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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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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.


FirePass® SeriesFirePass Enterprise SSL VPN

F5's FirePass® SSL VPN appliance provides secure access to corporate applications and data using a standard web browser.

Delivering outstanding performance, scalability, ease-of-use, and security, FirePass helps increase the productivity of those working from home or on the road. Businesses reap a competitive advantage because they can give key partners controlled access to applications and data. And IT departments can rest assured with a reliable solution that deploys quickly and interoperates immediately with their existing network infrastructure.

FirePass offers broad application support, includingaccess to email, web portals, network file services, terminal services, CRM and other key enterprise applications, using any device. It delivers a secure virtual workspace, pre-login endpoint integrity checks, and endpoint trust management for peace of mind with fewer administrative hassles. It also supports up to 2,000 concurrent sessions on a single, easy-to-manage box. Built-in load balanced clustering can support up to 20,000 sessions. More than 20,000 sessions can be supported by integration with F5’s BIG-IP device.

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