A Blog of Thanks

With the shortened Thanksgiving holiday work week, I had a blog ready but thought I’d just thank all of you for reading, watching and listening to the various pieces of content I produce.  I do appreciate it! ps Technorati Tags: blog, social media, comscore, music, statistics, blog traffic, web traffic, digital media, mobile device, analytics, video Connect with Peter: Connect with F5: ...

Audio White Paper - High-Performance DNS Services in BIG-IP Version 11

With an increasing number of devices, applications, and services on the Internet, it’s becoming more difficult to achieve network and application response times that deliver a quality user experience. This problem is not only a bandwidth issue—it’s also closely tied to network and infrastructure architecture.  To provide high-quality user experiences on the Internet, networks must be designed with optimized, secure, highly available, and high-performance IP services. Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most difficult, but important, IP services to optimize and secure. DNS Services in F5 BIG-IP version 11 provides an intelligent DNS architecture that delivers high performance...

Audio White Paper - Application Security in the Cloud with BIG-IP ASM

Application threats are constantly evolving. Recent high-profile Internet attacks on organizations like HBGary, RSA, WikiLeaks, Google, Comodo, and others prove that no one is immune. Anyone could be a target, and perpetrators are extremely organized, skilled, and well-funded. Culprits are often better trained than the IT staff deployed to thwart the attacks, which are targeted, elaborate, and aggressive—not to mention creative. The attacks are multi-layered and constant, and seek not only to deface a website, but to steal valuable data. Customer data, intellectual property, state secrets, SSL certificates, and other proprietary, highly sensitive information are the top targets.  Whether critical...

Audio White Paper - Controlling Migration to IPv6: A Gateway to Tomorrow

While organizations worldwide are beginning to acknowledge their need to adopt IPv6, most are still struggling to define a workable strategy around it.  F5 solutions provide the flexibility organizations need to devise gradual migration plans that minimize disruption and downtime.  This White Paper describes how the BIG-IP LTM system help organizations migrate to IPv6, and can operate as an IPv4 to IPv6 gateway; operating identically in either environment, and within mixed environments. This capability is ideal for organizations that are either actively planning for or anticipating an IPv4 to IPv6 transition.  Running Time: 13:26  ...

Audio White Paper - The F5 Dynamic Services Model

Today, agility in both business logic and an organization’s underlying IT infrastructure is imperative to success. Yet traditional IT infrastructures and processes simply are not agile. It is no surprise, then, that CIOs routinely express frustration with the time and effort required to align IT functions to changing business needs. F5 believes a new approach to infrastructure design must emerge—one that enables enterprises to add, remove, grow, and shrink IT services on demand, regardless of location. This new infrastructure must dynamically optimize the interaction between users and resources in the face of rapidly...

Audio White Paper - Application and Data Security with F5 BIG-IP ASM and Oracle Database Firewall

Organizations need an end-to-end web application and database security solution to protect data, customers, and their businesses. The integrated solution from F5 and Oracle provides improved protection against SQL injection attacks and correlated reporting for richer contextual information.  F5 and Oracle have partnered to offer enhanced security for web-based database applications. The integration between F5 BIG-IP® Application Security Manager (ASM) and Oracle Database Firewall provides richer forensic information about SQL injection attacks through correlated reporting.  Running Time: 17:54  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more...

Audio White Paper - Streamlining Oracle Web Application Access Control

Web application security is critical—the data that web servers and their back-end databases house is invaluable to an enterprise. An organization must be able to control who can access their resources and when, as well as audit that information. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), in conjunction with Oracle Access Management (OAM), helps centralize web application authentication and authorization services, streamline access management, and reduce infrastructure costs.  Running Time: 17:58  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.   Listen on Posterous ps ...

Audio White Paper: Achieving Enterprise Agility in the Cloud

Cloud computing continues to be one of today’s most intriguing IT technologies, yet enterprises are still weighing whether it can help them achieve their business goals. Working together, VMware, F5 Networks, and BlueLock offer integrated solutions that help enterprises develop agility so they can easily and efficiently use cloud resources on demand to meet their changing needs.  Running Time: 24:21  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.    Download now or listen on posterous AudioWP_Achieving_Enterprise_Agility_in_the_Cloud.mp3 (23140 KB) ...

Audio White Paper: Optimizing Application Delivery in Support of Data Center Consolidation

Data center consolidation means more than simply reducing the number of servers, routers, and switches your company has in outlying offices and data centers. Data center virtualization is more than multiple images mapped to physical devices. Efforts to reduce both capital and operating expenditures by consolidating data centers can fail if the applications and the network are not optimized.  By architecting data center infrastructure to be as nimble and agile as possible, IBM and F5 enable enterprises to better react in real time to customer requirements and to position the...

Audio White Paper: F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module in Data Replication Environments

Data loads are constantly on the rise: where transmissions once included only plain-text email and a few static web hits, people now send rich text email, dynamic web pages including multiple AJAX requests per page, replication data, and a host of other data types.  Replication data in particular is critical, especially to businesses. Businesses need their replication data to arrive at the appropriate destination, in a timely manner and with no doubt of delivery. The slower and less reliable your replication is, the less useful it is to your original purpose.  Using...