F5 Networks Latest News

F5 Highlights BIG-IP Integration With vSphere

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 Networks unveiled a series of deployment guides focused on integration of its BIG-IP products and VMware's vSphere 4 and vCenter Server solutions.

F5 BIG-IP Solutions Integrated with VMware vCenter Server to Support More Rapid Alignment of IT to Business Requirements

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:00:00 EST

VMware vCenter Server and F5 BIG-IP solutions enable customers to dynamically provision application resources, reduce costs, and maximize the automation and agility of their IT infrastructures.

TMC Interop Interview with F5 Networks

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST

F5's CTO and SVP of Development, Karl Triebes, talks about F5's BIG-IP version 10 solution and how it affords enterprises, Service and Cloud providers a more agile and dynamic infrastructure.

Tiered storage, data reduction technologies manage capacity growth for companies as IT budgets shrink

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST

Clackamas County tiers storage using F5 ARX switch and Data Domain devices to manage capacity growth.

How to Optimize Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployments with F5 BIG-IP

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:00:00 EST

Solutions from F5 help organizations prepare their network and storage infrastructures for the increased load introduced by a virtual desktop infrastructure.

F5 Helps Sinclair Knight Merz Gain 4x Performance Improvement for Microsoft SharePoint

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 solutions for Microsoft SharePoint provide Sinclair Knight Merz with a complete set of resources-including step-by-step deployment guides and pre-configured, validated acceleration policies.

F5 Helps Government, Financial, and Healthcare Customers Uphold Security Standards with New FIPS Edition of BIG-IP 6900

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 solution integrates enhanced SSL encryption with market-leading Application Delivery Controller functionality, providing high levels of security for sensitive applications

Ask an F5 Virtualization Expert: Business Continuity - Planning Beyond the Data Center

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST

In this on-demand webinar, F5's very own Virtualization Experts, Alan Murphy, Technical Marketing Manager for Virtualization Solutions and Dayne Miller, Virtualization Product Management Engineer, discuss how to deliver always available context-aware applications across data centers.

Please Join Us For The F5 Networks Conference Call

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST

Please call in 10 minutes ahead of time to ensure a proper connection. We look forward to having you join us. If you have any problems or questions, please call F5 NETWORKS, INC. (206) 272-5555.

F5 Networks Named Application Networking Vendor of the Year in Asia Pacific for the Second Consecutive Year by Frost & Sullivan

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST

F5 won the 2009 Asia Pacific Application Networking Vendor of the Year award for its strong business performance and market-leading position in the application networking segment in 2008.

F5 Management Pack For Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST

F5's Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 is a plug-in that lets users monitor resources and maintain optimal performance through insight into changing infrastructure.

F5 Networks to Present at Investor and Technology Conferences from UBS Investment Bank, William Blair, and RBC Capital Markets

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST

F5 announced that company management will participate in the UBS Investment Bank Global Technology & Services Conference in New York on June 8, the William Blair 29th Annual Growth Stock Conference in Chicago on June 9, and the RBC Capital Markets Technology, Communications & Media Conference in San Francisco on June 10.

F5 Ensures High Performance and Availability for Foreign Exchange Trading at Easy-Forex

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST

BIG-IP solution delivers optimal performance globally for customers using Internet trading platform

How to Implement a Reputation-Based, Network Edge eMail Security System

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST

American Internet Services, which provides data center and co-location services, manages more than 14,000 unique email boxes for our customers and our own internal email, using 11 email servers.

F5 Networks to Present at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch 2009 Technology Conference

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:00:00 EST

F5 announced that company management will participate in the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch 2009 Technology Conference, held at The Westin Times Square hotel in New York, N.Y.

Ask an F5 Virtualization expert: Managing Apps in a virtual infrastructure

Wed, 27 May 2009 16:00:00 EST

In this on-demand webinar, F5's very own Virtualization Experts, Alan Murphy, Technical Marketing Manager for Virtualization Solutions and Charlie Cano, Virtualization Solutions Architect, discuss how to create a true "single pane of glass" management solution for your entire virtual data center.

F5 CEO: Application delivery and optimization need network flexibility

Fri, 22 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 CEO John McAdam touts the need for network flexibility and the ability to make changes on the fly to enable dynamic application delivery and optimization.

F5 Networks to Present at the Cowen & Co. 37th Annual Technology, Media and Telecom Conference and the Barclays 2009 Worldwide Wireless and Wireline Conference

Fri, 22 May 2009 13:00:00 EST

F5 announced that company management will participate in the Cowen & Co. 37th Annual Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on May 27 and the Barclays 2009 Worldwide Wireless and Wireline Conference on May 28. Both conferences will be held in New York, N.Y.

2009 Interop Keynote: Maintain an Agile Infrastructure in a Constantly Changing World

Wed, 20 May 2009 08:00:00 PST

IT drives competitive advantage. You need an IT infrastructure that delivers agility, empowering you to dynamically adapt to the business and technology changes affecting the applications, data, and people you depend on. John McAdam, President and CEO of F5 Networks, will elaborate on architecting intelligent points of control within your network to better leverage current resources, reduce costs, and optimize IT agility.

F5's VIPRION Application Delivery Controller Receives 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award

Tue, 19 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5's high-performance, scalable hardware platform recognized for outstanding innovation

F5 Networks' CEO to Deliver Keynote at Interop Las Vegas

Mon, 18 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

Attendees will learn why and how a static infrastructure must evolve to match the flexibility of virtualized applications, both within the data center and out to the cloud

F5 BIG-IP Solutions Enable MegaPath to Quickly Scale Managed Services to Meet Customers' Business Continuity Needs

Mon, 18 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

New research survey from TechValidate reveals BIG-IP solutions deliver tangible business value and ROI for enterprise customers; MegaPath confirms results by reducing annual OpEx budgets with BIG-IP devices

Scaling SSL VPNs for Business Continuity

Sat, 16 May 2009 16:00:00 EST

In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the manager for core technical marketing at F5 Networks, Ken Salchow, talks about the challenges IT organizations face when trying to manage large-scale implementations of virtual private networks based on SSL as the work force becomes increasingly mobile.

PacificSource Taps File Virtualization to Migrate Files

Fri, 15 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 announced that company management will participate in the 37th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, held at the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel in Boston, MA.

F5 Networks to Present at 37th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference

Fri, 15 May 2009 13:00:00 EST

PacificSource Health Plans implements F5 Networks' file virtualization appliance to enable non-disruptive file migration and improve network availability.

What's new in the storage virtualization market?

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:00:00 EST

Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online publication devoted entirely to virtualization technologies., VSM speaks with Nigel Burmeister, Director of Product Marketing at F5 Networks, about Application Delivery Networking.

Ask an F5 Virtualization Expert: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:00 EST

In this on-demand webinar, F5's very own Virtualization Experts, Alan Murphy, Technical Marketing Manager for Virtualization Solutions and Charlie Cano, Virtualization Solutions Architect, discuss how with careful planning VDI can provide provides greater flexibility, reliability, efficiency and security managing desktops and applications from the data center.

Ask an F5 Business Continuity Expert

Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:00 EST

In this on-demand webinar, F5's very own Business Continuity Experts, Ken Salchow, Technical Marketing Manager and team, discuss how to handle a dramatic increase in remote users when faced with planning for disaster recovery.

F5 Strikes With 'Lightning' Partner Program

Tue, 12 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

The goal of the new program is simple - reward partners for delivering greater value and boost their profitability in a struggling economy.

F5 Enhances Data Management Solutions with Tools to Rein in Storage Costs and Broaden Adoption of File Virtualization

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

Market-leading functionality in F5 ARX and Data Manager helps organizations achieve measurable storage cost savings; new 'Fast Start' package speeds implementation in companies of all sizes

F5 Chosen by the Netherlands' Largest Non-Academic Hospital to Help Guarantee Access to Critical Healthcare Applications

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager selected by Isala Clinics to ensure availability of medical images and data

F5 Networks to Present at Baird's 2009 Growth Stock Conference

Fri, 8 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 announced that company management will participate in Baird's 2009 Growth Stock Conference, held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, IL.

F5 moves to three-tier deal registration program

Wed, 6 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

Application delivery vendor F5 Networks has launched a new channel program, a key component of which will offer a three-tiered deal registration program that will reward partners for adding value to deals rather than just doing fulfillment.

F5's New North American Channel Program Empowers Resellers to Increase Their Value and Differentiation

Mon, 4 May 2009 06:00:00 EST

The 'F5 Lightning' channel partner program strikes hard to increase partner effectiveness, open doors to new application markets, and reward partners for delivering greater value

F5 BIG-IP Solution Selected by MITSUI KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY to Support Unified Communication Platform

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EST

Microsoft and F5 technologies improve IT management efficiency and business agility through increased collaboration and more effective internal communication

Ask an F5 virtualization expert: vDS & Application Traffic Management

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EST

In this on-demand webinar, F5's very own Virtualization Experts, Alan Murphy, Technical Marketing Manager for Virtualization Solutions and Charlie Cano, Virtualization Solutions Architect, discuss how VMware's Virtual Distributed Switch (vDS) and F5's application traffic management work together to extend into the data center.

F5 Delivers Enhanced Application Visibility and Management Capabilities for Microsoft's Dynamic Data Center Initiative

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST

New management pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides unparalleled automation, provisioning, and reporting capabilities to maximize IT resource efficiency

F5 Delivers Unified Web Application Security Solutions

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

Powerful new release of BIG-IP Application Security Manager offers the industry's first and only integrated protection from both layer 7 DoS and brute force attacks

F5's BIG-IP Application Security Manager Wins 2009 SC Magazine Reader Trust Award

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

Voted Best Web Application Security solution by security professionals

F5 Solutions Help WestJet's E-Commerce Business Soar in Profitability

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

Scalable and adaptable IT infrastructure supports the airline's rapid growth, delivers vital e-commerce and electronic check-in operations

The network is the service

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

He says one of the capabilities of F5's BIG-IP technology that sold him was the ability to offload SSL traffic without diminishing overall performance.

5 Steps to Building a Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:05:00 EST

Word on the street, and in the trade press and blogs and analyst reports, is most CIOs are not rushing to outsource applications to cloud providers.

Best Web Application Security

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:05:00 EST

Winner: F5 Networks for BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM)

F5 Networks Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:05:00 EST

F5 Networks today announced revenue of $154.1 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2009

F5 upgrade speeds, secures application delivery

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 is enabling machine-to-machine communications among its Big-IP acceleration devices to secure and speed links among corporate offices.

F5 Virtualization Expert Discussion

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EST

F5 virtualization experts Ken Salchow, F5 Technical Marketing Manager and Charlie Cano, F5 Solutions Architect lead a discussion on how F5 customers are implementing virtualization with F5 solutions and how F5 works with VMWare and Microsoft.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City Discuss the Healthcare Industry and BIG-IP v10

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:00:00 PDT

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.

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

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:00:00 PDT

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.

F5's New BIG-IP Solution Enables Global Organizations to Better Align IT to Business and Dramatically Cut Application Delivery Costs

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

BIG-IP version 10 is a landmark release for F5's vision of Unified Application and Data Delivery Services; the integrated solution enables a more dynamic infrastructure, reducing costs and enhancing workforce efficiency

F5's BIG-IP 8900 System Extends Market-Leading Application Delivery Controller Family

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

New hardware platform enables enterprises and service providers to consolidate IT infrastructure, reducing costs and carbon footprint while increasing IT agility

F5 ARX Enables Clackamas County to Support Increasing Storage Requirements, Despite Zero Budget Growth Mandate

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

Newly released independent research from leading analyst firm and TechValidate confirms F5's storage tiering solutions can cut storage costs by up to 80% and improve management efficiency by up to 90%

F5 tackles virtualization with application delivery platform BIG-IP v10

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

In an effort to support virtualization and cloud computing, F5 Networks is consolidating multiple application delivery networking services onto a single device.

Updated BIG-IP Helps Align IT with Business, Cut Application Delivery Costs

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

Version 10 of the integrated solution enables a more dynamic infrastructure, reducing costs and enhancing workforce efficiency

Aligning IT to Business: The Rising Importance of Application Delivery Networks

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:00:00 EST

Gartner Research Vice President Mark Fabbi and F5 Vice President for Product Marketing and Management Erik Giesa, provide actionable insight on new ways to think of about strategic and disruptive technologies that can yield immediate benefits for today's agile and cost conscious IT environments. Learn in less than 35 minutes how Gartner's top 10 technology trends for 2009, such as cloud computing, virtualization, beyond blades, enterprise mash-ups, etc., link back to the application delivery network and enable the tangible benefits of these technologies to your current infrastructure.

F5 Networks Announces Preliminary Results for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2009

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:05:00 EST

F5 Networks today announced preliminary results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009, ended March 31

F5 upgrade pushes multiple services into one box

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EST

F5 Networks has released a new version of its BIG-IP software, in order to bring application security, optimization and acceleration onto a single device.