DevCentral Interviews | Audio

Audio White Paper – Scaling SIP

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:50:31 GMT

Since Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) was originally defined as a signaling protocol for multimedia sessions, SIP has grown beyond its targeted use as an IP-based telephony messaging medium to conferencing and instant messaging. A service provider infrastructure focused on supporting IP-based telephony services is necessarily more complex than simple, web-based services. This makes ensuring reliable, scalable services more difficult. This paper addresses the challenges and solutions when providing high-availability and scalability for SIP services.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, SIP, telephony, Pete Silva

Categories: F5 , DevCentral , BIG-IP

Audio White Paper - F5 And The 8 Ways To Virtualization

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:09:53 GMT

F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within its own product line, helping enterprises get closer to achieving their goal of a implementing a complete Virtual Data Center with F5’s Application Delivery Networking products.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Virtualization, BIG-IP, Pete Silva

Categories: Cloud Computing , BIG-IP , DevCentral , F5

Audio White Paper – Intelligent Layer 7 DoS and Brute Force Protection For Web Applications

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:21:06 GMT

Both Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Brute Force Attacks have existed for many years, and many network devices tout the ability to withstand them. However, most of today’s DoS attacks target layer 7 (L7) by overwhelming applications with seemingly valid requests and Brute Force programs can send more than one million attempts per second. This paper will discuss how to intelligently mitigate these types of attacks.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP, ASM, Pete Silva

Categories: BIG-IP , DevCentral , F5 , Security

Audio White Paper - Application Delivery Network Platform Management

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:00:00 GMT

ADNs are not made up of simple networking devices and servers. In order to function reliably, a strong management back end needs to control all parts of the ADN, managing every aspect of application delivery from application awareness through hardware and network management. As these deployments expand, gaining visibility and manageability over multiple devices is critical to efficiently and cost-effectively manage the ADN infrastructure.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP, Pete Silva

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Fortify Security on the benefits of BIG-IP v10.

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:19:54 GMT

Fortify Security helps their customers ensure secure and efficient access to enterprise applications. Utilizing F5 BIG-IP v10 for both their internal IT as well as their customers enables them help companies further improve their application delivery environments and save on associated IT costs. In this podcast, Ian Jennings, Fortify Security’s Technical Director, discusses how IT security is the most significant challenge facing organizations today and highlights the benefits that F5 BIG-IP v10 provides.

Value of F5’s BIG-IP v10 features

Flexible, dynamic application delivery
Simpler, consolidated, more cost-effective customer solution
Web acceleration and applications security functionality onto a single box
Brute force attack detection and blocking

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP, Fortify Security, Ian Jennings.

Categories: BIG-IP , DevCentral , F5 , Security

Listen To Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Kansas City Discuss The Healthcare Industry And BIG-IP v10

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:14:15 GMT

After 75 years in business, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City has seen its fair share of changes, not only in health care but IT security. An F5 customer since 2002, Randy Paxton (Lead Network Engineer) and Ryan McMurphy (Sr. Network Engineer) talk about their history with F5, the various solutions over the years and their keen interest in many of the new features in BIG-IP v10. In a fast paced discussion, they cover Compliance, Disaster Recovery, Global Load Balancing and how they are able to ‘do more with less’ with F5 solutions in place.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP, BlueCross, BlueSheild

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Learn About Softlayer's Out-Of-The-Box, On Demand Virtual Data Center Service

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:11:27 GMT

SoftLayer provides global, on-demand data center and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. and in this episode, CTO Nathan Day talks with F5 about their Out-of-the-box, on-demand Virtual Data Center Service. Using F5 gear for both their internal IT as well as an offering to their customers, this is an interesting discussion covering things like:

Transition from dedicated to virtual servers
The flexibility to take various data center offerings and assemble for a complete solution
How they’ve automated the Data Center with F5 solutions
How they solve seasonal peaks (Holidays, March Madness)
The control their customer’s have over their individual deployments

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, SofLayer

Categories: BIG-IP , DevCentral , F5 , ISV Solutions

Audio White Paper - Unified Application Delivery

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:07:00 GMT

As we stand upon the precipice of yet another major shift in computing models and technology, it is increasingly important to note that our parachutes (budgets) are not nearly as full as they once were. Diving into new technology without the right safety net today, in a constrained economic environment, is certainly suicidal for any business. The right safety net always has been, and continues to be, a unified and adaptable Application Delivery Network: a platform upon which application delivery-focused solutions can be deployed and managed without incurring additional costs that are often inversely proportional to the value realized from deploying each solution.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP, Pete Silva

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Audio White Paper - Optimizing The Business Of IT

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:06:00 GMT

IT organizations have always been “under the gun” when it comes to serving their ultimate customer: the business. Pressures from budgetary constraints and an uncertain economic future fuel the need to deliver applications and develop an infrastructure that not only addresses technical needs but provides real value to the business.

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Audio White Paper - Inband Passive Monitors

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:05:00 GMT

Application health monitors are now a tried and true technology of the Application Delivery Controller, yet traditional monitors require interaction with the application. Inband passive monitors change that requirement and monitor applications transparently.

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Audio White Paper - Resource Provisioning - Hardware Virtualization Your Way

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:04:00 GMT

BIG‑IP resource provisioning combines the best features of each virtualization model by enabling BIG‑IP LTM modules to run sandboxed without sharing resources, while giving them the ability to dynamical scale if/when needed. Resource provisioning is a new model in hardware virtualization, one that will change the face of application delivery and Application Delivery Controllers moving forward.

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Audio White Paper - BIG-IP Is A Perfect 10

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:03:00 GMT

The unified, adaptable, manageable Application Delivery Controller has arrived…and it’s a “Perfect Ten.” BIG-IP v10 delivers on the promise of a single, unified application delivery services through the integration of application delivery-oriented solutions into its core delivery platform. BIG-IP devices have always been capable of providing a single platform on which acceleration, security, access management, and optimization is unified, but BIG-IP v10 takes that unification a step further by adding WAN optimization, adaptive compression, and F5 iSessions™—all on a single, unified application delivery solution.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP, Pete Silva

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Audio White Paper - BIG-IP Live Install and Logical Volume Manager

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:02:00 GMT

F5® BIG‑IP® Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) have included management and hardware virtualization features since the introduction of F5’s carrier-class ADC blade controller, VIPRION®. Management and hardware virtualization, used in BIG‑IP’s Clustered Multiprocessing, administrative domains, and resource provisioning, can help build and control a complete virtual application delivery solution through the ADC. Through hardware virtualization, the Live Install feature, new to BIG‑IP v10, extends F5’s management virtualization solution to include virtualizing installation partitions and system image management.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, BIG-IP Pete Silva

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Audio White Paper - Application Ready Solution Templates

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:01:00 GMT

This white paper walks you through streamlining the deployment of optimized applications.

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Hosting In The Cloud with ServePath and F5

joe@f5.com (F5 DevCentral Team) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:06:45 GMT

With everybody’s head in the “Clouds” these days, GoGrid’s (the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath) Michael Sheehan and Telemachus Luu join F5 in a lively discussion covering Cloud Computing and how ServePath extended their unique hosting solutions to include the Cloud. We talk about their extension of their traditional hosting company into their branded “Cloudcenter,” how they addressed the challenges when developing GoGrid and how F5 was instrumental to their success.

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Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,BIG-IP,ServePath,GoGrid,Cloud Computing,Pete Silva,Michael Sheehan,Telemachus Luu

Categories: BIG-IP , Cloud Computing , DevCentral , F5 , iControl , iRules , ISV Solutions