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IT Security Provider Optimizes Website, Offers Single-Box Solution to Customers With BIG-IP v10

BlueFort Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG?IP Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG?IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With...

Tags: BIG-IP, IT Security, F5 Networks Inc., Information Technology, Web Site, BlueFort Security, Data Centers, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet

Case studies 2009-09-01

First American Improves Application Performance and Mobility With F5 and VMware

The First American Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Santa Ana, California, supplies businesses and consumers with online information in five primary industry segments, including title insurance and services, specialty insurance, and data and analytics. First American is the country's largest such information provider. Traditionally, each business unit had...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Performance, Information Technology, Mobility, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

F5 Drops 60 Percent of Spam From IT Infrastructure With BIG-IP Message Security Module

Increasing spam levels put a persistent and growing strain on those resources. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Message Security Module MSM, F5's IT department has been able to drop 60 percent of unwanted inbound email before it reaches the IT infrastructure. This has resulted in a significant cost savings, a more...

Tags: Security, IT Infrastructure, BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., Information Technology, Spam, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Ticket Marketplace Improves Customer Experience With Highly Scalable Infrastructure From F5

StubHub, an online ticket marketplace, enables fans to buy and sell tickets for live entertainment events. When the company was purchased by eBay, it redesigned its network infrastructure and included the VIPRION Application Delivery Controller from F5. With higher site traffic capacity and availability, StubHub can continue to enhance the...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Customer Experience, StubHub Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies 2009-08-01

Optimizing VMware View VDI Deployments With F5

Corporate desktop usage and management has long been a necessary evil for IT groups. Most employees need full desktops and there are usually multiple types of desktops required for different business units: XP for accounting, Mac for creative design, Vista for sales and people in the field, Linux for technical...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., VMware Inc., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Desktops, Hardware

White papers 2009-08-01

Unified Application and Data Delivery: A Model for Creating Dynamic IT Infrastructure

For many decades, the essential business relationships between users, applications, and data remained static. IT administrators controlled IT resources, operations, and access methods manually. This resulted in a tightly bound physical and operational infrastructure that increased cost, and more importantly, slowed the organization's ability to respond to change. New business...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, F5 Networks Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-06-01

National Insurance Institute of Israel Optimizes Security and Network Performance With F5

The National Insurance Institute of Israel NIOI is responsible for the social stability of Israeli residents. The challenge was to maintain tight security for sensitive financial data, improve network management to deliver enhanced service for clients, to increase system usage and to provide remote network access for hosted applications. NIOI...

Tags: Security, BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., Network, Insurance, Israel, Networking, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-06-01

Financial Services Provider FNZ Invests in Future Prosperity With a Solid Network Foundation From F5

Founded just four years ago, FNZ of Wellington, New Zealand, operates the financial services industry's most complete third-party, online account management service. The challenge was to deliver excellent online user performance, to provide 24/7 uptime for online clients, to eliminate security vulnerabilities and to establish a highly scalable infrastructure to...

Tags: BIG-IP, Financial, F5 Networks Inc., Network, Financial Service, Sales Channel, Financial Planning, Sales Force Management, Financial Services, Sales, Finance

Case studies 2009-05-18

Intelligent Layer 7 DoS and Brute Force Protection for Web Applications

Both Denial of Service DoS and Brute Force Attacks have existed for many years, and many network devices tout the ability to withstand them. However, most of today's DoS attacks target layer 7 (L7) by overwhelming applications with seemingly valid requests and Brute Force programs can send more than one...

Tags: Denial Of Service, F5 Networks Inc., Web Application, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Security, Networking

White papers 2009-04-01

TEVA Sante Secures Online Pharmaceutical Ordering Application With BIG-IP ASM

PharmaML is a new protocol aimed at standardizing stock management processes in France's pharmaceutical industry. TEVA Sante, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, recognized that the new standard presented data security issues. The company began a major IT project focused on addressing these issues while still...

Tags: BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Data Security, TEVA Sante, PharmaML, Sales Strategy, Sales

Case studies 2009-04-01

Deployment Guide: Deploying F5 Automated: Network Provisioning for VMware Infrastructure

Both VMware Infrastructure and the F5 BIG-IP system offer rich Application Programming Interfaces APIs that allow administrators to programmatically gather information or take actions through a variety of client libraries and languages. Additionally, VMware Infrastructure and ESX Server include the ability to take actions according to specific trigger events specific...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Network, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-19

American Internet Services Protects Customers From Spam and Speeds Email Delivery With F5 Solution

American Internet Services AIS is the fastest growing provider of data center and colocation services in Southern California, serving businesses of all sizes from startups to Fortune 10 corporations. Slow email delivery and a high volume of spam messages had resulted in an increasing number of customer complaints. By implementing...

Tags: Internet, F5 Networks Inc., Spam, Internet Service, American Internet Services, E-mail, Online Communications

Case studies 2009-02-01

Automated DR Traffic Management With VMware SRM and the F5 BIG-IP

Organizations using F5 and VMware can take advantage of a complete solution for automated disaster recovery between two data centers. This paper summarizes a solution for enabling VMware vCenter Server to automate the failover of the network portion of the application infrastructure, in the event that a vCenter Site Recovery...

Tags: BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01

CCTV.com Streams Beijing 2008 Content to 25 Million Online Users With F5 Solutions

CCTV.com is the Internet arm of China Central Television CCTV, the largest broadcaster in mainland China. The challenge was to maintain infrastructure reliability during high traffic period of the Beijing 2008 Games, to ensure fast and secure user access to web content, to protect against DDoS attacks and to optimize...

Tags: BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., CCTV.com, Internet, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-12-06

Casero Creates Customized Services for Telecom Clients Using F5 BIG-IP LTM and iRules

Casero is a Web 2.0-based application company that provides white-label solutions to telecommunication service providers in North America and Europe, including BT, Bell Canada, Eircom, BSkyB, SaskTel, Dependable Home Tech, and Cincinnati Bell. The challenge was to provide a unified, seamless user experience drawing from two separate back-end systems, avoid...

Tags: BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., Casero, Telephony, Web 2.0, Roi/Tco, Telecom & Utilities, Business Services, Telecommunications, Networking, Internet, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2008-12-04

Credit Cooperatif Secures Its Online Banking Services With F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager

Credit Cooperatif is a bank serving co-operative or grouped enterprises: small and medium enterprises and industries SMESMI; associations; public interest organizations and services; and private individuals. The challenge was to stay ahead of application security threats and to ensure optimal quality of service. Credit Cooperatif deployed BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager...

Tags: BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., Online Banking, Application Security, Security Administration, Smb/Sme, Security

Case studies 2008-11-11

Beyond the Simple "Light Switch": Why North America's Leading MLS Provider Replaced NetScaler With F5 for Better Optimization, Control and Lower TCO

As one of the largest Internet-based MLS Multiple Listing Service providers in North America, Rapattoni Corporation required fast, consistent client access to their applications and data, from any locale, using any system. The challenge was increase in traffic, needed continuous, uninterrupted access to data and required targeted compression capability. The...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Optimization, NetScaler, TCO, Roi/Tco, Data Centers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2008-11-11

Vurv Technology Streamlines Hosting Environment and Enhances Security With BIG-IP LTM 8400 and Application Security Manager

Vurv Technology provides companies of all sizes with on-demand talent management solutions for recruitment, onboarding, performance, and compensation management. The challenge was to simplify hosting environment and simplify and optimize security environment. It deployed BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager LTM 8400 and BIG-IP Application Security Manager ASM that resulted in streamlined,...

Tags: BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., Environment, Application Security, Vurv Technology, Workforce Management, Managed Hosting, Security, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-11-11

F5 Case Study: BlueLock.com

Read this study to see how BlueLock launched a unique virtual Cloud Computing platform with VMware Virtualization and F5 BIG-IP LTM to reap such benefits as: Seamless traffic delivery during very rapid provisioning of virtual servers Detailed network data for accurate provisioning Highly competitive service...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Servers

Case studies 2008-11-10

ROI Analysis for Intelligent File Virtualization

Take a closer look at the financial benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 ARX. F5 Acopia products virtualize existing file storage resources for dramatically reduced storage costs, improved resource utilization and simplified storage administration. As expected, there are normally significant capital expense CapEx and operation expense OpEx savings associated...

Tags: Virtualization, F5 Networks Inc., ROI, Roi/Tco, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

White papers 2008-10-09