BIG-IP
There are 41 entries for the tag BIG-IP
Stephanie interned this summer at F5’s San Jose offices. She is headed back to school to continue her EECS (pronounced EEKs according to Stephanie) degree at UC Berkeley. Before she got out the door, Colin and I cornered her for a few minutes to discuss her internship, her goals, and her work with F5 on the Application Policy Manager team. Throughout the summer, Stephanie has been busy developing custom solutions for the APM login process. Below is a list of several solutions I had the privilege to publish on her behalf: Preventing Brute Force Password...
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. Read the full pdf of the whitepaper...
Cloud balancing evolves global server load balancing from traditional routing options based on static data to context aware distribution across cloud-based services. Read the full pdf of the whitepaper here. ...
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. ...
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. Read the full pdf...
How F5 solutions power a cloud computing architecture capable of delivering highly-available, secure, and optimized on-demand application services. Read the full pdf of the whitepaper here. ...
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. Read the full pdf of the whitepaper...
A comprehensive F5® solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
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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...
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”? You can download the full white paper from f5.com here: controlling-the-cloud-wp.pdf ...
Green computing tends to focus on individual servers and devices, but even greater benefits can be realized with an architectural strategy that leverages green computing practices across the data center.
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The data from Geolocation providers offers highly valuable data to a variety of stakeholders and is no longer just for advertising.. You can download the full white paper from f5.com here: geolocation-wp.pdf ...
Integrating security, availability, and application acceleration services to enable context-aware networking.
You can download the full white paper from f5.com here: unified-access-edge-wp.pdf
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Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global IT services company. CSC provides innovative solutions for industry and government customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and...
Contextual application delivery is becoming a requirement for a dynamic data center—applications need to be managed based on access and network conditions. F5 BIG-IP v10.1 provides that context on a single, integrated platform.
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BIG‑IP Application Security Manager v10.1 brings the visibility, control, and flexibility necessary to defend applications and comply with regulations without sacrificing manageability. You can download the full white paper from: manageable-application-security-wp.pdf ...
Hobsons delivers a powerful suite of education-oriented Software as a Service (SaaS)-based applications to K–12 schools and colleges, which include Web-based course and career planning, recruiting, enrollment, and retention tools; services supplied to education organizations around the world. In this podcast, we talk to Patrick McFadin, Director of Systems and Architecture at Hobsons, about some of the challenges associated...
Using third-party tools such as HP Network Node Manager i and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, it has never been easier to manage F5 BIG-IP devices. The full white paper can be found at: managing-big-ip-hp-microsoft-wp.pdf ...
This paper describes how businesses can use F5 Networks’® BIG‑IP® Global Traffic Manager™ to leverage all the benefits of their secondary site in an active-active configuration to holistically manage their applications across multiple sites. This paper also describes how you can use BIG-IP® Link Controller™ to maintain ISP link connectivity and WANJet™ to accelerate site-to-site data replication across the...
This white paper explores the challenges that businesses face when deploying a multi-homed network and how the BIG-IP® Link Controller provides a cost effective solution to not only manage availability, but also to optimize the performance of ISP connectivity in an operationally efficient manner. You can read the entire white...
The TMOS architecture, a collection of real-time features and functions, purpose-built and designed as a full-proxy solution with the power and performance required in today’s network infrastructure. You can get the full PDF at: tmos-wp.pdf ...
F5 and VMware partner to enable live application and storage migrations between data centers and clouds, over short or long distances. Get the Flash Player to see this player. ...
In this white paper we discuss using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager to orchestrate and deliver access to services in the cloud. Get the Flash Player to see this player. ...
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager optimizes VMware View deployments between offices to create a user experience on par with local desktops Get the Flash Player to see this player. ...
F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within its own product line, helping enterprises get closer to...
Both Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Brute Force Attacks have existed for many years, and many network devices tout the ability to withstand them. However, most of today’s DoS attacks target layer 7 (L7) by overwhelming applications with seemingly valid requests and Brute Force programs can send more than one million attempts per second. This paper will discuss how to intelligently...
ADNs are not made up of simple networking devices and servers. In order to function reliably, a strong management back end needs to control all parts of the ADN, managing every aspect of application delivery from application awareness through...
Fortify Security helps their customers ensure secure and efficient access to enterprise applications. Utilizing F5 BIG-IP v10 for both their internal IT as well as their customers enables them help companies further improve their application delivery environments and save on associated IT costs. In this podcast, Ian Jennings, Fortify Security’s Technical Director, discusses how IT security is the most...
After 75 years in business, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City has seen its fair share of changes, not only in health care but IT security. An F5 customer since 2002, Randy Paxton (Lead Network Engineer) and...
As we stand upon the precipice of yet another major shift in computing models and technology, it is increasingly important to note that our parachutes (budgets) are not nearly as full as they once were. Diving into new technology...
IT organizations have always been “under the gun” when it comes to serving their ultimate customer: the business. Pressures from budgetary constraints and an uncertain economic future fuel the need to deliver applications and develop an infrastructure that not...
Application health monitors are now a tried and true technology of the Application Delivery Controller, yet traditional monitors require interaction with the application. Inband passive monitors change that requirement and monitor applications transparently.
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BIG‑IP resource provisioning combines the best features of each virtualization model by enabling BIG‑IP LTM modules to run sandboxed without sharing resources, while giving them the ability to dynamical scale if/when needed. Resource provisioning is a new model in...
The unified, adaptable, manageable Application Delivery Controller has arrived…and it’s a “Perfect Ten.” BIG-IP v10 delivers on the promise of a single, unified application delivery services through the integration of application delivery-oriented solutions into its core delivery platform. BIG-IP...
With everybody’s head in the “Clouds” these days, GoGrid’s (the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath) Michael Sheehan and Telemachus Luu join F5 in a lively discussion covering Cloud Computing and how ServePath extended their unique hosting solutions to include the Cloud. We talk about their extension of their traditional hosting company into their branded “Cloudcenter,” how they addressed the...
In this DevCentral Audio White Paper, F5's Peter Silva discusses tips on building applications to scale. Many applications are developed today in the hopes that they will one day become “superstars” like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. But they aren’t necessarily...
In this DevCentral Audio White Paper, F5's Peter Silva discusses Simplifying Application Access Strategies. Unified, ubiquitous access has historically been out of reach and enterprises are clamoring for a single appliance to handle all their secure access needs. Typically companies...
Joe and Colin talk to Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent. In the call, they talk about General overview of Joyent and how they provide a high-end on-demand infrastructure to their clients. ...
Deb Allen and Colin Walker host a roundtable discussion with Technical Marketing team members Alan Murphy, Lori MacVittie, and Ken Salchow. They explore the benefits and challenges of VDI (Virtual Desktop infrastructure), including how LTM can be an integral part of any VDI offering today, and end with a lively discussion of what the future of the virtual desktop and...
The DevCentral team interviews Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO at WhiteHat Security. They talk about website vulnerability detection with the WhiteHat Sentinal service and how, through a joint partnership, customers of F5 and WhiteHat can integrate WhiteHat's Sentinal and F5's BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) to provide both world class detection as well as real time protection against security exploits.
