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2008 Articles
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Network Industry Needs a New Vision: Infrastructure 2.0

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A primer on cloudbursting

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Cloud forecast calls for WAN optimization

How WAN optimization gear can complement cloud computing offerings

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Users weigh de-dupe options

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Gear Maker's Core Product Keeps It Growing, Even In Tough Times

Much of the upside in the quarter came not from any new buys, but from F5's oldest product line. Founded in 1996, F5 long specialized in application delivery controllers (ADCs).

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F5 bolsters application acceleration box

Big-IP 6900 replaces Big-IP 6400 and Big-IP 6800 devices, supporting 50% more application throughput over the previous models and processing nearly triple the requests per second.

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Recession Induced Network Innovation on Its Way

The network is strategic to business productivity. Flexibility, speed and scale are becoming even more important. That means dynamic connectivity and intelligence will become critical to the network.

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Virtualization, Cloud Computing Top Gartner's Tech Trends List

Despite the snow, rain, heat and gloom shrouding Wall Street, the technology sector will keep on trucking, says Gartner, which released its list of the 10 top technologies that will drive innovation for the next three years. Earlier in the week, though, the firm cut its forecast for IT spending from 5.8 percent to 2.3 percent for 2009.

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F5 adds support for iPhones over its SSL VPN tunnels

F5 Networks has issued a new version of its FirePass software so it can apply group access policies to mobile devices as the log-in to SSL VPNs.

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F5 bolsters file virtualization management

File virtualization specialist F5 Networks is set to announce a pair of new products next week for moving and managing unstructured data.

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Guest View: Lowdown on virtualization hype

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View News Article - Session Lessons: Global Blending

F5 Networks blends instructor-led training, synchronous and asynchronous forms of e-learning, and a content management system to bolster worldwide sales training.

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The Evolving Data Center

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam talks about how the way we manage IT infrastructure is going to rapidly evolve over the next few years.

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File virtualization shops going strong, but market uncertain

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Not your father's VLAN

What the network becomes in a virtualized enterprise

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Lifeboat Exercise IT

How to Pave the Way for Fast Applications

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XSS Evasion: Hiding in Plain Sight

Is there a holistic solution for ensuring the secure, fast, and reliable delivery of applications?

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Virtualization and the Other Green Computing Initiative

Reducing power consumption and management expenses

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F5 enjoying momentum, research firm says

A common operating system keeps F5 Networks' product lines well integrated

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Ritz speeds up page loads and reduces server load with web accelerator

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Giving Telecoms a Competitive Edge with Web 2.0 Services

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Korea's Pohang U Accelerates and Secures SAP and Web Apps with F5 System

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Shopzilla turns to file virtualization for data management

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Pool Your Resources With File Virtualization

A look at the drawbacks and benefits of this compelling technology, which makes disparate storage resources look like a single system.

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Secure, Unified, Web Application Delivery with F5 BIG-IP and Dell Blade Servers

Dell and F5 Networks provide a comprehensive delivery system for Web applications designed for high performance and scalability as well as tight security to help safeguard critical data.

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F5 Showcases VIPRION Application Delivery Controller at Interop

F5 showcased its F5 VIPRION Application Delivery Controller, which redefines performance and scalability at Interop Las Vegas 2008.

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Scale smart to balance traffic

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Virtualization Defined-Eight Different Ways

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Tips to Consider Before You Begin a Data Migration Project

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Virtualization: F5 Expands Acopia Intelligent File Virtualization Solution Offerings

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A look inside F5's Acopia buy

Former Acopia CEO talks about the companies' complementary technologies

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Future-Proofing the Data Center: Will you be seen as a Visionary or a Fool?

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F5's Acopia unwraps file virtualization upgrades

New management platform among the additions

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F5's VIPRION Integrated with Flash Networks' Mobile Internet Platforms

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F5 launches storage management system update

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F5 expands file virtualization software

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The Case for Low-Latency File Virtualization

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File-area networks: the key to managing data growth

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The Impact of AJAX on the Network

AJAX is one of the most exciting -- and disruptive -- programmatic innovations of the past few years

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Internet Connections on the High Seas

For a luxury cruise line, fast Internet connections aren't a luxury. They're a competitive requirement.


F5: The Next $1 Billion Networking Company?

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F5 Steers Partners Toward Services

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Engineering Firm Saves Cash with WAN Optimization

2007 Articles
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Best Practice Deployment of Acceleration Solutions Based on ROI

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The breakdown in network security design

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Financial Consulting Firm Fixes Security Flaws

InCharge Institute of America runs F5 Networks's BIG-IP Application Security Manager to shore up security

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Disaster Recovery in a Web 2.0 World

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F5 Introduces "BIG-IP" Local Traffic Manager for Scaling IMS

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F5 expands offices in state

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SOA + WOA = NOA

How to head off performance bottlenecks.

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F5 Rolls Out New SSL VPN Version

F5 Networks introduces application ready access with new release of FirePass SSL VPN controller.

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SSL VPN for Secure Wireless LAN Access

Using an In-House Approach to Delivering a Wireless Solution.

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ACCELERATION 2.0: Symmetric and Asymmetric Web Acceleration in One Solution

A key to business success today is flexibility.

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Network World's Network Optimization Newsletter

The application deployment quagmire.


F5 Networks Snaps Up Acopia File Virtualization

F5 Networks on Aug. 6 announced its intent to acquire Acopia Networks for $210 million in cash, thus snatching up the last independent file virtualization vendor left standing.


Downtime at 365 Main puts disaster recovery in question

The recent power outage at colocation provider 365 Main Inc. in San Francisco has put the question of disaster recovery (DR) first and foremost in data center managers' minds.

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Network World's Network Optimization Newsletter

This week roughly 24,000 athletes competed in the 111th Boston Marathon -- and an estimated 40 times as many Internet users surfed to the marathon organizer's Web site during the six-hour event.


Independent Research Firm Reveals Disconnect between Bandwidth Expense and Disaster Recovery Objectives in Study Commissioned by F5 Networks

F5 Networks Inc. has commissioned a Forrester Consulting study, the Impact of the WAN on Disaster Recovery Capabilities.

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Stopping Spam Before It Stops You

The volume and sophistication of attacks that threaten business e-mail networks and systems are growing at exponential rates.


Service Maintenance Contracts

Part 2 -- 7 Things to Consider in Determining Value.


Disaster recovery options improve with WAN optimization

Disaster recovery and business continuity policies and plans can improve greatly when enterprises use some sort of WAN optimization solution, according to a recent Forrester Research study commissioned by F5 Networks.

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Boston Marathon Web site to run with load-balancing software

F5 donates technology that will reduce need for more servers.


Service Maintenance Contracts

Service Maintenance Contracts, Part 1- Preventing 5 Key Costs.

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Addressing disaster recovery

Investing in more bandwidth is an incomplete approach to strengthening disaster recovery plans, Forrester Research.

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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: Why You Should Consider An SSL VPN As Part of Your Overall Plan

Access to corporate applications and data is obviously vital to help keep a business running as usual.

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Bandwidth Expense at Odds with Disaster Recovery Objectives, Study Shows

Investing in more bandwidth is an incomplete approach to strengthening disaster recovery plans, Forrester Research.


F5 Exploits Web 2.0 for User Community


F5 Networks' Big-IP Grows Up with the Market

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Load balancing is Plan B for financial services firm

Perth-based financial services firm Plan B Financial Services has installed link management appliances to balance incoming traffic between its two ISPs.


Remote Access Keeps Physicians Connected

Remote access was a struggle for IPC, a private-practice hospitalist company. IPC employs physicians who work in hospitals across the country, but those doctors aren't affiliated with specific hospitals. Because of this, they have no offices.

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The AJAX Application Delivery Challenge

Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX can have far-reaching consequences when it comes to security and performance.

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The Myth of Bandwidth and Application Performance

Despite a growing world-wide thirst for bandwidth, supply has outpaced demand by a wide margin. During the rapid expansion of the Internet in the 1990's, the data communications industry created an infrastructure that was capable of delivering cheap bandwidth in high volumes.

2006 Articles
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F5 Networks Earns High- Fives From Investors

F5 NETWORKS is in the complicated business of creating products that help Internet applications run more smoothly and efficiently over networks.

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Spam -- stop it at the network edge

F5 wants to defeat the spam and zombies with the Big IP Message Security Module.

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Blue Cross improves performance, stays compliant with F5 Networks

F5 products make Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City secure and compliant.

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Online Holiday Shopping Safer, Easier, Thanks To F5

This year, the number of U.S. consumers turning to the Web for some or all of their holiday shopping will increase 6% from 2005, brining the total to nearly 115 million shoppers, according to Jupiter Research. F5 Networks makes products that can help make the holiday online shopping experience quicker, more convenient and more secure.

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F5 Adds Secure's Rep Filters to Big-IP

F5 Networks Inc is taking its first steps into the anti-spam game with the announcement yesterday that it has licensed TrustedSource, Secure Computing Corp's source-based reputation database, for use in its flagship Big-IP load balancer device.

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F5 Networks, Secure Computing bring reputation filtering to the edge

The TrustedSource reputation system analyzes IP addresses, domains and URLs for valid e-mails.

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Security module to eliminate 70% of unwanted e-mail

New module blocks spam before entering the network.


F5 Moves to Guard E-Mail Against Spam

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The Benefits of Going Virtual

Business continuity is critical, so operations must be up and running 24x7. Data center virtualization could be the key IT needs.

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Encryption Everywhere: Ensuring Access Compliance beyond a Doubt

As enterprises, particularly those in the financial and healthcare verticals, become increasingly concerned with not only the availability of their data but also the confidentiality and integrity of that data, they are investigating architectures that hearken back to the days of centralized computing, a time when immense security could be obtained by simply locking the door to the mainframe room.

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Not So Simple

Are you ready to rid your enterprise of a client-based VPN in favor of simple SSL? Tread carefully. We sort through five SSL VPNs, and uncover which best conquer the many challenges.

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Great Support Doesn't Have To Be Expensive

Support services for application and hardware is nothing new to the IT industry. What is new are the creative methods vendors employ to support their products. Support providers need to be creative with their methods to provide quality support tools and techniques that yield high customer satisfaction.

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Remote Access is Nothing without Security

As more health care organizations are moving to electronic medical records, an increasing amount of electronic medical information flows over the Internet between health care providers and payers. In this environment, health care organizations such as Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) are finding themselves increasingly vulnerable to attacks. The complex challenge of securing information and maintaining strict levels of patient confidentiality has become increasingly difficult since Web-based systems now provide easy and ubiquitous access to authorized users.

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F5 Debuts Web App Acceleration Technology

F5 Networks Monday unveiled new application traffic management products, spoils from its acquisition of Swan Labs last fall.

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F5 announces Web acceleration revisions

One NetJets user has already seen big improvements on its portal.


F5 Integrates Web Acceleration into BigIP

Seven months after completing its acquisition of Swan Labs, F5 Networks on July 31 will introduce new version of Swan Labs' WebAccelerator integrated with F5's Traffic Management Operating System architecture.

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F5 Sees High Margin Channel Play in Application Delivery

F5 Networks is pushing its top-level partners to enter the application delivery space, a market that offers high margin opportunities for solution providers, according to the vendor's channel chief.

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PDXLAN 6 Cuts Monthly Bandwidth Bills; Reduces Setup and Ongoing Maintenance Costs

PDXLAN employs F5's BIG-IP Link Controller to manage both incoming and outgoing traffic, to direct users over the best link, and to ensure that gamers at PDXLAN events have the best experience possible.


SOA success depends on a SON

Jeff Browning, director of product management for F5 Networks, looks at how network technology has evolved to better support service oriented architectures, and why incorporating a service oriented network is criical for SOA success.

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Identities: The New Black Market Currency

It's a public relations nightmare happening to organizations around the globe-the public disclosure of exposed or stolen customer information.


F5 Seeks to Bridge Divide Between Networking, Apps

F5 Networks on June 12 will seek to take advantage of the growing success of its DevCentral online user forum and iRules customization technology when it introduces a new iRules script editor and expansion of DevCentral to cover other F5 products and additional media outlets.

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The Critical Need for User Defined Scripting

An emerging catch phrase in the networking industry is the "application aware network."

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Devices speed CIFS WAN traffic

Acceleration devices increase data access.

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Network World Newsletter: Denise Dubie On Network Optimization

Today's focus: Navio Systems speeds apps traffic with WANJet.


F5 Revamps Secure VPN Offering

F5 Networks announced the newest version of its FirePass Controller VPN software on May 22, moving to cash in on growing demand for Secure Sockets Layer VPN technology.

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F5 tweaks SSL VPN software for easier use, management

F5 adds single sign-on to FirePass 6.0; gets rid of confusing pop-ups.

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F5's FirePass SSL VPN named April 2006 Hotpick

F5 Networks bills its FirePass 4100 Controller as an SSL VPN remote access server. That's like calling the Batmobile a car. Great flexibility, a broad range of access capabilities and ease of use make FirePass a superior SSL VPN.

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Speed Bumps Await Cisco In App Accelerator Market

The market for application acceleration jumped more than 30% last year to $1.2 billion, and it's expected to grow even faster this year, according to Gartner. The potential isn't lost on Cisco Systems, which is trying to elbow its way back to the No. 1 spot.

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Vendors Jockey For Position In Application Acceleration Market

F5 Networks and Packeteer led the two segments that made up the $1.2 billion worldwide application acceleration market in 2005, respectively displacing rivals Cisco Systems and Stratacache, according to a recent report.

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F5 Networks to tackle file-sharing WAN optimization

The introduction of its WANJet appliances is part of a trend away from file servers.


F5 Integrates WANjet, Meets Cisco Head-On

F5 Networks Inc. on Feb. 27 will launch a new release of the WAN optimization appliances it acquired with Swan Labs last year with new Wide Area File Services capabilities.


Voice of Experience: Healthy Dose of Control

Lake Forest Hospital FirePass Case Study.


Secure Connections Get Web-Simple

Forget special-purpose encryption software. Many companies say the Web's built-in security is better for serving data to remote employees and partners.

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Aventail and F5 Extend Their Reach

During the past few years, SSL VPNs have matured from devices offering very basic application support to enterprise-ready security jacks-of-all-trades, capable of handling thousands of users and a wide range of connectivity options. F5's FirePass is still one of the most complete SSL VPN solutions available. FirePass provides a wide range of application and network support, enhanced and powerful end-point control, SSL offload to the BIG-IP appliance, and the Visual Policy Editor a tool that graphically depicts each step of the log-on sequence and allows admins to craft end-point policy quickly.


F5 Delivers Next-Gen Traffic Management

F5 Networks on Monday continued its leapfrog game with competitors in the application delivery arena when it introduced a new 10G-bps hardware platform, a next-generation global link controller, and support for monitoring and managing traffic from loosely coupled Web services applications.

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F5 Debuts Traffic Manager Gear

F5 Networks Inc. today announced three new network hardware devices that expand on the growing market for network traffic management products.

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F5 Updates Data Center, WAN Devices

F5 Networks this week is expected to announce three updates to its BIG-IP family of data center and WAN traffic-control devices; on tap are 10G Ethernet upgrades for F5's data-center switches and advanced traffic-shaping features for the vendor's wide-area load balancing and WAN-link optimization products.

2005 Articles
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Why is your network firewall falling short?

Your network is secure, your servers are safe, and you've done everything to protect your network, corporate assets and intellectual property. You have a network firewall, so your perimeter is secure. Your network devices and servers are only accessible through your corporate VPN via two-factor authentication, and all external ports are blocked to non-authenticated traffic.

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F5 Gives VARs An Edge

F5 Networks is overhauling its channel strategy, now pledging to turn every sales lead over to a partner before its own field-sales force.

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F5 Mixes SSL VPN With Load Balancing

F5 integrates its SSL VPN gear with its load balancing, traffic management hardware.

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User Gets Flexible Compression

BIG-IP allows better compression control over application traffic.

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F5, Citrix Get Apps Up To Speed

F5 introducing Web application firewall module for its application switches.

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F5 Builds Firewall Into App Management Devices

The Application Security Module (ASM) provides users with an application-layer firewall that's designed to protect Web-based systems against buffer overflow attacks, compromises of access-control mechanisms, worms and other problems.

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F5 Integrates Security Into Application Switch Line

The new module adds integrated application firewall to traffic management platform.

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Protecting Applications From Dangerous Traffic

BIG-IP Application Security Module offers a uniqueness not commonly found in other application protection systems: It does not rely on a signature database for protection. Instead, it focuses on keeping out unacceptable traffic.

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Peak Performance

Solution providers and vendors alike are saying 'Optimize This' as a performance-boosting WAN technology proves it can really deliver.

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F5 begins living up to the promise of its architectural makeover

Having introduced TMOS, a traffic management operating system that provides a foundation for multiple types of application delivery modules and extensible hardware support for demanding operations, F5 Networks has begun delivering applications in modular form. The new Application Security Module is a makeover of the MagniFire TrafficShield application-specific firewall.


F5 Plans to Buy App Accelerator Swan Labs

F5 Networks on Tuesday announced its planned acquisition of WAN optimization and application acceleration provider Swan Labs in a $43 million cash deal.

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F5 Snaps Up Swan Labs

Swan Labs Corp. has become the latest wide-area network (WAN) specialist to get snapped up by a big-name data center vendor, with F5 Networks Inc. stumping up $43 million for the San Jose, Calif.-based startup.

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Understanding the Basics of Risk Management

Most people wouldn't know security if it bit them on the nose and they haven't wasted many hours of their lives attempting to mitigate that very problem.

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F5 Launches Optimization Portal

F5 Networks wants to help customers understand how technology can optimize the performance of Web applications, so the company is hosting an online resource designed to let customers test compression, acceleration and caching technologies for free.

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F5 CEO Talks Layer 4-7 Growth

F5 CEO John McAdam recently spoke with Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth about where the vendor stands in the ever-shifting Layer 4-7/application acceleration market.

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Power and Policy

Adding Jet power to the WAN.

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Swan Revamps WAN/WAFS Kit

Swan Labs Corp. has taken the next step in its evolution -- and upped the ante against a key rival.

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WANjet Optimizes, Accelerates, Shapes

Swan Labs' new WAN appliances combine techniques to save bandwidth and improve performance.

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Swan Labs Bolsters WAN Traffic Shapers

New software keeps data in local memory.


Application Acceleration Gets Checkered Flag for Performance

As interest in the technology continues to heat up, application acceleration/WAN optimization vendors are launching new wares that boost performance, deliver new encryption capabilities and expand the range of applications that can be improved.

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Nothing But 'Net

SSL VPNs provide The Sports Authority, and a growing number of enterprises, with cheaper secure remote connectivity. Will they eventually slam dunk IPSec?

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Security Focuses on Application Layer

F5 Networks' chief executive explains how traffic management tools improve security.


F5's McAdam Talks Big-IP Success

Q&A: President and CEO John McAdam says F5 has been able to compete against giants like Cisco and Nortel because his team has "always seen that market as driven by functionality."

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F5 Appliance Boosts End-to-End Performance Over The WAN

Company claims device increases end user performance up to five times, improves bandwidth efficiency by up to 400%, and dramatically offloads server processing.

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F5 Unveils Application Accelerator

F5 Networks introduced performance-leading application acceleration and optimization capabilities designed to speed end-to-end user performance over the WAN and significantly reduce organizations' IT infrastructure costs.

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F5 Fires Up Powerful SSL VPN Solution

The FirePass 4100 appliance from F5 Networks is an impressive and powerful SSL VPN solution. It supports clustering environments up to 10 nodes, allowing up to 20,000 concurrent users-2,000 concurrent users per node-and secure Web-based remote access to corporate applications and desktops.

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A Gear Maker Strikes Gold

SwanSome small tech outfits are noteworthy because of their business strategy, others for the companies they compete against. F5 Networks (FFIV) is known for both.

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Sorting Through the Hype of Ubiquitous Secure Remote Access and SSL VPNs

Three reasons why ubiquitous secure remote access will never, or more probably shouldn't ever, happen - technology, security and business requirements.

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Web Application Vulnerabilities

A enterprises become more tightly locked down at the network level and continue to put more information on the Web, application-level attacks will become increasingly common.

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F5's BIG-IP® Wins Editor's Choice Award

Our parent company needed a new Layer 7 switch, and we needed a testing scenario. The result was a joint review of content switches from four top names. These devices can dig deep into payloads and have made strides in configurability. See which won our Editor's Choice--and which company received a purchase order from CMP Media.

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Fine-Tuning of the Internet

Companies in the network solutions industry are paving the way for a host of new Internet services and working to make the Web faster and more secure.

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SSL VPNs Come of Age

We see how six leading appliances measure up to one another and to IPSec.

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More CIOs Give SSL VPNs a Green Light

Analysts say SSL VPNs are better suited to the needs of today's growing and increasingly mobile remote workforce.

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F5 Adds Speed to Switches

Operating system gets upgrade.

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F5 Aims Firepass at SMBs

F5 is introducing an SSL VPN appliance called the Firepass 600, designed for small and midsize businesses.

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F5 Debuts Remote Access Platform For SMBs

The new FirePass 600 platform, which provides secure remote access to company networks via a Web browser, supports up to 25 concurrent user sessions and hundreds of users.

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F5 Ignites Competition With Updated FirePass VPN

The Seattle-based VPN vendor released its latest high-end secure remote access product for companies, and a new low-end SSL VPN that promises enterprise performance in a product priced for businesses with smaller budgets.

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F5 In Perimeter Play

F5 Networks plan to unveil perimeter security devices this week.

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Web Application Security For All

New Web application security products are packaging the expertise of consultants into software tools and appliances.


F5 Launches New Big Switch

F5 Networks Inc. this week rolls out a high-end version of its Big-IP layers 4-7 switch and updated software that company officials said offers unprecedented speed and a boost in performance.

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F5 Offers Higher Margins Through 'Sweet 16' Promo

F5 Networks recently revamped its channel strategy with a new deal-registration program that rewards solution providers for finding new security business.

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FirePass 4100 Series is Information Security's January Hotpic

The FirePass 4100 Series SSL VPN provides broad, browser -based application access across a variety of platforms.

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Schools Improve Bandwidth

Students have fast, reliable Internet access, thanks to a traffic-management device.

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F5's BigIP 6400 Version 9 Wins SearchNetworking.com's Product of the Year

Judges give product top scores in functionality department.

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F5's FirePass Controller v5.2 Takes Gold as Product of the Year

FirePass offers easy integration and network access support to any IP application across multiple platforms.


F5 Networks CEO Sees Steady Growth Continuing In FY 2004

Seattle's F5 Networks Inc., which reported sequential increases in revenue and profits every quarter in its 2004 fiscal year and is poised to do the same in fiscal 2004.


F5 Offers One-Stop Appliance Service

With Version 9, F5 Networks Inc. has overhauled its familiar Big-IP line with new hardware and software to provide the bounty of services that companies used to get from several distinct appliances.

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F5 Networks Makes SSL VPNs Easy

Updated FirePass 1000 box simplifies browser-based remote access to applications.


Product for Its Flagship SSL VPN Offering">Japan's Leading Systems Integrator Selects F5 Networks' FirePass® Product for Its Flagship SSL VPN Offering

CTC and F5 Networks sign distribution partnership, building upon CTC's success in delivering security products and services to enterprises and service providers.

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The Sports Authority Hits A Home Run With Remote Access Solution

FirePass Controller gave the retailer the network and application protection it was looking for.

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Choose Your SSL Vendor Wisely, Says Meta

Customers should consider that the vendor they choose might not be around in a year or two.

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F5 Appliance Extends Remote Access

F5 wheeling out new hardware that lets more remote users securely connect simultaneously to corporate networks than past iterations of its product.

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F5 Fuses Firewall & VPN

F5 unveiling new high-end FirePass SSL VPN device combined with its first TrafficShield application firewall.

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F5 Rolls Out New Firewall And SSL VPN

Products are designed to offer application -level protection and better security for wireless, DSL, cable, and dial-up access.

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SSL VPN Firms Talk Up Access 'Everywhere'

Product upgrades that aim to drive the goal of making secured remote network access ubiquitous.


Software Will Be The Future of Networking

Approaching the management of application-specific traffic through software rather than hardware can allow fine-tuning for optimum performance.

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F5 Networks Nabs Exec From Rival Foundry

F5 Networks Inc. of Seattle has nabbed a respected technologist from one of its competitors.

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F5 Offers Integrated Approach To Web Traffic Management

F5 Networks launchs new software and hardware aimed at securing and improving the performance of Web and legacy applications.

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Traffic Management Shifting Lanes

F5, Redline, Radware offer new products.

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F5 Jams New Tools Into Traffic Manager

The many new mechanisms to secure and speed up applications running on networks are heading for consolidation that should make it easier and less expensive to deliver the kind of performance end users want.

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F5 Redefines Big-IP Line With Buffalo Jump

F5 Networks Inc. will next week introduce the long-touted "Buffalo Jump" series of internet traffic management appliances, saying it has rebuilt the platform around a new architecture it has called the Traffic Management Operating System.

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Making A Healthy Move Away From IPsec VPN

How one healthcare organization dealt with the problem of remote access security.

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Web-Based Server Gives Physicians Remote Access To Data

Remote access system allows employees, vendors, and patients to view applications from any Web- enabled device, including PCs and PDAs.

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F5 Acquires MagniFire

MagniFire is a technology leader in the web application firewall market and is recognized as a visionary in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Firewalls, 2H03.

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F5 Acquires Web Security Firm

F5 Networks is preparing to battle bigger networking companies like Cisco Systems, as it continues to add new security products to its portfolio.

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F5 Acquires Web Security Firm, Launches Security Business Unit

The Seattle-based application traffic management company agreed to acquire MagniFire, a Web application firewall vendor, in a $29 million cash transaction.

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F5 Buys Israeli Firm on the Road to Montreal

F5 Networks pays $29m in cash, to broaden its web perimeter security product line from access-oriented SSL VPNs to protection-oriented web firewalls.

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F5 Buys Magnifire For $29 Million

Purchase of firewall company will enable F5's architecture to spot attacks on Web- based applications.

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F5 Buys Magnifire for $29 million - NetworkWorldFusion

The company will add MagniFire's TrafficShield security appliance to its Application Traffic Management architecture, allowing companies to spot attacks on Web- based applications, F5 said in a statement.

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F5 Networks Acquires Leading Web Security Company

F5 Executes On Its Promise Of Delivering Enterprise Application Security Through Acquisition Of MagniFire WebSystems.

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F5 Networks Picks Up Another Security Start-up

F5 Networks is preparing to battle bigger networking companies like Cisco Systems, as it continues to add new security products to its portfolio.

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Secure Remote Access for Online Users - Product Analysis

F5 Networks supplies products that provide reliable solutions that ensure high degrees of availability and security.

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Finding a Home for Application Security

Although there are several alternatives for where to conduct application security in an enterprise, there is one logical location: traffic-management and application switches.

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10 Best Bet Technologies

From presence to Ultra Wideband, Network Magazine picks the technologies that will transform your network over the next five years.

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F5 Networks Posts Record Sales

F5 Networks pushs second-quarter revenue to a record $40.6 million and beat Wall Street's profit expectations.

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F5 Brings Developers, Customers Together

Program boasts online marketing, price breaks, technical assistance.

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F5 Ignites Channel Program Support

F5 Networks last week unveiled enhancements to its channel program in support of its flagship FirePass SSL VPN solution.

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Stay Connected On The Road

FirePass Controller lets employees, customers and partners securely and reliably access authorized applications from any Web-enabled device, from any location.

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Key Benefits of Adding Traffic Management Software To Blade Servers

A blade system without blade controller software would be like Kennedy airport without air traffic control.

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Remote Network Access ... Without The Headaches

Integrator Milestone Systems cuts manufacturing company's network maintenance and administration costs with a clientless VPN (virtual private network).

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MagniFire Updates Web Infrastructure Security Product

MagniFire Websystems plans to ship an updated security gateway appliance that features easier setup and stronger protection.

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MagniFire Updates Web Infrastructure Security Product - CRN

MagniFire Websystems plans to ship an updated security gateway appliance that features easier setup and stronger protection.

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Arsenal Of Security Tools Debuts At Demo Conference

MagniFire Websystems' version 2.5 of Traffic Shield protects Web applications.

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DEMO 2004 Reflects IT Security Concerns

Document security and guarding applications rule show.

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MagniFire Updates Web Gateway

MagniFire WebSystems Inc. has released an updated version of its TrafficShield Web application gateway appliance that includes new security features and easier setup.


MagniFire upgrades TrafficShield Firewall For Web App Protection

TrafficShield 2.5 introduces key features that make it a comprehensive and user-friendly web security gateway solution.

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Do You Believe in Magic Quadrants?

By any measure, Gartner's vendor-ranking system has made its mark.

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F5 Networks' Firepass Accelerates Remote Access, Cuts Overhead

Remote access has become a vital necessity in business.

2003 Articles
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Array Networks Falters Where F5 Flies In SSL VPN Standoff

Array Networks falters where F5 flies in SSL VPN standoff.

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F5 Eyes Bigger SSL-VPN Share

F5 Networks is getting ready to shake up the fast-growing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) segments of the virtual private networks (VPN) market.

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F5 Networks Builds Acquisition War Chest

F5 Networks recently completed a $120.3 million stock offering to increase its flexibility to make potential future acquisitions.

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Large Accounts, Security Concerns Drive F5, CEO Says

Revenue is expected to increase again in the 2004 fiscal first quarter.

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Integrate the Network With .NET

Achieve high availability, security, and faster application development for your Web services.

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F5 Ready To Buy Rather Than Sell

F5 Networks Inc. is looking to make acquisitions that will give the Seattle company a larger share of the network-traffic management and security markets.

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Crankin' Up The Heat: New Application Firewalls

New Web application firewalls give you the chance to burn Port 80 hackers.

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Failure Was Not An Option

Combining blade server technology with software creates a unified computing platform.

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MagniFire Introduces Web Application Security Appliance

MagniFire Websystems this week introduced a web application security appliance designed for financial services companies.


FirePass VPN Controller Taps SSL

F5 Networks Inc. on Monday will try to put a stake in the heart of IP Sec as a client-side VPN technology with a new alternative that delivers greater flexibility and control.

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F5 Rolls Out Evaluation Program To Partners

Traffic management vendor F5 Networks Tuesday launched a new program aimed at putting low-cost evaluation units in the hands of solution providers.

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Load-Balancing Devices Grow Up

While layer 4-7 switch vendors have been loading features onto their boxes, a second set oof smaller players has focused on WAN traffic management.

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Layer-7 Load Balancers Pack New Punch

Next-generation switches combine layer-7 intelligence and security to optimize the data center.

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MagniFire Introduces TrafficShield

Product uses security logic to protect Web applications and the Web infrastructure from both known and unknown attacks.

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MagniFire Launches Company, Takes Aim At Channel Strategy

MagniFire broadenS its horizons beyond its European operations to officially fire-up its operations in New York.

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F5 Networks Expand Their Capabilities

F5 will be delivering products that create "application aware networks" to enable customers to direct traffic based on their exact business requirements.

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California Gets Strict On Privacy

A new law in the Golden State requires companies with even a single California customer to report any personal data breach to the affected parties, or be subject to civil penalties.

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MagniFire Wants to Secure Your Web Apps

MagniFire Websystems has just launched TrafficShield, an "appliance" designed to secure Web applications at the application level.

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Magnifire TrafficShield

MagniFire is the first to protect web based applications and infrastructure with the same comprehensiveness and efficiency of a network firewall protecting the network infrastructure.

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MagniFire Secures Web Apps

TrafficShield, uses positive security logic to protect web applications and the web infrastructure behind them from both known and unknown attacks.

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Basel Committee Calls For Better E-banking Security Management

The rapid growth of e-banking in recent years has created a wealth of new banking products and services, but has also increased banks' exposure to financial and legal risks.

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Committee Calls For Better E-banking Management

An influential international banking committee issued a report Tuesday calling for better security and management of electronic banking by the world's financial institutions.

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Online Banking In SA Was A Time-bomb Waiting To Go Off

South African bank Absa has been criticised for its handling of a series of raids its Internet banking service that have seen hundreds of thousands of rand disappearing from its customers' accounts.

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Disaster Recovery With Global Area Traffic Management

From power outages to terrorist threats, providing site redundancy along with the ability to immediately shift user traffic to those backup sites is a critical step for organizations deploying their mission critical Web services.

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Online Commerce Is More Secure Than It Ever Was

Many people still believe their personal information is at greater risk online than off. That simply isn't true.

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Application Firewalls 'Good Enough' For Web Services

Security concerns are still one of the main reasons customers are holding back on Web services deployments.

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Protect Web Applications from Abuse and Misuse

Companies deploy B2B applications and e-commerce sites without considering the underlying security of the application code.

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Balancing Act

When real estate listing service NWMLS switched to multihoming, it found that a load-balancing solution was also necessary.


F5 and Consera Map Apps on Servers

F5 Networks Inc. and startup Consera Software Inc. both are rolling out new and enhanced software designed to help corporations more easily manage, monitor and provision their server infrastructures.

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Clientless VPN

The difference between uRoam's FirePass and competitive offerings, is its ability to deliver on that promise via multiple hardware platforms.

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F5 Bests Radware In WAN-link Manager Duel

Link Controller flies through tests while LinkProof flounders.

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URoam Upgrades SSL VPN Appliance

Version 3.5 offers greater security and control for IT managers.

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Week in Security

Network Associates' troubles, Symantec fights spam.

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SAP Selects uRoam's Newly Released FirePass 3.5 Software

uRoam announced the availability of FirePass software release 3.5 for the FirePass 1000/4000 server, an SSL VPN appliance.

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URoam Policies Restrict Remote Access

Company upgrades software on SSL-based remote-access box.

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URoam Plans Clientless VPN Software

URoam plans late this month to release software for its VPN appliance to allow users to access a network without a specialized client.

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NWMLS and F5 Networks Provide Faster Connectivity to MLS Data

Application traffic management key to Web services.

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Preventing SQL Injections

Several steps that you can take to reduce the possibility of a SQL injection attack against your database.

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Test Center: Carrying a Bigger Load

F5 Networks beefs up its BIG-IP load balancer to take on a greater security role.


F5 BIG-IP 520 Server Appliance 4.5

Active load balancing puts applications in control.

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Hacker Insurance Set To Rocket

Value of hacker policies still unclear though, warn analysts.

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Patching Negligence Can Get You Sued

Downstream liability is all about the liability an enterprise could incur if its unsecured systems are used as part of a distributed denial-of-service attack.


MacReport Interview With John McAdam

F5 is a leading provider of Application Traffic Management solutions designed to improve the availability, performance and security of mission-critical Internet-based servers and applications.

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Market Drivers For E-Business Defense Technology

Prospects for technologies that protect online businesses from external attack have ignited high hopes, but this nascent market has been slow to develop.

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Major Changes for Big-IP

F5 Networks has rewritten its Big-IP OS and introduced application-traffic management, a new concept in load-balancing to make those tasks possible.


Big-IP Delves Deep Into Data

F5 Networks Inc.'s Big-IP 4.5 joins a growing list of products that offer to move security, high availability, and other connection and user decisions away from servers and applications and into special-purpose appliances.

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F5 Balances Blade Loads

The F5's Big-IP Blade Controller software, which installs directly onto one of the blades in a rack, is designed to be an integral piece of the blade ecosystem.

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F5 Spreads Load Balancing Across ISPs

F5 Networks Inc. will extend its lead in link load balancing technology this week with new options for enterprises looking to safeguard their connections to increasingly complex networks.

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Under Control

Route control customers say they're experiencing unexpected benefits.

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Doing Data Detail

F5's latest iteration of its Big-IP product line builds on an already great load balancer.

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Dow Jones News

F5 Networks hopes its next-generation Internet traffic management software will strengthen its position against rival Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO).

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F5 Enters Deep Packet Fray

If there is a market for application and content-aware switching, F5 Networks will be amongst the first know.

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F5 Revs Up Big-IP Load Balancing

F5 Revs Up Big-IP Load Balancing.


F5 Unveils New Web Traffic Management Technology

Latest version of "BIG-IP" allows network operators to install a system that will optimize application Internet traffic.

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New Switch Improves IP Application Management

BIG-IP software, adding the ability to manage data for any IP-based application over a variety of newer network protocols.

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Link Load Balancers Smooth Web Traffic

As organizations move to the Internet to deliver their business-critical applications, maintaining only one link to the public network represents a single point of failure.


F5 Sharpens 'Blade' In Search For Profitability

F5 Networks Inc. finds ways to keep its head above water.


Networking Under The Microscope

A close-up look at key networking technology and product trends as they apply to the life sciences.


Balancing The Load ... Globally

Global Server Load Balancing takes the functionality that network-based local load balancing offers and extends it across the Internet.


F5 Builds Web Services Functions Into Network Devices

F5's products allow applications to control the traffic management functions of their networks without manual intervention.


Balancing Dynamic Web Services Content

To make working with dynamic content easier, F5 Networks offers version 2.1 of their iControl Software Development Kit (SDK).


ECDN 101: Advanced Topics in ECDNs

The ultimate goal of the ECDN is to guarantee that users can successfully access the mission-critical content and applications of the enterprise.

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Cover Your Assets, Web Style

Exposing your infrastructure to the Internet can be deadly.


ECDN 101: Building Blocks for Enterprise Content Delivery Networks

ECDNs consist of multiple components, but at a minimum, they should contain caching, content redirection technologies (local and global redirection/load balancers) and content distribution and synchronization functionality.


ECDN 101: Tying the ECDN Infrastructure Together

In order for the ECDN to work properly, businesses need to gain maximum ROI from the enterprise network with full scalability for future network growth.

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F5 Focuses On Traffic Management

F5 CEO John McAdam talks about creating a need for a new approach to networking.

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F5 To Deliver Crucial Blade Platform

Big-IP Blade Controller Is one of its best chances for big sales growth in the second half of the year.

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Infrastructure Creed: Faster, Smarter, Stronger

F5's Infrastructure Product of the Year, the Big-IP 5000, is smarter than some people we know.

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N+I: Internet Traffic Management Tools Gain Edge

F5 Networks announced the availability of its BIG-IP Blade Controller for blade servers.


N+I: Web Traffic Company Wants To Make 'The BIOS of Blades'

If blade servers take off, they will need traffic management software on board. F5 aims to put its software on blades from all the leading players.

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Products Of The Year

Among the thousands of new products that appeared in 2001, the editors of Network Magazine recognize 31 that stand out from the rest.

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The State of the Network Union

'Optimism in the face of upheaval' is the message six luminaries have for the industry.


Transaction Satisfaction

Global load balancers can boost performance of e-business sites, providing with a better experience.


Enterprise Content Delivery Networks (ECDN): An Overview

Infrastructure that lets companies deliver rich digital media to employees, vendors, partners and customers worldwide, in the fastest amount of time at the lowest possible cost.

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Fight Server Overload

The BIG-IP is a high-end, mature product with a broad feature set and loads of capacity.


Survivors: Big Shifts In Strategies Keep Tech Firms Afloat

If the technology community once revered companies with expensive stocks, that adulation is now reserved for another breed: the survivor.


Internet Insight: Smart, Safe and Speedy

Intelligent content switches are arriving in time to relieve server farms.


F5 Launches Enterprise Push

F5 Networks is set to consolidate its channel with the launch of a partner programme next month as it sets its sights on enterprise customers.

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How MSNBC Beefed Up Its Web Site For The Olympics

With the Olympics home page on its Web site, MSNBC is glad it pumped up its site for the onrush of traffic.

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Tales Of The Tape

F5 Networks Seeks Top-Cop Status.


Building A Strong Foundation For SIP-Based Networks

Carriers looking for ways to tap into the tremendous market potential for terminating PC and phone-based, SIP-based voice and data traffic to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

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F5 Connects To HP's OpenView

F5 Networks announces Hewlett-Packard's OpenView management tools will work with its BIG-IP Web traffic management products.


Web-Friendly Switch

Designed to be both the heart and mind of an Internet data center, the F5 Big-IP 5000 is a versatile, high-performance switch with Layer 2 through 7 features.


F5 Supports ISA Server

F5 Networks says it will support and interoperate with Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000.

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CDN Switching Adds Flexibility

CDN switching lets organizations take advantage of shared public services, and lets them leverage those shared services when they wish.


Cover Your E-Assets

Traditional insurance companies are now starting to offer protection for e-business or "cyberinsurance".


SSL In The Driver's Seat

A single Internet protocol has almost single handedly increased e-commerce by making secured transactions possible -- introducing SSL.

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Emerging Companies: Balancing Act Proves Profitable for Start-U

F5 Network's globally distributed PC servers balance large Web server loads.