IT organizations in every industry face a common set of challenges as they work to keep the business up and running. Like many companies, F5 Networks was experiencing a host of problems related to the rapid growth of unstructured file data. Spending on storage was rising quarterly, routine management tasks required frequent user interruptions and backups were taking 96 hours to complete.

After adding the ARX technology to its product portfolio via an acquisition, F5 put the solution to work in its own environment. Listen to this podcast to hear F5 CIO and Vice President of IT John Matthews explain how the ARX solution enabled the company to dramatically reduce storage costs, even as data storage continued to grow. Through the use of intelligent file management, the IT team slashed backup times to just 4 hours. Downtime is a rare occurrence instead of a regular event, and the IT organization was able to introduce vendor diversity into its environment. The icing on the cake for a CIO? An ROI of less than 4 months.

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Delivering applications to remote users is a significant undertaking. Applications need to be available, and they must be delivered securely and quickly

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Cloud computing offers IT another tool to deliver applications. While enticing, challenges still exist in making sure the application is always available. F5’s flexible, unified solutions ensure high availability for cloud deployments.

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Cloud balancing evolves global server load balancing from traditional routing options based on static data to context aware distribution across cloud-based services. 

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Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. With F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live.  

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As more organizations begin moving applications into the cloud, congestion will become an increasingly critical issue. F5 offers solutions for optimizing and accelerating applications in the cloud, making them fast and available wherever they reside. 

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How F5 solutions power a cloud computing architecture capable of delivering highly-available, secure, and optimized on-demand application services. 

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With the powerful combination of F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, and the F5 PRO-enabled Management Pack for Microsoft System Center, automated Application Delivery Networking becomes a reality.

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A comprehensive F5® solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focuses on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. In this Podcast we talk to one of our toughest critics, Casey Scott a Network Engineer representing F5’s own internal IT department responsible for implementing F5’s “dog food” program.  Find out how F5 is planning on using the latest technology in-house to solve our own IT challenges.

The virtualization of network and application network infrastructure is the second wave of the virtualization tsunami to hit the shores of the data center. Unlike server virtualization, because of its unique role in the data center, Application Delivery Controller (ADC) virtualization brings with it architectural implications that make a simple virtual-for-physical replacement strategy unacceptable. But there are appropriate places across the data center and organization where virtualized ADCs can be leveraged as stand-alone solutions, as well as in conjunction with its physical predecessor, to enable a more dynamic data center without compromising reliability, scalability, and performance.

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F5 Networks’ perspective on cloud computing: definition, architecture, and development.   What does this new dynamic computing architecture look like and what is required—above and beyond the standard tools we have today—to qualify as a “cloud”?

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