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 and scalability while negating the effects of network attacks.  Running Time: 14:17  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.

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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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In 5 Minutes or Less - Enterprise Manager v2.2

Check out some of the new features in Enterprise Manager v2.2 like Predefined Reports, SSL TPS Utilization, Custom Views, Custom Monitors, Alerts and Reports, EM Virtual Edition, Bulk actions and more.

Enterprise Manager is a centralized management appliance for F5 BIG-IP® devices that gives you a consolidated, real-time view of your entire F5 application delivery infrastructure, plus the tools you need to quickly optimize performance and scale your infrastructure to meet business needs.

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Resources:

• F5 Broadens Management Solution Portfolio with New Virtual Appliance
• F5 Launches Application-Focused Video Series
• Enterprise Manager
• F5 YouTube Channel
• Enterprise Manager Product Overview
• Enterprise Manager Datasheet
• Enterprise Manager Version 2.2 – SlideShare Presentation
• TechValidate Enterprise Manager Portal – Customer Quotes and Statistics
• In 5 Minutes or Less - F5's iHealth System

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Audio White Paper: Optimize and Accelerate Applications across the WAN

Although networks have improved over time, application traffic has increased at an alarming rate. Bandwidth-efficient client server applications have been replaced with bandwidth-demanding web applications, which can put a strain on your infrastructure.  Where previous-generation client server transactions involved tens of kilobytes of data, rich web-based portal applications can transfer hundreds of kilobytes per transaction—and with the explosion of social media and video, megabytes per transaction is not uncommon.  This bandwidth-hungry society, in which people often watch videos right on their mobile devices, can have both a financial and technical effect on the infrastructure needed to deliver such large pieces of content.  Maximize your network and application delivery with WAN optimization.  Running Time: 20:50  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.

  
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Orbital Sciences Corporation Case Study - F5 Networks

One of the world's leading space technology companies, Orbital Sciences Corporation has pioneered new classes of rockets, satellites, and other technologies that help make the benefits of space more affordable, accessible, and useful to millions of people on Earth.

Watch this interview with Orbital Sciences Senior Director, Information Services, Tom Hall and Senior IS Manager, Bryan Pretre to learn how implementing F5 ARX helped the organization boost operational efficiencies, minimize disruptive downtime and significantly reduce overall storage costs. As the business has grown, its use of complex engineering applications and the need to keep increasing amounts of data accessible for up to 20 years was pushing its storage environment to the limit.  Printed case study can be found here (pdf).

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CloudFucius Confused: Cloud Costing Companies?

You heard that right.  Yeah, I know – wasn’t cloud computing supposed to save money?  All that economies of scale, pay-as-you-go, shared infrastructure, reduced CapEx and OpEx and so on has gotten real cloudy according to a recent survey.  Research company Vanson Bourne, commissioned by Compuware, found that large European companies are losing £600,000 a year due to poor performance of cloud based applications – that’s close to $1 Million USD!  These are e-commerce sites and Internet based business applications.

They surveyed 300 European IT Directors and found that 57% are slowing down, stopping or even shutting down cloud based applications until they can solve this issue.  They noted that while many organizations have large investments in cloud based systems, cloud performance management may hamper or slow the adoption rate moving forward.  84% said that they expect more accurate SLAs than simple availability especially with business critical apps.  Many respondents have experienced degraded performance to their site when a neighboring customer has a huge surge in demand.  There is finite resources available and when one customer grabs a bunch of it, everyone else can suffer. 

Organizations need to look at end to end performance from an end user perspective and not just what the cloud provider is telling them.  There are many variables when determining availability and sometimes it’s difficult to determine if it’s the cloud provider, the customer’s own infrastructure or the Internet itself.  Compuware's Richard Stone said, "Security concerns are obviously still important but it's clear that performance is now becoming the 'day in, day out' business inhibitor that has to be solved,"…"The good thing is people are aware of the issue and understand that the end-user experience can't be compromised."  In another recent survey from Gomez, statistics show that almost one-third of consumers will abandon a slow site within 1 or 5 seconds.  I could relate this to an impatient society but I’d have to include myself.  That same survey found that 39% said speed rather than functionality was more important to a web site.

And one from Confucius: Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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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, 20, 21

Related:

• Cloud performance issues costing firms €600,000 a year
• Companies struggling with cloud performance
• Cloud apps cost firms £500,000 a year in poor performance
• New Survey From Compuware Gomez Reveals Consumers Will Quickly Abandon Slow Websites
• Network Optimization Won’t Fix Application Performance in the Cloud
• Cloud Testing: The Next Generation
• Cloud Lets You Throw More Hardware at the Problem Faster
• CloudFucius Combines: Security and Acceleration
• The Cloud Computing – Application Acceleration Connection

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Audio Tech Brief - Constrained Delegation in CAC PKI Architectures

Kerberos has long been considered to reside at the top of the network authentication protocol tree as the most secure and, unfortunately, most complex authentication system. This comes not from the way in which Kerberos is designed, but rather from the complexity of the systems that have grown up around Kerberos that support identity management, especially when applied across organizational boundaries.  Using the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to support federation of cross-domain service access in a PKI-enabled architecture.  Running time: 16:20   Read full white paper here.

  
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Audio White Paper - F5 iControl

iControl provides the means by which F5’s BIG-IP platform can be automated, integrated, and flexible such that it can adapt in real-time to changing network and application infrastructure conditions inside and outside the data center. Whether you are building out a new infrastructure or adapting to new technology, using iControl can enable unprecedented levels of control over and visibility into the application delivery process.  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.

 

  
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Audio White Paper - Disaster Recovery - Not Just Planning For The Worst

This paper describes how businesses can use F5 Networks’® BIG‑IP® Global Traffic Manager™ to leverage all the benefits of their secondary site in an active-active configuration to holistically manage their applications across multiple sites. This paper also describes how you can use BIG-IP® Link Controller™ to maintain ISP link connectivity and WANJet™ to accelerate site-to-site data replication across the WAN.  Read full White paper here.   And click here for more F5 Audio.

  
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Audio White Paper - Application Ready Solution Templates

F5's Application Ready Solution Templates are designed to ensure that the savings realized through consolidation are protected by reducing the time, effort, and application-specific knowledge required of administrators to optimally deploy applications that are secure, fast, and available through the use of BIG-IP devices.  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.

  
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Audio White Paper - Acceleration 101

Getting your applications to work properly over a Wide Area Network (WAN) is a complex task, and it is not likely to get easier any time soon. This White Paper discusses how an Application Delivery Network can accelerate your applications and help make sure they are secure, fast, and available.  Read full white paper here.  And click here for more F5 Audio.

  
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Audio White Paper - F5 PRO-enabled Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Automated Provisioning

Through extensive collaboration with Microsoft, F5 created the PRO-enabled Management Pack for Microsoft System Center, bringing application networking intelligence to Microsoft’s data center management platform. The F5 Management Pack allows decisions to be made on application traffic based on other factors in the data center, such as power consumption needs, virtual server availability, and network status.
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Audio White Paper - Managing BIG-IP Devices With HP and Microsoft Network Management Solutions

By working collaboratively with partners that build some of the most widely deployed network management tools in the industry, F5 provides the bridge between application system and network infrastructure management. Using third-party tools such as HP Network Node Manager i and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, it has never been easier to manage F5 BIG-IP devices.
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