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#VDI Deploying virtual desktops involves many different elements and be complex. Rolling out your deployment across data centers is time-consuming and prone to human error. F5 iApp technology is a user-customizable framework for deploying application. With iApp for VMware View, you can easily roll out configuration across your F5 devices, to cut deployment time from hours to minutes. F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available. More information about F5's solution for VMware View can be found at http://www.f5.com/view F5 - iApp for VMware View Resources: ...
#mobile #vdi #virtualization End user computing means that a wide range of mobile devices from laptops to tablets and from desktops to smartphones are being used. The diversity of these mobile devices and the sheer number of them in the workplace can overwhelm IT and strain your resources. Access and performance are key support concerns. And, since many mobile devices are personal, security is absolutely critical. F5 provides intelligent mobile device support for VMware View. This benefits IT with greater access and compliance control, while at the same time, allowing your employees the freedom to use...
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...
Implementing #IPv6 support requires more than just a change of address …. F5 recently announced its Professional Services IPv6 Solution Offerings, designed to share our expertise in IPv6 implementation to enable organizations to realize a successful transition, but we’d also like to share some of the gotchas and lessons learned over the past few years during those implementations. Today we’re looking at the skills required to successfully transition to IPv6. Transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 isn’t as easy as merely learning how to subnet with longer IP addresses; there are a lot of interconnected...
#v11 #iApp F5's iApp™ is a powerful new set of features in the BIG-IP system that provides a new way to architect application delivery in the data center, and it includes a holistic, application-centric view of how applications are managed and delivered inside, outside, and beyond the data center. The majority of an iApp policy is geared toward configuring the traffic management components required to deliver applications. iApp Analytics provides real-time application performance statistics, and diagnostic and troubleshooting information such as application response time, network latency, and connection statistics for the entire application,...
#v11 #iApp F5 Networks recently launched its BIG-IP v11 solution, which includes a new application-centric paradigm that revolutionizes how organizations deal with data center consolidation, cloud computing, application security and massive traffic diversification.
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The powerful new iApps technology visually shows how organizations can optimize performance and enable swift deployment within the data center. iApps™ technology simplifies deployment of application service, enabling 10--100x faster provisioning and deployment. Individual iApps leverage easy-to-use templates to associate specific sets of services with single, per-application policies that are portable—even as the application itself moves beyond the walls of the physical data center.
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#v11 #F5agility The next generation of infrastructure from F5 is ready and ABLE to meet the challenge Today F5 has introduced the next generation of its application delivery infrastructure, v11. This new generation of BIG-IP is ready to meet the challenges arising from a variety of external forces driving IT toward a dynamic data center by being more able – manageable, scalable and mitigating preventable attacks while being more adaptable than ever. One of the hallmarks of an F5 infrastructure solution is that it offers the ability to take advantage of contextual intelligence at...
#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...
The signing of dot com will enable 100 million domains to deploy DNSSEC MARCH 31, 2011 (THE INTERNETS) In what has been many long years coming since the finalization of the DNSSEC specification circa 2004/2005, the rollout of the signed .COM top level domain (TLD) should, based on the projected schedule and the fact that there’s only one day left in March, happen tomorrow. This event is expected to trigger widespread DNSSEC deployments around the world as organizations hope to leverage the enhanced security mechanism to assure the accuracy of DNS data. .COM is the last...
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...
Virtualization has provided a significant boon to enterprise data center operations. Not only has OS virtualization enabled organizations to consolidate and curb the growth of server hardware, but provided a means to reduce power and cooling costs that had become a major component of operating expense. It has also increased the efficiency of enterprise IT, giving them the ability to provision new servers in minutes instead of weeks or months. Virtualization is certainly here to stay. Virtualization alone, however, is not enough to enable organizations to realize the true potential of on-demand IT and bridge traditional...
