Blog posts on 2019

Container-Native App Services

A growing number of app services are an integral component of a cloud-native architecture. This is, in part, why we see a shift in responsibility for app services away from IT operations toward DevOps...

The 2020 State of App Services: Apps, Automation, and Architectures

Months of analyzing over 2600 responses to our State of Application Services survey have culminated in a fascinating look at the impact of digital transformation on organizations around the globe. Com...

Now That You Understand How Important API Security Is…

The use of APIs have the potential to be transformative by enabling new business models and revenue streams. Implemented without adequate guardrails, however, APIs also have the potential to disrupt a...

Inserting App Services into Shifting App Architectures

Application architectures have evolved several times since the early days of computing, and it is no longer optimal to rely solely on a single, known data path to insert application services. Furtherm...

How Cybersecurity is Becoming (Even) More Relevant

The value of accurate, insightful data is realized by detecting and acting upon a threat before the attack occurs, not a month after the breach. The F5 Threat Campaigns subscription offering provides ...

A Letter to F5 Employees from CEO François Locoh-Donou Announcing Shape Security Acquisition

François Locoh-Donou shares a copy of the email sent to global staff announcing F5’s agreement to acquire Shape Security.

API Gateways are the New Strategic Control Points (But Still Lack Security)

The transformation from monolithic applications to ecosystems of microservices has made APIs a strategic and critical element of business success. APIs are typically designed to be externally exposed ...

Survey Says: Container Security (Still) Cause for Concern

Consider this: 54% of containers live fewer than five minutes. Predictably, this leads to security topics. If you’re trying to secure access (and you should be) and trying to protect the app or API ru...

Digital Transformation: 2020 and Beyond

Digital transformation is about moving technology from business interactions to processes to new models. At first, it's about apps. But as app portfolios expand, it turns to focus on automation and or...

Addressing the Peter Parker Principle in TLS Inspection

“With great power comes great responsibility.” Acknowledging Voltaire and Churchill, the quote is best known from the Spider-Man comics, attributed to Uncle Ben. Of course, part of the line’s cultural...

The Proxy is a Key Component to the Future of Security

The future of security rests on telemetry that is more than technical data points picked out of packets. It requires a holistic view of interactions from client to application to behavior. Machine lea...

Build, Migrate, and Secure your Apps – Join us at AWS re:Invent!

Customer Experience Depends on Visibility

A Dimensional Research survey of more than 3000 mobile app users confirmed what many of us believe about customer expectations today.

F5, NGINX, and our Commitment to the Kubernetes Community

F5 believes that there doesn’t need to be a conflict between community and commercial solutions. A balance can be achieved, but it requires a commitment to work together and constantly refine that bal...

How to Deploy NGINX Plus on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in Ten Minutes

Did you know that when Sysdig looked at its customers this year it found more than two million container instances running on-premises and in the public cloud? More exciting (for us, at least) was the...

When the digital mice get smarter so must the digital mousetrap

Business Needs a Smarter Mousetrap to Catch Next-Generation Attacks.

The Future of Load Balancing Rests on Data

Cloud-native applications are being built at a good clip. While they're not quite dominating app portfolios just yet, they are increasing in number.

Edge Computing: A Game Changer for Service Providers?

Soon, every organization dealing with multiple interconnected devices and rapid data processing demands will need an edge computing strategy, not to mention the technology to make it all work.

Protecting Business Means Protecting APIs

APIs create value through their ability to abstract at the application layer. For example, the use of an API to abstract access to internal systems and data provides a way to simplify and automate acc...

Azure Strategy Still Coming Together? Here’s Four Ways F5 Can Help

All 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...

The Three Phases of Digital Transformation

In recent years, enterprises in every industry sector have been embarked on a digital transformation journey in one way or another. Business enterprises are taking advantage of the proliferation of di...

DevOps Doesn’t End with Delivery

It doesn’t matter how fast you can deliver if deployment delays release. While NetOps are warming up to automation and orchestration, there are significant challenges facing their efforts to speed up ...

You can't protect what you can't find

Visibility is an often-cited challenge typically referring to the ability to inspect traffic, transactions, and errors that occur during an application's execution.

Kubernetes is Winning the Multi-Cloud War

Digging through Sumo Logic's latest data - compiled from actual usage of more than 2000 customers - we see an increase in Kubernetes usage specifically in AWS.

F5 and Intel: Accelerating Applications Anywhere

We are thrilled that Intel has named F5 as a 2019 Leaders Board partner in the Intel® Network Builders program. Our strategic partnership with Intel has, for more than 15 years, enabled F5 to use Int...

Machine Identity Protection Is a Critical Part of Modern App Development

Today, "machine" also includes code running independently on devices, APIs, containers, serverless architectures, and of course VMs. Because they are software-defined, these machine types are easily c...

Knowing About Vulnerabilities is only Half the Battle

Breaches abound. Vulnerabilities are discovered on a daily basis, and the patch gap doesn't seem to be getting any smaller.

Load Balancing On-Prem or SaaS?

F5 has a cloud-based solution available called the F5 DNS Load Balancer Cloud Service that leverages the AWS SaaS Enablement Framework and is now available in AWS Marketplace. While load balancing has...

Microsoft and F5: A Single Identity and Security Strategy for All Apps

Choosing Ansible or Terraform for F5 Application Services

The open source movement has always focused on freedom. The freedom to choose the solution that works best for you given skills, budgets, architecture, and goals.