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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 Read the full pdf of the whitepaper here. ...
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...
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...
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...
The Domain Name System (DNS) provides one of the most basic but critical functions on the Internet. If DNS isn’t working, then your business likely isn’t either. Secure your business and web presence with Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). The whitepaper can be found at: dnssec-wp.pdf ...
The concept of spending money to make money—often referred to as "investing" outside of the technology industry—is something just about every marketing campaign promises, but few deliver. The ROI calculations to prove how quickly an investment will reap return often come with a lot of conditions. But solutions that provide a quick ROI along with significant technological benefits do...
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...
Few vendors want to admit that adding a web application security solution can also add latency, which can be kryptonite for websites. No website, especially an e-commerce site, wants to add any delay to users’ interaction. Web application security that also delivers blazing fast websites might sound like an oxymoron, but it is not with F5. ...
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 ...
Both asymmetric and symmetric acceleration technologies can deliver great benefit to your users. But how and where do you deploy them? You can download the hard copy from: acceleration-102-wp.pdf Get the...
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. ...
Getting your applications to work properly over a Wide Area Network (WAN) is a complex task, and it is not likely to get easier any time soon. Trends such as data center consolidation, the advent of Web 2.0 applications, and the move to web-based application delivery have only served to increase complexity and slow user response times. Often, the...
Defining the baseline and process of virtualization maturity for the data center.
You can download the original white paper from: vdc-maturity-model-wp.pdf.
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In this white paper, get an introduction to F5® iControl® service-enabled management API. You can download the white paper from: icontrol-wp.pdf Get the Flash Player to see this player. ...
One of the unfortunate effects of the continued evolution of the load balancer into today’s application delivery controller (ADC) is that it is often too easy to forget the basic problem for which load balancers were originally created—producing highly available, scalable, and predictable application services. We get too lost in the realm of intelligent application routing, virtualized application services,...
Load balancing technology is alive and well; in fact, it is the basis from which today’s Application Deliver Controllers (ADCs) operate. But the pervasiveness of load balancing technology does not mean it is universally understood, nor is it typically discussed other than from a basic, network-centric viewpoint. In a more thorough exploration of the subject, this white paper intends...
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is one of the most ubiquitous protocols on the Internet. It is also one of the few protocols that bridges the gap between networking and application development groups, containing information that is used by both in the delivery and development of web-based applications. The inner...
One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center. The full white paper can be downloaded from here: challenges-to-virtualization.pdf ...
Since Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) was originally defined as a signaling protocol for multimedia sessions, SIP has grown beyond its targeted use as an IP-based telephony messaging medium to conferencing and instant messaging. A service provider infrastructure focused on supporting IP-based telephony services is necessarily more complex than simple, web-based services. This makes ensuring reliable, scalable services more difficult. ...
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...
SoftLayer provides global, on-demand data center and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. and in this episode, CTO Nathan Day talks with F5 about their Out-of-the-box, on-demand Virtual Data Center Service. Using F5 gear for both their internal IT as well as an offering to their customers, this is an interesting discussion covering things like: ...
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...
F5® BIG‑IP® Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) have included management and hardware virtualization features since the introduction of F5’s carrier-class ADC blade controller, VIPRION®. Management and hardware virtualization, used in BIG‑IP’s Clustered Multiprocessing, administrative domains, and resource provisioning, can help...
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...
Bytemobile/F5 partnership: Solutions for wireless network operators worldwide Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for wireless network operators, and F5 Networks, Inc. have formed a partnership focused on delivering scalable and secure mobile internet solutions to wireless network operators worldwide. Listen to this podcast to hear more...
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...
Microsoft SharePoint continues to take off with more widespread deployments than even Microsoft expected. To assist with optimizing SharePoint deployments, F5 provides a F5/Microsoft Application Ready Network (ARN) solution. F5 DevCentral’s Jeff Browning interviews F5’s SharePoint experts including Jeff Bellamy, Ryan Korock, and Dayne Miller to better understand the Sharepoint ARN solution, how it works, the benefits customers should expect, how it’s tested, and more.
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.
F5 DevCentral's Jeff Browning sits down to talk aobut F5's Application Ready Network (ARN) initiative with Karen Jester and Calvin Rowland. During this interview, they discuss what ARN really is, how it's tested, how actual customers utilize it, and get into the details on how ARN came to be.
