member login

WebServices dot org

Todays Featured Content:

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.

Featured Content provided by F5 Networks
Time to balance WS-* and REST

REST is particularly suitable for very large networks with huge numbers of clients and servers and where it is convenient to model all operations as reads and writes directed to individual URIs. As for WS-*, its sweet spot lies in systems bigger than those that use distributed objects, and whose networks are further flung, slower, less reliable, and possibly divided between different administrative domains.


BIG-IPBIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager v9

The BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager is an application traffic management system that provides the most intelligent and adaptable solution to secure, optimize and deliver applications, enabling organizations to effectively and competitively run their business.

Inefficiencies, delays, and failures in application delivery can cost millions of dollars in terms of wasted budgets, damage to company reputation, system and application downtime, legal liability and lost opportunities.

It's the only system that features a set of unified application infrastructure services that deliver total control, vision and flexibility into application security, performance and delivery. The result? Greater business agility and successful outcomes for the lifeblood of the organization today - the application itself.

URL for more information: