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Overview: F5 Acopia intelligent file virtualization solutions help businesses efficiently manage the growth, complexity and cost of unstructured file-based information.
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ARX® Series Intelligent File Virtualization Devices by F5 Networks
Acopia ARX devices introduce intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, eliminating the disruption and automating many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in efficiency.
BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ by F5 Networks
The BIG-IP Application Security Manager delivers the industry’s foremost comprehensive application delivery security solution with the option to deliver both application delivery and security together. The ASM provides application layer protection from targeted and generalized application attacks to ensure that applications are always available.
Oracle and F5 Networks: The Oracle and F5 Partnership by F5 Networks
F5 is a Certified Oracle Partner and is involved in joint testing, certification, documentation, sale and support of Oracle and F5 combined solutions.
7 Virtualization Challenges: Building a Virtualization-Ready Application and Storage Networking Infrastructure by F5 Networks
October 2008 - This White Paper describes how F5 technology enables your network to adapt to virtualization needs, ensure high availability (HA), maximize resources, and improve performance so you can get the most out of your investment.
A simple and efficient approach to application security by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This podcast examines the challenges of application security and presents solutions that your company can employ to protect, optimize, and accelerate its applications.
A Unified Approach for Successfully Securing Wireless and Remote Devices by F5 Networks
September 2008 - For most deployment scenarios, an SSL VPN appliance can provide many of the features and benefits of a special purpose WLAN controller for wireless access, but at a much lower cost and with greater flexibility. This paper describes the key sell...
Achieving a Higher Level of Business and Network Adaptability with Unified Application Infrastructure Services by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Although F5's BIG-IP traffic management solutions brings numerous features and benefits to an organization, the goal of this paper is to explore a more fundamental business problem plaguing today's organizations - and how BIG-IP solves it.
Achieving Common Internet File System (CIFS) Acceleration by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. Each WANJet appliance has a deep understanding of the CIFS protocol and can therefore act on behalf of a CIFS client and server to make t...
Aligning Application Infrastructure with Business through SOA Delivery by F5 Networks
September 2008 - A successful SOA implementation relies as much on the flexibility of your network as it does the services which will be delivered on it. This white paper explores the unique challenges when implementing a service oriented architecture.
Application Delivery Controller Performance Report by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This report documents the performance of the top Application Delivery Controllers offered by F5 Networks, Cisco Systems, and Citrix Netscaler. Through the development and implementation of robust and reproducible testing methods, F5 demonst...
Application Ready Network Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by F5 Networks
September 2008 - F5 has specifically developed and tested a comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that enhances the overall performance of SharePoint deployments, whether it's over the LAN or across a global WAN.
Application Ready Network Guide: Oracle Application Server 10g by F5 Networks
September 2008 - F5™ Application Ready Network for Oracle Application Server 10g provides a comprehensive application delivery platform that greatly enhances the productivity and agility of both the Oracle applications and the organizationswho rely on these devices.
Application-Ready Network: Powering the New Enterprise by F5 Networks
September 2008 - In this 30-minute Webcast, hear Joe Skorupa (Gartner), Joerg Nalik (SAP), and Ken Salchow (F5) discuss the challenges faced by organizations deploying enterprise applications and the value of F5's Application Ready Network. This Web...
Bandwidth Management for Peer-to-Peer Applications by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This paper explains how more and more users are using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols to share very large files as the proliferation of broadband increases. This trend has exponentially increased traffic flows across very wide area networks.
Building the Next Generation Network Bridge: From Today's Network to the Future by F5 Networks
September 2008 - The challenges facing SPs today are not so different from the ones enterprise organizations have faced for years when dealing with IP-based application delivery. This paper discusses how they face these challenges.
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Data Center Consolidation by F5 Networks
September 2008 - New technologies are changing the way we think about disaster recovery and business continuity. These technologies focus on WAN optimization, traffic redirection, data replication, and secure remote access. This white paper gives the details.
Data Center Virtualization Q&A by F5 Networks
September 2008 - In this is a question and answer session, Erik Giesa, VP of Product Management and Marketing, discusses what's driving the need for data center virtualization, the benefits of it, and what companies should consider when virtualizing their data.
Delivering Comprehensive Security for your Web Applications by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Most organizations are familiar with application security and Web Application Firewalls, realizing that secure application access and delivery are necessities. This white paper discusses the various avenues to attain this.
Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by F5 Networks
September 2008 - One approach to improving overall system performance is the use of a class of Traffic Management Device commonly referred to as a WAN Accelerator. This paper details the results of using one such solution.
Disaster Recovery Guide: Universal Secure Remote Access by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Access to corporate applications and data is vital to help keep your business running as usual, yet, a wide range of concerns can quickly disrupt business processes. This white paper explains the pitfalls and solutions.
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This paper addresses the increased performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by using an F5 WANJet application acceleration solution.
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning Using F5 Application Acceleration and EMC SRDF by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This paper addresses the performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by using the F5 WANJet application acceleration solution.
Effectively Securing your Networks with Unified Access Control by F5 Networks
September 2008 - In this paper, we will define the depth & breadth of Unified Access Control (UAC) and Network Admission Control (NAC), two subjects being talked about a great deal within the information security & network architecture industries.
Enterprise Remote Access by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Historically, organizations have used IPSec VPN solutions to provide employees with remote access to network resources; an expensive, complicated deployment for a handful of users. This paper details how this process has modernized.
Fighting email threats: Security tips to fight spam and other attacks by F5 Networks
September 2008 - In this white paper, you'll learn the types of email threats; why the exponential growth in email volume poses significant challenges for the corporate network infrastructure & and how to address these challenges.
Forrester Research: Improving Application Deployments - How an Application Delivery Architecture Can Help Businesses Overcome Deployment Challenges by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Today's businesses must operate in a drastically changing environment. Forrester found most companies are not well equipped to reorient IT as a critical driver of top line success. This report showcases the results of an April 2007 Forrester survey.
How to save Thousands in Monthly CDN Costs by Flattening Web Traffic Bursts by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This White Paper shows how an F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator can significantly reduce the variability of a fee-based CDN while offering additional performance enhancements not available from traditional CDN vendors.
IDC Opinion: The Economic Impact of File Virtualization - Reducing Storage Costs and Improving Management Efficiency by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Enterprises are adopting new strategies for building file-based storage solutions. In several interviews, IDC found that companies are increasing their file-based storage by 50-120% a year, placing a high priority on efficiency.
Identifying and Caching Dynamic Web Applications: A Flexible Approach to Solving Performance Issues by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Dynamic Caching completely changes the caching model, making it possible to cache a much broader variety of content including highly dynamic web pages, query responses, and XML objects. This patented technology is completely unique to F5.
Improving End-User Performance by Eliminating HTTP Chattiness by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Many organizations embark on global multi-million dollar web application deployments only to later discover that their users are unsatisfied with the performance compared to their old client server application. This paper provides alternatives.
Improving Web Application Response Time with Application Delivery Networking Technologies by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle Portal, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and Siebel CRM 7.7 are applications critical to today's organizations. This paper shows how today's web acceleration products reduce bandwidth and increase efficiency.
IMS Ready and Raring to Go: A New World of Voice, Video, and Data by F5 Networks
September 2008 - The beliefs that IMS architecture is nearly identical to SOA within the enterprise application development market are not without merit. Read this paper to learn the key differences.
Intelligent File Virtualization: Breaking Free from the Constraints of Today's File Storage Infrastructure by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Intelligent file virtualization solves issues pertaining to current file storage infrastructure in a simple and effective manner. This white paper introduces the Acopia intelligent file virtualization solution, which is now a part of F5 Networks
Introduction to the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): IMS Basic Concepts and Terminology by F5 Networks
September 2008 - IMS is a whole new way to deliver multimedia regardless of the device or the access medium. This paper will change the way you relate to an increasingly digital world.
Keeping Your Head above the Cloud: 7 Data Center Challenges before Going Virtual by F5 Networks
October 2008 - This White Paper details seven data center challenges before deploying a virtual data center.
Key Tips to Secure Remote Email Systems by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Organizations today depend heavily on applications like email to increase productivity & reduce the cost of doing business. These applications must be fast, available & secure in order to accommodate a geographically dispersed world of empl...
Know your Endpoints: Protect your resources with device identification by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Endpoint security is an increasing concern. It is no longer enough to protect your assets from an unknown malicious intruder. Organizations need to protect against trusted employees connecting from outside of the office. Learn more in this white paper.
Load Balancing 101: Nuts and Bolts for Application Delivery Controllers by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Load balancing technology is the basis from which today's Application Delivery Controllers operate. But the pervasiveness of load balancing technology does not mean it is understood or discussed other than from a basic, network-centric vi...
Load Balancing 101: The Evolution to Application Delivery Controllers by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This white paper discusses ADCs, the natural evolution to the critical network real estate that load balancers of the past held.
Maximizing IT Investments: Recession-proofing Your Network by F5 Networks
July 2008 - This whitepaper outlines a plan that enables network teams to implement a plan that optimizes application performance. It also identifies recession-proof networking technologies and their challenges.
Maximizing the Performance of Web Pages, Applications, & Portals with F5 Accelerator - A Technical Overview by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This paper introduces a new method for maximizing the performance of web pages, applications, and portals delivered to intranets, the Internet and extranet users, aptly named the F5 WebAccelerator.
Meeting the Challenges Affecting Data Replication Performance and Reliability by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Data replication has become a common process within most enterprise IT departments. The need to protect critical data and ensure continuity of operations drives many to deploy sophisticated replication solutions. This paper gives more details.
Myths of Bandwidth and Application Performance by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This white paper is intended to shed light on the issues affecting application performance in the wide area, and to give IT managers the knowledge required to design strategic enterprise application acceleration and deployment solutions.
New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
September 2008 - With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan.
Offloading Remote Authentication for Servers by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This paper describes how F5's Advanced Client Authentication module works to protect your application infrastructure while increasing your server capacity by offloading authentication processing.
Optimize WAN and LAN Application Performance with TCP Express by F5 Networks
September 2008 - F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager provides a state-of-the-art TCP/IP stack that delivers dramatic WAN and LAN application performance improvements for real-world networks.
Oracle and F5 Reference Architechture for SOA by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This document details a solution blueprint developed by F5 and Oracle. It's purpose is to show how F5 and Oracle components work together to deliver a highly reliable and scalable platform for deploying Oracle Service Oriented Applications.
Overcoming the Challenges of Securing your Web Applications by F5 Networks
September 2008 - As businesses place more applications on the web, they expose more of their sensitive customer data to hackers. This white paper explains the benefits of application firewalls.
PCI Compliance Best Practices by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This podcast examines why meeting Payment Card Industry (PCI) security requirements for applications requires more than just a firewall and provides solutions for achieving compliance.
Performance Solution for Document Distribution by F5 Networks
September 2008 - When it comes to project collaboration, modern enterprises are caught off guard by the demands placed on their infrastructures by the Internet & advanced intranets/extranets. Learn how F5 WebAccelerator solution resolves this.
Podcast: Defining IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This podcast examines how the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is poised to become the new framework that internet service providers will employ to deliver customizable services to consumers, allowing a greater variety of products, services,.
Podcast: Delivering Secure Content to Remote Mobile Users: How to Build a CDN by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This podcast examines how an enterprise content delivery network (eCDN) can help your company distribute content closer to remote users while maintaining high availability, DOS protection, and compliance requirements.
Podcast: How to Control Highly Variable CDN Costs by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Improving web site performance can be a difficult challenge for IT professionals and implementing commercial content deliver networks (CDNs) can be costly and unpredictable. This podcast provides tips on lowering CDN costs and bandwidth congestion.
Podcast: Virtualization Demystified: Breaking Out Virtualization Technologies by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This podcast explores the different types of virtualization available for deployment and how each independent category should be addressed before your company migrates to a fully virtual environment.
RTSP: One of the Foundations of Convergence by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a foundation for the current convergence of communications. When implementing RTSP, the multiple port and protocol nature of RTSP makes streaming audio/video difficult to manage. This white paper explains it.
SAP Replaces Previous VPN Technology with F5's FirePass SSL VPN Solution, Ensuring Secure Remote Access for Nearly 7,000 Users Daily by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This white paper examines how to provide a consistent and secure connection to your company's applications for remote users through SSL VPN technology.
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
September 2008 - The concept that virtual operating environments are just as secure as their physical counterparts can be a very expensive and destructive fallacy. Read why Today's system and security administrators need to begin focusing on virtual security.
Session Initiated Protocol (SIP): A Five-Function Control Protocol by F5 Networks
September 2008 - The intent of this paper is to offer the reader a basic understanding of the Session Initiated Protocol. SIP is the conduit that will bring together the enterprise and telecommunications to provide IP-based communications.
SOA Challenges and Solutions by F5 Networks
August 2008 - This white paper details the steps necessary for managing unexpected issues that arise during SOA deployment. Gain insight into the fundamental characteristics of SOA initiatives and the challenges associated with typical SOA deployment models.
SSL VPN for Secure Wireless LAN Access by F5 Networks
September 2008 - For most deployment scenarios, an SSL VPN appliance can provide many of the features and benefits of a special purpose WLAN controller for wireless access, but at a much lower cost and with greater flexibility. This paper describes the key sell...
Taneja Report: F5's Acquisition of Acopia Networks & the Vision of the Next Generation Data Center by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Server virtualization is being added to IT shops at a booming rate because IT has seen the benefits: improved utilization rates, reduced CapEx and improvements in flexibility. In this report, The Taneja Group explains it in detail.
The F5 Acceleration Portfolio by F5 Networks
October 2008 - F5 is the leader in Application Delivery Networking, ensuring applications are secure, fast, and available. This white paper provides an overview of specific F5 acceleration features across three F5 product lines.
The Impact of AJAX on the Network by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Though AJAX has a unique impact on the client, server, and the network, these challenges are addressed by existing, proven application delivery methods that address similar challenges arising from other technologies.
The SIP High Availability and Reliability Paradigm by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Since its inception, Session Initiation Protocol has revolutionized the way people communicate using converged services. SIP provides the framework for delivering voice, video, data, and wireless services seamlessly.
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
October 2008 - The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even “going green.”
TMOS - Secure Development and Implementation for Application Delivery Networks by F5 Networks
September 2008 - In this white paper, read how TMOS--the foundation and architecture for F5's application delivery controllers running on the BIG-IP platform--brings a wealth of security to existing application delivery networks.
TMOS: Redefining the Solution for Application Delivery Networking Appliances by F5 Networks
September 2008 - In this whitepaper learn about TMOS architecture. TMOS is the first, completely purpose-built, modular, self-contained, real-time, event-driven proxy architecture with the ability to transparently utilize hardware and software unilaterally.
Transparent Data Reduction - Addressing Bandwidth Limitations by F5 Networks
September 2008 - F5 WANJet Transparent Data Reduction is a solution that delivers LAN-like application performance over the WAN, accelerating file transfer, email, client server applications, data replication, and others while delivering fast performance for all WAN users
Using F5 WANJet to Accelerate EMC SRDF®: Optimizing Data Replication for Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery by F5 Networks
September 2008 - This white paper addresses the performance needs of data replication for disaster recovery. It also explains how the F5 WANJet is specifically designed to optimize Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) traffic while lowering IT costs.
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
September 2008 - IT organizations have the challenging task of managing an ever increasing amount of file data. The F5 Acopia intelligent file virtualization solution provides an automated tiering approach, without the drawbacks associated with other solutions.
Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways by F5 Networks
September 2008 - Virtualization is not a new concept. Today it appears that virtualization is everywhere, which because of its ambiguity can be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. This whitepaper focuses on virtualization in the data center.
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