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F5 and HP Partner to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007

Michael Johnson — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:01 +0000

HP ran tests on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 using F5 technology, and the results were dramatic: F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator improved throughput to the branch office by up to 8x in a symmetric configuration. Listen to this podcast to hear about the testing methodologies and results, discussed by Jimi Ibbett, senior member of the technical staff, Solutions Alliances Engineering at HP; Ryan Korock, solutions architect at F5; and Jeff Bellamy, senior business development manager at F5. You’ll also learn more about the HP-F5 partnership and F5’s Application Ready Network for Microsoft.

Tags: HP, Microsoft, SharePoint, F5, WebAccelerator, Jimi Ibbett, Ryan Korock, Jeff Bellamy, Application Ready Network, ARN

Defining Application Ready Networks with F5’s Ken Salchow

Michael Johnson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:50:41 +0000

Ken Salchow, F5’s manager of technical marketing, talks about F5’s Application Ready Networks (ARNs). These road-tested architectures cover best practices and deployment support for specific solutions from F5 and major software vendors. F5 currently offers ARNs for Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle products. This podcast describes how ARNs benefit customers and why F5 believes they are important.

Tags: Application Ready Network, ARN, F5 Networks, Ken Salchow

F5: How to control highly variable CDN costs

Michael Johnson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:04:26 +0000

Peak traffic can overload servers and cause bandwidth congestion, leaving web sites unavailable to users. Commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDN) improve performance, but costs are unpredictable, highly variable, and wreak havoc on budgets. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how you can control and lower CDN service costs by reducing repeat downloads of content—even dynamic content—using Intelligent Browser Referencing.

Tags: F5, Joe Hicks, Web Acceleration, Web Accelerator, CDN

Delivering Secure Content to Remote Mobile Users: How to Build a CDN

Michael Johnson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:58:49 +0000

Enterprises want to distribute content closer to their remote users, but can’t use commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), because the information is internal, dynamic and confidential. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator can be deployed symmetrically to create an enterprise CDN (eCDN) that gives enterprise web sites high availability, DOS protection, the fastest user experience, and helps ensure that regulatory compliance is met.

Tags: CDN, F5, Joe Hicks, Web Acceleration, Web Accelerator

Achieving PCI Compliance with F5

Michael Johnson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:07:11 +0000

Meeting PCI (Payment Card Industry) requirements for application security is more than just implementing a Web Application Firewall for requirement 6.6. Learn how F5 addresses multiple PCI requirements across all its products.

Tags: PCI, Payment Card Industry, application security, Web Application Firewall, F5

Application Security: Fast and Easy with F5’s Alan Murphy

Michael Johnson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:30:02 +0000

Application security as a concept has many different connotations, ranging from dealing with application security only in code, implementing solutions in existing technologies such as firewalls, and “porting” application business logic to a traditional on-the-wire Application Firewall solution. The primary barriers to entry for true application security on the wire have included long deployment times and performance. With its new BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) release, F5 has addresses both of these issues head-on, creating a simple, robust “Drop and Go” Application Firewall and fully integrated Application Deliver Security platform. Learn how BIG-IP ASM can help you deploy a complete application security solution while optimizing and accelerating your applications as well.

Tags: Application security, firewalls, Application Firewall, BIG-IP, Application Security Manager, ASM, F5, Drop and Go, BIG-IP ASM

Virtualization Demystified: Breaking out Virtualization Technologies with F5’s Alan Murphy

Michael Johnson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:18:39 +0000

Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn’t cover all parts of the virtualization story. What does virtualization mean within the context of end-users, operating systems, application server, management, etc? These are the questions that all IT departments are dealing with today as they plan their various virtualization migration plans. Before you begin to move towards a fully virtual user and Data Center environment, learn where each independent virtualization category sits in your environment and how to address each one individually. This is an F5 Podcast.

Tags: Virtualization, client environment, Data Center, storage, delivery networks, application server, Data Center, F5

F5 - FirePass 6.0.2 Update

Michael Johnson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:32:40 +0000

Listen to key benefits and new capabilities of F5 FirePass 6.0.2 and how you can use FirePass SSL VPN to maximize productivity of your mobile workforce. F5’s Product Marketing Manager, Nigel Baker and Hari Krishnan, Product Managaer for FirePass talk about how FirePass differs from other SSL VPN products and adds additional business value to enterprises deploying SSL VPN.

Tags: F5, FirePass, SSL, VPN, Nigel Baker, Hari Krishnan

F5’s Big-IP v9 - Time to Migrate

Michael Johnson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:10:21 +0000

Mike Krasnow, F5 Networks’ Product Marketing Manager, discusses BIG-IP version 9. Krasnow explains the benefits that organizations can expect by upgrading from version 4. In version 9, F5 has taken a quantum leap ahead with both their software architecture and hardware platforms to ensure that applications are not only available, but also fast and secure. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: F5 Networks, Product Marketing, BIG-IP

F5’s Ken Salchow: Defining IMS

Michael Johnson — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:00:35 +0000

Ken Salchow, F5 Network’s manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating the access network from the service network. IMS will benefit ISP’s by allowing them to offer a greater variety of products, with more network efficiency, and IMS will benefit consumers, providing new choices in products, services and mobility. Salchow suggests that IMS brings the concept of Fixed Mobile Convergence one step closer to reality. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: Ken Salchow, F5 Network, IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, Fixed Mobile Convergence

F5’s Joe Hicks: Web App Acceleration 101

Michael Johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:00:48 +0000

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, product manager for Web Acceleration at F5 talks about application acceleration, the inherent challenges in Web application delivery, caching, and offload modalities that play a key role in optimized server content delivery. For more info about F5’s Web Accelerator, and more on acceleration, check out learn.f5.com/performance. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: Joe Hicks, Web Acceleration, F5, Web Accelerator

F5’s Joe Hicks IT Challenges & Web App Delivery Options

Michael Johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:00:41 +0000

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, product manager for Web Acceleration at F5 talks about the new challenges that IT managers face as more enterprise and small business operate in “WANspace,” and what technology considerations become necessary for optimized Web app delivery. For more info about F5’s Web Accelerator, and more on acceleration, check out learn.f5.com/performance. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: Joe Hicks, Web Acceleration, F5, WANspace, F5’s Web Accelerator

F5’s Joe Hicks: Server Offload and Application Delivery Optimization

Michael Johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:00:38 +0000

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, product manager for Web Acceleration at F5 talks about server offload, and the technologies and solutions that optimize application delivery. For more info, check out learn.f5.com/performance. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: Joe Hicks, Web Acceleration, F5, server offload

F5’s Saxon Amdahl: Byte Caching, Compression, & WAN Optimization

Michael Johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:00:12 +0000

In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, architect at F5 Networks, discusses byte caching, compression ratios, their role in network latency, and Web application delivery optimization. F5’s Web Accelerator and associated modules, corporate CIFS optimization, TCP Stack and file caching. More info at learn.f5.com/performance. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: Saxon Amdahl, F5 Networks, byte caching, compression ratios, network latency, Web Accelerator, CIFS optimization, TCP Stack, file caching

F5’s Saxon Amdahl: Dynamic Caching & Web App Performance

Michael Johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:00:01 +0000

In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, architect at F5 Networks, discusses dynamic caching vs. static caching, Web application delivery, and the technologies involved in caching, like F5’s WebAccelerator — an application delivery solution that enhances Web application performance for mobile workers. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: Saxon Amdahl, F5 Networks, dynamic caching, static caching, WebAccelerator

F5 Networks Roundup at RSA 2007

Michael Johnson — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:30:38 +0000

In this podcast from RSA 2007 in San Francisco, Martin McKeay of the Network Security Podcast wraps up the security show with F5 Technical Marketing Managers Alan Murphy and Lori MacVittie. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: RSA, Martin McKeay, Network Security Podcast, F5, Alan Murphy, Lori MacVittie

Security Blogging at RSA 2007

Michael Johnson — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:42:25 +0000

In the F5 booth at RSA 2007, Martin McKeay of the Network Security Podcast, taps some of the top security bloggers to get their take on the current security scene. Guests include:

Teneable’s Ron Gula, Cutaway, and Mike Rothman. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: F5, RSA, Martin McKeay, Network Security Podcast, security bloggers, Teneable, Ron Gula, Cutaway, Mike Rothman

Exploring Virtual Servers and Application Security with F5

Michael Johnson — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:26:47 +0000

At RSA 2007, F5 Networks Brian Hatch builds a virtual server in minutes with F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, and F5 Technical Marketing Manager Alan Murphy talks security and network application delivery.

Tags: RSA, F5 Networks, Brian Hatch, BIG-IP, Alan Murphy, security

F5’s Lori MacVittie on Security Blogging

Michael Johnson — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:24:00 +0000

At RSA 2007 F5 Networks Technical Marketing Manager Lori MacVittie talks with Martin McKeay of the Network Security Podcast about the F5 blog DevCentral.

This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: RSA, F5 Networks, Lori MacVittie, Martin McKeay, Network Security, DevCentral

F5’s Alan Murphy, TMOS: Security for the Application Delivery Network

Michael Johnson — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:21:35 +0000

At RSA 2007, F5 Networks Technical Marketing Manager Alan Murphy discusses security issues around network application delivery and F5’s BIG-IP security solution.

Tags: RSA, F5 Networks, Alan Murphy, BIG-IP

F5’s Lori Mac Vittie, Web 2.0 Security: S.O.S.

Michael Johnson — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:34:59 +0000

At RSA 2007, F5 Networks Technical Marketing Manager Lori MacVittie addresses network congestion and security concerns and shows F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager(LTM) & Application Security Manager (ASM) solution. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: RSA 2007, F5 Networks, Lori MacVittie

F5’s Alan Murphy: Stopping Spam at the Network Edge

Michael Johnson — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:23:06 +0000

At RSA 2007, F5’s Technical Marketing Manager Alan Murphy offers a practical solution to spam traffic on the network with the F5 BIG-IP Message Security Module.

Tags: RSA 2007, F5, Alan Murphy, BIG-IP

Business Disaster Preparedness, F5 Networks Peter Silva, Part 2

Michael Johnson — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:16:59 +0000

Peter Silva, a technical marketing manager at F5 Networks, talks about secure remote access, business disaster preparedness, the “people factor”, and F5’s [tag]Firepass application solution. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: Peter Silva, F5 Networks, secure remote access, business disaster preparedness, the “people factor”, and F5’s [tag]Firepass

Secure Remote Access, F5 Networks’ Peter Silva, Part 1

Michael Johnson — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:40:18 +0000

As corporations expand and adapt to a mobile workforce, issues of remote access and security have become even more crucial to basic business operations. Peter Silva, a technical marketing manager at F5 Networks, talks about secure remote access and its role in workforce continuity, business continuity, and an overall disaster recovery plan. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: remote access, security, Peter Silva, F5 Networks, disaster recovery

F5’s Ken Salchow on Redirection in Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

Michael Johnson — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:35:54 +0000

F5’s Core Technical Marketing Manager, Ken Salchow, explains redirection in a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plan, and outlines best practices for data disaster preparedness. This is an F5 podcast.

Tags: F5, Ken Salchow, Disaster Recovery, disaster preparedness