F5 Networks Case Studies

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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

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National Insurance Institute of Israel

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:00 EDT

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with Application Security Manager was implemented by the National Insurance Institute of Israel to combine intelligent load balancing, performance improvement, and security modules on a single platform.

SIGNAL IDUNA

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:00:00 EDT

The SIGNAL IDUNA Group (www.signal-iduna.de)is one of Germany's ten largest insurance companies. Given exponentially growing volumes of data, SIGNAL IDUNA had serious concerns about the extremely slow access and data backup speeds of an online storage system based on a four-node, Microsoft Windows 2003 cluster. A detailed investigation revealed that, in addition to the business-critical files frequently accessed, there was also a considerable volume of seldom-used files that took up a disproportionately large amount of online storage space. ARX enabled SIGNAL IDUNA to free up a massive amount of online storage space, greatly improving performance.

Marine Resources Group

Wed, 20 May 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Marine Resources Group companies operate around the globe, providing a wide range of marine transportation services to customers in a variety of industries. With 1,600+ employees working around the clock, around the globe, and on land and sea, email is the vital communication link that keeps the organization connected. To maintain this line of communication MRG uses Microsoft Exchange Server and F5 BIG-IP LTM.

TEVA Sante

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:00:00 EDT

PharmaML is a new protocol aimed at standardizing stock management processes in France's pharmaceutical industry. TEVA Sante, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, recognized that the new standard presented data security issues. The company began a major IT project focused on addressing these issues while still ensuring reliability and service levels for the various sales channels. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager, TEVA Sante has been able to secure its online ordering system, maintain high availability, and achieve regulatory compliance in the face of changing competitive needs and industry standards.

RHWL Architects

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EDT

RHWL is a multi-skilled architectural practice, renowned for designing a broad range of buildings from sports stadiums and theatres to residential developments and commercial premises. The company found itself struggling to meet the need for additional capacity while attempting to manage its storage budget. By implementing F5 ARX to manage its file storage more effectively, RHWL achieved time, productivity, and cost savings, with an expected time to ROI of less than one year.

Fortify Security

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Fortify Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With BIG-IP v10, Fortify Security has experienced a 60 percent reduction in server load, and believes that the new version will result in performance improvements as well as significant data center cost savings for its customers.

Rotary International

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST

Rotary International deployed a new public-facing website using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. To encourage viewership and achieve optimal return on its SharePoint investment, Rotary uses the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 3400 device to manage site traffic. With F5 devices, Rotary maintains high website availability, has simplified administration, and has freed-up server processor usage as much as 20 percent, resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings.

Stark State College of Technology

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:00:00 EST

Using BIG-IP LTM with the ANGEL Learning Management System, Stark State College has improved the performance of its online learning and administrative applications, dramatically reduced downtime, and attracted higher enrollment in its e-learning program.

MSNBC.com - Election Day 2008

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:00:00 EST

On an average day, approximately 800 megabytes to 1.2 gigabits of traffic per second travels through the BIG-IP devices to both msnbc.com data centers. On November 4, 2008, msnbc.com experienced 2g of traffic per second to both data centers. To support this increase, the company relied on devices from F5 Networks to manage site traffic and ensure high availability despite unprecedented traffic volumes.

Bytemobile

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:00:00 EST

Together, Bytemobile and F5 have teamed to address the needs of one of Bytemobile's largest tier-one customers in Europe, using the F5 VIPRION system.

American Internet Services

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:00:00 EST

By implementing F5 Message Security Module on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager it uses to manage traffic, American Internet Services immediately dropped the amount of spam reaching its servers by 60 percent.

WIND Hellas

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

By adopting F5 technologies, WIND Hellas achieved high system availability and optimization without the need for time-consuming and expensive changes in the application source code.

Averitt Express

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Averitt Express significantly improved the experience of its customers who rely on its self-service website to initiate and track freight shipments, with help from Application Delivery Networking products from F5.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

BlueLock

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

BlueLock's virtualized environment enables the company to provide cost-effective IT infrastructure services while ensuring that clients' infrastructures always meet their business needs. BIG-IP LTM helps BlueLock take full advantage of the efficiencies and opportunities its virtualized environment offers.

BMW Group

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

BMW Group is currently migrating all of their applications to the BIG-IP system to keep them available 24/7, secure, and fast. In addition to high availability and performance, there are other significant benefits to using BIG-IP, including the SSL functionality and scalability.

British American Tobacco

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

F5's solutions perform very strongly for British American Tobacco, enabling them to guarantee high availability for their new global portal and SAP HR applications.

CCTV.com

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

By preparing its infrastructure for the massive increase in online users with F5 solutions, CCTV.com was able to deliver its coverage of the Beijing 2008 Games to a vast viewership and maintain the website's high performance and availability.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

By implementing the F5 solution, the foundation was able to accomplish its goals of freeing up a significant amount of capacity on its tier 1 NetApp filers, and implement automated ILM policies to ensure capacity always remains at an acceptable level.

Crystal Cruises

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Since deploying BIG-IP WebAccelerator, Crystal Cruises has seen onboard Internet performance triple and Internet usage double. The company has realized a one-month return on its BIG-IP WebAccelerator investment in bandwidth savings alone.

FNZ

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates (GASAI)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Since adding the initial three F5 WANJet appliances to its network, GASAI has watched its WAN bandwidth jump a whopping 230 percent. With employees able to effectively collaborate on engineering drawings over the WAN, GASAI has been able to reduce travel costs significantly and save between $3,000 and $5,000 each month in employee time.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Deploying F5 solutions enabled ICBC to simplify its IT system and network while improving the user experience for its online banking customers.

InCharge Institute

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

F5's Application Security Manager is critical to InCharge's risk management model. The Application Security Manager gives InCharge insight and knowledge of their DMZ, and enhances their ability to manage risk.

Lake Forest Hospital

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Taking advantage of a versatile product suite, Lake Forest Hospital chose F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN to keep their network applications safe, reliable, and fast.

Lulu.com

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Lulu used ARX to virtualize its file storage and create a global namespace, which is essentially a logical representation of the file systems being virtualized. This dramatically reduces the number of mount points the IT staff needs to manage, streamlines data movement, and enables simple, logical access to physical file systems. Equally important, the global namespace hides storage changes from Lulu's customers.

Microsoft Application Center

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Utilizing an XML interface, Microsoft was able to integrate F5's BIG-IP traffic manager with Application Center 2000 clusters. The BIG-IP device is a high availability traffic manager that utilizes Microsoft application-specific information to influence local traffic control.

MSN Games

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

The BIG-IP has enabled MSN Games to "vastly improve" their ability to do server maintenance by pushing traffic to other servers without dropping connections. Overall system availability has gone from 80 percent to 99.5 percent without random errors, slow web page responses, or the "500" errors that indicate servers are too busy.

MSNBC.com

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

During the 2002 Winter Olympics, traffic to the MSNBC.com site cumulated with over 9 million daily visitors and over 74 million page views -- yet the site maintained 99.98% availability at the core, thanks in part to a strong infrastructure, smart planning, and traffic management products from F5 Networks.

Mustang Engineering

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Mustang Engineering successfully deployed and maintains a highly responsive SharePoint Server 2007 environment with help from F5 Application Delivery Networking products.

PacificSource

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

The F5 ARX file storage virtualization solution allowed PacificSource to perform all data migration tasks without any downtime and without requiring that they manually reconfigure client systems and applications.

Port of Algeciras Bay

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

The F5 FirePass solution provides the Port of Algeciras with secure access to applications, such as Oracle Financials, and other corporate data. This helps boost productivity for people who are travelling or working from home.

POSTECH

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Since the implementation of BIG-IP LTM, POSTECH has noted a significant increase in SAP ERP application availability and performance. The intelligent traffic management capabilities of BIG-IP LTM deliver a faster and more reliable experience for users.

Ritz Interactive

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

For Ritz Interactive, the BIG-IP WebAccelerator decreases server use by 50 percent, decreases download times by 20 percent, and decreases bandwidth usage anywhere from 20 to 50 percent.

SAP

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

When SAP was looking for a solution to replace their previous VPN technology, they chose the FirePass device from F5. The FirePass device allowed SAP to overcome the limitations and complexity of their previous solution, and provide nearly 7,000 SAP employees secure remote access every day, from any location, using any type of device.

Shopzilla

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

The policy-driven data management provided by F5 has enabled Shopzilla to automate many tasks that had previously been performed manually. As a result, the company has experienced both direct savings, by eliminating the need for high-cost support on older equipment, and indirect savings, by freeing critical IT resources to focus on other business-critical initiatives.

Toshiba America

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

By using the F5 intelligent file virtualization solution, Toshiba was able to perform a large-scale data migration and transition to a new NAS infrastructure in a fraction of the time it would have taken with other solutions.

West Chester Area School District

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

The West Chester Area School District is one of the largest districts in Pennsylvania. The district found the costs of upgrading its Citrix-based virtual private network (VPN) prohibitive. Instead, the school district implemented FirePass SSL VPN from F5 at less than half of what the Citrix upgrade would have cost, and with greatly expanded capabilities.

Wiley

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Automated storage tiering with F5 has enabled Wiley to efficiently manage its constantly expanding volumes of unstructured data without incurring major infrastructure changes. At the same time, the company has been able to significantly reduce the cost of storage and is using the ARX device to improve operations in other areas as well, including disaster recovery.