinions of analysts and other market watchers. With the quarterly and FY10 earnings announcement only days away, there seems to be little else on the minds of most people. Notable Quotes But guys like me? The Mid Caps? C’mon already! We ARE the market – we are the heartbeat of the tape and the future of American big business. Bring our stories into the fold and you will...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by a number of F5 spokespeople demonstrating thought leadership in core areas such as Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Application Delivery. As part of the CTO blog series, Karl Triebes’ blog on “Integrating Virtual Network Appliances into the Infrastructure” appeared in Virtualization Review. Don MacVittie was featured in Network World’s Tech Debate on the topic of application acceleration. Alan Murphy was also featured heavily in a Network World article on cloud technology. Also, F5 customer, Schalk Theron of Spring CM, was quoted touting the benefits of F5 solutions. ...
Overview This week’s coverage was dominated by the wild week in the stock market and concerns over the true impact of cloud computing to the revenue streams of various high-tech companies; although there still seems to be a significant disagreement on what the impact is. One component that seems to prevail is that F5 is dominating its current enterprise market against stalwarts like Cisco, and that their role in cloud computing is all upside, incremental potential; something that the industry blogs make clear even if the financial reporting hasn’t caught up. Notable...
In this week’s news, telecommuting makes a splash Notable Quotes F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) is on the cutting edge of an emerging trend in business: telecommuting. The company’s application delivery controllers and software programs help make networks run faster and more efficiently. This allows companies to conduct business over great distances. F5 also develops file virtualization, WAN optimization and remote access products that further help customers “decentralize” their businesses. I travel a lot so I...
Overview Oracle OpenWorld was highlighted by healthy attendance, significant product announcements, and continued momentum for enterprise movement to the cloud. F5’s Ron Carovano supported the Application Ready Solution for Oracle DB technologies announcement through three media briefings with IT Business Edge, Network Computing and SearchEnterpriseWAN.com. Ron also participated in a short video from the trade show floor with Wikibon-SiliconAngle TV. Below are several highlights from the resulting coverage. Another highlight from this week’s news included Seattle Business Magazine’s report that Seattle-based F5 Networks made Forbes’ list of midsize companies hiring the most right now....
Customer: Bezeq International Vertical: Telecommunications F5 Solution: BIG-IP ASM Bezeq International’s prime security concerns are around data integrity and compliance with the regulations that surround data integrity. BIG-IP ASM delivers on both counts.” - Ami Hoffman, Information Security Director. Bezeq International Business Challenge: Bezeq International is an ISP and hosting provider with more than 1 million customers, ranging from small businesses to large...
Overview The highlight of this week’s news was the joint customer story on F5 and Ooba that appeared in Oracle’s Profit Magazine. The article, in which Ron Carovano was prominently quoted, detailed Ooba’s successful implementation of Oracle Application Server with F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager. Also, Karl Triebes’ latest blog posting on “On-Demand Cloud Bursting” appeared in Virtualization Review. Additionally, there was significant coverage around HP or IBM’s possible Radware acquisition with F5 included in the coverage as a major contender in the ADC market. Notable Quotes ...
Overview One of the highlights of this week’s news was John McAdam’s exclusive interview with CNBC due to F5’s leadership in the ADC market and financial performance; the interview covered core areas such as cloud computing and highlighted F5’s aggressive hiring efforts in the U.S. This week’s additional coverage highlights include Processor Magazine’s customer profile on Human Kinetics and its deployment of F5 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP ASM to help with web site security and load balancing. Additionally F5 and Human Kinetics were featured in an article on Web App Firewalls (WAF) that appeared in Network...
Overview This week’s coverage was dominated by F5’s presence at VMworld. F5's VMworld announcements were well received and continued the company's momentum as a virtualization and cloud innovator. Network World pointed out that VMware's relationships with companies like F5 need further definition - a compliment to the strength of F5's portfolio. Coverage from the show indicates that the industry has bought into F5's cloud strategy and understands the value that F5 offers. Coverage included three slide shows, three videos and seven unique articles. We saw additional coverage in Dark Reading for which Nathan Myers provided...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by the news of F5 being named to FORTUNE’s list of “Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies” which was picked up by eWeek. Additionally Kathleen Ferraro was prominently quoted in a feature article on Storage Virtualization that appeared in Processor Magazine. Also, F5 Networks was included in the list of “Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing” by Cloud Computing Journal. Notable Quotes Managing data growth is a challenge faced by companies of all sizes, but it is particularly acute for small to midsized...
Overview This week’s coverage gives further evidence that F5’s message around cloud computing and the infrastructure needs of the cloud are gaining traction. Lori MacVittie was featured in Michael Brandenburg’s SearchNetworking.com article on multi-tenant private clouds. Alan Murphy’s contributed article on cloud infrastructure appeared in Internet Telephony. Notable quotes and all of this week’s coverage is below. Notable Quotes As data centers become more focused on applications and service, the network switches and gear that reside within those data centers must become focused on more...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was Chad Berndston’s feature article on F5 in which he interviewed Gary Abad, Nexum and Trace 3 to learn more about the objectives of the F5 partner summit. Also, F5 Networks was ranked #1 in Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Washington’s Best Workplaces” award for the extra large business category. Please see notable quotes and full coverage below. Notable Quotes It's been a year of strong gains for F5 Networks, and the challenge now is for the company to keep growing...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was the Investor’s Business Daily feature article on F5 that included a great photo of John McAdam. F5’s was recognized as a key leader and expert on application delivery and the cloud. Notable Quotes F5 Networks (FFIV) has become one of cloud computing biggest beneficiaries, revving up earnings and widening its lead over bigger rivals by helping make network-delivered software faster and more reliable. The Seattle-based company dominates an obscure but crucial $1-billion market for application delivery controllers, and that lead...
EDITORS NOTE: We would like to apologize for the tardiness of this week’s “in review” of last week. Many of our team had the privilege of meeting with some 500 F5 customers and partners over the last three days at the F5 North American Summit in Chicago. It’s such a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with people who have just as much passion about F5 as we do that we couldn’t resist . . . and consequently let our normal duties slip. Thank you for your patience—and another thank you to all the folks...
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: ...
Overview This week was a significant coverage week for F5, with numerous bloggers highlighting F5’s technology and accomplishments as a result of Gastalt Tech Field Day; and the financial press is continuing to take notice of F5’s leadership in the ADC market and financial performance, with FFIV appearing in the Seattle Times, Business Week and CNBC to name a few. Our first piece of Baatar coverage also appeared this week; the article includes a photo of the Baatar Hero car and highlights that F5 will be demonstrating the more adventurous side of remote working later in...
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...
Overview In this week’s news, F5 was included in several blog posts from Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day; F5 hosted bloggers that were interested in learning more about F5’s solutions. Also, this was another strong week for F5’s evangelists with two contributed pieces appearing in Virtualization Review and Dr. Dobbs Journal. Notable Quotes We’re on to our 3rd and final presentation here at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day. After a short road trip into beautiful downtown Seattle, we’ve arrived at F5. At 1,800 employees strong,...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by F5 spokespeople demonstrating thought leadership in core areas such as Cloud Computing and Virtualization. Storage Magazine featured a contributed piece by Renny Shen on the impact virtualization is having on storage. It was strong opinion piece in a reputable forum. Also, both Pete Silva and Lori MacVittie had articles appear in Cloud Computing Journal and My Interop. Media Coverage Virtual Strategy Magazine: Storage in a Virtualized Environment Financial Coverage Benzinga: Top Performing Industries for...
Technology workers are probably one of the most difficult employees to motivate and keep productive. It’s the nature of the work and the people. Many technologists simply aren’t motivated with extrinsic rewards and generating intrinsic motivation is generally beyond the ability of an employer or manager. The best that you can hope to do is to eliminate de-motivating behavior and provide the opportunity for the technologists internal passion to flourish and bloom. When almost your entire organization is built of these technology personas, it is exceptionally difficult to maintain a culture and atmosphere that makes this possible. ...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was some contributed content featured in Dell Power Solutions on F5’s BIG-IP and WAN Optimization Module technology. The financial press is continuing to take notice of F5’s leadership in the Application Delivery Controller market and financial performance, with FFIV appearing as a featured tech stock in Investor’s Business Daily this week. This week’s full coverage appears below: Notable Quotes FirePass version 7.0 offers many enhancements over older versions. Firstly, it includes enhanced endpoint security features, such as firewall, anti-malware software, and antivirus...
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...
Overview The highlight of this week’s coverage was around an Infonetics research report on the application delivery controller space, in which F5 is named the clear market leader beating out Cisco by almost 20 points. Also, Firepass 7.0 received a favorable review in The VAR Guy. More coverage and notable quotes can be found below. Notable Quotes Infonetics reported that Cisco has taken a considerable hit in their application delivery controller (ADC) market share. They are trailing behind F5 Networks by 12 points, Cisco having dropped to...
Customer: Suzuki Motor Corporation F5 Solution: ARX 500 Data Manager Channel Partner: Trace3 [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 Business Challenge: American Suzuki Motor Corporation prides itself on providing value-packed automobiles, motorcycles, ATVs, scooters and marine engines. Its IT organization...
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...
Overview This week’s coverage highlights included a positive article on F5’s latest optimization solutions for Microsoft, in which James Hendergart was prominently quoted. The article was syndicated in several Redmond publications including Virtualization Review, Microsoft Certified Professional and Visual Studio Magazine to name a few. Also, Karl Triebes first blog appeared in his new blog series, “App Delivery On-Demand,” that will appear bi-weekly in Virtualization Review. Notable Quotes Application delivery networking (ADN) company F5 Networks has been discussing its latest application and network performance optimization solutions at the Microsoft...
Overview This week we saw the first article on the Microsoft news with more coverage expected to appear during the TechEd show next week. Also, Zeus Kerravala of Yankee Group posted a flattering piece, calling F5 a key leader in cloud computing for being one of the first vendors to bring security to the cloud. Notable Quotes Despite this fact, there really hasn’t been any vendor addressing the unique security needs of cloud computing. At Interop last month, Application Delivery Networking market leader F5 announced enhancements to its...
Overview This week’s coverage gives further evidence that F5’s message around cloud computing and the infrastructure needs of the cloud are gaining traction. This week featured four articles that specifically quoted Lori MacVittie about the infrastructure needs of the cloud. Also, we saw some additional local coverage around F5 Bike to Work Day. Notable Quotes Lori MacVittie seems to think not. In a recent column, the technical marketing manager and blogger at F5 Networks argues that PaaS is proprietary by nature, and so any portability and choice are likely only...
Overview This week was a big coverage week for F5 customers as John Engates of Rackspace and Tom Hall of Orbital Sciences were quoted touting the benefits of F5 solutions. The highlight of the customer coverage was SearchEnterpriseWAN.com where the virtual edition of BIG-IP LTM was featured. Also, a significant amount of the coverage was on ‘F5 Bike to Work Day,’ and F5’s efforts to promote the health and environmental benefits of biking to work. The event was well covered by local media. Notable Quotes While others during the...
Overview In this week’s news, CIO.com featured a contributed piece by Ken Salchow on the need for enterprises to be cloud-ready. It was a strong opinion piece in a reputable forum. Additionally, in his Network World article on Interop, author John Dix reinforced F5’s value proposition around the BIG-IP portfolio that builds on the vision of a dynamic control plane. There was also significant coverage around the Imperva patent infringement lawsuit filed by F5 Networks after the company released a controversial statement calling the suit “baseless”. Notable Quotes One...
The whole goal of any IT organization is to provide value to the business. That value is generally created by connecting users to the applications they need in order to get the job done. So, the goal of IT is really about connecting users to applications. It may involve many components in between and a lot of complexity; certainly this is increasingly true in today's world of mobile users and mobile (virtual) applications. It is all about the user and the application. That’s what IT is measured on. All applications, however, are not the same. Even two...
Overview This week’s coverage was highlighted by a number of F5 spokespeople demonstrating thought leadership in core areas such as Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Security. As part of SC Magazine feature story, Nathan Meyer provided interesting opinions on the current barriers in DNSSEC. Renny Shen was quoted heavily in an article on file virtualization for Enterprise IT Planet. And Lori MacVittie was quoted in an article on Cloud Computing in IT Business Edge, reinforcing her role as a thought leader on the technology. Notable Quotes But the days of...
Overview This week’s coverage highlights focus largely on the Interop announcements. PR worked to secure 13 briefings with the trade press around the the BIG-IP 10.2 announcement, which generated quite a bit of coverage. The ExtraHop and F5 alliance news was also picked up by local press. Notable Quotes By declaring open war on HP, IBM, and Dell, Cisco has made networking relevant again for the major OEMs who need a networking story — and subsequently turned them into potential startup acquirers. The market capitalizations of Juniper, F5 and...
A complete guide to news and media coverage for F5 Networks for the week of March 8th, 2010. Notable Quotes: Nathan Meyer, product manager at F5, said the benefits in upgrading systems during the deployment will be new systems that provide policy automation and key management. For example, Meyer said F5; a mid-level enterprise has over 100 different zones making the process of managing them a fairly daunting task. "The task of managing each zone individually with individual keys and maintaining all the roll over periods would be...
RelayHealth provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to facilitate the exchange of information between pharmacies, hospitals and health systems, payors, physicians, and patients. It operates pharmacy data centers in Atlanta and Sacramento, and employs hundreds of physical and virtual servers in a heterogeneous operating system environment to support the approximately 11 billion retail pharmacy financial and clinical transactions it processes per year. Security, availability, and responsive applications are paramount to its business and to the customers it ultimately serves. F5 handles routing of application traffic to both its data centers, and using advanced features in BIG-IP LTM, such...
“ 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...
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...
