VMworld2013 - VMware NSX

I catch Charlie Cano, F5 Sr Solution Architect to whiteboard F5's integration with VMware NSX - their Network Virtualization Platform. What is NSX, how F5 integrates and the infrastructure benefits are all covered.  F5 announced integration between its BIG-IQ™ Cloud offering and VMware NSX. Together, F5 and VMware solutions help mutual customers seamlessly deploy application services—such as security and acceleration—with network virtualization technologies.

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Related:

• VMworld2013 - Find F5
• VMworld2013 - F5 VMware Alliance
• VMworld2013 - Defy Convention
• F5 Offers Customer-Focused Activities at VMworld 2013
• Automating application delivery with BIG-IP and VMware vCenter Orchestrator
• VMware Virtualizing the Network on its Way to the Software Defined Data Center
• F5 Friday: The Low Down on BIG-IP and VMware Stuff
• F5's YouTube Channel
• In 5 Minutes or Less Series (23 videos – over 2 hours of In 5 Fun)
• Inside Look Series

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Interop 2012 - F5 & HP Partnership with Jeff Stathatos

I meet up with Jeff Stathatos, F5 Solution Architect, about the expansion of the HP partnership.  HP Networking's Virtual Application Network (VAN) is front and center.

 

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Related

• F5@INTEROP
• Interop 2012
• Interop 2012 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2137
• Interop 2012 - F5 in the Interop NOC
• Interop 2012 - Application Delivery Optimization with F5's Lori MacVittie
• Interop 2012 - F5 Technical Certification Program with Ken Salchow
• Interop 2012 - The F5 & HP Partnership with Jeff Stathatos
• Interop Las Vegas 2012 - "F5: Pick the Right Tool for the Job"
• F5 Secures and Optimizes Application and Network Services for the Interop 2012 Las Vegas Network Operations Center
• F5 Helps Organizations Improve User Experience and Simplify Management with First Integrated SPDY Gateway
• F5’s New Technical Certification Program Helps Define and Measure the Skills Required for Today’s IT Complexities
• F5 YouTube Channel

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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 changing conditions. It must allow the IT enterprise to adapt quickly to changing organizational demands for security, data protection, ease of access, market responsiveness, low cost, and high performance. This paper outlines F5’s vision for such an approach, explores its business benefits, defines F5’s architecture for delivery, and outlines a roadmap for implementation.  Running Time: 16:17  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.

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Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC Follow Up

I follow up with Ken Bocchino and Sam Richman of the F5 Consulting Team to see how the F5 BIG-IP gear handled the traffic during the Interop Conference.  Ken’s got some interesting traffic, device and IPv6 statistics.

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Resources:

• Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027
• Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC
• Interop 2011 - VIPRION 2400 and vCMP
• Interop 2011 - IXIA and VIPRION 2400 Performance Test
• F5 YouTube Channel

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Interop 2011 - VIPRION 2400 and vCMP

Peter Silva talks with Paul Szabo, F5 Sr. Architect, about the new VIPRION 2400 and vCMP, the industry’s First Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing Technology.  With the VIPRION 2400’s chassis-based architecture, customers enjoy enhanced availability features and the flexibility to scale their ADC infrastructures without changing network, application, or device configurations, leading to dramatically reduced OpEx. VIPRION running vCMP gives enterprises the unprecedented ability to have complete, logical separation of software versions and instances on a single, highly scalable device.

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Resources:

• Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027
• Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC
• F5 YouTube Channel

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Our Digital Life Deciphered

comScore always has some very interesting statistics when measuring the digital world and these recent reports are no different.  The 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review has great info both in understanding media trends and knowing what the end user is actually doing out there.  The 2010 Mobile Year in Review is also interesting in looking at mobile device and OS trends and the differences worldwide, both in models and what users are utilizing them for.  There are tons of graphs and analysis covering areas like U.S. Retail E-Commerce Spending, Percent of Time Spent for Top 5 U.S. Web Properties,  U.S. Unique Visitor Trend for Leading Social Networking Sites, Percent Share of Searches Among U.S. Core Search Engines, Growth in Total U.S. Online Video Market, Top Mobile Activities in the U.S. and many more.

These were a few that I found interesting - taken directly from the reports.

* 9 out of every 10 U.S. Internet users now visit a social networking site each month.

* Facebook now accounts for 12.3% of time spent online in the US - up 7.2% just a year ago. 

* After Portals, Social Networking now ranks as the next most engaging activity at 14.4 percent of time spent online (up 3.8 percentage points), while Entertainment ranks third at 12.6 percent (up 0.8 percentage points). As communication continues to shift to other channels, including social media and mobile, usage of web-based email declined 1.5 percentage points to 11.0 percent of time spent.

* An average of 179 million Americans watch video each month and the average American spent more than 14 hours watching online video in December, a 12-percent increase from last year, and streamed a record 201 videos, an 8-percent increase.

* In September 2010, smartphone ownership crossed the 25 percent threshold, marking a significant milestone in smartphone adoption in the U.S. By December 2010, smartphone penetration had reached 27 percent of the mobile market.

* Samsung unseated last year’s OEM (original equipment manufacturer) leader, Motorola, to rank as top OEM provider with 24.8 percent of devices owned by mobile subscribers in December 2010, up 3.6 percentage points from the previous year.

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Related:

• The 2010 Mobile Year in Review
• The 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review
• Why Video Advertising Needs to Dump Impressions and Move to 'Cost Per View'
• Android overtakes BlackBerry in US marketshare
• Seven million smartphone owners in Japan
• Facebook Cracks ComScore US Ad Survey Top 10 for First Time
• Yahoo, Tax Sites Attract Most January Visitors
• F5 YouTube Channel

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