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Stephanie Yan-F5 Intern Delivers APM Solutions

DevCentral Interview — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:53:39 GMT

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:

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CIO Conversation – John Matthews On Intelligent File Management

DevCentral Interview — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:06:52 GMT

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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The F5 Dog Food Program

DevCentral Interview — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:29 GMT

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.

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Talk With Evan Loats From CSC About Remote Access

DevCentral Interview — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:00:00 GMT

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 integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting.

In this podcast, we talk to Evan Loats, Remote Access Product Manager, Australia and Asia CSC, about the requirements of remote access users in today’s rapidly evolving mobile environment and the solution F5 Networks provides to their customers.

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Audio White Paper - Manageable Application Security

DevCentral Interview — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:53:39 GMT

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

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Delivering SaaS Solutions With Hobsons Patrick McFadin

DevCentral Interview — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:04:40 GMT

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 with delivering the industry’s best SaaS solution and how F5 Networks has helped achieve their success.

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Audio Tech Brief - DNSSEC : The Antidote to DNS Cache Poisoning and Other DNS Attacks

DevCentral Interview — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:24:20 GMT

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

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Audio White Paper - Disaster Recovery - Not Just Planning For The Worst

DevCentral Interview — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:41:31 GMT

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 WAN.

You can download the full White Paper from: disaster-recovery-wp.pdf

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Audio White Paper - Security and Acceleration - The Sweet Spot of Application Delivery

DevCentral Interview — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:19:56 GMT

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.

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Audio White Paper - Conquering Multi-Homed ISP Link Challenges

DevCentral Interview — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:15:25 GMT

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 paper at: lc-multihome-wp.pdf

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