Peter Silva re-visits F5's Alan Murphy, to go deeper into F5's integration with VMware's VMView and vCloud Director.
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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.
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I interview F5's Alan Murphy at VMworld. The two Technical Marketing Managers talk virtualization, cloud computing and a few others things VMworld related.
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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.
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I’ll be handling a lot of our social media activities during the show, specifically tweeting (or follow F5) and conducting some video interviews of F5 partners and customers. I’ll also probably grab an F5er or two to talk about our VMware partnership along with some technical folks to capture some interesting whiteboard discussions. You can catch all the video posts here in my blog, or you can subscribe to F5’s YouTube Channel to be alerted when new content gets posted. We’ve grown our video content tremendously over the last year with more than 100 videos covering a range of topics: Tech Demos, In 5 Minutes or Less, Interviews, Case Studies, White Board Discussions, Cool Solutions, Product Info, Partner Spotlights, Life at F5 and of course some fun ones with my own brand of humor.
There is no Breakout Session pre-registration this year which will allow you to choose the sessions that are interesting at the moment rather than sticking to a plan you built weeks ago. Breakout Sessions that might be of interest include (links take you to main VMworld site):
Hope to see you there, here or somewhere in the clouds.
And one from Confucius: Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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The CloudFucius Series: Intro, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
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As SSL VPN technology becomes more mainstream and organizations extend their internal infrastructures to users who are not necessarily employees, Endpoint security has become an increasing concern. Allowing an infected device access onto the network is just as bad as allowing an invalid user to access proprietary internal information. Most people perceive remote access as either trusted or un-trusted. But these days, with so many personal devices connecting to the corporate infrastructure, all hosts should be considered hostile until they prove otherwise. This White Paper describes how F5 FirePass Endpoint Security prevents infected PCs, hosts, or users from connecting to the network, and much more. Running Time: 20:59 Read full white paper here. And click here for more F5 Audio.
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Have you seen the news? Cloud Computing Ranks High on Fujitsu's M&A Shopping List; HP, Dell in Bidding War for Cloud Computing Provider; 6fusion is hiring after raising $3 million; and Nimbula raises $15M to expand cloud service. I guess we’ve moved slightly past the ‘early adopter’ stage and right into the ‘gimmie more’ stage. Throughout the CloudFucius series, we’ve tried to investigate the various surveys showing cloud computing movement and hindrances along with learning about areas we were not so knowledgeable. It’s almost following the same pattern as 26 Short Topics About Security where I filled the entries with stats, surveys, stories, suggestions and as Don MacVittie commented, ‘a link fest’ of articles. I tried to present multiple sides of the story, especially with surveys virtually contradicting themselves when it comes to cloud computing. They want it, they are hesitant; looking into it, waiting until it’s mature; cost saver, virtual sprawl; we’ve deployed, what the heck is it?
What is intriguing to me, errr CloudFucius, is that I had always thought – both my impression and what analysts have said – that cloud computing will never take over the world but is simply another option for IT with various benefits. Right now, that’s exactly what it is. With the announcements above, it sure seems like a lot of providers and investors feel that it’ll be a much larger force within the technology industry. Almost every technology company, including F5, are providing some sort of services that ‘play’ in the cloud. Many of us have also been to trade shows where the vendor booth is touting some ‘cloud’ connection and you look at them and go, ‘huh?’ How does that ‘enable’ cloud computing? ‘Ummm, we use the cloud to do this, that or the other thing.’
How will it all turn out? Who knows at this point. Did you expect the level of technology we have today, 10 years ago? Did you expect RF chips in the underwear you are purchasing? Did you expect common thieves going to a cloud to steal your info? Did you think you’d be able to surf the net on an airplane? Maybe we thought it *might* happen at some point, but we are living it now. ♫ Meet George Jetson……♫
And one from Confucius: Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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The CloudFucius Series: Intro, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
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VMware View is the leading desktop virtualization solution built for delivering desktops as a managed service. F5 offers a variety of Application Ready Solutions to help organizations maximize the success of VMware View desktop projects. As a VMware partner, F5 has thoroughly tested and documented the benefits of using our Application Delivery Networks with VMware View 4.0. F5 solutions include secure access, single- sign-on, load balancing, and server health monitoring. F5 BIG‑IP® devices optimize the user experience and help ensure maximum performance, availability, and security for VMware View implementations. Running time: 16:53 Read full white paper here. And click here for more F5 Audio.
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Using the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to support federation of cross-domain service access in a Smart Card PKI-enabled architecture. F5 BIG-IP LTM with ACA in Kerberos protocol transition and constrained delegation architectures allows for a more scalable, efficient and secure infrastructure capable of federating access to services across domains and authentication realms, ultimately decreasing the capital and operational expenditures required to keep applications secure, fast, and available. Running time: 16:20 Read full white paper here. And click here for more F5 Audio.
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No, I’m not investing some seed money in a cool new company or technology but banks are certainly looking to take advantage of cloud computing services. At least that’s the message from a recent survey by Bank Systems & Technology and InformationWeek Analytics. 70% of those that expressed interest in cloud computing said that the ‘Ability to meet user demands quickly and achieve scale,’ was the top consideration factor. Among the financial services applications that are currently being deployed in the cloud, Payment Applications (23%), Core banking applications (22%) and Retail banking applications (21%) topped the list. Mobile banking applications came in at 19% but another 19% plan to use the cloud for mobile banking and another 32% are currently evaluating the cloud for mobile applications, highest of any financial services apps. Shows where they think future traffic will be coming from. 
There are many advantages to deploying firewalls, in particular, behind Application Delivery Controllers. This white paper will show how you can implement ADCs in a “firewall sandwich” to improve availability, scalability, and manageability across the IT infrastructure. Running time: 26:56 And click here for more F5 Audio.
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Well, maybe CloudFucius doesn’t but a couple websites do. Matching the same uptime guarantees that you have with your physical infrastructure can be hard to accomplish. While some companies, mostly smaller enterprises, have put all their systems in the cloud, most deployments are ‘extensions’ of existing infrastructures to provide fault tolerance, disaster recovery and all the other situations where the cloud is advantageous. We all know that the Internet, in and of itself, can have good days and bad – but we somewhat expect this from time to time. We understand that there are innumerable events that can drastically effect the internet and most of those are out of our control. While it may irritate us that we can’t get to our favorite website or work application, we generally move on to the next or wait a few minutes and try again. However, patience and understanding are usually not the headlines used when describing an IT admin when critical business systems are unavailable.
That open access for anyone to deploy services can create a security nightmare. Ponemon Institute recently reported that ‘more than 50 percent of IT professionals surveyed say their organization isn't aware of all the cloud services employees are using -- and few were evaluated for security before use.’ These sites and/or services might contain sensitive company information yet no one, except for the individual or department, has a clue that it’s out there. Usually those employees are not looking to break the rules but simply get their job done. The problem arises when considering things like; how do you maintain compliance, consistency, standardization, change control, management, access control and a whole host of application deployment challenges when it is essentially a rogue site? Rogue, not in the traditional sense of delivering malware or committing fraud, but a corporate off-shoot of your online presence. Typically, IT Web Services departments are responsible for and have control over the web facing properties but if they are unaware of these ‘additional’ entities, vulnerabilities, exposure and other risks are impossible to control.
Kim Boatman, in this article, gives a few pointers on how to get a handle on your cloud computing presence. She recommends doing a Cloud Inventory to evaluate all cloud activity. This is not a IT focused survey but a company wide analysis. IT may have not embraced the cloud but employees may have already. It’s also important that IT becomes the preferred method to deploy cloud services to gain a better control over security risks. Create a catalogue for employees to use when they need such deployments. In addition, examine the cloud providers you currently use to have a clear understanding of the security implications of the blending of data. There may also be alternatives for the type of content that employees need in the cloud verses IT. Finally, as with anything IT (or business related), create a policy around cloud computing. This allows IT and employees alike to understand when/how cloud computing is appropriate. Sensitive data in the cloud has it’s own challenges and there are laws surrounding the protection of that data. If it gets lost, it’s the executives not that employee that will ultimately have to answer for it.
And one from Confucius: It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
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The CloudFucius Series: Intro, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
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I sit down with with Andy Oehler, Product Manager for F5's Secure Access Solutions, to chat about BIG-IP Edge Gateway and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager. From the F5 Summit in Chicago.
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