From the Greenroom

If you even glanced at my blog last week you probably noticed a slew of videos from VMworld 2011.  What was a simple idea a couple years ago – give people a taste of what we were up to at the various trade shows & highlight partners – has turned into a fun and exciting part of my job.  I do hope they give you a flavor of what is happening on the show floor.  While I try to schedule some interviews and topics prior to the show(s), many of the ‘on the spot’ videos truly are situations where I’m...

Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC

I visit with Paul Vesper and Ken Bocchino of the F5 Consulting Team to share & show how F5 is providing many of the critical infrastructure components of the largest temporary network in the world. </p> <p>ps</p> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFmtDpE6Ing" _fcksavedurl="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFmtDpE6Ing">Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc" _fcksavedurl="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc">F5 YouTube Channel</a> </li> </ul> <p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/psilva/archive/2011/05/09/" _fcksavedurl="http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/psilva/archive/2011/05/09/">F5</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/interop" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/interop">interop</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Pete+Silva" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/Pete+Silva">Pete Silva</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/security" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/business" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/business">business</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/education" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/education">education</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/technology">technology</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/internet" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/internet">internet, </a><a href="http://technorati.com/tags/big-ip" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/big-ip">big-ip</a></p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0"...

RSA 2011 Wrap and Blooper Reel

I had a great time in San Francisco last week seeing and interviewing many of our security partners.  Special thanks goes out to Jerry Skurla and Kara Hutchins of NitroSecurity, Chris Poulin with Q1 Labs, Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security, F5’s Andy Oehler, Benny Czarny and Steven Ginn from OPSWAT and Steve Dispensa of PhoneFactor.  We covered a whole range of topics including token less multi-factor authentication, USB key checkers, BIG-IP Edge Client on iPad, WASC, XSS attacks, OWASP, SIEM, incident response, security reporting, integration and more.  I seem to get lucky at RSA since I was able to again...

RSA2011 F5 Partner Spotlight - OPSWAT

We meet with OPSWAT’s CEO Benny Czarny to talk about the F5 partnership and Steven Gill, VP Engineering, gives us a demo of some of their new technologies. </p> <p>ps</p> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc" _fcksavedurl="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc">F5 YouTube Channel</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.f5.com/partners/" _fcksavedurl="http://www.f5.com/partners/">F5 Partner Page</a></li> <li><a href="www.opswat.com" _fcksavedurl="www.opswat.com">OPSWAT</a></li> </ul> <p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/F5" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/F5">F5</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/RSA" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/RSA">RSA</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Pete+Silva" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/Pete+Silva">Pete Silva</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/security" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/business" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/business">business</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/education" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/education">education</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/technology">technology</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/internet" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/internet">internet, </a><a href="http://technorati.com/tags/cybercrime" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/cybercrime">cybercrime</a></p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="376"><tbody> <tr>...

A Digital Poltergeist On Your Television

I love starting blogs with, ‘Remember when…’ and this is no different.  Remember when, we used to receive our television programming over the air via an antenna?  Many still do but the days of seeing a huge pointy metal object perched on top of a house are dwindling.  (That would actually be a cool photo essay – homes that still have working antennas.)  They’ve been replaced with satellite dishes and coax.  Even then, your programming was still coming over a dedicated cable from a system other than the internet.  Not so anymore.  The explosion of Internet ready Televisions, DVD players,...

In 5 Minutes or Less Video Series

In 5 Minutes or Less Video Series promo. I decided to create a quick rundown of all the In 5 Minutes videos that are available.  See them all in 3 minutes…or Less.  <br /> <br /> <p>ps</p> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc" _fcksavedurl="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc">F5 YouTube Channel</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/f5dotcom" _fcksavedurl="http://www.dailymotion.com/f5dotcom">F5 on DailyMotion</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/channels/F5+Networks/" _fcksavedurl="http://www.metacafe.com/channels/F5+Networks/">F5 on Metacafe</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.howcast.com/users/f5dotcom" _fcksavedurl="http://www.howcast.com/users/f5dotcom">F5 on Howcast</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.veoh.com/users/F5Networks" _fcksavedurl="http://www.veoh.com/users/F5Networks">F5 on Veoh</a> </li> ...

VMworld2010: The Video Outtakes

We shot a lot of video at VMworld2010 and it wasn't always perfect. Here are few of the fun outtakes that made the cutting room floor. Heck I even spelled outtakes wrong on the intro to this video. Special thanks to: Chris King (SpringCM), Sanjay Alyagari (VMware), Mandar Ghosalkar (Byer), Chris Ward (GreenPages), Sasha Kipervarg (Mindjet) & Zeus Kerravala (Yankee Group) for appearing with us during VMworld2010.  I got a few more videos to edit and post so stay tuned. ps Related: VMworld2010 Customer Spotlight: Byer California VMworld2010: Peter Silva Wraps Up the Show ...

VMworld2010 Customer Spotlight: SpringCM

Peter Silva chats with Chris King, Director of Infrastructure & Application Delivery for SpringCM. He talks about their rapid growth and the need to provide customers with the best possible application performance while keeping costs low. The SpringCM cloud platform operates on hundreds of virtual machines and includes a pair of BIG-IP LTM devices with WebAccelerator to efficiently manage web and application traffic. SpringCM also uses BIG-IP LTM VE at secondary data centers. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, virtualization, vmware twitter: @psilvas

VMworld2010: Interview with Phil de la Motte

Peter Silva talks with F5's Phil de la Motte, Sr. Business Development Manager, about our partnership with VMware, support for VMview, vCloud Director and vSphere along with some cloud trends he's seeing. Poor audio quality but will fix & replace shortly. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, virtualization, vmware twitter: @psilvas

VMworld2010: Find F5 Networks

I show how to find the F5 booth (#1131) at Moscone Center during VMworld along with demonstrating some of the giveaways.  Featuring a special guest appearance by Kerry Ok. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, cloud, virtualization, vmware twitter: @psilvas