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            <title>F5 - iApp for VMware View</title>
            <link>http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2012/02/09/f5-iapp-for-vmware-view.aspx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;#VDI &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Deploying virtual desktops involves many different elements and be complex. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;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.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;More information about F5's solution for VMware View can be found at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/view"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;http://www.f5.com/view&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:15b2480e-aa64-4fa3-803a-b8e12c00ed3a" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="360"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nTcjnhTa97g?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nTcjnhTa97g?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:640px;clear:both;font-size:.8em"&gt;F5 - iApp for VMware View&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Resources:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yzg4WgrWFM&amp;amp;feature=channel_video_title"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Tahoma"&gt;Overview: F5 for VMware View&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmAGQqtQHs&amp;amp;feature=channel_video_title"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Tahoma"&gt;F5 - Availability and Scalability for VMware View&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BaSXvOwc4&amp;amp;feature=channel_video_title"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Tahoma"&gt;F5 - Simplifying Access for VMware View&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7y_6aJDOcY&amp;amp;feature=channel_video_title"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Tahoma"&gt;F5 - Mobile Device Support for VMware View&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Tahoma"&gt;F5 YouTube Channel&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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            <title>F5 - Mobile Device Support for VMware View</title>
            <link>http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2012/02/03/f5-mobile-device-support-for-vmware-view.aspx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;#mobile #vdi #virtualization &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;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. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;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 their mobile device of choice. F5 can help by making VMware View secure, fast, scalable, and available.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;More information about F5's solution for VMware View can be found at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/view"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;http://www.f5.com/view&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:4915f738-29c3-4fbc-a0b2-bfc6ffe9fbb0" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="360"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S7y_6aJDOcY?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S7y_6aJDOcY?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:640px;clear:both;font-size:.8em"&gt;F5 - Mobile Device Support for VMware View&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Rackspace - F5 Case Study</title>
            <link>http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2012/01/30/rackspace-f5-case-study.aspx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;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. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;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 servers to the BIG-IP devices to boost server performance. It also monitors application health and seamlessly redirects traffic away from potentially problematic servers or network components. The company also takes advantage of F5 Enterprise Manager to centralize management of multiple BIG-IP devices in its network through a single interface, significantly reducing the amount of time spent administering devices.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:7e6fade6-adfd-43f0-8391-c47c3443cd51" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="360"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e4HA9rdB_9M?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e4HA9rdB_9M?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:640px;clear:both;font-size:.8em"&gt;Rackspace - F5 Case Study&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Resources: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/case-studies/rackspace-cs.pdf"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; 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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>IPv4 to IPv6: Stuff You Will Need to Know</title>
            <link>http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/10/19/ipv4-to-ipv6-stuff-you-will-need-to-know.aspx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Implementing #IPv6 support requires more than just a change of address …. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/services_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="services" border="0" alt="services" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/services_thumb.jpg" width="225" height="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;hr color="#808080" width="100%" noshade="noshade" /&gt;  &lt;p&gt;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 data center skills and knowledge that must be applied to ensure you don’t miss a critical step in a transition. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;While the exact services and infrastructure components impacted will vary based on which IPv6 model you’re implementing: Public Edge IPv6 Enablement, IPv6 Support for IPv4 Only Services, or Internal IPv6 Service / IPv6 NAT64 Offering. Luckily, there are common components and skills that will be necessary for any IPv6 transition plan. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IPv6 as a Protocol        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;This might seem like a no-brainer, but it is at the heart of an IPv4 – IPv6 transition. The ability to configure and troubleshoot IPv6 connectivity is just the beginning; also important is the ability to apply that knowledge to connectivity between various network objects such as routers, switches, and firewalls, especially if your strategy is co-existence.       &lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/CheckMark_5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="CheckMark" border="0" alt="CheckMark" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/CheckMark_thumb_1.jpg" width="16" height="18" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Acquire IPv6 address space from ISP/Arin then complete and test advertisement configuration of IPv6 address space for all ISPs.       &lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DNS        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Often overlooked, DNS is a critical component to an IPv6 migration. DNS has several new resource types specifically to support IPv6 enabled resources.  You’ll need to identify the current authoritative DNS servers involved with the domains and/or applications that will be accessible via IPv6.       &lt;br /&gt;      &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AAAA &lt;/strong&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;Understand the AAAA / lookup process and how it relates and functions with respect to IPv6. These records are key to both a transitory and a co-existence strategy.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/CheckMark_8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="CheckMark" border="0" alt="CheckMark" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/CheckMark_thumb_2.jpg" width="16" height="18" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Identify the current authoritative DNS servers involved with the domains /applications that will be impacted and configure appropriate records.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dependencies&lt;/strong&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;Get comfortable with the DNS recursive resolution process and how IPv6 only clients could be affected in each part of the dependent chain for a single AAAA lookup.           &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/CheckMark_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="CheckMark" border="0" alt="CheckMark" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/IPv6_37F2/CheckMark_thumb.jpg" width="16" height="18" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Dependent DNS servers will need to have IPv6 connectivity to ensure that IPv6 clients will be able to reach IPv6 services. Dependent DNS servers that do not have IPv6 connectivity can be accessed via an IPv6 gateway (such as &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/ipv6-gateway.html"&gt;BIG-IP&lt;/a&gt;) just as is the case for application services.&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;      &lt;ul /&gt;   &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IPv6 Resources: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/ipv6-gateway.html"&gt;&lt;img title="f5-red-lg" border="0" alt="f5-red-lg" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/f1bcd8025865_38F6/f5-red-lg_0a94fe94-7ffd-477d-bb14-effb543b3f90.jpg" width="16" height="14" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/services/professional-services/ipv6-solution-services.html"&gt;IPv6 Solution Services&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/case-studies/network-operations-center-cs.pdf"&gt;&lt;img title="pdf-icon" border="0" alt="pdf-icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/f1bcd8025865_38F6/pdf-icon_24fcdded-8c91-4f0d-a702-322a404f842b.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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            <description>&lt;p&gt;#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.    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;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, virtual servers, pools, and nodes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="315"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bZly1OJNmOc?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bZly1OJNmOc?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:55:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>F5 Video: Golden iApps</title>
            <link>http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/09/14/f5-video-golden-iapps.aspx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;#v11 #iApp &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;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. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;#v11 #F5agility &lt;em&gt;The next generation of infrastructure from F5 is ready and ABLE to meet the challenge &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/v11-theme_thumb2_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="v11-theme_thumb2" border="0" alt="v11-theme_thumb2" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/v11-theme_thumb2_thumb.png" width="282" height="148" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;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 &lt;strong&gt;able – &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/07/12/able-infrastructure-the-next-generation-episode-1.aspx"&gt;manageable&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/07/19/able-infrastructure-the-next-generation-ndash-episode-3.aspx"&gt;scalable&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/07/14/able-infrastructure-the-next-generation-episode-2.aspx"&gt;mitigating preventable&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/07/21/able-infrastructure-the-next-generation-ndash-episode-4.aspx"&gt;attacks&lt;/a&gt; while being more adaptable than ever. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;One of the hallmarks of an F5 infrastructure solution is that it offers the ability to take advantage of contextual intelligence at a strategic point of control in the network. Whether shielding applications or critical DNS infrastructure from attacks or enabling the unique architectural solutions necessary for the implementation of a more scalable and dynamic application delivery ecosystem, an F5 solutions contribute heavily toward a more operationally secure and efficient data center. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If we had to sum up briefly the core themes of what’s new in v11 (and we do lest we end up with a book) we’d say it’s more manageable, more scalable, more adaptable and with specific features designed to prevent myriad security challenges. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Along with the recent &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/05/09/medium-is-the-new-large-in-enterprise.aspx"&gt;introduction of our mid-market chassis, VIPRION 2400&lt;/a&gt;, came &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/05/10/sometimes-it-is-about-the-hardware.aspx"&gt;vCMP (virtual clustered multi-processing)&lt;/a&gt;, which takes advantage of virtualization internal to the BIG-IP &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_24.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_thumb_11.png" width="425" height="467" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;system to make it possible to provision multiple instances of BIG-IP. But in addition to the architectural advantages vCMP offers IT organizations and service providers, it also sets the stage for the introduction of capabilities in v11 designed to make not just BIG-IP but the applications and services it delivers more manageable, and move IT another step (or two) closer to being able to deliver on IT as a Service. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_6.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_thumb_2.png" width="169" height="203" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#c0504d"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold"&gt;MANAGEABLE : APPLICATION CONTROL PLANE ARCHITECTURE &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This next generation of BIG-IP both makes applications and itself more manageable with a combination of application-focused features: iApp and iApp Analytics. The former is a revolutionary way of managing the policies that govern every aspect of application delivery. iApp enables IT to rapidly deploy and provision application services—such as authentication, data protection, traffic management, and acceleration—on a per-application basis. It’s a completely application-focused view and method of managing application services. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But it’s not just manageable, it’s also &lt;em&gt;adaptable. &lt;/em&gt;iApp not only changes the game in terms of how you manage application delivery policies, it changes the game in terms of how you create and deploy them, as well. iApp templates provide business, policy-driven configuration and encourage collaboration. Building off our experience with &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/iRules"&gt;iRules&lt;/a&gt;,  iApp drives automation and provisioning in a services-focused way, making them reusable and supporting the ability to duplicate success with repeatable deployment architectures. This significantly reduces the time required to configure application delivery policies critical to meet operational and business application goals. Deploying application delivery policies with iApp is 10-100 times faster than it used to be, reducing the time required from weeks to hours. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;iApp isn’t just about encapsulating F5’s &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/solutions/resources/application-guides/"&gt;Application Ready Solution&lt;/a&gt; guides – though that’s certainly a boon for IT – it’s also about the ability to share an iApp, as well. v11 includes more than 20 iApp templates but customers aren’t restricted to waiting for official F5 templates. Much in the same way we share iRules and iControl-based solutions on &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/"&gt;DevCentral&lt;/a&gt;, F5 engineers and customers will be able to share &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iApp.HomePage.ashx"&gt;iApp&lt;/a&gt; templates designed for specific applications and infrastructure. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;F5’s new iApp Analytics brings to manageability the operational data and view of that data necessary to better manage applications based on context. iApp Analytics provide real-time visibility into application and user performance, allowing administrators to assess, isolate and address problem areas, and track the impact of adjustments. This data is presented based on a per-application basis rather than nebulously named configuration objects, and allows operators to see at a glance holistic performance and usage data that can better enable troubleshooting, capacity planning and identify potential security issues. When combined with iApp and its flexibility, and supplemented with the programmability of BIG-IP via iRules, organizations now have a more powerful, flexible system powered by actionable data upon which application delivery policies can be quickly deployed and rapidly adapted based on business and operational conditions. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;&lt;font color="#c0504d"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold"&gt;PREVENTABLE: APPLICATION and INFRASTRUCTURE VULNERABILITIES &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Complexity is the enemy of good security and the way in which datacenters have been designed along with security infrastructure topological choices is now becoming a huge factor in the inability to adequately protect ourselves. Whether it’s DDoS targeting infrastructure – DNS – or applications, a more complete security solution is required to meet the challenge of these often overwhelming attacks. Too often firewalls or other infrastructure components have failed in the face of overwhelming demand, reducing or eliminating availability of web sites and applications. That demand comes from both legitimate and illegitimate sources, but both often inadvertently take advantage of the complex network of security and application delivery infrastructure by simply overwhelming the least capable device in the application delivery chain. BIG-IP v11 is not only more capable of handling such demand, but it is also more capable of recognizing and addressing attacks that may be the source. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Both BIG-IP &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/local-traffic-manager.html"&gt;Local Traffic Manager (LTM)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/global-traffic-manager.html"&gt;Global Traffic Manager (GTM)&lt;/a&gt; benefit from our core &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/viprion-clustered-multiprocessing-wp.pdf"&gt;CMP (Clustered Multi-Processing)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/pdf-icon_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="pdf-icon" border="0" alt="pdf-icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/pdf-icon_thumb.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; technology as well as new features specifically designed to address attacks based on protocol flooding. DNS is particularly vulnerable because by its nature it must be public and it is one of the few infrastructure components that has not previously &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_22.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_thumb_10.png" width="424" height="291" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;followed the software –&amp;gt; appliance –&amp;gt; hardware path of its routing and switching cousins. Solutions designed to address DNS flooding attacks are generally based around the idea of caching, but we know that &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/f5news/archive/2011/07/21/able-infrastructure-the-next-generation-ndash-episode-4.aspx"&gt;this solution is also vulnerable&lt;/a&gt;. v11 addresses the vulnerability and inadequacies in subsequent solutions by providing a high-speed, high-capacity DNS front-end capable of handling millions of queries per second and combining it with a globally-minded architecture that &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_14.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 6px 0px 0px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_thumb_6.png" width="368" height="244" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ensures availability by maintaining multi-site resilience at all times. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It’s not just about resilience in scale, however, it’s also about preventing the increasingly ingenious means of subverting security used by attackers today. It’s about evolving security solutions to meet new challenges from layer 2 to layer 7, up and down and across the entire stack of application and networking technology. AJAX is the darling du jour of interactive applications today. It’s used to exchange data in real time between client – mobile or fixed – and server to promote a more responsive, interactive and real-time application experience. The data increasingly is exchanged via JSON, which appears to be winning the API and application format war with XML. BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) has long been capable of protecting XML, and with v11 it’s capable of protecting JSON-based data exchanges, as well. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The ability to parse JSON payloads and protect AJAX applications that use JSON for data transfer between the client and server has become an important area to focus defenses and yet aside from targeted XML gateways, very few web application firewall solutions are capable of enforcing JSON-based policies. With  &lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jmusser/open-apis-state-of-the-market-2011"&gt;JSON payloads becoming more and more common&lt;/a&gt; as the format of choice for APIs and integration across applications – both social and enterprise – it is imperative that security-focused infrastructure be capable of identifying threats that may be buried within exchanged messages. That’s why BIG-IP ASM v11 includes the ability to parse JSON and enforce security policies on messages, to ensure the integrity of those messages is not compromised nor its growing use as a means of application integration exploited. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;&lt;font color="#c0504d"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold"&gt;SCALABLE: SCALE&lt;sup&gt;N&lt;/sup&gt; and ARCHITECTURE &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_20.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_thumb_9.png" width="273" height="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Generally speaking if scalability is being discussed the focus is applications. And while we certainly wouldn’t discount the importance of such a discussions, we do need to remember that infrastructure also needs to be scalable – especially given the increasing mix of form-factors and deployment models (read: cloud computing) being used to deploy infrastructure solutions. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;v11 breaks the traditional high-availability (HA) pair paradigm with Device Service Clusters. Device Service Clusters are able to run multiple, simultaneous active devices, with load on each device segmented by application or  multiple applications. Scale&lt;sup&gt;N&lt;/sup&gt; allows multiple active devices to look like one and provides the ability to distribute load across ADCs on an application-by-application basis. Applications can be individually migrated or fail-over between devices in a device service cluster.  Not only can you fail over a device, but now customers can spread the load of a failed system to any available devices in the device service cluster. This capability provides the ability to leverage the redundancy benefits of active-standby while maximizing utilization. It also enhances fault-isolation – the ability to isolate applications from failures in other applications by moving  dependencies that previously required failover at the device level to the application level. An application failure – or application delivery misconfiguration – in one application need never impact the entire device on which that application is deployed. This approach combines a &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/hybrid-adn-architecture.pdf"&gt;hybrid virtual-physical application delivery network architecture&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/pdf-icon_5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="pdf-icon" border="0" alt="pdf-icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/pdf-icon_thumb_1.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with vCMP to enable a much less topologically complex deployment while reducing CapEx and OpEx by decreasing the number of systems sitting idle. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Scalability can also be achieved through architectural solutions that more efficiently leverage existing resources while optimizing access. Traditional architectures comprise multiple solutions, each providing &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_10.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/a5e70227bc2c_2391/image_thumb_4.png" width="554" height="261" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;specific infrastructure services: acceleration, optimization and access management. These individual solutions required tiers of scalability, each of which increases the number of devices or server hardware required and ultimately results in an inefficient deployment model in which each tier must be carefully provisioned to ensure the scalability of the overall application. This often results in over-provisioning – an inefficient use of resources -  or ultimately in an outage or performance degradation that negatively impacts business productivity. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Consolidation of application delivery requires support, however, for a wide variety of services including access management. Access management requires integration and collaboration with identity management systems as well as with the various methods of authentication and authorization implemented by applications today. That means a consolidated solution must not only support a variety of back-end access management systems, but be able to translate between available methods on clients. This is increasingly difficult as the promulgation of tablets and mobile devices continues to harry operations and security staff, because these devices are in flux when it comes to support for enterprise-class application access management systems.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;BIG-IP &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/access-policy-manager.html"&gt;Access Policy Manager (APM)&lt;/a&gt; v11 combines application delivery capabilities like acceleration and optimization with access policy management and enforcement to provide a more scalable option for securing applications regardless of client-device and method of authentication. With the ability to take credentials from forms-based authorization, e.g. HTTP BasicAuth, and transition to Kerberos and other identity management protocols, APM v11 can effortlessly provide a single tier of access management that eliminates many of the scalability issues arising  from traditional architectures and the proliferation of access management tiers to support both application and client-device differences. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This enables scalability by eliminating complexity and components and when combined with Scale&lt;sup&gt;N &lt;/sup&gt;is a powerful means of scaling applications and infrastructure more efficiently and with less overall cost – and risk. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;&lt;font color="#c0504d"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold"&gt;THE NEXT GENERATION of BIG-IP is READY and &lt;font color="#c0504d"&gt;ABLE &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This next generation of BIG-IP, v11, is expansive. With a wealth of new features, new platforms and new functionality there’s too much to dive into in a single post so we’ve chosen to focus on a just a few key features today. Overall, this release is all about being able to meet the demands of today’s data centers while enabling organizations to continue to evolve toward IT as a Service; toward a dynamic data center. With a focus on flexibility, scalability and productivity for IT, this version of BIG-IP is more able than ever to address both the common and unique challenges faced by enterprise IT organizations of all sizes in every industry. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Whether through simplification of infrastructure architecture or a services-based configuration model that encourages collaboration, v11 is about improving operational efficiency and thus reducing budgets, errors, and outages across applications and services. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There are sure to be blogs and technical tips and other discussions of v11 in the coming days, so be sure to stay tuned – and welcome to the next generation of ABLE infrastructure! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;   &lt;hr color="#808080" width="100%" noshade="noshade" /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;center&gt;   &lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="161"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;       &lt;tr&gt;         &lt;td valign="top" width="159"&gt;Connect with F5: &lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt; 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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We’re at #HPDiscover this week – stop by and ask about cloud maps! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="574" background="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/macvittie/125/o_social_media_no_words.jpg"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td valign="top" width="572"&gt;         &lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="451" align="right"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;             &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;td valign="top" width="449"&gt;                 &lt;blockquote&gt;                   &lt;h3&gt;HP DISCOVER 2011 &lt;/h3&gt;                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHEN&lt;/strong&gt;: JUNE 6-10 &lt;/p&gt;                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHERE&lt;/strong&gt;: Las Vegas NV ● Venetian Hotel &lt;/p&gt;                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BOOTH&lt;/strong&gt;: 130 &lt;/p&gt;                 &lt;/blockquote&gt;               &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;           &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p&gt;F5 is excited to be at &lt;a href="https://h30406.www3.hp.com/campaigns/2010/events/discover/2011.php?jumpid=ex_r2548/us/jan15/ent/eb-ts/1-80GJ3/Discover_vanity"&gt;HP Discover&lt;/a&gt; this week, showing off the result of extensive work between F5 and one its strategic partners, HP. We’ll be show showcasing and demonstrating the integration of F5 in the Automation of Operations Orchestration to simplify the deployment and rollout of new Virtual Application Services.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We will also be be highlighting HP Network Consulting Services Reference Architecture for the deployment and/or migration of Microsoft Exchange 2011, and are involved in two sessions at the show that you’ll find worthy of your attention: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Jose Cornejo – Enterprise Network Architect, HP Technology Consulting – will be presenting Network Reference Architecture: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Time: Thursday, June 9th at 8am (local Vegas time)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Room: Bassano 2702 (Session 4898)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The HP Reference Architecture describes a 3-Tier Solution which ties together VMware, HP, Microsoft and F5 in a Data Center solution.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;You can also join online for a Virtual Conference or follow along on Twitter using the hashtag: &lt;a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23HPDiscover"&gt;#HPDiscover&lt;/a&gt; or the official show account, &lt;a href="mailto:H@HPDiscover"&gt;@HPDiscover&lt;/a&gt;. 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            <title>F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: Best of Tech&amp;bull;Ed 2011 Finalist</title>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;#msteched &lt;em&gt;Your unified communications infrastructure is strategic, shouldn’t the infrastructure supporting it also be strategic? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/TechEd%202011_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="TechEd 2011" border="0" alt="TechEd 2011" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/TechEd%202011_thumb.jpg" width="228" height="133" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/bote_logo_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="bote_logo" border="0" alt="bote_logo" align="right" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/bote_logo_thumb.gif" width="187" height="201" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;F5 was honored to be named a finalist in the Networking category by Penton Media’s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/awards/bestofteched.aspx"&gt;Windows IT Pro&lt;/a&gt;, SQL Server Magazine, DevProConnections and SharePointPro&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;F5’s long-term partnership with Microsoft has enabled some fantastic solutions primarily because Microsoft recognizes the strategic value of application delivery to its applications. Microsoft, like many organizations, understands that if data is the lifeblood of the business, then the network is its veins and arteries, ensuring that data is delivered efficiently and appropriately to the applications that need it.  Microsoft’s Unified Communication architecture are of strategic importance to organizations, providing a reliable foundation upon which corporate communications is achieved. Whether e-mail with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or communications with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, MIcrosoft’s application serve as the brains of the organizations’ communication strategy, ensuring real-time collaboration and continued flow of information critical to business and operational success. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is the heart of any unified communication strategy, ensuring that critical data flows efficiently and securely. More than just “load balancing”, BIG-IP LTM ensures resiliency of business critical applications, optimizes servers and bandwidth utilization, while protecting the infrastructure from dangerous and often insidious application layer attacks. Through F5’s partnership with Microsoft – which goes beyond exchanging logos and includes working in close concert to ensure a best-in-class solution that is as simple to deploy as possible while providing the depth and breadth of features and functionality necessary to achieve high-availability, resiliency and performance of Microsoft’s Unified Communications architecture. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;BIG-IP LTM brings to Microsoft applications: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Availability&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;Intelligent load balancing &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Health monitoring &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;SSL offload &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/cookies-sessions-persistence-wp.pdf"&gt;Robust persistence&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/pdf-icon_5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="pdf-icon" border="0" alt="pdf-icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/pdf-icon_thumb_1.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/global-traffic-manager.html"&gt;Cross-site resilience&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Performance&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/f5-acceleration-portfolio.pdf"&gt;Server optimization&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/pdf-icon_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="pdf-icon" border="0" alt="pdf-icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/da6fa514d37c_2F4A/pdf-icon_thumb.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Reduced bandwidth use &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/webaccelerator.html"&gt;Caching &amp;amp; compression for web clients&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Security&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;Bi-directional proxy &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/application-security-manager.html"&gt;Protection against application layer attacks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Configuration &amp;amp; Management&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;Application templates for error-free &amp;amp; fast configurations &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Systems management integration &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Application level health monitor &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/solutions/applications/microsoft/"&gt;Detailed deployment guides&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/62/Default.aspx"&gt;Online user communities&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Deploying an F5 BIG-IP LTM supported Microsoft UC architecture can: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Cut deployment cycles by 1/3 or more using Application Ready Solutions and templates designed specifically for Microsoft UC applications. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Dramatically increase server capacity by optimizing server and application infrastructure communications &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Seamless Exchange CAS, Hub server maintenance for 100% service uptime by providing transparent application delivery services. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Automatic client to CAS connection failover between sites by enabling cross-site resiliency that takes advantage of F5’s intelligent and context-aware capabilities. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;F5 is honored to have been named a finalist, and we look forward to Microsoft Tech•Ed 2011 regardless of the final results of Best of Tech•Ed 2011. 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            <title>Let the DNSSEC Deployment Begin (Tomorrow)</title>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;The signing of dot com will enable 100 million domains to deploy DNSSEC &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0504d"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MARCH 31, 2011 (THE INTERNETS)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;  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, &lt;a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382105,00.asp"&gt;based on the projected schedule&lt;/a&gt; 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. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/aec0715bffd2_3513/image_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/aec0715bffd2_3513/image_thumb.png" width="469" height="284" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.COM is the last major domain to be and enabled for DNSSEC signifying that the DNSSEC infrastructure is ready for production. All remaining top level domains are relatively small.  This is a great step forward but the real work is only beginning, as the benefits of the security provided by DNSSEC extensions will only be fully realized when organizations have also deployed DNSSEC for their name services. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The premise behind DNSSEC is that responses to DNS queries need to be trustable. Following the example of web-based applications, DNSSEC applies the principle of signatures via public/private key encryption as a means to achieve that trust. Essentially DNSSEC is the wrapping of the DNS infrastructure within a trusted, PKI-based superstructure that validates through certificates managed records (zones). Deploying DNSSEC involves signing zones with public/private key encryption and returning DNS responses with signatures (new RRSIG resource record). A client's trust of those signatures is based on a chain of trust established across administrative boundaries, from parent to child zone, using new DNSKEY and DS resource records. DNSSEC also calls for "authenticated denial of existence" via NSEC (and/or NSEC3) records. And complicating the deployment is the requirement that any DNSSEC deployment must manage cryptographic keys: multiple key generation, zone signing, key swapping, key rollover and timing, and recovering from compromised keys.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Currently BIND, the most common implementation of DNS, supports DNSSEC. There are solutions that combine BIND clones with DNSSEC signing devices that sit beside the DNS infrastructure. But many of these piece-meal implementations fail to simultaneously achieve ease of deployment, scalability, and high performance. Additionally, traditional DNS solutions – while supporting new security initiatives like DNSSEC – are less able to handle such initiatives in a dynamic environment. Global Server Load Balancing solutions, for example, must be able to provide dynamic signing of records to enable global server load balancing to continue to function as expected. DNSSEC introduces a variety of challenges specifically associated with GSLB that cannot be easily or efficiently addressed by standard DNS services.  What’s needed is a way to reduce the complexity and the costs associated with layering this PKI infrastructure atop - or alongside - the existing DNS infrastructure while ensuring that DNSSEC is properly implemented and supported. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#c0504d"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold"&gt;F5 HAS GOT YOUR BACK (END SERVICES) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;F5 BIG-IP solutions deliver a simplified, central point of control for DNSSEC based on trusted, signed query responses. F5 solutions provide built-in security protection to help you achieve compliance with security standards, including DNSSEC, in a cost-effective way. With F5, you can easily configure DNSSEC to deliver trusted, signed response using default settings that are based on governmental guidelines including the option to deploy military-grade key security using FIPS hardware cards. This offers an easy, turnkey implementation that makes DNSSEC enforcement simple and easy to manage without sacrificing security of the keys or performance of dynamic signing processes. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F5 Resources for DNSSEC: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/solutions/security/dnssec/"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="f5-red-125" border="0" alt="f5-red-125" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/aec0715bffd2_3513/f5-red-125_0d088c22-9a24-4602-b7bd-b4c671259060.jpg" width="16" height="15" /&gt; DNS Security (DNSSEC) Solutions | F5 Networks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/dnssec-wp.pdf"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="pdf-icon" border="0" alt="pdf-icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/aec0715bffd2_3513/pdf-icon_771ce6e7-6e54-46d2-9533-592f4f9426c8.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/infoblox-wp.pdf"&gt;F5 and Infoblox DNS Integrated Architecture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/dnssec-wp.pdf"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="pdf-icon" border="0" alt="pdf-icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/aec0715bffd2_3513/pdf-icon_7233907b-7bb1-4c05-aa06-6b0758a8247e.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt; DNSSEC: The Antidote to DNS Cache Poisoning and Other DNS Attacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/webcasts/deploying-dnssec.html"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="webcast" border="0" alt="webcast" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/aec0715bffd2_3513/webcast_df876d2e-e82a-4ca6-89a8-6cf9d1937c6c.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;DNSSEC: Compliance is Easier than You Think | Newsroom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/dctv/archive/2010/01/11/secure-dns-with-big-ip-v10.1-dnssec.aspx"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="video_icon" border="0" alt="video_icon" src="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/f5news/Windows-Live-Writer/aec0715bffd2_3513/video_icon_7bea4de4-9e6a-4281-a031-93819851a7ad.png" width="16" height="16" /&gt;Secure DNS In 5 Minutes or Less with BIG-IP v10.1 DNSSEC &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; 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