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#vdi #fasterapp #infosec End-user acceptance will suffer if access to desktops is complicated or slow. In addition, without strong security, confidential information might be exposed, critical data lost, or regulatory compliance requirements unmet. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) offers users unified, secure access as well as broad support for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) mechanisms and stringent access policies. These features are combined with security endpoint check, plus multi gigabit-per-second SSL encryption, thousands of logins per second, and optimized connections. F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. More information about...
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...
#virtualization #vdi Scaling VMware View from hundreds to thousands of devices can strain the network and data center connectivity. Additionally, if poor performance hinders access to virtual desktops, end-user productivity will suffer. F5 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP GTM Application Delivery Controllers support redundant tiers of infrastructure within and across data centers, for maximum availability. In addition, the patented, unified F5 TMOS product platform provides tremendous scalability -- from thousands to millions of transactions per second. F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. More information about F5's solution for VMware View can be found...
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). ...
#infosec #fasterapp This video sets the stage for IT having to manage multiple networking challenges when faced with a natural disaster causing their data center to shut down. With careful planning, the evolution of the network and application delivery allows the single point of control to automate, provision and secure their virtual and cloud environments. The F5 Dynamic Data Center Resources F5 Security Vignette: Proactive Security F5 Security Vignette: DNSSEC Wrapping F5 Security Vignette: Hacktivism Attack ...
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...
#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: ...
#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 architecture. 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP System - Architecture View more presentations from F5 Networks FIND OUT MORE, SHARE YOUR STORY, GET FREE STUFF How do you use your BIG-IP system? We want to know, so tell us about it. If you’re one of the first 100 to share your story you’ll get an awesome cool t-shirt. If you’re one...
#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 architecture . ARCHITECTURE Architecture is not something one often considers as a “feature” of data center...
#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 performance. 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP System - Performance View more presentations from F5 Networks FIND OUT MORE, SHARE YOUR STORY, GET FREE STUFF How do you use your BIG-IP system? We want to know, so tell us about it. If you’re one of the first 100 to share your story you’ll get an awesome cool t-shirt. If you’re one...
#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 performance. PERFORMANCE No one deploys an application with the intent that it be slow or unresponsive to...
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, Oracle and VMware Customer Success Story Customer: Byer California Vertical: Manufacturing & Retail F5 Solution: BIG-IP LTM Oracle Application Ready Solution, VMware Country: US The BIG-IP LTM Application Delivery Controllers do their job. … If you go with unknown brands, you are taking a chance.” Fernando Gonzalez, CIO, Byer California Business Challenge: Byer California is a privately held garment manufacturer whose large selection of women’s and children’s clothing...
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...
During Interop at the end of last April, many of the application delivery controller vendors participated in a panel on ‘competitive differentiation’. The panel opened with each vendor getting an opportunity to state how they felt their product was differentiated or how they felt their product did something better or different in comparison to the other vendors. The resultant responses were less than clarifying. Blogger Sean Michael Kerner summed it up with his post on Internetnews.com: All the vendors tried to bring up things at various points during the panel which may be areas...
Customer: Medavie Blue Cross
F5 Solution: LTM with caching, compression and SSL acceleration, iRules
The [BIG-IP LTM] caching module saved us about six months of development work and sped up the application by 60 percent. It’s the only part of the environment that hasn’t had an outage in the last five years I have had no unexplained downtime with my F5 devices, ever. They’re rock solid.”
Vince Power, Integration Architect, Medavie Blue Cross Blue Cross
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“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...
Many IT departments are struggling with rapid increases in both traffic volumes and users. Simultaneously, organizations continue to leverage social media, mobile devices, and an expanding array of web services to achieve business goals. These demands result in many companies pushing the limits of their current application delivery infrastructures. Even the most capable of chassis based solutions may need a boost in performance and total capacity to support highly trafficked sites that are more on par with the demands placed upon the infrastructure of a service-provider class organization than a traditional enterprise. Service-providers, too, are feeling the pressure as more...
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...
For the past few years, F5’s VIPRION Application Delivery Controller chassis-based hardware platform has led the ADC market in application delivery performance and scale. As a bladed system, VIPRION scales linearly to meet customer need for ADC resources: As application and network demands increase, VIPRION can grow and scale to meet those needs without adding additional new hardware platforms, all the way up to 1 Million layer 4 connections per second. Under the hood VIPRION’s scale and massive application delivery performance is achieved using clustered multiprocessing – a technology that creates a virtualized application processing platform which can...
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...
