HP ran tests on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 using F5 technology, and the results were dramatic: F5′s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator improved throughput to the branch office by up to 8x in a symmetric configuration. Listen to this ...
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Ken Salchow, F5‘s manager of technical marketing, talks about F5′s Application Ready Networks (ARNs). These road-tested architectures cover best practices and deployment support for specific solutions from F5 and major software vendors. F5 currently offers ARNs for Microsoft, SAP, and ...
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Peak traffic can overload servers and cause bandwidth congestion, leaving web sites unavailable to users. Commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDN) improve performance, but costs are unpredictable, highly variable, and wreak havoc on budgets. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks ...
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Enterprises want to distribute content closer to their remote users, but can’t use commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), because the information is internal, dynamic and confidential. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator ...
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Meeting PCI (Payment Card Industry) requirements for application security is more than just implementing a Web Application Firewall for requirement 6.6. Learn how F5 addresses multiple PCI requirements across all its products.

Application security as a concept has many different connotations, ranging from dealing with application security only in code, implementing solutions in existing technologies such as firewalls, and “porting” application business logic to a traditional on-the-wire Application Firewall solution. The ...
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Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid ...
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Listen to key benefits and new capabilities of F5 FirePass 6.0.2 and how you can use FirePass SSL VPN to maximize productivity of your mobile workforce. F5‘s Product Marketing Manager, Nigel Baker and Hari Krishnan, Product Managaer for FirePass talk ...
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Mike Krasnow, F5 Networks‘ Product Marketing Manager, discusses BIG-IP version 9. Krasnow explains the benefits that organizations can expect by upgrading from version 4. In version 9, F5 has taken a quantum leap ahead with both their ...
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Ken Salchow, F5 Network’s manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating ...
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