McGill University wanted to demonstrate it was ready to support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) as part of an overall network modernization effort. The university chose to implement the IPv6 Gateway feature built into F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™. The university saved time and money and had the right technology to support IPv6 now and in the future.

A large financial services company faced critical application outages whenever a data link went down in any one of its five charter countries. By deploying F5 BIG-IP Solutions, the organization exceeded 99 percent network uptime; network recovery measured in hours, not days, and business continuity, even amid regional Internet outages.

A systems integrator specializing in major IT projects for the federal sector was asked by a large government customer to create a consolidated, standardized, and centrally-managed server and storage platform in a virtualized environment. With F5 Application Delivery Controllers, the government agency is able to ensure high availability for applications and support a stable and secure virtualized infrastructure.

Lokahi Solutions, a cloud computing service provider, must ensure that its private cloud stack, the Lokahi Infrastructure Virtualization Engine, remains highly secure and continuously available. To achieve that level of performance, the company implemented F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers as a critical component of its cloud environment.

Human Kinetics publishes and sells print, online, and multimedia materials related to kinesiology. It hosts its own e-commerce website and nearly 40 other educational and storefront sites, which together get about half a million unique visits per month. A year after its deployment, HK's third-party network solution had become unstable, was inflexible and difficult to support, and impaired performance. HK replaced the solution with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Application Security Manager.

Using VMware View, organizations can simplify and automate desktop management, reduce the total cost of desktop ownership, and provide end users with a high-performance desktop experience.

Human Kinetics publishes and sells print, online, and multimedia materials related to kinesiology. It hosts its own e-commerce website and nearly 40 other educational and storefront sites, which together get about half a million unique visits per month. A year after its deployment, HK's third-party network solution had become unstable, was inflexible and difficult to support, and impaired performance. HK replaced the solution with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Application Security Manager.

Rackspace Hosting wanted to broaden its product portfolio by offering customers an easy way to link dedicated managed servers to cloud-based servers. The company used Application Delivery Networking devices from F5 to help build a hybrid service called RackConnect. Now, Rackspace customers can mix and match dedicated managed and cloud hosting platforms for ultimate scalability, flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBSKC) is the area’s largest health benefits provider. As a prominent local healthcare provider with a strong reputation for quality, BCBSKC recognized the need to ensure high availability and strong security for their website, which typically receives more than 30,000 hits a day.

Integration Demo - Oracle Database Firewall with F5’s Application Security Manager

Data center consolidation means more than simply reducing the number of servers, routers, and switches your company has in outlying offices and data centers. Data center virtualization is more than multiple images mapped to physical devices. Efforts to reduce both capital and operating expenditures by consolidating data centers can fail if the applications and the network are not optimized. By architecting data center infrastructure to be as nimble and agile as possible, IBM and F5 enable enterprises to better react in real time to customer requirements and to position the customer for success. The combined strength of IBM and F5 tackles these challenges at the core of the infrastructure by creating a strategic point of control where the network, servers, storage, and security come together to create customized solutions that add significant business value. Running Time: 17:28

Data loads are constantly on the rise: where transmissions once included only plain-text email and a few static web hits, people now send rich text email, dynamic web pages including multiple AJAX requests per page, replication data, and a host of other data types. Replication data in particular is critical, especially to businesses. Businesses need their replication data to arrive at the appropriate destination, in a timely manner and with no doubt of delivery. The slower and less reliable your replication is, the less useful it is to your original purpose. Using the F5® BIG‑IP® WAN Optimization Module™ (WOM), enterprises can increase efficiency, decrease backup windows, offload encryption, and improve wide area network throughput to distributed data centers. Running Time: 22:36

Hosted by Cloud Computing expert David Linthicum, this podcast is a no-hype look at the world of Cloud Computing, focusing on how to prepare the traditional enterprise to leverage resources outside of their firewalls. In this podcast, David Linthicum speaks with Rackspace CTO, John Engates, about the importance of security, hybrid hosting and fanatical support for their cloud and traditional hosting services.

Bandwidth-efficient client server applications have been replaced with bandwidth-demanding web applications, which can put a strain on your infrastructure. Maximize your network and application delivery with WAN optimization. Running Time: 20:50

IT organizations in every industry face a common set of challenges as they work to keep the business up and running. Like many companies, F5 Networks was experiencing a host of problems related to the rapid growth of unstructured file data. Spending on storage was rising quarterly, routine management tasks required frequent user interruptions and backups were taking 96 hours to complete. After adding the ARX technology to its product portfolio via an acquisition, F5 put the solution to work in its own environment. Listen to this podcast to hear F5 CIO and Vice President of IT John Matthews explain how the ARX solution enabled the company to dramatically reduce storage costs, even as data storage continued to grow. Through the use of intelligent file management, the IT team slashed backup times to just 4 hours. Downtime is a rare occurrence instead of a regular event, and the IT organization was able to introduce vendor diversity into its environment. The icing on the cake for a CIO? An ROI of less than 4 months.