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Interop 2013: 10 Hot Products For Network Monitoring, SDN And More

F5 Networks and Big Switch Networks teamed up with a joint solution for simplifying the deployment and orchestration of private cloud data center networks.

May 10, 2013 – CRN.com

Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

Testing company Ixia launches high-volume DDoS tests against F5 firewalls

May 8, 2013 – NetworkWorld.com

Reseller Review: F5's Application Delivery Firewall

Fishnet Security takes a look at F5's new security add-on.

CRN.com

Big Switch and F5 Team on Cloud Application Delivery Networking Services

Big Switch Networks is collaborating with F5 to automate the configuration of Application Delivery Networking services in private clouds.

May 8, 2013 – ConvergeDigest.com

A New Age in IT Security

Cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate, forcing IT to rethink protecting systems.

May 7, 2013 – RedmondMag.com

Why BYOD tops challenges

Joakim Sundberg, worldwide security solution architect at F5 Networks, on why the majority of businesses are unprepared for DDoS and still unsure about securing BYOD.

May 7, 2013 – CBRonline.com

Bike Month events preview: celebrate with us!

ike Month and the Commute Challenge start May 1! Whether you’re a novice rider or a veteran commuter, Cascade and community partners are rolling out a full lineup of fun, free events designed to celebrate your–and thousands of your fellow commuters’–choice to get around town by bike.

DIY events: turn your workplace or neighborhood into a bicycling hotspot

Cascade Bicycle Club is rolling out an all-star line-up of events and activities for Bike Month. Now it’s your turn! We invite communities, companies, and individuals to produce your own Bike Month events.

F5 Bike to Work Day, Friday, May 17, 2013

F5 Bike to Work Day is a blast. Thousands of cyclists pack the streets. Smiles, waves and the friendly ring of bike bells fill the air. No matter what or where your commute, you won't be riding alone on Bike to Work Day.

Products of the week 5/6/13

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Dell and Samsung: BIG-IQ Cloud

May 6, 2013 – NetworkWorld.com

Seattle's best companies for bike commuters

If you’re into bicycling to work – or have good intentions but need help getting motivated – you might want to angle for a job at one of the 20 employers listed below.

May 6, 2013 – bizjournals.com

Best of Interop Awards 2013 Announces F5's Application Delivery Firewall as a Finalist in the Security Category

Annual networking conference recognizes top products in cloud, data center management and more

April 17, 2013 – NetworkWorld.com

Best of Interop Awards 2013 Announces F5's Application Delivery Firewall as a Finalist in the Security Category

The Best of Interop awards recognize innovative software and hardware products that have been released during the past year by Interop exhibitors. Interop attendees can see the Best of Interop finalist products on the show floor at the 2013 Interop conference in Las Vegas this May.

April 16, 2013 – networkcomputing.com

10 Women Leading The Cloud Revolution

CRN.com recognizes F5's Lori MacVittie, Senior Technology Analyst.

April 8, 2013 – CRN.com

Datacenter Security Trends: DDoS, Application Attacks, BYOD

When it comes to securing the datacenter, the landscape is constantly changing thanks to more sophisticated cybercriminals and the changing nature of information technology itself.

March 19, 2013 – enterpriseconversation.com

Application & Security Testing in NYC

This week, Enterprise Conversation caught up with F5 Networks in New York City for the unveiling of their new International Technology Center (ITC).

March 13, 2013 – enterpriseconversation.com

F5 recognized in CRN's 5-Star Partner Program

The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors that give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

NYC High-Tech Hub Helped by Government, Business

For years, New York City has been the capital of many different types of industries, ranging from the arts, to medicine, to higher education. Right now, NYC is the anchor of the country's financial industry, and city officials are hoping Wall Street attracts another money-making titan -- information technology.

March 12, 2013 – enterpriseconversation.com

F5 opens NYC tech center

Seattle networking company F5 today announced that it’s opening a new technology center in New York, including a conference center and state of the art datacenter that it will use to demonstrate its software and hardware to customers.

March 12, 2013 – seattletimes.com

F5 Networks opens new technology center in NYC

F5 Networks is expanding its footprint in New York City with the grand opening today of its International Technology Center, a new 10,000 square foot space at 600 Lexington Avenue.

March 12, 2013 – geekwire.com

Braving the Signalling Storm

Fourth generation network technologies are well and truly here, and several operators have already experienced outages in their LTE networks due to signalling ‘storms’ in various parts of the network. The explosion in traffic and bandwith demands is well acknowledged but signalling is another issue operators will have to contend with. LTE networks will have 100 per cent smartphone penetration from day one and smartphones generate significantly more signalling traffic than feature phones or data cards, both on the access network and the core network.

March 8, 2013 – telecoms.com

Mobile banking – why context is key

The rise of mobile working (fuelled in many organisations by the adoption of bring-your-own-device) and the proliferation of consumer banking apps have revolutionised how we interact with financial institutions as employees and customers. We expect a perfect digital experience when using these apps, but delivering this is far from easy. Yet can understanding more about the context in how these apps are used – and applying that context to manage the interactions provide the key to unlocking the ideal experience every time?

Mobile management shifting toward the enterprise

Although use of mobile devices continues to gain rapid acceptance by the general public and government agencies, BYOD security remains a work in progress, as enterprises look for a mobile device management (MDM) system that would focus on securing the network, not just devices.

February 26, 2013 – gcn.com

F5 Tackles BYOD with MDM Products and Services

F5 has announced Mobile App Manager, a new set of products and services that puts F5 squarely in the mobile device management space. F5 aims to address one of the key challenges of mobile devices: how to protect corporate apps and data on mobile devices that are owned by the end user.

February 22, 2013 – networkcomputing.com

The beginning of the end of BYOD as we know it

F5 Networks's recently released Mobile App Manager is a sign of things to come for the MDM market.

February 20, 2013 – NetworkWorld.com

F5 Networks Takes New Approach with BYOD 2.0

F5 Networks is looking to reinvent the BYOD paradigm with “BYOD 2.0,” a new way of looking at device management through application control. The new F5 Mobile App Manager, a hybrid cloud solution, allows IT admins and cloud or managed service providers to provision and manage internal corporate applications on mobile devices, while leaving the rest of the device up to user control.

February 19, 2013 – channelnomics.com

F5 jumps into BYOD with new app manager

F5 Networks on Tuesday will announce a mobile app manager product aimed at simplifying the integration of the omnipresent personal smartphone into corporate networks.

February 19, 2013 – NetworkWorld.com

F5 Networks Mobile App Manager Aims at BYOD Businesses

Application delivery networking specialist F5 Networks has unveiled Mobile App Manager, a hybrid cloud solution for mobile application management that helps organizations support bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives.

February 19, 2013 – eweek.com

Mayor McGinn Proclaims February 5 to be “F5 Day” in Seattle

F5 Networks, a global leader in application delivery networking based in Seattle, has been recognized by Mayor Mike McGinn today in a ceremony at F5 headquarters in which he proclaimed February 5 to be “F5 Day.”

February 5 declared F5 day in Seattle

F5, a member company of the Chamber selected as an honoree of the In Good Company program.

Watch out Amazon, F5 says it's the best tech company in Seattle

About 500 of the company’s nearly 1,200 Washington state employees crowded into a (way too small) room at the company’s Seattle headquarters Tuesday to welcome Mayor Mike McGinn, members of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Seattle’s Office of Economic Development. F5 was the fourth company (and the first tech company) recognized as part of the Economic Development Office’s “In Good Company” program. Previous winners were Dick’s Drive-In, Easy Street Records (one week before it closed its Queen Anne location) and Meyer Wells.

Happy F5 Day!

The calendar says it’s the fifth of February, but here in Seattle, it’s known as F5 Day! City leaders recognized today as F5 Networks day in the Emerald City. F5 Networks is a local company with global reach. These gadget gurus keep our high tech toys working when we need them the most!

Feb. 5 is F5 day in Seattle

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is declaring that today, Feb. 5, is F5 day in the city. The proclamation honors F5 Networks for its huge success and contributions to the region, including "above market" compensation and benefits for employees and numerous charitable programs.

2013 Data Center 100: 20 Virtualization Providers

F5 receives a 2013 Employee Voice Award from Quantum Workplace for outstanding work in employee engagement.

2013 Data Center 100: 20 Virtualization Providers

CEO: John McAdam
F5 leads the application delivery controller market and has infrastructure, VDI and server virtualization offerings. It positions itself as the "Swiss Army Knife of the data center" and is now stepping up its focus on security.

January 21, 2013 – CRN.com

Web Access Management, Application and Database Security for Today’s Enterprise

Two novel solutions combine the power of application delivery controllers (ADCs) with web access management (WAM) and database security technologies.

January 3, 2013 – dbta.com

Titans of Tomorrow: Overview

Who will join the Microsofts and Amazons in the pantheon of iconic Washington-based companies?

January 2, 2013 – SeattleBusinessMag.com

Commentary: Get your priorities straight before consolidating data centers

Many IT departments have spent years building multiple data centers for the very purpose of improving the delivery of applications and services to users, and providing for disaster recovery. Shutting down secondary data centers and centralizing applications can present significant challenges for IT staff. While there are substantial benefits to centralizing and virtualizing servers, applications and storage, hastily consolidating centers without the proper focus can actually backfire, costing organizations far more money than they expect to save.

December 31, 2012 – Nextgov.com

IT Gangnam Style: F5 Networks debuts Gangnam Style parody with tech twist

Seattle’s F5 Networks just unveiled its own Gangnam Style parody called “IT Style” that is geeky and actually pretty funny.

December 20, 2012 – GeekWire.com

Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com

It's the busy time of year for Allrecipes.com, which gets 700 million visitors annually, and to accommodate the surge of recipe-seekers, it's necessary to cook up some serious network changes in the data center.

December 19, 2012 – NetworkWorld.com

John Matthews: Winner - Best CIO of a public company

Best CIO of a Public Company winner John Matthews is CIO and vice president of IT for F5 Networks Inc.

December 14, 2012 – Business Journal

Rising use of SSL puts pressure on troubled Certificate Authority industry

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS), are the underpinnings of secure online transactions. Using public key encryption (PKI) to encrypt the data sent between a user’s browser and a website, SSL prevents anyone from tampering with the data.

November 28, 2012 – InfoWorld.com

F5 BIG-IP cloudbursts onto Amazon Web Services scene

Joining the ranks of companies like SAP, Microsoft, Eucalyptus, and CloudStack that are deepening their ties with AWS (Amazon Web Services), F5 this week announced a virtual edition of its BIG-IP suite designed for specifically for Amazon's popular public cloud.

November 27, 2012 – InfoWorld.com

F5 wins “Best Hardware: Networking” - 2012 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards

F5 Networks evolve from an eager, young load-balancing business into the powerhouse market leader that it is today. The company's flagship product, BIG-IP LTM, increases your operational efficiency and ensures peak network performance by providing a flexible, high-performance application delivery system. With its application-centric perspective, BIG-IP LTM optimizes your network infrastructure to deliver availability, security, and performance for critical business applications. Putting this system over the top is its easy-to-use management interface, ideal for today's general-purpose IT pro.

November 20, 2012 – WindowsITPro.com

Pekin IT Team Balances Consumer Access with Security Concerns

Allowing policyholders access to data raised security issues for Pekin.

November 19, 2012 – InfoWorld.com

The Top 25 Innovators Of 2012

14. John McAdam, CEO F5 Networks.
In more than a decade as F5 Networks' CEO, McAdam has driven the company as it surpassed $1 billion in revenue in 2011 and has led F5 to increase its core application delivery controller market share to almost 50 percent. With Cisco exiting the application delivery networking space, F5 expanded its trade-in program in October.

November 16, 2012 – CRN.com

F5 to launch AWS editions of BIG-IP products

New AWS-native applications should smooth the way for F5 customers in the cloud

November 16, 2012 – Networkworld.com

F5 Supports Latest IETF Diameter Specs

F5 Networks announced that its Traffix^TM Signaling Delivery Controller^TM (SDC^TM) is the market’s first Diameter solution to support the new Diameter specifications per the latest release of RFC 6733 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

November 15, 2012 – Lightreading.com

PSBJ honors tech leaders with 2012 CIO Awards

The Puget Sound Business Journal/Tech Flash has launched its inaugural CIO Awards to honor top technology leaders at Washington companies.

November 12, 2012 – Puget Sound Business Journal

Products of the week 10.22.12

Product name: BIG-IP 4200v application delivery controller platform

October 22, 2012 – Networkworld.com

F5 boosts capacity, transaction capabilities of its application delivery hardware

New F5 BIG-IP device boasts high-end capacity in a 1U chassis

October 19, 2012 – Networkworld.com

Lifetime Achievement Award: John McAdam, F5 Networks

F5 Networks was named for the most powerful tornado measurement on the Fujita Scale, and since its founding in 1996, this maker of internet traffic management equipment has reaped the whirlwind.

October 1, 2012 – SeattleBusinessMag.com

F5 Networks: Virtual Networking Hits Server 2012

There’s plenty of talk about Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8, but its server counterpart, Windows Server 2012, is part of the Windows 8 launch too. F5 Networks Inc. is preparing for that by delivering the new F5 Network Virtualization Solution for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Once deployed and in action, F5′s flagship BIG-IP platform can live on the cloud.

September 27, 2012 – ChannelNomics.com

F5 To Deliver Microsoft Network Virtualization Gateway

F5 Networks today announced a forthcoming network virtualization product that is designed to move virtual machines (VMs) from traditional datacenters to those based on Windows Server 2012, while preserving management controls.

September 24, 2012 – RedmondMag.com

Microsoft's Forefront Announcements May Signal Cloud Drift To Come

Microsoft's decision last week to end the sales of some of its Forefront enterprise security products opened some speculation that it's either getting out of that market or planning a greater role for cloud-based security solutions.

September 17, 2012 – RedmondMag.com

FORTUNE'S Fastest-Growing Companies

FORTUNE'S Fastest-Growing Companies: #53. F5Networks

September 5, 2012 – CNNmoney.com

F5 Cozies Up to VMware; Clears Up Two VMware View Shortcomings

Among the announcements at last week's VMworld came news that F5 is joining the VMware Ready Program for Networking and Security and will integrate its Big-IP with VMware's vCloud product suite.

September 4, 2012 – Networkcomputing.com

VMworld: F5 BIG-IP Integrates with vSphere, vCloud Director

F5 Networks is integrating its BIG-IP product line with VMware (NYSE: VMW) cloud products using the new VMware Ready for Networking and Security Program.

August 29, 2012 – CNNmoney.com

Application Defined Networking: The Next Wave

In the next two to three years you'll think less about Ethernet and IP networking and start thinking more about application networking.

August 23, 2012 – Networkcomputing.com

A phased approach to IPv6 that's so easy, you'll almost think you're still ignoring it

ADCs that understand both IPv4 and IPv6 can be used as gateway devices to proxy IPv6 traffic to IPv4.

July 30, 2012 – NetworkWorld.com

Power 100: The Most Powerful Women Of The Channel 2012

Cindy Tregoning, F5 Networks - Worldwide Channel Sales Programs Manager. Cindy Extended F5's Unity global partner program and developed a new methodology for channel account planning.

July 23, 2012 – CRN.com

F5 Networks CEO Seeing Big Traction In Security

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam has plenty to be happy about. Heading into F5's annual Agility partner conference, where McAdam will be among F5 executives addressing some 800 partner attendees this week in New York, F5 is a billion-dollar company, is making inroads into security and other infrastructure markets helping it push beyond its application delivery networking core, and is delivering admirable financial results and hiring at an impressive clip.

July 23, 2012 – CRN.com

F5 Networks: Security, Cloud, Partner Enablement All In Focus

F5 Networks has for a few years now been positioning itself as the "Swiss army knife of the data center," and based on how quickly it's expanding, it's safe to say F5, which crossed the $1 billion revenue threshold during its fiscal 2011, has transcended its roots as load balancer company and become one of the channel's most formidable vendors.

July 23, 2012 – CRN.com

Network Security in the Mobile Core: Port Scans to Mobile Devices

It’s no secret that the core of modern mobile switching networks is based on the Internet Protocol. What’s interesting is that simple network attacks that have been largely mitigated at the data center are finding their way into the mobile core networks. This article looks at how the mobile core architecture is susceptible to these attacks and suggests strategies for mitigation.

July 16, 2012 – Converge Digest

Tech Companies Wage No-holds Battle for Talent in Staff Wars

F5 gets creative in the way it markets itself to potential employees.

July 13, 2012 – Puget Sound Business Journal

F5, Partners Offer Service to Detect, Fix Web App Vulnerabilities

F5 and its partners, Cenzic and WhiteHat, are offering customers free vulnerability scans to see how well the service can work.

July 11, 2012 – e Week.com

Case Study: Traffic Managers, Virtualized Storage Cut Costs in Private Cloud

IlliniCloud allowed the reclamation of more than 70 percent of Tier 1 Fibre Channel storage, cut the backup window by 80 percent and enabled policy-based management of unstructured data.

July 10, 2012 – Virtual Strategy Magazine.com

F5 Networks Offers Free Security Assessments, New Service

F5 Networks is offering enterprise organizations free security assessments through application security testing providers Cenzic and WhiteHat Security. The goal of the vulnerability assessment program is to reduce exposure to security breaches by making it easy for organizations to sample security services, F5 officials said.

July 10, 2012 The Var Guy.com

F5 Networks Launches IP Intelligence Service

F5 Networks has launched a cloud-based service that will detect and stop IP addresses associated with malicious activities from accessing the network. Powered by Webroot’s IP Reputation Service and integrated into F5's Traffic Management Operating System (TMOS), F5’s newest offering is designed to merge with their other subscription-based solutions.

June 26, 2012 – Security Week.com

F5 Offers Cloud-Based Security, Scalability Services to Big-IP Portfolio

F5 Networks is unveiling new cloud-based services designed to expand its Big-IP application delivery platform with greater network security capabilities.

June 25, 2012 - eWeek.com

100 People You Don't Know But Should In 2012 (Part 1 – slide# 44)

McChesney launched F5’s Vault program in March, which offers incentives, rewards and technical training resources specifically for channel partners selling the vendor’s security portfolio. It is part of the vendor’s broader Unity partner program, which also has been improved.

June 25, 2012 - CRN.com

F5 Brings Context, Scalability Added Security to Big-IP v11.2

F5 is enhancing its security portfolio with two new services as part of its BIG-IP v11.2 release. The cloud-based IP Intelligence Service provides context-based delivery and protection, while DNS Services adds scalability and security for enhanced performance and lower costs.

June 25, 2012 - Network Computing.com

F5 Increases BIG-IP Security with New DNS, IP Intelligence

Application delivery networking vendor F5 Networks is increasing the security of its BIG-IP solution with a slew of new DNS capabilities and a cloud-based IP Intelligence service that detects and prevents access from malicious IP addresses.

June 25, 2012 - The VAR Guy.com

F5's DevCentralized Gets Cloudy

Communities of interest have been all the rage over the past few years. Just this year alone we’ve seen Infoblox, Aruba and other tech vendors launch online communities to support their products. The concept behind the community is that users of the products can share ideas, use cases, scripts, architectures or anything else related to the product, and what better way to learn about what’s possible than by leveraging the power of the community.

June 14, 2012 - Network World.com

F5 Networks' DevCentral Moves to the Cloud

F5 has been helping drive business forward for years by helping organizations meet the demands of relentless growth in applications, users, and data. With their solutions, businesses gain strategic points of control wherever information is exchanged – from client devices and the network to application servers, data storage, and everything in between. Now this global heavyweight in Application Delivery Networking (ADN) has announced that is has migrated its global online community, DevCentral, to a cloud environment.

June 13, 2012 - TMCnet.com

F5's Cohesion Program: IaaS Providers, VARs Working Together

F5 Wednesday rolled out its Cloud Licensing Program (CLP), a global offering through which it will offer virtual editions of its Big-IP products to IaaS providers.

June 13, 2012 - CRN.com

Why F5 beats Netscaler…and the rest of the competition

What buyers are saying about F5's application delivery controller.

May 31, 2012 - Network World.com

Taking ADCs to the Next Level

F5's latest application delivery controller, the Viprion 4480, is aimed at large enterprises, carriers, and cloud providers looking to upgrade to 40GbE and segregate their customers via virtualization and charge for services accordingly.

May 24, 2012 - Enterprise Networking Planet.com

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam: Why Seattle Works for his $1 Billion Company

F5 Networks has quietly built one of the biggest success stories of the Seattle tech community. CEO John McAdam shares his thoughts on the company's history, future prospects, and why he likes operating in the area.

May 22, 2012 – GeekWire.com

F5 Integrates Google's Speedier Delivery Protocol To Make Web Faster

F5 recently announced new application delivery optimization capabilities for its BIG-IP products, highlighting its offerings as the first Application Delivery Controllers to support Google's SPDY protocol.

May 22, 2012 – Forbes.com

CRN's 2012 Virtualization 100: Part 1 (slide 34)

F5’s Application Delivery Networking solutions help organizations implement dynamic, virtualized IT systems by enabling desktop virtualization, file virtualization, infrastructure virtualization and server virtualization capabilities.

May 18, 2012 - CRN.com

HP, F5 Networking Solutions Offer Faster App Deployment

The offerings, announced at Interop, automate the processes for deploying cloud applications on wired and wireless networks.

May 9, 2012 - eWeek.com

Interop 2012: Mobile application delivery improved with SPDY protocol

With a growing population of mobile and remote workers, enterprise demand for mobile application delivery is also rising. Employees now use a variety of mobile devices and applications supported by different browsers, so enterprises need consistent application delivery across all devices, regardless of location or other variables that can interfere with mobile delivery.

May 8, 2012 - Search EnterpriseWAN.com

HP, F5 partner to speed delivery of cloud apps

HP this week unveiled several initiatives at Interop 2012 in Las Vegas to enhance the provisioning and performance of virtual applications over a network, including an alliance with application delivery controller leader F5.

May 8, 2012 - Network World.com

Interop: HP Touts F5 Alliance, Software-Defined Networking Strength

Hewlett-Packard joined forces with F5 Networks to offer pretested virtual network and application management product sets, the two companies confirmed Tuesday.

May 8, 2012 - CRN.com

F5 Addresses Slow Web Content with SPDY Gateway

F5 Networks is revving up its engines in support of the new Google-championed SPDY network protocol with the release of a SPDY gateway for its BIG-IP architecture.

May 8, 2012 - The VAR Guy

F5 Networks Discusses SPDY Network Support

Interop Las Vegas 2012: F5 Networks Discusses SPDY Network Support

May 8, 2012 - TMC.net

HP, F5 Speed Up App Delivery Time with Networks

Hewlett-Packard and F5's Virtual Application Networks solution enables clients to "virtualize and automate the entire configuration process," going from app through the network to the user in "minutes, not weeks or months," said HP's Bethany Mayer. "IT needs to move at the same rate as a business needs."

May 8, 2012 - CIO Today.com

F5 Leveraging Google's SPDY Protocol

Networking vendor F5 has long been focused on application delivery optimization. Now thanks to the Google SPDY protocol for TCP, Web traffic can now be accelerated faster than ever before.

May 8, 2012 - The Enterprise Networking Planet.com

F5 Networks Offers SPDY Application Delivery

As the Web becomes increasingly more complex and multimedia-rich, F5 Networks is looking to reign in that wild wild Web and turn it into something more manageable. Call it an Internet lasso if you’d like, but F5 Networks insists on calling it the “industry first,” SPDY Gateway. SPDY (pronounced ‘speedy’) is the new networking protocol spearheaded by Google, which aims to optimize the entirety of the Web by re-prioritizing HTTP requests.

May 8, 2012 - Channelnomics.com

Application delivery controllers (ADCs) to take on larger roles in the era of the cloud

Most solution providers are familiar with the role application delivery controllers (ADCs), also known as load balancers, play within the data center. As the ADC analyzes application traffic it flows that traffic to the appropriate server. As important a function as that is within the data center, the rise of cloud computing is starting to expand the role of the ADC along with opportunities for solution providers that know how to deploy and manage them.

April 27, 2012 - Channel Insider.com

MMS 2012: F5 Showcases BIG-IP Integration with System Center 2012 and Private Cloud

At MMS 2012 F5 Networks was demonstrating its highly regarded BIG-IP solutions for Microsoft private cloud deployments.

April 20, 2012 - Windows IT Pro

F5 Executive Vice President and General Counsel Jeff Christianson Named Corporate Counsel of the Year 2012

Puget Sound Business Journal named Jeff Christianson winner in the 2012 Corporate Counsel of the Year Awards – Large Company category

April 13, 2012 - Puget Sound Business Journal

West Virginia hospital balances its server load

We are on a nearly paperless system, so when it goes down and you don't have that documentation, a patient can suffer as a result," said Ahmed, network engineer. "With the F5 box we can take the server down behind the scenes without anyone being affected. We have effectively eliminated any outages the users might see.

April 12, 2012 - Health Care IT News.com

Products of the week 4.9.12

A roundup of intriguing new products from McAfee, F5, BeyondTrust, among others.

April 6, 2012 - Network World

Higher education SaaS provider relies on F5 Big-IP for app delivery.

When 60,000 prospective students go online simultaneously to find out if they were accepted into college on the same day, the application delivery controller behind the network infrastructure has to be as robust as it is reliable. Hobsons -- a provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications for colleges and universities -- has selected several F5 Big IP products to support its global infrastructure, including the Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and WebAccelerator, for just such an occasion.

March 16, 2012 - Search EnterpriseWAN.com

F5 Big-IP application delivery controller powers Allrecipes.com

Popular culinary website Allrecipes.com found itself struggling daily to deal with increasing network traffic, so the company purchased Big-IP, a chassis-based application delivery controller from F5 Networks last fall.

March, 2012 - Search EnterpriseWAN.com

F5 Named to "Hot Security Products" List

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager was named a "Hot Security Product for Cloud."

February 27, 2012 - eWeek.com

SuperSizing the Data Center: Big Data and Jumbo Frames

Data center transformation discussions too often overlook the impact on the network – and its necessary transformation.

February 26, 2012 - Cloud Computing Journal

F5 Buys Diameter Signal Router Startup

F5 Networks will acquire Traffix Systems, a specialist in Diameter-based signaling products for 4G/LTE networks, the company said this week. "With the load and complexity of mobile data network traffic growing dramatically, mobile operators require expertise in the data and application plane, in the form of converged IP services, and in the control plane with advanced Diameter routing, load balancing and gateway capabilities," said John Byrne, research director for wireless and mobile infrastructure at IDC, in a published comment on the deal.

February 21, 2012 - CRN.com

F5 Secures Its Mobile Device Management Services

Application delivery networking company F5 Networks announced the expansion of the company's partner ecosystem, in an attempt to address burgeoning demand for secure mobile access to enterprise applications and network resources.

February 21, 2012 - Computer Business Review

F5 Networks focuses on alliances with mobile-device management vendors

Technology alliance established with Airwatch, MobileIron, SilverbackMDM, Zenprise

February 21, 2012 - Network World

F5 Networks Partners to Play Nice with MDM Software Vendors

By now most of us in the channel realize mobile device management (MDM) isn’t just a passing fad. In fact, some of the more savvy solution providers have already built a full-blown business around ensuring their customers’ iPads and other devices work on the corporate network.

February 21, 2012 - The VAR Guy.com

F5 buying Traffix Systems to support spike in mobile data

F5 Networks has agreed to buy Traffix Systems, an Israeli company whose behind-the-scenes signaling technology helps mobile operators manage all that data flowing across their networks, thanks to all those smartphones, tablets and other devices we’re using these days.

February 20, 2012 - GeekWire.com

F5 Circles The Wagons and Adds Diameter to its Portfolio

Telcos need Diameter's technology to build scalable voice over LTE (VoLTE) services, and this move could be important as 4G expands.

February 20, 2012 - NoJitter.com

F5 buys Diameter pioneer Traffix

US firms adds management of LTE mobile signalling to its broad platform for managing IP quality and delivery

February 20, 2012 - Rethink Wireless

F5 Sends LTE Signal With Acquisition

Application delivery and security systems specialist F5 Networks Inc. has agreed to buy next-generation mobile signaling system vendor Traffix Systems for an undisclosed sum, though Israeli publisher Globes reported the price as US$130 million.

February 20, 2012 - LightReading.com

F5 Named Second Largest Software Developer in Puget Sound

The Puget Sound Business Journal ranked the top 24 companies by gross revenues.

February 15, 2012 – Puget Sound Business Journal

F5's Big Play With Big-IP Is VDI Support

F5 Networks executives are fond of referring to their company as the "Swiss Army Knife of the data center" and over the past two years have set about convincing solution providers and customers that F5 goes above and beyond the application delivery controller market it so decisively controls.

February 10, 2012 - CRN.com

Distribution Management Uses F5 To Solve Virtualization Challenges

The continuing growth of the mobile workforce and its insatiable demand for access to corporate data from a variety of different types of networks and devices is coming together with the accelerating adoption of virtualization.

February 9, 2012 - NetworkComputing.com

F5 CEO: Our Software Firepower Better Than Rivals

In a recent interview, F5 Chief Executive John McAdam discussed the ADC market with IBD.

February 2, 2012 - Investors.com

F5 Shakes Up the Firewall Market

F5 Networks threw its hat in the ring with the announcement that its BIG-IP 11.1 software passed the ICSA Labs test for network firewalls. With all the industry talk about next-generation or application-aware firewalls, F5 goes a step further. BIG-IP can be configured for security and customized with iRules to offer extremely strong network/application security integration.

February 1, 2012 - Network World

F5 Pitches ADCs as Firewalls

There was a time when the only way it was reasonably possible to defend a data center perimeter was with a conga line of security appliances. That line might be getting a little bit smaller if F5 Networks has anything to say about it.

January 26, 2012 - The Enterprise Networking Planet

F5 Launches Firewall for Data Centers

F5 Networks is launching a data center-grade firewall designed to protect websites from cyber attacks. The technology competes with offerings from other vendors in terms of traffic capacity and cost.

January 25, 2012 - Channel Insider

F5 Networks Unifies Security with BIG-IP Certified Firewall

F5 Networks is known for its BIG-IP technology covering a range of data center needs. But that’s not enough, because now F5 Networks is bringing ICSA Labs-certified firewall solutions to its portfolio. I spoke with F5 Network’s Director of Product Management for Security Solutions Mark Vondemkamp and VP of Worldwide Channel Sales Dean Darwin about the launch. Here’s what VARs should know ...

January 25, 2012 - The VAR Guy.com

F5 Networks 'Fixes' Data Center Security

Arguing that multiple point appliances intended to secure a network only add to complexity without providing the intended protection, F5 Networks is introducing what it calls a Data Center Firewall to combine multiple security solutions into one appliance.

January 24, 2012 - Network Computing.com

F5 Fights Cyber Attacks with Certified Network Firewall

Whether we want to believe it or not, cyber attacks are a consistent part of our everyday operations and we have automation and botnets to thank for that.

January 23, 2012 - InfoTech.com

F5: Security Stars Are Aligned

It wasn’t all that long ago that F5 Networks was "the load-balancer company", a niche-based supplier of load-balancing technologies for enterprise customers looking to get more performance out of their data centers. But a funny thing happened as F5 began to grow in the early 2000s: Load balancers gave way to application delivery technologies and F5 not only grew its position in that niche market, it flat-out crushed the field

January 23, 2012 - CRN.com

Q&A: F5's McAdam on Momentum

CRN Senior Editor Chad Berndtson recently sat down with John McAdam, president, CEO and director at F5 Networks, Seattle, Wash., to discuss the company's current momentum in the market and in the channel.

January 23, 2012 - CRN.com

Storing Data In The Cloud Raises Compliance Challenges

Data transmission and storage can fall under many regional regulations involving the security and availability of personal information.

January 19, 2012 - Forbes.com

Perspective: How to Plug Holes in Disjointed Security

As hackers become more vigilant and cyberattacks more sophisticated and prevalent, the media has lost no opportunity to spotlight assaults against federal agencies, global corporations and various governments around the world.

January 13, 2012 - Government Technology.com

Network Technology Trends 2012: Out-of-Band Management and DevOps

With the new year nearly upon us, SearchNetworking.com met with Lori MacVittie, F5 Networks’ technology evangelist and senior technical marketing manager, to talk about major networking technology trends for 2012.

December 15, 2011 - SearchNetworking.com

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam was selected as one of the 2011 Top 25 GeekWire Newsmakers of the Year.

Over the past decade, John McAdam has led F5 Networks on one of the more impressive growth paths in the Seattle tech industry. When the former IBM and Sequent Computer executive arrived at the helm in 2000, the networking equipment and software maker was doing just over $100 million in revenue.

December 4, 2011 - GeekWire.com

The Top 10 Next-Gen Channel Leaders Of 2011

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels F5 Networks’ Dean Darwin Named One of 2011’s Top 100 Channel Executives by UBM Channel’s CRN

Nov 21, 2011 - CRN.com

F5 Teams With NetApp, VMware on Live Migration for Applications

F5 continues its collaboration with NetApp and VMware to simplify the migration of applications between data centers.

Nov 21, 2011 - eWeek.com

Meeting VDI Challenges: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

A July 2010 CIO Technology Priorities Study by IDG indicated the number one interest - cited by 45 percent of respondents - of CIOs was "Virtualization, Desktop PC", otherwise known in the vernacular as VDI.

Nov 14, 2011 - Virtual Strategy Magazine

100% of Enterprises Reported Cyber Attacks

Attacks are becoming more difficult to defend against and are expensive to mitigate, with traditional safeguards falling short, according to F5 Networks.

Nov 11, 2011 - Help Net Security

F5 Brings Simplicity to Complex Virtual Application Environments

Organizations both large and small are facing a sea change when it comes to desktop and application provisioning. The traditional static end-point, commonly known as a PC, is rapidly falling out of favor as the primary interface into corporate and line of business applications.

Nov 11, 2011 - Channel Tech Network

F5 Networks ARX Platform Removes Chaos From Enterprise Storage

Managing enterprise disk storage is difficult. F5 is reducing this burden with the ARX Series, a family of appliances that abstract physical file storage from logical user access using virtualization.

Nov 11, 2011 - eWeek.com

Firewalls Fail to Stem Tide of DDoS Attacks, Survey Finds

Companies still rely heavily on firewalls to defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks despite the fact that this class of device is often not up to the task, a new survey by F5 Networks has found.

Nov 10, 2011 - CSO

Bringing Order to Virtual Environments

Virtualization is all the rage in today's networks, at least when it comes to servers and storage. Many CTOs, however, are looking to see what virtualization can do for end-user needs.

November 9, 2011 - CTOEdge.com

Traditional Defenses Fail to Mitigate DNS, DoS Attacks: F5 Survey Finds

Cyber-attacks are becoming more difficult to defend against and are expensive to mitigate, according to a recent survey from F5 Networks.

Nov 7, 2011 - eWeek.com

ADCs Taking on Larger Security Role

In a worldwide survey conducted by Applied Research on behalf of F5 Networks, about half of the 1,000 large organizations surveyed said they see ADCs as being a platform that could eliminate the need for some security appliances, while one-third said they were already using ADCs in that context.

Nov 4, 2011 - CTO Edge

F5 CEO McAdam Talks Spending, Hiring

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam discusses IT spending and plans for hiring. (Source: The Street)

Nov 3, 2011 - The Street

F5 CEO McAdam Says Security Will be a "Cross-functional, Organizational Change"

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam talks about F5’s focus on the security market. (Source: CNN Money)

Nov 1, 2011 - CNN Money

F5 Networks CEO McAdam Talks Data Center Security

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam talks about how F5 helps customers make their data centers and networks more efficient and secure.

Nov 1, 2011 - FOX Business

F5 Networks Makes Security Ambitions Clear with New Hire

F5 Networks Monday confirmed it hired away one of Cisco's best-known senior vice presidents to be the new head of its security and strategy teams. Manny Rivelo, a 19-year Cisco veteran and most recently Cisco's senior vice president, engineering operations and systems, will have the title of senior vice president, security and strategic solutions at F5, reporting to John McAdam, F5's president and CEOF5 Networks' appointment of a senior vice president for security is one more indication of a strategic shift loyal F5 VARs have seen coming for some time: the evolution of F5 into full-fledged security market player...John McAdam, F5's president and CEO, said Rivelo will have a lot of cross-functional responsibility at F5. But his charter is to sharpen the focus on a market that F5, better known for application delivery controller (ADC) and other data center technologies, has made no secret about pursuing.

Nov 1, 2011 - CRN.com

F5 Networks BIG-IP Application Security Manager

The BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) from F5 Networks protects web applications from being vulnerable to threats, such as data theft and damage. This appliance includes policy-learning options, which allow administrators to make informed policy decisions.

Nov 1, 2011 - SC Magazine

F5 Networks Nabs Cisco Veteran for Top Security Post

F5 Networks Monday confirmed it hired away one of Cisco's best-known senior vice presidents to be the new head of its security and strategy teams. Manny Rivelo, a 19-year Cisco veteran and most recently Cisco's senior vice president, engineering operations and systems, will have the title of senior vice president, security and strategic solutions at F5, reporting to John McAdam, F5's president and CEO.

Oct 31, 2011 - CRN.com

F5 Makes a Cool Billion in the Cloud

As the very cool infographic timeline details, application delivery controller company F5 Networks has exceeded $1 billion in revenue for its 2011 fiscal year. The company said it earned $314.6 million during Q4, which was a hike of eight percent over the $290.7 million in the previous quarter, and 24 percent over the $254.3 reported during Q4 of fiscal year 2010. Overall for fiscal year 2011, revenue jumped to $1.15 billion, an increase of 31 percent from $882 million in fiscal year 2010.

Oct 27, 2011 - Virtualization Review

F5 Networks CEO McAdam Calls Profitability 'Stellar'

F5's CEO John McAdam talks about the company's fourth-quarter results and growth strategy. He speaks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." Jon Erlichman also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)

Oct 25, 2011 - Bloomberg

F5 breaks $1 billion, shares jump, jobs added

Although overall tech spending is suffering from the uncertain economic conditions, F5 and a few other companies found a niche providing software, hardware and services that big corporations are using to modernize their networks and datacenters.

Oct 25, 2011 - The Seattle Times

F5 Surpasses $1B Milestone

F5 Networks surpassed $1 billion in revenue for the first time.

Oct 25, 2011 - Komo News

F5 provides answers for network congestion, divergent services

F5 this week announced an upgraded DNS offering that it says will allow carriers to scale their IP infrastructure more efficiently, reduce costs and roll out new services faster.

Oct 12, 2011 - ConnectedPlanetOnline.com

Directing Traffic

Colleges find that new app-centric functions in load balancers enhance security and ease management.

Aug 24, 2011 - edtechmag.com

A conversation with John McAdam of F5 Networks

I am going to continue my series of conversations with industry CEO's and today we have John McAdam of F5 Networks.

Aug 9, 2011 - NetworkWorld.com

Physical or Virtual ADC: An Either/Or Choice?

Are vADCs a wholesale replacements for pADCs? Can't these application delivery controllers co-exist?

Aug 8, 2011 - esj.com

F5 streamlines application delivery controller operations with iApps

The evolution of load balancers to application delivery controllers has provided enterprises with countless features and functionality that improve application performance and security. But with those application delivery controller features come complexity.

Aug 3, 2011 - SearchNetworking.com

F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager VE conducts load balancing virtually for less than a physical appliance.

A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall capability of a system to handle heavy traffic or to increase fault tolerance so that no single failure of a server or network connection brings down a critical website or application.

Aug 3, 2011 - fedtechmagazine.com

F5 Networks aims to simplify application delivery with Big-IP controllers

F5 is making it possible to drastically reduce the complexity of configuring its Big-IP application delivery controllers when customers want to provide specific services to specific applications.

July 29, 2011 - Nationalcybersecurity.com

Federal Government Agencies Provided Essential Capabilities by F5 to Improve Security and Efficiency While Cutting Costs

The worldwide leader in application delivery networking, F5 Networks, proclaimed that its BIG-IP version 11 software delivers end-to-end application access control to aid federal government organizations improve their security position and reduce the risk of network- and application-based attacks.

July 28, 2011 - TMCnet

F5 Networks Closes In On $1 Billion At Dawn Of 'Application Era'

F5 Networks will hit a major financial milestone this year, and at its partner conference promised a greater investment in channel resources.

July 27, 2011 - CRN.com

F5 simplifies app-by-app configuration of its Big-IP controllers

F5 is making it possible to drastically reduce the complexity of configuring its Big-IP application delivery controllers when customers want to provide specific services to specific applications.

July 27, 2011 - NetworkWorld.com

F5: Latest BIG-IP Update Most Significant Yet

F5 Networks this week unveiled the latest version of its BIG-IP application delivery offering -- a seminal update to the platform that F5 says will drive deeper, stickier partner-led sales behind the idea that seamless application delivery will be the make-or-break in next-generation, virtualized data centers.

July 27, 2011 - CRN.com

F5 Upgrades Virtualization Platform

BIG-IP version 11 aims to combine the flexibility of virtualization with the performance of dedicated hardware.

July 26, 2011 - Informationweek.com

F5 Networks Enhances Big-IP Security Platform

Application delivery networking (ADN) specialist F5 Networks announced enhancements to its application and data security solutions, which provide customers with security strategies to prevent loss of service and data.

July 25, 2011 - eWeek

F5 Makes Big Deal of Applications with Latest BIG-IP Version

F5 Networks is hoping to turn the networking world on its ear by pushing the idea of an application-centric network.

July 25, 2011 - VAR Guy.com

BIG-IP takes an application-centric view of the datacenter

An application-centric view of virtualization and provisioning can speed up application deployment throughout the enterprise.

July 25, 2011 - ZDNet.com

F5 Rolls Out New File Virtualization Appliances

F5 Networks this week announced new file virtualization appliances for small and mid-sized businesses. Like F5's other appliances, the ARX1500 and ARX2500 are aimed at virtualizing, managing and migrating data for businesses of all sizes who are suffering from growing amounts of file data.

July 13, 2011 - NetworkWorld.com

F5 Launches New ARX Platforms for File Virtualization

If you're an SME looking for file virtualization, or a VAR working the virtualization space in need of some midmarket hardware, F5 Networks may have just the ticket for you. The company has launched two new ARX appliances to help budget-strapped IT departments manage their data better. I spoke to F5's Product Marketing Manager Renny Shen about the announcement for a little color...

July 13, 2011 - VAR Guy.com

F5 releases two new storage virtualization appliances

F5 Networks today announced the release of two new file virtualization appliances, an entry-level offering and a midrange product that features 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.

F5's new entry-level ARX1500 and midrange ARX2500 appliances are both 1U (1.75 in.) in height.

July 11, 2011 - Computerworld.com

F5 Networks Debuts ARX File Virtualization Appliances

Application delivery networking specialist F5 Networks announced the release of a hardware platforms for F5 ARX file virtualization solutions. With the introduction of the ARX1500 and ARX2500 appliances, the ARX product line expands to provide small to medium- size businesses (SMBs) with data management capabilities. For medium- sized storage environments, the ARX2500 platform includes support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet network infrastructures.

July 11, 2011 - ChannelInsider.com

Geo-location: Adding Context to Virtual Machine Mobility

When virtual platforms became a common technology in data centers, many administrators were smitten with the ability to move virtual machines between physical servers, and rightly so. It was trivial to build a server at your desktop and then deploy it without mounting a new server or running new cables.

July 1, 2011 - TMCnet

Ongoing storm of cyberattacks is preventable, experts say

The CIA has become a member of a less-than-exclusive club of high-profile targets hit by online attacks, falling victim to a denial-of-service attack that temporarily took down its website.

June 16, 2011 - Government Computer News

Private cloud service lets schools share storage, data protection

Two years ago, hundreds of K-12 school districts in Illinois decided to band together to pool resources and stretch their limited IT budgets. The result was IlliniCloud, a private cloud service that provides, data protection, data archiving and compute infrastructure for nearly one-third of the state's school districts.

June 2, 2011 - SearchCloudStorage.com

Policy 2.0: Smart Operators Increase Profit Without Rebuilding

With increased data traffic on wireless networks and the proliferation of new devices and data applications, service providers are challenged with managing the cost of their expanding networks, maintaining healthy ARPU and profitability, and reducing time to ROI.

May 19, 2011 - Convergedigest.com

F5 Viprion chassis gets cheaper for the masses at Interop 2011

F5 Viprion chassis application delivery controllers (ADCs) are now available at a midrange cost. Users can now also run virtual instances of F5 ADCs on a single appliance, enabling multi-tenancy.

May 11, 2011 - SearchNetworking.com

F5 Virtualizes App Delivery Controllers

F5 Networks has introduced virtual clustered multiprocessing (vCMP), a technology that it says brings true virtualization to application delivery controllers for the first time. The announcement was made Monday at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas, a UBM TechWeb event.

May 09, 2011 - Informationweek.com

Network Computing Is IPv6-Ready

Network Computing is now IPv6 ready. Like many other organizations, we have to migrate to IPv6 at some point and this is the first step in the process--getting our public facing servers ready.

May 3, 2011 - Networkcomputing.com

Oracle Delivers New Version of Oracle Coherence

Latest release of high performance data grid extends Oracle's Middleware leadership with new features and product enhancements, including integration with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

April 18, 2011 - Oracle.com

Portable Cellular to Mobile Computer

IT executives are looking to give employees access to internal business applications from their smartphones and mobile devices.

April 1, 2011 - InfoTECH Spotlight

For IT Managers, Going Green Can Save You Some Long Green

Organizations that want to take their Green IT commitment to a higher level–and, at the same time, reduce operating expenses–need to take a broader approach that addresses the IT infrastructure as a whole.

March 31, 2011 - Forbes.com

Application Delivery Controllers Can Ease the IPv6 Migration

It seems after a long hiatus, IPv6 is back in the news. Now as Gary Audin pointed out in his blog, the impending transition IPv6 has been something we have been talking about for years. In fact, I wrote my first IPv6 report in 2001 when I thought we were on the verge of a large migration, which of course never happened.

March 27, 2011 - No Jitter

Webinar Campaign Helps Global Tech Company Expand Accounts and Generate $12 Million in Sales Opportunities

F5 Networks launched a webinar campaign to help prepare companies to transition from 1024-bit RSA public key encryption to 2048-bit RSA keys. The campaign ended up yielding almost $12 million in potential sales opportunities for customers of its BIG-IP products.

March, 2011 - RainToday.com

Guaranteeing Service Levels in the Cloud

Nothing puts a spotlight on the need to manage IT as a service than cloud computing. The trouble is figuring out how to manage the delivery of IT services that are dependent on shared IT infrastructure.

February 28, 2011 - CTOEdge

F5 Networks gunning for even more data center control

F5 Networks has managed to garner nearly 50% market share, while Cisco's share has actually declined. John McAdam, F5's CEO, attributes the company's success to having won ownership of certain strategic control points in today's consolidated data centers.

February 10, 2011 - Network World

Is There Another Wave of Growth on the Horizon for F5?

Last week F5 reported its latest quarterly results and after three straight "beat and raise" quarters it was slightly behind where Wall Street was expecting. Additionally, the company guidance was a little lighter than expected. This prompted typical over reaction from Wall Street and the stock dropped from about $145 per share to $110 and the speculation that F5 has run out of market. Now I don't do stock evaluation, I'll leave that to another set of analysts, but I do believe F5 has another wave of growth on the horizon.

January 24, 2011 - No Jitter

F5 Channel Program Expands With Sales, Tech Accreditation

F5 Networks on Monday went live with new sales and technical accreditation programs designed to help partners leverage its data networking products in a range of different scenarios. Many channel partners understand better the role of application delivery controllers (ADC) in virtualization and cloud computing environments, said Dean Darwin, F5's vice president, worldwide channels. But many are also realizing the benefits of ADC in the greater context of the data center, including as a complement for security, storage, software and other forms of infrastructure.

January 24, 2011 - CRN.com

F5 Launches Sales and Technical Accreditation Programs

Application delivery networking firm F5 Networks has launched new partner training and accreditation modules under its Unity partner program. The Web-based training modules and accreditation program information is free to partners through the company's F5 University. Training accreditation launches this month and sales accreditation later in 2011.

January 21, 2011 - Channel Insider

F5 CEO: Metrics Show Firm Is Fundamentally Sound

With shares of the application delivery networking company F5 dropping 20 percent on Thursday following quarterly earnings, its CEO, John McAdam, told CNBC that it's best to focus on the metrics to evaluate the company.

January 20, 2011 - CNBC.com

McAdam Says F5 Hiring More Salespeople 'Aggressively'

John McAdam, president and chief executive officer at F5 Networks Inc., the maker of software used for managing computer networks, talks about the company's outlook for growth.

January 20, 2011 - Bloomberg

Don't Abandon Your Purpose-Built Network Solutions Just Yet — Blog Post by Karl Triebes, CTO, F5 Networks

Imagine taking your car to the shop for major repairs and finding that the mechanic uses just one tool for everything, from changing a flat tire to replacing your transmission. He explains that he doesn't need all those expensive, special-purpose tools anymore now that he's found this one, All-Powerful Tool.

It sound ridiculous, but similar images come to mind when I hear the suggestion that network appliance vendors need to abandon their purpose-built platforms and deliver their solutions on general-purpose hardware.

January 18, 2011 - Virtualization Review

F5 Networks Offers Remote Access For Apple Wireless Devices

F5 Networks, an application delivery networking provider, has introduced versions of its Big-IP Edge Client and Big-IP Edge Portal applications that can run on wireless devices from Apple, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The applications, which operate on a virtual private network, enable workers to access files and other content on the corporate network remotely, but conform to the security and compliance requirements set for devices that operate behind the firewall. The support for Apple's iOS operating system is another indicator of what analysts call the "consumerization of IT," in which IT administrators have to accommodate workers' individual choices of what technology to use, rather than having IT dictate which devices they must use.

January 18, 2011 - Network Computing

F5 CEO: Busy Helping Clients 'Re-Architect'

The continuing growth of the Internet is good business for network equipment makers. Nobody knows that better than F5 Networks. The company, which makes equipment and software for powering everything from data centers to mobile networks, is on a roll.

December 29, 2010 - Investors.com

Anonymous group's DDoS attacks lead to a fresh interest in how to secure against an invasion

Last week's multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have led to a fresh interest in how to secure a website against such an invasion.

December 13, 2010 - SC Magazine

Application delivery controllers ensure enterprise's OCS 2007 R2 uptime

If an accounting application crashes, its users probably can multi-task while IT troubleshoots the problem. If the server that hosts voice over IP (VoIP), email, instant messaging (IM) and conferencing fails for the entire enterprise, employees are going to pack their bags and go home. To ensure uptime for some of its most prized UC applications, one global enterprise deployed application delivery controllers to intelligently load balance its Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 traffic.

November 18, 2010 - SearchUnifiedCommunications.com

Most Influential: F5 Networks CEO John McAdam

McAdam reinvented the company, focusing F5's efforts on developing software that improves the performance, efficiency and security with which Web information is stored in data centers.

November 2, 2010 - Seattle Magazine

F5 Brings Scalability and Performance Enhancements to VMware View 4.5

F5 networks helps enterprises embrace Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology with new WAN optimization and acceleration technology that improves performance for VMWare View 4.5 sessions.

October 28, 2010 - eWeek

Cloudy with a Chance of Pain: IT Security in the Cloud

This is the kind of challenge Lori MacVittie sees organizations facing as they increasingly are drawn to the lure of the cloud. MacVittie, is the Senior Technical Marketing Manager at F5 Networks, an international firm that, among other services, specializes in delivering cloud solutions at the application level.

October 5, 2010 - Linux.com

On-Demand Cloud Bursting Made Possible by Architecture — Blog Post by Karl Triebes, CTO, F5 Networks

There is a wide variety of use cases for cloud computing, many of which rely heavily upon the particular model of cloud discussed. SaaS (Software as a Service), for example, has a different usage than does IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), particularly when leveraged in the context of a hybrid cloud data center model.

September 22, 2010 - Virtualization Review

F5 Brings Optimal Availability, Security, and Performance for Ooba's Web-Based Financial Applications

Expansion is the name of the game for successful businesses. Ooba, formerly MortgageSA, is the leading home mortgage originator in South Africa. Three years ago, Ooba set its sights on moving beyond its mortgage broker roots to offer a broader range of financial services for homebuyers, including insurance and real estate listings. Ooba wanted to offer these services via the Web, and the company needed to make sure that the application delivery platform it selected could provide performance, security, and reliability for its customers.

September 21, 2010 - Oracle

Not Just Another Network Solution

If your corporate Web site were down for several hours three to four times a week and your Web pages took 30 to 45 seconds to load, you would have to find a new Web host or risk losing customers and lots of business. With the advanced technologies available today, that level of service is unacceptable.

September 10, 2010 - Processor.com

F5 Networks on the Rise

In the past five years, the stock of F5 Networks has grown nearly 350%. CEO John McAdam discusses the company's success with CNBC.

September 7, 2010 - CNBC

Integrated Web App Firewalls Make Sense in High-Performance Environments

Enterprises deploying high-end application delivery systems need to consider how best to secure their apps without imposing seconds or even fractions of seconds of latency, particularly in heavy- transaction environments where time literally means money. Web application firewalls (WAFs) are becoming an increasingly important component of control and delivery platforms, screening against common attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting and cookie poisoning.

September 7, 2010 - Network Computing

Designing seamless Microsoft Exchange 2010 Deployments across multiple datacenters

In conjunction with key Microsoft^® Exchange Server 2010 features, F5^® BIG-IP^® application delivery controllers can help organizations create high-performance, highly available messaging infrastructures spanning multiple data centers.

August 19, 2010 - Dell

Leading By Example: F5 Networks Inc.

The Business Journal asked John McAdam, president and CEO of F5 Networks Inc., the Gold Medal winner in the 2010 Washington's Best Workplaces Extra Large Company Category, to share information about the company and tips on leading one of the best places to work.

August 13, 2010 - Puget Sound Business Journal

F5 Touts Partner Gains Behind Encouraging Growth

It's been a year of strong gains for F5 Networks, and the challenge now is to keep growing at similar pace as the company cements its position as the top application delivery controller (ADC) vendor in tech.

August 11, 2010 - CRN

Shape, Throttle, and Roll

The infrastructure developer/architect will be a key player in the new network

July 27, 2010 - The Journal

The Role of the Developer in the New Network

Software tools and techniques for global software development. Dr. Dobb's features articles, source code, blogs,forums,video tutorials, and audio podcasts, as well as articles from Dr. Dobb's Journal, BYTE.com, C/C++ Users Journal, and Software Development magazine.

July 13, 2010 - Dr. Dobb's Portal

F5 Networks Bolsters Virtual Server Management

Leading provider of application delivery networking devices announces integration with Microsoft System Center.

June 8, 2010 - Redmond Developer

IT Agility Drives Business Agility and Business Agility Drives Profits

Agility means creative responses to difficult situations.

May 19, 2010 - CIO.com

F5 Networks' New Hardware Platforms Helps Customers Meet Growing Throughput Demands

Create Smart Data Centers to deliver secure, energy-efficient, always on real-time data and services by leveraging Panduit Global Alliance Partners.

April 28, 2010 - TMCnet

F5 steers WAN optimization to virtual, cloud environments

Software upgrade and new products contribute to Dynamic Services Model

April 26, 2010 - Network World

F5 Takes Networking Virtual With BIG-IP

Main operating system behind F5 networking gear gets a major refresh with an eye on virtualization and application delivery controller scalability.

April 26, 2010 - Enterprise Networking Planet

F5 Networks Maps Out Virtualization Strategy

Application delivery controllers are new center of virtualization management universe on the network.

April 23, 2010 - CTO Edge

Securing Web Presence with DNSSEC

This article discusses DNSSEC, a series of DNS protocol extensions which ensure the integrity of data returned by domain name lookups by incorporating a chain of trust into the DNS hierarchy.

March 12, 2010 - ISSA Journal

F5 Enters The Virtual ADC Market With LTM Virtual Edition

F5 Networks is dipping its toe into the virtual application delivery controller market with a free 90-day trial edition of their Local Traffic Manager, Virtual Edition (LTM VE).

February 24, 2010 - Network Computing

F5 announces free trial of new BIG-IP LTM virtual appliance

Seattle-based Application Delivery Networking vendor F5 Networks, Inc. has announced the availability of a free trial version of its new virtual appliance, the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Virtual Edition (VE).

February 17, 2010 - EChannel

F5 Networks Brings Virtual Switches Under Control

As part of an effort to better manage the switching requirements of virtual servers, F5 Networks today is previewing a free trial of a virtual server implementation of its Application Delivery Controller (ADC) technology that will run on top of virtual machines from VMware.

February 16, 2010 - CTO Edge

1 billion teleworkers prompt F5 Networks rethink

Predicting that there will be 1 billion mobile workers by 2011, applications networking delivery company F5 Networks has launched a clutch of products targeted at allowing secure, fast and reliable remote access to corporate networks and information.

February 3, 2010 - iTWire.com

Streamline Your Storage With Virtualization

Combining Storage Systems Into Virtualized Appliances Makes For Easier Management

January 29, 2010 - Processor.com

F5 Reigns In Both Application Access And Remote Locations

Application delivery network vendor F5 has launched their new BIG-IP Edge Gateway appliance and their new Access Policy Manager module, as well as other upgrades as part of the 10.1 release of their BIG-IP software. Both products hope to highlight F5's focus on the network edge, not only managing control of web applications, but to optimize access to the data center no matter where that access originates.

January 26, 2010 - Network Computing

F5 adds SSL VPN to its BIG-IP

BIG-IP Edge Gateway handles SSL VPN as well as optimized application delivery

January 26, 2010 - Network World

F5 Intros BIG-IP Edge Gateway Solution to Offer Next Gen Remote Solution

Usually the enterprise IT personnel face a number of problems due to the massive growth of mobile and remote users, and the BIG-IP Edge Gateway effectively solves these challenges, company officials said.

January 25, 2010 - TMCnet

F5 Networks Moves to Consolidate Services

F5 Networks is driving more intelligence into the network with addition of new services for its BIG-IP Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and a new appliance that extends F5 Networks technology out the edge of the network.

January 25, 2010 - CTO Edge

F5 Formalizes NetApp Relationship

Revenues are up, but the application delivery networking vendor is looking to drive its file virtualization business by formalizing the existing but 'grass roots' relationship with NetApp and their mutual partners, customers and prospects.

January 22, 2010 - ChannelInsider

F5 Networks Financials Tell a Bigger Story

Strong performance says a lot of Internet data centers, web applications and the competition

January 22, 2010 - Network World

F5 Networks: Strong Financials, New Gateway

First, F5 Networks delivered strong Q1 financial results. Now, the company is preparing to announce the BIG-IP Edge Gateway. F5's goal is to deliver "LAN-speed application performance for remote and mobile workers."

January 21, 2010 - The VAR Guy

F5 Rolling With The Cloud

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam is feeling good about his company's place in the market, based on the rise of cloud computing.

January 21, 2010 - Investors.com