Tom Atkins's blog posts
Senior Product Marketing Manager | F5
Senior Product Marketing Manager | F5
F5’s application services architecture is designed to help customers maximize performance, control, and security, while simplifying their day-to-day operations.
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Learn how F5's BIG-IP v21.0 transforms AI app delivery and security with modernized solutions for control plane, server reliability, & application scalability.
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In the world of app delivery and security, it’s essential to keep pace with tech advances. For F5 BIG-IP VE customers, periodic upgrades are critical. Here’s why.
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Recognizing that the complexity and magnitude of today’s application and threat landscape will only rise in years to come, the core tenets for BIG-IP Next are that of simplification, security, and sca...
By Tom AtkinsCyberthreats have become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, giving security teams little choice but to invest heavily in the latest and greatest technologies to protect their application portfo...
By Tom AtkinsAt a time when speed is of the essence however, IT organizations are increasingly being hampered by lengthening component lead times brought about by the global semiconductor shortage – much to the fr...
By Tom AtkinsAccording to Forrester’s 2021 State of Application Security Report, a staggering 39% of all cyberattacks last year targeted web applications, and for good reason. The public-facing nature of web apps,...
By Tom AtkinsAstonishingly, a little over a year has passed since F5 launched the BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs solution, which as a reminder, is the product of an integration between the BIG-IP Virtual Edition and an I...
By Tom AtkinsAstonishingly, a little over a year has passed since F5 launched the BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs solution and during this time, both the internet and application landscape have continued to rapidly evolv...
By Tom AtkinsFor service providers and enterprises transitioning to 5G network infrastructure and modern cloud architectures, virtual environments can now be hosted on low-cost, standards-based servers while movin...
By Tom AtkinsThe benefits of migrating away from hardware-dominated environments to cloud and software-defined architectures are well known—increased scalability, operational agility and economic flexibility, to n...
By Tom AtkinsAll cloud journeys are unique and can be complicated, with very different objectives, strategies, and hurdles. So let’s take a look at how F5 can help you and your applications wherever you are in you...
By Tom AtkinsThe key to simplifying multi-cloud architectures is to standardize elements wherever possible. By employing tools that can be used across environments, much of this complexity is abstracted away as yo...
By Tom AtkinsF5's Tom Atkins provides a quick snapshot of relevant cloud security topics leading into this week's inaugural AWS security, compliance, and identity conference in Boston.
By Tom AtkinsWith consistent services and policies in the Alibaba Cloud, and across other supported cloud environments, operations teams can comfortably secure and optimize any app while providing developers the a...
By Tom AtkinsWith the general availability of GKE On-Prem (a core component of Google Cloud’s Anthos), F5 reveals its integration with this new solution, allowing its users to get one step closer to crafting a tru...
By Tom AtkinsBuilding on the trio of managed rules for AWS’ native WAF delivered in the fall of 2018, we are excited to announce another ruleset which focuses solely on the protecting your APIs against existing an...
By Tom AtkinsAs the dust from the recent re:Invent conference settles, Tom Atkins reflects and takes a closer look at the most notable advances from what has been another dynamic and productive year for F5 on AWS.
By Tom AtkinsModern security is a multi-vendor proposition. F5’s industry-leading Web Application Firewall solutions (such as Advanced WAF) can now be integrated with AWS Security Hub, allowing predefined alert in...
By Tom AtkinsBefore the start of AWS re:Invent, we’re excited to share the new Quick Start integration between F5 and AWS. F5’s Tom Atkins discusses how the service launches, configures, and runs the AWS compute, ...
By Tom AtkinsF5 is one of an exclusive group of launch partners of AWS’ Consulting Partner Private Offers Program, giving partners extended capabilities in making F5 application services available to customers via...
By Tom AtkinsPerfect for development and test purposes, these instances provide true cloud-native operational flexibility with no long-term commitments or contracts.
By Tom AtkinsThese virtual editions protect applications and data with complete feature parity across on-premises and multi-cloud deployments.
By Tom AtkinsF5 recently authorized and now fully supports the use of its entire CFT portfolio in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region too.
By Tom AtkinsConfidence in the public cloud is on the rise as the market and platforms mature, thanks in part to certification and competency validations from major providers.
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