2018 blog posts(131)
Empower DevOps Pipelines with Container Ingress App Services
The growth of container app development incorporated into DevOps pipelines is nearing peak adoption across the app landscape, but some challenges persist. F5 declarative automation and orchestration s...
By Jonathan GeorgeF5 Friday: Ingress versus ingress
As the worlds of DevOps and NetOps collide and container environments subsume definitions traditionally used in the network, let’s explore the use of the often-confusing term "ingress" in terms of the...
By Lori Mac VittieHonoring F5’s Top Partners in North America
Regional VP of Channels Lisa Citron congratulates the winners of the 2018 North America Partners of the Year Awards, recognizing the exceptional performance of strategic resellers, service providers, ...
By Lisa CitronCloud Isn't Finished Disrupting the Data Center
Cloud showed us a better way to onboard, provision, and operate network and application infrastructure—aspects that have been steadily pushing their way into the data centers of organizations worldwid...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 SSL Orchestrator and Cisco Firepower NGFW: Better Together
Coupled with Cisco Firepower series’ threat mitigation and performance capabilities, SSL Orchestrator performs the computationally heavy workload of decrypting traffic before distributing it to other ...
By Jay KelleyNetOps Need Advocates not Adversaries
It’s important to recognize that it’s not always NetOps teams that get in the way of deploying the latest thing/app/service. Impediments to speed are often due to a failure to adopt all the premises o...
By Lori Mac VittieTop 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2019
It’s the time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Peter Silva collects his picks of notable prediction lists making the roun...
By F5Protecting Machine Identity with Venafi and F5
With “machine identities,” we’re simply talking about how to ensure that an automated process can identify itself, and how other automated systems and processes grant the appropriate level of access t...
By Frank StrobelService Meshes and App Modernization
Lori MacVittie: There remains a tendency to equate containers with microservices. And by equate, I mean “use interchangeably.” This is a bad assumption.
By Lori Mac VittieLooking Back on Another Year of Innovation for F5 on AWS
As 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 AtkinsHow Service Mesh Enables DevOps
Shawn Wormke from Aspen Mesh explains how service mesh is a glue that helps unite Development and Operations teams, providing one place in the stack that you can manage microservices at runtime withou...
By Shawn WormkeThe Strategic Significance of Mainframes
Mainframes have a bad rap in IT. They are viewed as dinosaurs, when the reality is that they provide a significant source of computing power for many organizations—computing power that’s growing in us...
By Lori Mac VittieThingbots Transforming to Attack Platforms
Lori MacVittie highlights F5 Labs research on global attacks against IoT devices from January–June 2018, pointing out the sobering implications. Not only do IoT devices continue to be exploited, but t...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 WAF Support for AWS Security Hub – Empowering Centralized Security Reporting
Modern 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 AtkinsChanging Security Rules in Real Time with Machine Learning
A particularly compelling advantage of applying machine learning to application security is that it focuses on constantly learning what is normal and identifying what is not. Lori MacVittie explains h...
By Lori Mac VittieGet Straight Down to Business on AWS, with F5’s New Quick Start
Before 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 AtkinsPractical Cloud Considerations: Security
Cryptography is naturally a computationally expensive process, meaning it takes more CPU cycles to encrypt or decrypt a message than to execute business logic. For cloud deployments, these added CPU c...
By Lori Mac VittieHow Declarative Interfaces Democratize Infrastructure
In technology, simplification means abstraction, with declarative interfaces serving as a good example of that abstraction. By simplifying the interfaces used to provision, configure, manage, and inte...
By Lori Mac VittieApplication Services Update: In search of visibility
It’s time again to dig into the application services organizations are actually using to make apps faster and safer. Of note this quarter again is a continuing rise in use of bot defense services, as ...
By Lori Mac VittieImproving Security by Ignoring Vulnerabilities
Generally speaking, “ignore vulnerabilities” is not something you expect to hear from a security company. And you certainly don't see “ignore vulnerabilities” paired with the notion of “improving secu...
By Lori Mac VittieStandardization is Good for NetOps
When approaching your production pipeline “as code,” it’s a certain bet that multiple sets of operators and developers will be responsible for it. This lies at the heart of the push for standardizatio...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Friday: F5 Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Just as it’s true that the application platform—the web or app server or app engine—must be provisioned first, so too must the network and application service platforms be provisioned before they can ...
By Lori Mac VittieThe Open Source Shift
Speculation continues around why businesses and industries formerly reluctant to officially encourage open source software use have suddenly embraced it. Most often, the legacy culprit is assumed to b...
By Lori Mac VittieServerless is Real - and Growing like Gangbusters
Serverless means developers don’t need to worry about infrastructure. And the business, too, sees value in its speed and efficiency. Combined with the frictionless nature of deploying code with server...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Helps Launch AWS Consulting Partner Private Offers Program
F5 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 AtkinsAs-Code: The Continuous IT Stack
Infrastructure, Configuration, Pipeline, Operations. Suddenly everything is “as code.” Lori MacVittie attempts to sort through the terminology and identify the different components within a continuous...
By Lori Mac VittieSupply-Chain Hacks and Hardware’s Role in Security
Chief Architect Dave Schmitt and the Office of the CTO reflect on the importance of hardware security expertise in the context of the recent Bloomberg piece on Super Micro. The article also includes q...
By F5Microservices: Less Micro and More Services
Lori MacVittie explores how the industry has found itself with a strange hybrid of Service-Oriented and Microservice architectures that leaves many wondering where one ends and the other begins.
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Friday: Pushing F5 Telemetry to Your Pipeline
When we recently polled IT ops practitioners on the ‘State of Network Automation,’ we found the market experiencing a number of challenges. Among those cited specifically by NetOps professionals was a...
By Lori Mac VittieIT Ops Must go Beyond Scripting to Automation
The goal of automation in almost any industry focuses on optimization and eliminating bottlenecks. In the world of IT, that typically means addressing the in-between steps of an operational process.
By Lori Mac Vittie