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The Future of the Desktop

DevCentral Interview — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:03:37 GMT

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 application virtualization might hold.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Virtualization, Virtual Desktop, VDI, LTM, BIG-IP

SharePoint ARN

DevCentral Interview — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:08:49 GMT

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.

What is PowerShell?

DevCentral Interview — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:02:56 GMT

Microsoft PowerShell – the new scripting language from Microsoft – has seen significant adoption and buzz over he past year. To help Microsoft-focused IT Pros access, monitor, and manage F5 products using existing skills, F5 provides some interesting Powershell CmdLets and resources under the “Powershell” DevCentral Labs project. For organizations embracing F5’s Application Ready Network (ARN) for Microsoft products, PowerShell offers a great way to augment deployments with custom integration and management. Jeff Browning and Joe Pruitt sit down to talk about PowerShell, what it is, how it works, and how F5 enables customers to use it with F5 products.

What is ARN?

DevCentral Interview — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:39:48 GMT

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.