Case Studies

With roughly 70 percent of its consultants working from client sites or from home, A.T. Kearney depends heavily on email, instant messaging, VoIP, and other unified communications services. The company needed to ensure that these tools are secure and available to users from any location and on any device. With the F5 advanced Application Delivery Controllers, A.T. Kearney eliminated the need for costly infrastructure investments at branch offices worldwide and, at the same time, dramatically improved application availability and performance.

AECOM Is a global provider of professional technical and management support services. AECOM Canada East group needed to provide 1,300 users with fast access to more than 50 TB of computer-aided design (CAD) files and geographic information system (GIS) data spread across multiple NetApp NAS devices and Windows file servers. Virtualizing its entire file storage environment using F5® ARX® devices, AECOM provided a single point of data access while managing storage growth, deferring storage acquisition, and cutting costs.

By using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Alibaba was able to consistently provide high-quality and secure services to its 24/7 worldwide customer base.

Allrecipes.com is the world's largest digital food brand with sites and apps serving more than 34 million home cooks in 22 countries globally each month. It receives 700 million visits each year and must guarantee high availability and fast performance. Allrecipes.com relies on the intelligent traffic management and performance features in F5 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP GTM to provide high availability and fast-loading web pages.

By implementing F5 Message Security Module on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager it uses to manage traffic, American Internet Services immediately dropped the amount of spam reaching its servers by 60 percent.

With more and more consumers turning to the Internet to make purchases of all kinds, AutoScout24 has been able to expand rapidly following its early adoption of an e-commerce business model. In recent years, traffic on its portal has doubled each year. At peak times of the day, there can be a quarter of a million users online concurrently, with an average of 5.4 million people using the website each month. To solve performance and availability concerns associated with this increase in website traffic, AutoScout24 implemented BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM). The solution has greatly improved user experience as a result.

B. Braun Melsungen AG is a manufacturer of pharmaceutical and medical products that employs more than 40,000 people in 50 countries, with 6,000 at headquarters in Melsungen, Germany. B. Braun's data volumes were increasing by 50 per cent annually and its long backup times were increasing by around 40 per cent, which posed increasingly difficult challenges for storage administrators. B. Braun implemented F5 ARX, reducing backup frequencies and ARX's intelligent storage tiering freed up additional storage resources.

Bezeq International is an ISP and hosting provider with more than 1 million customers, ranging from small businesses to large enterprise and government organizations. By using F5^® BIG-IP^® Application Security Manager™ (ASM), Bezeq International has been able to protect sensitive information that is exchanged between the company and its customer base and also comply with a variety of industry and legal requirements concerning data integrity.

By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

BlueLock's virtualized environment enables the company to provide cost-effective IT infrastructure services while ensuring that clients' infrastructures always meet their business needs. BIG-IP LTM helps BlueLock take full advantage of the efficiencies and opportunities its virtualized environment offers.

BMW Group is currently migrating all of their applications to the BIG-IP system to keep them available 24/7, secure, and fast. In addition to high availability and performance, there are other significant benefits to using BIG-IP, including the SSL functionality and scalability.

Bowdoin College, a nationally renowned liberal arts institution in Maine, needed the best Application Delivery Network to support a planned student information services (SIS) system. The SIS applications had to be highly available and secure, as well as easy to manage and monitor. Bowdoin integrated its new system with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) devices, and it plans to install BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) devices in a new data center. Now, the school can give students and other users a better experience, while offering highly available applications and solid system security. In addition, the school’s IT department can easily manage the system, and has the right solution in place to support IPv6 technologies.

After deploying the F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager, the business research organization's bandwidth utilization improved five-fold, enabling the company to avoid purchasing costly additional bandwidth and complete the data replication in days rather than weeks.

Byer California is a privately held garment manufacturer. Time-to- market is key in the highly competitive fashion industry, so it is essential that the company's IT architecture be adaptable for business process agility. When Byer decided to implement a customized version of the Oracle E-Business Suite to manage its complex order processes, the IT team turned to F5.

Dynamic load balancing with F5 has allowed the cable giant to achieve its objective of creating an efficient video asset storage and distribution system that keeps files accessible while maximizing utilization of existing resources.

Camelot operates the UK National Lottery. In the United Kingdom, 70 percent of adults play The National Lottery on a regular basis, and 6 million of these people have registered to buy their tickets online. Camelot must therefore guarantee maximum availability for The National Lottery website, ensuring that it is fast enough to process extremely high transactions volumes. Camelot chose F5 to provide its high-end application delivery solution. The F5 VIPRION platform is highly scalable and reliable, and it can effortlessly manage unexpected and exceptional peaks in traffic.

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The City of Raleigh, N.C., deployed F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) to improve the availability and performance of its web-based applications and to replace the city’s existing reverse proxy solution. To safeguard critical web-based applications, the city also decided to also implement F5 BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) as a web application firewall. As a result, the city can provide more online services while enhancing security, reducing costs, simplifying its infrastructure, and reducing the IT administration load.

Implementing automated storage tiering with F5 ARX as part of its broader virtualization strategy has enabled Clackamas County to reduce storage costs, lighten the management burden on the IT team, and maximize the value of its existing iSCSI investment.

F5 helps Commerzbank, one of Europe's leading financial institutions, solve scalability and performance issues on a local and global level.

Confucius Institute online portal, was launched in March 2009. Just as the portal's contents and services are quickly expanding, so, too, is traffic to the website. This quick growth requires a scalable and secure portal infrastructure to best serve people worldwide. With a content delivery network built on F5 devices and solutions, Confucius Institute Online is prepared for the future, and it is ensuring scalability, flexibility, and security for its online venture.

By integrating the security, optimization, and load-balancing functions on one platform, Crédit Coopératif benefits from standardizing the security and maintenance of the applications. This one-stop solution for rolling out applications to users reduces the total cost of ownership by using the resources needed to manage these functions more efficiently.,

Data protection and disaster recovery were primary concerns for CSG Systems' Content Direct. When data replication between its primary and secondary data centers began to exceed specified backup windows, Content Direct turned to F5 Networks for help. By implementing F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM) on its existing BIG-IP devices, Content Direct reduced data replication times by as much as 95 percent and cut bandwidth utilization by 60 percent.

The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC), which is responsible for planning and hosting the Democratic National Convention, chose a Tier 1 service provider to host its website, which included live event coverage September 4–6, 2012. Months prior, the site was launched in the provider’s public cloud, but later, in anticipation of high traffic volume during convention week, the site was moved to a private cloud. To ensure 100 percent reliability, availability, and response time, the DNCC turned to F5. Within weeks, F5 built, tested, and deployed a traffic management solution that integrated easily with the existing infrastructure and met all of the DNCC’s expectations for performance and availability.

A key challenge Droga Raia's IT team faced was to reduce communications costs without affecting business continuity. This cost saving was crucial because expenses with connection services were significant and increasing. By implementing F5^® BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager^™ (LTM) Application Delivery Controller with the BIG-IP WebAccelerator^™ product module, Droga Raia has experienced dramatic savings in bandwidth costs and improved the performance of business applications running in a distributed environment.

F5's FirePass SSL VPN appliance provides secure access to corporate applications and data for Eagle Global Logistics using a standard web browser. Delivering outstanding performance, scalability, ease-of-use, and end-point security, FirePass helps increase the productivity remote users, while keeping corporate data secure.

A large, growing energy company with extensive worldwide oil and gas assets needed to improve remote access to applications for its field workers and executives. A large, growing energy company with extensive worldwide oil and gas assets across North America needed to improve remote access to applications for its field workers and executives. The company implemented an integrated solution that combines VMware View desktop virtualization software with the authentication and intelligent traffic management capabilities in F5 BIG-IP technologies. Now, remote users have reliable anytime access, iPad users have secure access to the corporate network, and the company benefits from the strong relationship between VMware and F5. The integrated solution, which offers employees modern desktop technology, also boosts high performance and availability and enables consolidation of services.

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By deploying the latest F5 BIG-IP products, the F5 IT team provides remote users with secure access to IPv6-based corporate resources, protects the company’s IPv4 and IPv6 production networks with advanced firewall capabilities, and enables remote teams to collaborate directly via IPv6. At the same time, the IT team eliminated unnecessary hardware devices, simplified the infrastructure, and reduced capital and operational costs.

In preparation for the shift to IPv6, the F5 IT group conducted a proof of concept to demonstrate that the F5 public-facing websites are IPv6 compatible using F5 BIG-IP devices. Another goal of the project was to identify unforeseen challenges that F5 customers might encounter with their own IPv6 efforts. Although advanced testing continues, initial testing was successful and revealed positive outcomes. For F5 customers, the most significant revelation is that they already have the tools they need to begin making the IPv6 transition—and it doesn’t have to be as painful as industry analysts and IT pundits have led people to believe.

Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, needed to ensure that its remote access portal and Citrix XenApp virtual application environment could provide fast, reliable connectivity and performance—without becoming a pathway for network intrusion and data theft. By deploying an F5 solution that provides tight XenApp integration and unique three-factor authentication, Facebook was able to connect remote employees, vendors, consultants, and partners to applications and web services quickly and reliably, without risk to sensitive user data.

A Fortune 100 financial services company that provides investment and retirement services to millions of customers experienced network outages that resulted in unacceptable service interruptions. Using Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solution from F5, the organization can maintain website availability and continue to provide the high level of customer service that it is known for.

File virtualization offered this major financial services company the flexibility it required. By deploying F5 ARX devices, the company was able to eliminate the static mapping from client to storage resources, giving IT the ability to easily move data in response to changes in the infrastructure.

A financial services company needed to increase the availability and performance of a critical customer website. The company also wanted to ensure the site achieved the required level of security to meet industry compliance standards. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM), the company gave its customers reliable access to their financial investment data, and improved its ability to comply with regulations.

A large financial services company faced critical application outages whenever a data link went down in any one of its five charter countries. By deploying F5 BIG-IP Solutions, the organization exceeded 99 percent network uptime; network recovery measured in hours, not days, and business continuity, even amid regional Internet outages.

Headquartered in Frankfurt, Finanz Informatik (FI) is the IT services provider of Germany's Savings Banks Finance Group (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe) and one of the largest banking IT services providers in Europe. FI's portfolio covers all of IT—from the development and provisioning of IT applications, networks, and technical infrastructure, to data centre operation, to consulting, training, and support. Using F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), FI unified its application delivery platform and provides speedy and secure use of ATM machines and online services for savings banks' customers. The F5 solution also meets four key requirements—uninterrupted uptime for applications, load balancing automation, FIPS compliance, and cost-effectiveness.

First American created a cohesive IT operation capable of providing a standard services catalog, service level agreements (SLAs), and disaster recovery guarantees for all business units. Now centralized using F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions and a highly virtualized server infrastructure with VMware, IT is far more nimble, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting business needs than it was previously.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

A leading global defense technology company provides innovative systems, products, and solutions in electronics, information systems, and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Its defense systems division used secure web access technology solutions from F5.,A leading global defense technology company provides innovative systems, products, and solutions in electronics, information systems, and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Its defense systems division used secure web access technology solutions from F5. The company required additional security, scalability, and functionality to allow bi-directional accesscontrol for its development network. Because of its previous success using F5 products, the company knew where to turn for its next solution. With F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway, the company enhances security, flexibility, and scalability with next-generation SSL VPN performance.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, the service provider can now optimize the flow of all IP traffic in real time on a per-subscriber and per-service basis. The F5 solution gives the service provider intelligent, centralized control over all its resources, thereby ensuring that every service is delivered with dependability and high performance. The results are reduced operational and capital costs, enhanced support for all existing IP-based services, accelerated rollout of new services, and increased average revenue per user (ARPU).

Every year, millions of people turn to Greek Yellow Pages to look up information, and they expect to find answers almost instantly. The company consequently has to ensure that its website provides exceptionally fast performance. At the same time, Greek Yellow Pages must also protect its valuable online database from web scraping attacks. A single product from F5 provided the solution to both these business challenges, also cutting IT management and administration time by 60 percent.

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Grontmij A/S is one of the world’s largest engineering consultancy groups aiming to deliver projects with minimal environmental impact and that offer long-term cost efficiency. But its sustainability business ethos applies to more than just client projects. When Grontmij A/S started to run out of storage capacity, it sought a solution that would be more sustainable and affordable than just adding extra disks. It implemented F5 ARX and achieved cost savings of £30,000 in one year.

Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), Georgia’s largest school system, needed to support a major initiative for online and collaborative learning called eCLASS. eCLASS relies on a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach for boosting student engagement. GCPS used F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers to create a secure BYOD environment, and to provide high availability for eCLASS as well as a range of school administration, facilities management, and student progress tracking applications. The F5 devices have also helped GCPS consolidate its data centers, streamline administration, and avoid additional hardware costs that would otherwise been required to deploy eCLASS.

A healthcare organization's small application management staff must ensure high availability and fast delivery of thousands of critical administrative and clinical applications. To meet those goals, the organization uses an integrated solution that includes F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Application Policy Manager (APM), managed by F5 Enterprise Manager.

Hobsons delivers a powerful suite of education-oriented SaaS-based applications to colleges and universities. As such, Hobsons' application delivery infrastructure is mission-critical. The company chose ADN devices from F5 Networks, running the TMOS operating system, BIG-IP version 10, to support its SaaS infrastructure. With this solution, Hobsons is able to reduce its own costs while providing shared services that help its customers do more with less.

HK life tested three vendors for SSL VPN and selected F5 for its outstanding performance. The F5 FirePass offered a complete IPSec remote access replacement for improved workforce productivity. It also provided dynamic policy-based access for greater security and network control.

Human Kinetics publishes and sells print, online, and multimedia materials related to kinesiology. It hosts its own e-commerce website and nearly 40 other educational and storefront sites, which together get about half a million unique visits per month. A year after its deployment, HK's third-party network solution had become unstable, was inflexible and difficult to support, and impaired performance. HK replaced the solution with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Application Security Manager.

When upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2010, Human Rights Watch needed to ensure availability, security, and bandwidth efficiency. To support the upgrade and allow for future growth, the organization chose F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) for application delivery, plus BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM) for Database Availability Group (DAG) replication.

IlliniCloud is a non-profit cooperative that hosts applications for school administration, facilities management, student performance tracking, multimedia, and library management for K–12 school districts throughout Illinois. To optimize the delivery of these services through its private cloud and to help member districts manage annual data growth of up to 300 percent, IlliniCloud chose F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers and ARX intelligent storage virtualization products. With these solutions, IlliniCloud can provide cost-effective and highly reliable cloud-based applications to member districts. The co-op significantly reduced its storage costs and recouped its ARX investment in less than one year.

By deploying F5 BIG IP Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions, IndianOil is now able to deliver a superior user experience with fast, reliable application access. F5 solutions have also helped IOCL bolster IT efficiency and support the company’s broader business goal.

Deploying F5 solutions enabled ICBC to simplify its IT system and network while improving the user experience for its online banking customers.,x-default

Interop, one of the world’s best known and longest running IT conferences, promotes network interoperability among diverse technology companies. Its U.S.-based events feature InteropNet, a temporary multi-vendor network built by volunteer engineers to serves attendees and exhibitors.

ivv is an IT service provider for insurance companies, specializing in running host‑based and client-server environments. Due to enormous growth in the volume of data in ivv’s file service environment, the company was facing significant challenges with backing up and restoring data. Instead of investing in a costly storage and backup solution, ivv looked to F5 for an intelligent, long-term solution to manage the growth in data volume and to improve service quality for its roughly 7,500 users.

Automated storage tiering with F5 has enabled Wiley to efficiently manage its constantly expanding volumes of unstructured data without incurring major infrastructure changes. At the same time, the company has been able to significantly reduce the cost of storage and is using the ARX device to improve operations in other areas as well, including disaster recovery.

Within the first three minutes of evaluating F5's FirePass SSL VPN, the Kent School District was completely blown away by its ease of use. Within five minutes they were sold. Within weeks of implementing FirePass, calls to the District support center dropped by 90%.

When Kettering Health Network implemented an electronic medical records (EMR) system from Epic Systems, it needed to ensure high uptime for the environment that clinicians depend on to provide patient care. Kettering chose F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers to manage traffic to its EpicCare EMR servers, which it found to be easier to manage and customize than Cisco Systems devices. With F5, Kettering provides clinicians with high-performance access to EpicCare, regardless of their location within Kettering facilities. Kettering’s network and application administrators are also more productive because the solution eliminates manual reconfiguration, making the EpicCare environment easy to manage and maintain.

A U.S.-based retail store chain had less than a month's notice to provide computing support for up to 2,000 new customer service agents. To provide the capacity needed, the company chose an F5 solution. By eliminating the need for new servers and reconfiguration, the F5 solution saved the company substantial capital and operational costs, increased its processing capacity, and enabled it to manage traffic effectively.

Lokahi Solutions, a cloud computing service provider, must ensure that its private cloud stack, the Lokahi Infrastructure Virtualization Engine, remains highly secure and continuously available. To achieve that level of performance, the company implemented F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers as a critical component of its cloud environment.

Lulu chose the F5 ARX file virtualization solution. With ARX, Lulu saves time previously spent on manually migrating data, simplifies data management, and improves system performance with a tiering strategy for better load balancing. Plus, because the ARX solution works with many storage vendors, Lulu is not dependent on any one vendor.,

MainGate, an event, retail, and merchandising company, builds and maintains more than 30 e-commerce websites for professional sports teams and associations, nonprofits, and other businesses. In 2011, MainGate moved these websites from a third-party managed service provider to its own private cloud. MainGate chose F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers to manage site traffic and to provide firewall capabilities. As a cornerstone of its data center, F5 devices help MainGate boost performance, ensure high availability, improve security, and realize a 61 percent cost reduction compared to similar managed service and public cloud offerings.

MakeMyTrip is India’s leading online travel portal. The company offers a range of best value products and services, cutting edge technology, and round-the-clock customer support. Having an agile IT infrastructure was vital for the company to meet its business objectives and gain an edge in a highly competitive market. With the F5 BIG‑IP devices in place, MakeMyTrip decreased its system load by up to 30 percent and reduced its drop-off rate by 4 to 5 percent.

Marine Resources Group companies operate around the globe, providing a wide range of marine transportation services to customers in a variety of industries. With 1,600+ employees working around the clock, around the globe, and on land and sea, email is the vital communication link that keeps the organization connected. To maintain this line of communication MRG uses Microsoft Exchange Server and F5 BIG-IP LTM.

The marketing services firm struggled to provide efficient services because of the decentralized infrastructures of its internal marketing customers. By deploying F5 solutions, the marketing firm is better prepared to handle business growth and can offer high availability for its customers' critical websites.

McGill University wanted to demonstrate it was ready to support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) as part of an overall network modernization effort. The university chose to implement the IPv6 Gateway feature built into F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™. The university saved time and money and had the right technology to support IPv6 now and in the future.

Medavie Blue Cross provides health, travel, life, and disability income coverage to groups and individuals throughout Canada. It has 30.5 million customer contacts annually, with $3 billion in revenue and claims under administration. Medavie Blue Cross needed to improve the flexibility and scalability of its web application infrastructure. Using F5 solutions, the company optimized application performance and realized substantial ROI across a dynamic and scalable IT infrastructure.

MLB Network, the national cable television network for Major League Baseball, televises live MLB games and other Emmy Award-winning original programming. MLB Network debuted in 2009 in about 50 million homes and has since grown to serve 70 million in the United States and Puerto Rico. As it prepared for launch, MLB Network had only three months to build a new network infrastructure and become fully operational. Using F5 solutions, MLB Network is now able to ensure 100 percent uptime for its live broadcasts. In addition, it provides employees secure remote access to internal systems and data, anytime and anywhere.

Mustang Engineering successfully deployed and maintains a highly responsive SharePoint Server 2007 environment with help from F5 Application Delivery Networking products.,

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with Application Security Manager was implemented by the National Insurance Institute of Israel to combine intelligent load balancing, performance improvement, and security modules on a single platform.

The outsourced and on-demand HR services have very high response times and availability goals in order to meet customer SLAs. NorthgateArinso turned to F5 to provide safe access and traffic management technology to enable optimum system performance.

ooba helps homebuyers find, finance, and insure their new homes. To support the many financial services it provides, ooba uses a broad array of Oracle products. As ooba added more services, its Linux-based load balancers could no longer provide the required level of performance. With F5 BIG‑IP LTM Application Delivery Controller, ooba has significantly improved performance and availability.

Orbital Sciences Corporation has pioneered new classes of rockets, satellites, and other technologies. As the business has grown, its use of complex engineering applications and the need to keep data accessible for up to 20 years was pushing its storage environment to the limit. By virtualizing its file storage environment with F5^® ARX^®, Orbital has been able to boost operational efficiencies, minimize disruptive downtime, and significantly reduce overall storage costs.

Internet radio provider Pandora needed an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution to help it scale to serve tens of millions of users with no downtime or performance issues. By upgrading to F5 BIG-IP systems, and eventually to F5 VIPRION devices, Pandora was able to scale to tens of millions of users with plenty of room for more customer growth, while maintaining the best performance and reliability in the business. Thanks to the ease of installation and configuration of the VIRPRION devices, Pandora’s engineers can focus on improving Internet radio services rather than troubleshooting ADC systems.

Pekin Insurance wanted to give its growing number of tech-savvy customers direct online access to policy and billing information. To provide the high availability and security My PI needed, the company implemented F5 BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP ASM, and BIG-IP APM.

PensionsFirst Analytics offers advanced analytical and advisory services to the defined benefit (DB) pensions industry. The company's PFaroe application brings a revolutionary level of precision and speed to the measurement and management of defined benefits pensions risk, providing fast, accurate, and up-to-date information. As PensionsFirst moved the application to a web-based platform, the company turned to F5 solutions to ensure the performance and reliability of its online services. In the process, the IT team discovered that F5 could also help improve the security authentication process.

PersonalizationMall.com makes personalized gift buying quick and easy for customers. They have experienced tremendous growth, achieving $50 million in annual sales, and recently consolidating in a 120,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Woodridge, Illinois. PersonalizationMall.com requires reliable and fast remote access to stay in constant touch with the business. The IT team turned to F5 and its BIG‑IP Edge Gateway technology to ensure fast, reliable remote access.

Pixazza develops and markets an innovative platform that makes web images interactive to promote products, advertise brands, and drive online retail sales. Reliable, fast performance for users, even during high traffic times, is essential. Since implementing the F5 devices, the company has experienced 100 percent uptime, even during extremely high traffic spikes of five-fold or greater.

In support of its mission as a world-class research university, POSTECH is constantly seeking to innovate and improve its use of technology. Using F5 solutions, the university upgraded its IT infrastructure to improve the performance of its SAP applications, reduce operations costs, and ensure application security.

Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing, wanted to offer its customers an easy way to link dedicated managed servers to cloud-based servers. The company used Application Delivery Networking devices from F5 to help build a hybrid service called RackConnect. Now, Rackspace customers can mix and match dedicated managed and cloud hosting platforms for ultimate scalability, flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs. Customers can dynamically provision resources, manage web and application traffic, and load balance in real time between the two environments. F5 technology helped enable a rapid time-to-market for RackConnect, and it also helps simplify Rackspace customers’ migration.

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.

Reliance Protectron Security Services needed to create a reliable IT environment for its business applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Citrix XenApp. To this end, the company implemented F5 Application Delivery Controllers using F5 deployment guidance. Now, Reliance Protectron can ensure availability even in the event of a disaster, and it has consolidated traffic management for multiple applications on a single platform.

RHWL is a multi-skilled architectural practice, renowned for designing a broad range of buildings from sports stadiums and theatres to residential developments and commercial premises. The company found itself struggling to meet the need for additional capacity while attempting to manage its storage budget. By implementing F5 ARX to manage its file storage more effectively, RHWL achieved time, productivity, and cost savings, with an expected time to ROI of less than one year.

Riachuelo retail chain consolidated its IT and telecom administration centers, which support the retail stores as well as a financial services group, three distribution centers, and a call center. To accommodate the increased demand, Riachuelo needed to redesign its infrastructure. It chose F5 BIG-IP LTM Application Delivery Controller and the BIG-IP WebAccelerator product module, which together ensure high availability of the company's systems and quick response from its web-based applications.

Rogers Corporation has clients all over the world and their sales engineers and managers often travel globally to sell their products. F5 Networks' FirePass provides secure remote access to company information and applications, no matter where they are.

The Rijksdienst voor Pensioenen (RVP) is the government agency that handles pension information for the citizens of Belgium. When it decided to make pension data accessible over the Internet to all employed people and pensioners in the country, it had two key concerns. First, it had to secure its highly personal and sensitive data from unauthorised access. Second, it had to ensure high performance and availability for a potential user base of many millions of people. Using F5 BIG-IP products, the RVP can now provide citizens with a secure, convenient way to view their pension information online.

A major satellite TV broadcaster wanted to provide customers with a superior website experience and an online credit card payment process that is Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. By replacing its existing Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) with an F5 solution, the provider was able to protect customer transactions from insidious application-level security attacks typically missed by traditional firewalls and intrusion prevention solutions. The provider also enhanced customer satisfaction with a speedy, stable customer-facing website, all while complying with stringent PCI DSS regulations.

At Sheffield Hallam University, more than 40,000 students, lecturers, and support staff rely on a single sign-on solution to gain access to many different web-based applications. When this vital gateway started to become unreliable, the university replaced it with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM). Now, users have a consistently positive online experience, while the university has increased application availability, reduced costs, and improved security.

The Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a leader in integrating mobile computing in education, Its sophisticated infrastructure includes a learning management system and many enterprise and course-specific applications. To best support this environment (which also includes an innovative emergency notification system), the college implemented F5 BIG‑IP Application Delivery Networking devices. With the solution, Sheridan has improved performance and safety for students and staff, simplified administration, and ensured that its infrastructure can keep pace with its steady growth.

The Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (Netherlands Internet Domain Registration Foundation, or SIDN) is responsible for issuing and registering all Dutch domain names. Using F5 BIG-IP LTM, SIDN reduced the complexity of its IT infrastructure, reduced the cost of system management, and sped up access to request and registration applications via its website.

The SIGNAL IDUNA Group (www.signal-iduna.de)is one of Germany's ten largest insurance companies. Given exponentially growing volumes of data, SIGNAL IDUNA had serious concerns about the extremely slow access and data backup speeds of an online storage system based on a four-node, Microsoft Windows 2003 cluster. A detailed investigation revealed that, in addition to the business-critical files frequently accessed, there was also a considerable volume of seldom-used files that took up a disproportionately large amount of online storage space. ARX enabled SIGNAL IDUNA to free up a massive amount of online storage space, greatly improving performance.

Sinclair Community College's outdated network appliances made it difficult for the IT staff to manage traffic efficiently. Since implementing F5 BIG-IP advanced Application Delivery Controller and security solutions, performance has improved, applications are easier to manage, the IT staff is more productive, and the entire environment is better protected.

With 40,000 customers, SingularLogic is the leading software and integrated IT solutions group in Greece. When the company decided to make its market-leading software solutions available via the Internet, it couldn’t afford to take any risks. It had to ensure that its new hosted services would deliver the exceptional performance and security that customers would expect. SingularLogic built F5 products into the core architecture of its new business venture and now has the scalable platform that is so essential for providers of software as a service (SaaS).

After 10 years of selling its software the traditional way, the Swedish company SiteVision decided to start making it available as a service to all businesses, including those with high-end requirements. But before the company could embark on its new Software as a Service (SaaS) venture, it had to build an IT network that would offer exceptional reliability, scalability, and security. F5 provided the answer with the F5® VIPRION® system and F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM).

Southeast Community College (SCC) in Lincoln, Nebraska, needed an easier method for managing user authentication to the web portal that delivers its powerful learning management system and other important applications. It chose to upgrade its existing F5 BIG-IP devices and replace its existing, inflexible access management solution with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM). As a result, SCC was able to greatly simplify portal access and now has a centralized solution for secure access and policy management. Just as important, it has a solid networking platform that will scale to meet growing demand and enable SCC to expand its online offerings.

F5's FirePass gave Sports Authority's remote users, employees, and vendors secure and reliable access to any authorized application from any Web-enabled device, from any location, without requiring special software or configuration on the remote device, and with no modifications to the back-end resources being accessed.

SpringCM, an award-winning provider of cloud content management solutions, needed to keep pace with its rapid growth while continuing to provide customers with high performance, cost-effective solutions. To ensure the cloud advantages of lower costs and higher flexibility, SpringCM chose Application Delivery Networking (ADN) devices from F5.

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

St. Louis–based Supplies Network is a wholesale distributor of office supplies and a provider of cloud-based managed print services. Having recently implemented a fully virtualized IT environment, the company chose F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway with the BIG-IP Edge Client to support its large mobile workforce and the new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).,St. Louis–based Supplies Network is a wholesale distributor of office supplies and a provider of cloud-based managed print services. Having recently implemented a fully virtualized IT environment, the company chose F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway with the BIG-IP Edge Client to support its large mobile workforce and the new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Now, employees have reliable remote access to their virtual desktops from any location and from both corporate-owned and personally-owned devices. Beyond meeting the company’s remote access needs, the F5 solution provides a higher level of security, better control of network traffic and bandwidth usage, and optimized performance of both web and application servers.

Relying on the powerful data management capabilities of F5 ARX file virtualization solutions, American Suzuki Motor Company seamlessly transitioned to a higher-performance network-attached storage (NAS) environment and implemented an automated Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy that slashed backup times and storage costs.

Tight data security is an absolute imperative for government organisations all around the world. The National Board of Health in Sweden holds vast amounts of personal information about citizens and relies on F5^® solutions to help it secure this highly sensitive data. The organisation recently deployed F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) to improve the management of security policies, reduce IT costs, and deliver a better user experience.,Tight data security is an absolute imperative for government organisations all around the world. The National Board of Health in Sweden holds vast amounts of personal information about citizens and relies on F5 solutions to help it secure this highly sensitive data. The organisation recently deployed F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) to improve the management of security policies, reduce IT costs, and deliver a better user experience

Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecommunications provider, with 5.5 million mobile customers and 1.8 million broadband connections. To support Switzerland’s schoolchildren, Swisscom embarked on a project to provide free Internet access for all Swiss schools. Swisscom needed a best-in-class solution for load balancing, URL filtering, proxy management, and security. Stability, performance, and reliability were the project’s highest priorities. F5^® VIPRON^®and F5 BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager^™ Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) played a key role in helping Swisscom deliver on its commitment.

To ensure business continuity and seamless communication among customers, partners, and employees, Sysmex must keep email systems highly available. The company employed the Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 from F5 Networks and as a result, has surpassed 99.999 percent email uptime.

Tenzing is a leading provider of hosting solutions trusted by e-commerce and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers to deliver business-critical applications to their clients. To create a stable, scalable Application Delivery Network that ensures high availability for its clients’ applications, Tenzing incorporated F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) into its hosting infrastructure. With the flexibility and control that the F5 iRules scripting language provides, Tenzing is now able to customize clients’ deployments to meet their unique business requirements.

PharmaML is a new protocol aimed at standardizing stock management processes in France's pharmaceutical industry. TEVA Santé, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, recognized that the new standard presented data security issues. The company began a major IT project focused on addressing these issues while still ensuring reliability and service levels for the various sales channels. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager, TEVA Santé has been able to secure its online ordering system, maintain high availability, and achieve regulatory compliance in the face of changing competitive needs and industry standards.

Toshiba was able to perform a large-scale data migration and transition to a new NetApp platform in a fraction of the time it would have taken with other solutions. More importantly, the entire process was accomplished without impacting Toshiba’s critical design, test and verification processes, enabling the IT organization to avoid service outages and to continue to meet the demands of its global organization.

Transat A.T. Inc. is an integrated international tour operator with more than 60 destination countries. A holiday travel specialist, Transat operates mainly in Canada and Europe, as well as in the Caribbean, Mexico, and the Mediterranean Basin. When the company decided to completely redesign and revamp its business-to-consumer (B2C) transactional website with a new architecture, they turned to F5 Networks to create a robust and highly available environment.

For the budget airline transavia.com, a fast and reliable website is absolutely critical. More than 70 percent of the company’s revenues stem from online transactions, and customers need to be able to find and book flights online at any time of the day or night. Following the installation of F5 BIG-IP products, transavia.com has experienced a 25 percent increase in the speed of its online booking system and enhanced the reliability of this vital business application.

Transplace redesigned its IT infrastructure for higher efficiency and to provide a better customer experience. The redesign included virtualization technology from VMware. To realize the full benefits of its virtualized environment, the company used BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking devices from F5.

Named "Best Airline in Europe" at the 2011 World Airline Awards, Turkish Airlines provides a wide range of online services that make it easy for customers to find flights, book tickets, check in, and manage their itineraries. As use of its online services increased, the company's servers struggled to handle the traffic. Business-critical applications started to fail, and the quality of the customer experience decreased while business costs went up. When the organisation deployed solutions from F5, these vital web applications became 50 percent faster, enabling the company to significantly improve the customer experience. The F5 solution also reduced IT costs and network management time.

A U.S.-based defense contractor manages IT operations for a federal agency that provides geospatial intelligence services. The contractor needed to ensure high availability and reliability for the intelligence data, so it chose to replace the infrastructure’s aging load balancers with Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) from F5. Using the F5 solution, the contractor simplified IT management and boosted application performance by as much as 300 percent. Furthermore, the contractor capitalized on the capabilities of F5 devices to accomplish a massive data center consolidation for the agency.

A large U.S. federal agency was faced with high maintenance costs and sluggish performance of its customer-facing web portal. Multiple point solutions deployed to support the portal had made the infrastructure complex, expensive, and difficult to manage—and it still failed to deliver the performance and reliability the agency needed. After deploying an F5 solution, performance improved dramatically, and with a simplified infrastructure, the agency was able to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual support and training costs. The solution provides multi-site failover capability, further boosting the agency’s ability to meet the needs of constituents.

Federal agencies are under a government mandate to implement cloud solutions to cut costs and administrative overhead. One agency chose to replace its existing in-house messaging system with Google’s Gmail cloud-based solution. To ensure security, the agency wanted to keep user authentication and provisioning in house. ,Federal agencies are under a government mandate to implement cloud solutions to cut costs and administrative overhead. One agency chose to replace its existing in-house messaging system with Google’s Gmail cloud-based solution. To ensure security, the agency wanted to keep user authentication and provisioning in house. Having successfully used F5 BIG-IP solutions to manage traffic across two data centers, the agency decided to take advantage of the advanced features and strategic placement of its BIG-IP devices in the network. Today, the agency uses BIG-IP solutions to provide on-premises user authentication for its cloud-based Gmail solution as well as other outward-facing systems.

A systems integrator specializing in major IT projects for the federal sector was asked by a large government customer to create a consolidated, standardized, and centrally-managed server and storage platform in a virtualized environment. With F5 Application Delivery Controllers, the government agency is able to ensure high availability for applications and support a stable and secure virtualized infrastructure.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) University understands the crucial role of technology in supporting education and research. It is therefore constantly developing the IT facilities, applications, and resources available to students and staff to help them collaborate, work more efficiently, and learn. For more than five years, the university has relied on F5 Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) to help it deliver these vital services more quickly, securely, and reliably.

The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ranks among the top European research universities. Problems with the university’s IT infrastructure were causing downtime for users and inefficient utilization of server capacity. By implementing F5 BIG‑IP LTM in a centralized IT infrastructure, the university has been able to optimize utilization of physical and virtual servers, introduce a powerful new collaboration service, and ensure that users always have access to all of the university’s IT services.

The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is a leading provider of on‑campus and distance education programs in Australia. Of its 26,000 students, more than 75 percent study using distance or online programs. As the number of students continued to grow, USQ needed to update its aging data centre to meet student needs. Since deploying the F5 solution, USQ’s application migration time is shorter, the application environment is simpler and less costly to administer, performance has improved, and uptime is at 99.99 percent.

VAGAS Tecnologia, provider of online human resources recruiting and staffing solutions, needed to ensure the performance, security, and reliability of its recruitment and selection tool—the VAGAS e-partner application. The company adopted a cloud-based infrastructure and chose F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers to manage application traffic and to provide web application firewall capabilities. Now, VAGAS meets aggressive service-level agreements, providing e-partner app customers with 99.72 percent uptime. It has also reduced system response time by 0.6 seconds, and F5 firewall capabilities have helped VAGAS identify and address vulnerabilities to ensure data security in the cloud.

Varolii provides cloud-based automated solutions that help customers deliver personalized communications on a large scale. In fact, one out of every three Americans communicates with Varolii each year through the company’s customer interaction applications. To stay ahead of its competition, the company needs to provide high application uptime and ensure strong compliance. The company implemented F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) devices, which have improved resiliency and uptime and reduced application failover from 45 minutes to 30 seconds. The solution has also helped Varolii meet customer compliance requirements and lower its data center server count by 40 percent.

Vega chose the F5 product because it could be easily incorporated into their system without affecting th existing infrastructure. More importantly, F5 helped them solve persistent problems, including bandwidth and application delivery challenges.

F5 helped Warner Music Group scale its file storage environment and decrease the operational overhead for storage management. F5 intelligent file virtualization solution has eliminated the disruption previously associated with storage management tasks, allowing data migration and storage provisioning to occur without impacting users.

West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) wanted to increase the availability of its Epic clinical applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes, while easing the user authentication process. With F5 solutions, the organization can provide higher uptime for its Epic and Exchange environments, and can give doctors and nurses more reliable access to these critical applications.

Zacks Investment Research is a preeminent investment research firm for institutions and individuals. It recently began selling some of its online services and tools to subscribing customers through its retail website, Zacks.com. The firm was concerned about the impact a server failure might have on its site and wanted to ensure it could handle the significant anticipated growth in website traffic.