Podcasts

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

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

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

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

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

Data growth impacts IT organization at many levels by making task like backups and data migration more disruptive, time-intensive and expensive than they need to be. In this brief but informative Q&A session, F5 Product Marketing Manager Renny Shen explains how companies around the world are using file virtualization to address the four most common storage problems, drive down costs, and boost operational efficiencies.

In this podcast, Kathleen Ferraro, Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing, discusses how the partnership between NetApp and F5 is helping customers unleash the power of data mobility.

F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focuses on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. In this Podcast we talk to one of our toughest critics, Casey Scott a Network Engineer representing F5's own internal IT department responsible for implementing F5's "dog food" program. Find out how F5 is planning on using the latest technology in-house to solve our own IT challenges.

The virtualization of network and application network infrastructure is the second wave of the virtualization tsunami to hit the shores of the data center. Unlike server virtualization, because of its unique role in the data center, Application Delivery Controller (ADC) virtualization brings with it architectural implications that make a simple virtual-for-physical replacement strategy unacceptable. But there are appropriate places across the data center and organization where virtualized ADCs can be leveraged as stand-alone solutions, as well as in conjunction with its physical predecessor, to enable a more dynamic data center without compromising reliability, scalability, and performance.

F5 Networks’ perspective on cloud computing: definition, architecture, and development. What does this new dynamic computing architecture look like and what is required—above and beyond the standard tools we have today—to qualify as a “cloud”?

Green computing tends to focus on individual servers and devices, but even greater benefits can be realized with an architectural strategy that leverages green computing practices across the data center.

The data from Geolocation providers offers highly valuable data to a variety of stakeholders and is no longer just for advertising.

Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global IT services company. CSC provides innovative solutions for industry and government customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. In this podcast, we talk to Evan Loats, Remote Access Product Manager, Australia and Asia CSC, about the requirements of remote access users in today’s rapidly evolving mobile environment and the solution F5 Networks provides to their customers.

Hobsons delivers a powerful suite of education-oriented Software as a Service (SaaS)-based applications to K–12 schools and colleges, which include Web-based course and career planning, recruiting, enrollment, and retention tools; services supplied to education organizations around the world. In this podcast, we talk to Patrick McFadin, Director of Systems and Architecture at Hobsons, about some of the challenges associated with delivering the industry’s best SaaS solution and how F5 Networks has helped achieve their success.

F5's Alan Murphy is featured on Federal News Radio to discuss F5's cloud computing survey findings. Duration: 10 minutes

On this episode Pat O'Day, CTO of BlueLock discusses the importance on integration in the future of the cloud, what's working today and what he thinks is needed to reach that future. Specifically, as examples, he will be talking about how BlueLock uses the integration between his F5 Networks and VMware solutions. Duration: 11 minutes

VSM speaks with Ken Salchow, Manager of Technical Marketing at F5, about the results of their recent survey on cloud computing. Duration: 11 minutes

In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the manager for core technical marketing at F5 Networks, Ken Salchow, talks about the challenges IT organizations face when trying to manage large-scale implementations of virtual private networks based on SSL as the work force becomes increasingly mobile. Duration: 19 minutes

Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online publication devoted entirely to virtualization technologies., VSM speaks with Nigel Burmeister, Director of Product Marketing at F5 Networks, about Application Delivery Networking. Duration: 15 minutes

F5 Virtualization Experts Ken Salchow, F5 Technical Marketing Manager and Charlie Cano, F5 Solutions Architect lead a discussion on how F5 customers are implementing virtualization with F5 solutions and how F5 works with VMWare and Microsoft. Duration: 46 minutes

With everybody's head in the "Clouds" these days, GoGrid's (the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath) Michael Sheehan and Telemachus Luu join F5 in a lively discussion covering Cloud Computing and how ServePath extended their unique hosting solutions to include the Cloud. We talk about their extension of their traditional hosting company into their branded "Cloudcenter," how they addressed the challenges when developing GoGrid and how F5 was instrumental to their success. Duration: 30 minutes

F5 DevCentral’s Jeff Browning interviews F5’s SharePoint experts including Jeff Bellamy, Ryan Korock, and Dayne Miller to better understand the Sharepoint ARN solution, how it works, the benefits customers should expect, how it’s tested, and more.

Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for wireless network operators, and F5 Networks, Inc. have formed a partnership focused on delivering scalable and secure mobile internet solutions to wireless network operators worldwide. Listen to this podcast to hear more about the partnership from Adrian Hall, CMO of Bytemobile and Ken Salchow, Technical Marketing Manager for F5. Duration: 12 minutes

Today's IT infrastructures are complex, inflexible, and they are growing fast. Especially storage expenditures which keep rising, and resources are consumed by labor intensive tasks and management costs are climbing higher. So how do you get a grip on storage growth and reduce costs? Duration: 55 minutes

How is cloudbursting the data center equivalent of overdraft protection for your checkbook? Lori McVittie of F5 Networks explains the concept and how it could potentially save you from unncessary data center build-outs. Duration: 10 minutes

You may not know how it all works, but you can thank a Seattle company for making sure your online banking accounts aren't getting ripped off. In this week's CEO Spotlight, KIRO Money Editor Jason Brooks visits F5 Networks. Duration: 2 minutes

In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, F5 Networks CEO John McAdam talks about how the way we manage IT infrastructure is going to rapidly evolve over the next few years. Duration: 20 minutes

Deb Allen and Colin Walker host a roundtable discussion with Technical Marketing team members Alan Murphy, Lori MacVittie, and Ken Salchow. They explore the benefits and challenges of VDI (Virtual Desktop infrastructure), including how LTM can be an integral part of any VDI offering today, and end with a lively discussion of what the future of the virtual desktop and application virtualization might hold.

HP ran tests on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 using F5 technology, and the results were dramatic: F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator improved throughput to the branch office by up to 8x in a symmetric configuration. Listen to this podcast to hear about the testing methodologies and results. Duration: 14 minutes

Ken Salchow, F5's manager of technical marketing, talks about F5's Application Ready Networks (ARNs). These road-tested architectures cover best practices and deployment support for specific solutions from F5 and major software vendors. F5 currently offers ARNs for Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle products. This podcast describes how ARNs benefit customers and why F5 believes they are important. Duration: 8 minutes

Microsoft PowerShell – the new scripting language from Microsoft – has seen significant adoption and buzz over he past year. To help Microsoft-focused IT Pros access, monitor, and manage F5 products using existing skills, F5 provides some interesting Powershell CmdLets and resources under the “Powershell” DevCentral Labs project. For organizations embracing F5’s Application Ready Network (ARN) for Microsoft products, PowerShell offers a great way to augment deployments with custom integration and management. Jeff Browning and Joe Pruitt sit down to talk about PowerShell, what it is, how it works, and how F5 enables customers to use it with F5 products.

F5 DevCentral's Jeff Browning sits down to talk about F5's Application Ready Network (ARN) initiative with Karen Jester and Calvin Rowland. During this interview, they discuss what ARN really is, how it's tested, how actual customers utilize it, and get into the details on how ARN came to be.

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how you can control and lower CDN service costs by reducing repeat downloads of content even dynamic content using Intelligent Browser Referencing. Duration: 7 minutes

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator can be deployed symmetrically to create an enterprise CDN (eCDN) that gives enterprise web sites high availability, DOS protection, the fastest user experience, and helps ensure that regulatory compliance is met. Duration: 6 minutes

Meeting PCI (Payment Card Industry) requirements for application security is more than just implementing a Web Application Firewall for requirement 6.6. Learn how F5 addresses multiple PCI requirements across all of our products. Duration: 13 minutes

Application security as a concept has many different connotations, ranging from dealing with application security only in code, implementing solutions in existing technologies such as firewalls, and "porting" application business logic to a traditional on-the-wire Application Firewall solution. The primary barriers to entry for true application security on the wire have included long deployment times and performance. With its new BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) release, F5 has addresses both of these issues head-on, creating a simple, robust "Drop and Go" Application Firewall and fully integrated Application Deliver Security platform. Learn how BIG-IP ASM can help you deploy a complete application security solution while optimizing and accelerating your applications as well. Duration: 15 minutes

Before you begin to move towards a fully virtual user and Data Center environment, learn where each independent virtualization category sits in your environment and how to address each one individually. Duration: 15 minutes

Listen to key benefits and new capabilities in FirePass 6.0.2 and how you can use FirePass SSL VPN to maximize productivity of your mobile workforce. Hear about how FirePass differs from other SSL VPN products and adds additional business value to enterprises deploying SSL VPN. Duration: 11 minutes

Mike Krasnow, F5 Network's Product Marketing Manager, discusses BIG-IP version 9. Krasnow explains the benefits that organizations can expect by upgrading from version 4. In version 9, F5's has taken a quantum leap ahead with both their software architecture and hardware platforms to ensure that applications are not only available, but also fast and secure. Duration: 12 minutes

Ken Salchow, F5 Network's manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by separating the access network from the service network. Duration: 12 minutes

In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, Architect at F5 Networks, discusses byte caching, compression ratios, Web application delivery optimization, corporate CIFS optimization, TCP Stack, and file caching. Duration: 15 minutes

F5's BIG-IP WebAccelerator addresses this problem with Dynamic Caching, a patented technology that helps to deliver highly dynamic Web-enabled applications to users five to ten times faster, while greatly reducing Web infrastructure costs. Duration: 15 minutes

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Product Manager, helps you understand how to maximize ROI by choosing the correct acceleration technologies to meet your particular network optimization and application performance goals. Duration: 11 minutes

Podtech's Michael Johnson talks with Joe Hicks, F5 Product Manager, who discusses the inherent challenges in Web application delivery, and how acceleration technologies can offload servers, reduce bandwidth needs, and increase application performance and user satisfaction. Duration: 11 minutes

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Product Manager, talks about Web acceleration technologies that can simultaneously offload servers while speeding up Web applications for remote and mobile users. Duration: 12 minutes

Join F5 Technical Marketing Manager (and service-oriented architecture guru) Lori MacVittie on Infoworld's SOA Report. Host Dave Linthicum brings Lori on as "an SOA expert," to describe what organizations need to consider when moving towards a secure SOA and how developers can benefit from a policy-based security system, which can help them adapt more quickly to a changing security environment. Duration: 11 minutes

Peter Silva, a technical marketing manager at F5 Networks, talks about secure remote access and its role in workforce continuity, business continuity, and an overall disaster recovery plan. Duration: 10 minutes

Peter Silva, a technical marketing manager at F5 Networks, talks about secure remote access and its role in workforce continuity, business continuity, and an overall disaster recovery plan. Duration: 14 minutes

F5's Core Technical Marketing Manager, Ken Salchow, explains redirection in a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plan, and outlines best practices for data disaster preparedness. Duration: 13 minutes

Join us for this podcast as PodTech's Michael Johnson talks with Kevin Hohenbrink, F5 Product Manager, who defines some of the terminology and ideas surrounding data recovery and outlines the important parts of a business-continuity/disaster-recovery plan. Duration: 22 minutes

Kevin Hohenbrink, product manager at F5 Networks, discusses Business Impact analysis and its importance in a data disaster recovery strategy.

In this talk with PodTech's Michael Johnson, you can learn about the major factors that negatively affect application performance across a WAN, including latency, packet loss, and chatty protocols, and you can find out how F5 can help mitigate them. Duration: 17 minutes

Join us as PodTech's Michael Johnson talks with Ken Salchow (F5 Technical Marketing Manager) and Abby Guha (RSA Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise Authentication Solutions) about solutions for unified secure access. Duration: 15 minutes

PodTech's Michael Johnson speaks with Ken Salchow, F5 Technical Marketing Manager, about F5 solutions for IPv6 and IPv6 migration. Duration: 14 minutes