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F5 Boasts Industry's First On-Demand Application Delivery Controller, Redefining Performance and Scalability with the Introduction of VIPRION

New F5 bladed chassis enables large enterprises and service providers to easily manage a complete application-fluent infrastructure; VIPRION gives customers control over management, power, space, and operating expenses

The Role of the Adaptive Network in Service-Oriented Architectures

For networkers to successfully deliver applications, it is not just a matter of adding more capacity or connectivity. A higher degree of automation, integration, and architectural design is required, with network-based intelligence as the foundation.

SOA Success Depends On a SON

Jeff Browning, director of product management for F5 Networks, looks at how network technology has evolved to better support service oriented architectures, and why incorporating a service oriented network is critical for SOA success.

F5 Commands Worldwide Market Share Lead for Application Delivery Controllers

Leading industry analyst firm places F5 at the market share forefront of ADC vendors

Taming Your Flock of NAS Devices

NAS devices are easily deployed but capacity limited, leading to an administratively unmanageable number of NAS devices as mount/share points multiply. This administrative quagmire is further complicated with a multi-vendor NAS data center where cross-vendor functionality is often lacking.

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Dr. Jim Webber is a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks Australia where he leads the Web Services and SOA practice. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with UK E-Science where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide." His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name .

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Even if you think you can beat Waldo, you can't beat Einstein

I discuss why I believe that if SOAP is slower than a good binary protocol, it's not by much. And it's getting faster.

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