White Papers

^{JUL 1, 2025 | WHITE PAPER}
POLICY IN PAYLOAD: PREARING FOR AI AGENT ARCHITECTURE

Explore how AI agents with embedded intent redefine traffic systems, requiring context-aware routing, dynamic policies, and semantic observability at scale.

^{APR 2, 2025 | GENERAL}
NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES OF AI INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN: BALANCING POWER, LATENCY, RELIABILITY AND DATA

Discover strategies for overcoming AI infrastructure challenges, focusing on balancing power, latency, reliability, and data requirements. Learn how hybrid models, federated learning, and sustainable energy optimize scalable AI ecosystems.

^{MAR 28, 2025 | WHITE PAPER}
FROM BOTS TO BOARDROOM: HOW BAD BOTS NEGATIVELY IMPACT YOUR BALANCE SHEET

Learn how to communicate the costs of automated, malicious bot attacks on your organization and the business benefits of successful bot management.

^{APR 25, 2024 | WHITE PAPER}
CREATE A SECURE MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE WITH F5 VELOS

F5 VELOS offers a microservices-based solution that meets system security and multi-tenancy needs. Learn more about F5’s next-gen chassis-based systems.

^{JUN 26, 2023 | GENERAL}
SOLVING FOR ACCOUNT TAKEOVER: WHY MFA IS ONLY A FIRST STEP

^{JUN 23, 2022 | WHITE PAPER}
F5 AND CONTAINERIZATION

In this paper, we’ll examine containerization and how the adoption of this technology in F5 products affects IT professionals, architects, and business decision makers.

^{MAY 4, 2022 | WHITE PAPER}
ZERO TRUST SECURITY: WHY ZERO TRUST MATTERS (AND FOR MORE THAN JUST ACCESS)

This paper presents a framework to encompass the broad concepts around zero trust, relating them to the existing business backdrop that motivates today’s application security business leaders.

^{JAN 11, 2021 | WHITE PAPER}
WHY EVERY FEDERAL AGENCY NEEDS AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION STRATEGY AND HOW TO BUILD ONE

Find out why it’s essential for federal agencies to build an enterprise application strategy and how to do it.

^{JAN 11, 2021 | WHITE PAPER}
DEPLOYING AMAZON CLOUDFRONT WITH THE SILVERLINE MANAGED SERVICES PLATFORM

Learn how a global IT customer uses Amazon CloudFront and the F5® Silverline® Managed Services Platform to provide a highly robust and secure web application delivery experience.

^{OCT 28, 2020 | WHITE PAPER}
5G SUCCESS STARTS WITH CLOUD-NATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

5G is transforming the digital landscape for service providers, bringing with it new use cases and revenue opportunities. Service providers who can successfully transition to 5G can benefit from new enterprise applications, industrial automation, IoT, as well as consumer services like gaming and AR/VR.

^{OCT 12, 2020 | WHITE PAPER}
EASILY CONFIGURE SECURE ACCESS TO ALL YOUR APPLICATIONS VIA AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY

F5 BIG-IP APM and Microsoft Azure AD work seamlessly together to federate access to all your applications—even classic and custom apps

^{OCT 9, 2020 | WHITE PAPER}
INCIDENT REMEDIATION WITH CISCO FIREPOWER THREAT DEFENSE AND F5 SSL ORCHESTRATOR

The integrated F5 SSL Orchestrator and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense solution empowers companies to secure their enterprises and scale attack prevention and mitigation.

^{OCT 1, 2020 | WHITE PAPER}
DDOS ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAMS AND WHITE PAPER

White paper for security and network architects on designing, deploying, and managing architecture to protect against increasingly sophisticated, application-layer DDoS attacks. See our diagrams to learn how to mitigate risk.

^{AUG 3, 2020 | WHITE PAPER}
MODERN WORKLOADS ON DELL EMC VXRAIL

Dell EMC VxRail provides a proven virtualized environment for enterprises that want to consolidate workloads on a high-performance platform. As more workloads, including web-facing microservice applications, migrate onto the platform, infrastructure managers need to look beyond Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

^{JUL 27, 2020 | WHITE PAPER}
AUGMENTED DDOS PROTECTION FOR CLOUD/NFV ENVIRONMENTS WITH BIG-IP VE FOR SMARTNICS

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have grown increasingly common as a form of sabotage by activists, criminals, gamers, and even governments. This increased risk makes DDoS mitigation for cloud/NFV environments more important now than ever before.

^{OCT 22, 2019 | WHITE PAPER}
MIGRATING WORKLOADS TO VMWARE CLOUD ON AWS

When migrating workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, you might be concerned about losing valuable application services. F5’s approach to migrating these workloads removes those concerns from the equation.

^{JUL 1, 2019 | WHITE PAPER}
MITIGATING ENCRYPTED THREATS AND ENSURING SECURE ENCRYPTION

Nearly every organization worldwide is moving toward digital transformation. Our lives today revolve around data. Keeping it private and secure is essential.

^{MAY 13, 2019 | WHITE PAPER}
AUTOMATING F5 APPLICATION SERVICES: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

In this paper, we will provide an overview of ways you can automate the deployment, management, and configuration of F5 BIG-IP appliances (both physical and virtual) along with some advice about how to choose the path that’s right for your business.

^{DEC 13, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
BEYOND ADVANCED THREAT PROTECTION

F5 and FireEye are working together to deliver solutions that offer the most effective technology, intelligence, and expertise in identifying and stopping malicious activity before it can occur.

^{MAY 30, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
SECURE APPLICATION DELIVERY

SSL security often means information obscurity for IT. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Protect the entire organization with an end-to-end solution that offers algorithm diversity and advanced key protection while maintaining application visibility and delivery.

^{MAY 30, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
BIG-IP CLOUD EDITION SOLUTION GUIDE

^{MAY 23, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
AVAILABILITY AND THE CLOUD

Cloud computing, while still evolving in all its iterations, can offer IT a powerful alternative for efficient application, infrastructure, and platform delivery. F5 provides a set of flexible, unified solutions to address cloud delivery needs now and in the future to help ensure the cloud computing environment is always fast, secure, and highly available.

^{MAY 9, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
HYBRID CLOUD REALIZED: F5, AZURE AND AZURE STACK

Supporting applications with the same BIG-IP traffic management and security services allows network and security operators to optimize application availability for end users while safeguarding applications and their data with consistent security features and policies.

^{MAR 21, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
ADVANCED WEB APPLICATION FIREWALL (WAF) LAUNCHPAD

Enterprises are extending their businesses by using web-based and cloud-hosted applications, so having a robust and agile web application firewall (WAF) in place to protect them from security threats isn't a luxury—it's a necessity.

^{FEB 9, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
AUTOMATING F5 APPLICATION SERVICES: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

In this paper, we will provide an overview of ways you can automate the deployment, management, and configuration of F5 BIG-IP appliances.

^{JAN 24, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
THE F5 INTELLIGENT DNS SCALE REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

The F5 Intelligent DNS Scale reference architecture is an end-to-end DNS delivery solution that improves web performance by reducing DNS latency, protects your web properties and brand reputation by mitigating DNS DDoS attacks, and reduces data center costs by consolidating DNS infrastructure.

^{JAN 19, 2018 | WHITE PAPER}
COOKIES, SESSIONS, AND PERSISTENCE

Without cookies, sessions, and persistence, we surely would have found a stately protocol on which to build our applications. Instead, features and functionality found in Application Delivery Controllers mediate between browsers (clients) and servers to provide this functionality.

^{DEC 14, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
F5 IAPPS: MOVING APPLICATION DELIVERY BEYOND THE NETWORK

F5 iApps are a revolutionary new way of focusing on how to manage application delivery through the network, thereby changing how applications are delivered across the data center.

^{NOV 26, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
OPTIMIZED TRAFFIC CONTROL AND LOAD BALANCING FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENTS FROM F5 + RED HAT

Red Hat and F5, both industry-leading technology companies, have partnered to create an integrated, automated container solution that optimizes network configuration for faster, more secure application delivery.

^{NOV 3, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
LOAD BALANCING ON AWS: KNOW YOUR OPTIONS

Both Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing and F5 BIG-IP offer compelling value to organizations deploying applications on AWS.

^{OCT 27, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
OPTIMIZE WAN AND LAN APPLICATION PERFORMANCE WITH TCP EXPRESS

For organizations looking to improve the capacity and performance of their infrastructure, the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager provides a unique solution that transparently makes every connecting client and server work more efficiently.

^{OCT 16, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
MIGRATING TIER 1 APPLICATION WORKLOADS TO AWS WITH F5

Enterprises deploying applications on AWS may have concerns about security, performance, and loss of control. The F5 BIG-IP platform alleviates these concerns by providing the same high availability, performance, and security services that most enterprises currently have in their private data centers.

^{OCT 5, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
WHAT IS DNS?

The DNS is one of the primary technology enabling the internet and a vital component in the networking infrastructure. Without a proper DNS infrastructure, customers won’t be able to reach your applications or content—which might lead to them turning elsewhere for their needs.

^{OCT 5, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
AUTOMATING APPLICATION DEPLOYMENTS WITH F5 BIG-IP AND PUPPET

The F5 and Puppet joint solution provides the functionality for operations teams to deploy, automate,
and manage the configuration of an entire application infrastructure stack.

^{OCT 2, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
DISTRIBUTING APPLICATIONS FOR DISASTER PLANNING AND AVAILABILITY

With BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS, F5 provides a proven solution for managing disaster recovery, site failover, and business continuity. The solution can optimize application data to maintain service levels between data centers, and with user-based connectivity.

^{SEP 10, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
THE EVOLUTION OF APPLICATION DELIVERY CONTROLLERS

With advanced features such as application intelligence, SSL offload, and programmatic interfaces, modern ADCs can help organizations scale their business and reach users anywhere, at any time.

^{AUG 29, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
OPTIMIZING THE APPLICATION EXPERIENCE FOR END USERS: A CHANGING LANDSCAPE

The key for IT departments is ensuring that the infrastructure that delivers the user experience (e.g., web servers, load balancers, CDNs, and SaaS) is upgraded to HTTP/2, which was designed for improving web performance.

^{AUG 16, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
MIGRATING APPS TO THE CLOUD? READ THIS FIRST.

Cloud computing environments are now a dominant feature of the IT landscape with organizations moving legacy on-premises applications to the cloud with ever-increasing regularity. To gain the most benefits from cloud migration, plan ahead—both in the application architecture and the transition from on premises to cloud.

^{JUL 21, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS AND NETWORK SECURITY

Recent years have seen significant increases in the availability of network-enabled devices. Anytime, anywhere access makes it feasible to network all manner of things, and the rush of new Internet of Things (IoT) devices has only just begun.

^{JUN 6, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
PRIVATE CLOUD 101: MOVE AT THE SPEED OF BUSINESS

Private clouds can boost agility, automate processes, and decrease time to market thanks to the advantages of self-service provisioning, enhanced scalability, and multi-tenancy.

^{MAY 10, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
LOAD BALANCING 101: NUTS AND BOLTS

Modern ADC allows organizations to consolidate network-based services like SSL/TLS offload, caching, compression, rate-shaping, intrusion detection, application firewalls, and even remote access into a single strategic point that can be shared and reused across all application services and all hosts to create a virtualized Application Delivery Network.

^{MAR 28, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
UNDERSTANDING ADC PERFORMANCE METRICS

Understanding application workloads, ADC performance metrics, and how they interact can increase your success when selecting the right ADC platform.

^{MAR 14, 2017 | WHITE PAPER}
F5 AND AWS: ADVANCED APPLICATION DELIVERY SERVICES IN THE CLOUD

Learn how F5 solutions enable simple and easy delivery of application services to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments.

^{DEC 8, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
THE INTERNET OF THINGS: SECURITY AND BUSINESS IMPACTS ON SERVICE PROVIDERS

Service providers can cement their position as value-added solution providers and best capitalize on the burgeoning opportunities presented by the growth of the IoT. Service providers must architect secure and agile networks that offer connectivity, security, and an optimal customer experience.

^{NOV 29, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
LIFTING AND SHIFTING ENTERPRISE APPS TO THE CLOUD: 5 RULES TO FOLLOW (AND 1 TO BREAK)

Lifting and shifting enterprise applications to a public cloud can allow organizations to save money, increase flexibility, and move quickly into a cloud environment.

^{OCT 24, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
THE DYNAMIC DNS INFRASTRUCTURE

Between the proliferation of mobile devices and the ever-increasing amount of content on the web, DNS usage has seen a huge increase in recent years. F5’s new full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing.

^{SEP 30, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
WHY YOU NEED ADVANCED APPLICATION SERVICES IN YOUR PRIVATE CLOUD

While most private cloud networking platforms offer a basic battery of application delivery services, enterprises that host mission-critical applications in their private clouds need more.

^{JUL 29, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
F5 BIG-IP PLATFORM SECURITY

F5 BIG-IP system hardware and software, which use the F5 TMOS operating system, are designed from the ground up to work together to provide total application security.

^{JUN 20, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
USING DOCKER CONTAINER TECHNOLOGY WITH F5 PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

MAY 26, 2016 | WHITE PAPER
KEY CONSIDERATIONS IN DEPLOYING AN SSL SOLUTION

SSL adds security but brings deployment and workload efficiency challenges. Meet them with proactive strategies incorporating the latest options and solutions.

^{APR 19, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
HOW TO ADD F5 APPLICATION DELIVERY SERVICES TO OPENSTACK

Advanced F5 application delivery services can be flexibly designed into an OpenStack cloud architecture with a variety of deployment and orchestration options.

^{FEB 24, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
THE CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT

Identity and access management (IAM) solutions today must balance streamlined authentication with increasingly complex security concerns.

^{FEB 24, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF APPLICATION PROTECTION

It’s time to broaden the view of application security so that organizations are in a better position to effectively secure all the components that make up their critical apps, safeguard their data, and protect their businesses.

^{FEB 10, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
THE MYTH OF NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION AS SECURITY

^{JAN 28, 2016 | WHITE PAPER}
SECURING LTE NETWORKS—WHAT, WHY, AND HOW

As security threats evolve, service providers must implement comprehensive security for both their LTE network infrastructures and connected devices to protect network and service performance, customer satisfaction, and revenue growth.

^{MAY 7, 2015 | WHITE PAPER}
MIGRATING APPLICATION WORKLOADS TO PUBLIC CLOUD

Organizations migrating applications to public IaaS providers must continue to deliver an outstanding end-user experience while maintaining security, visibility, and control. F5 application and security services can achieve these goals while providing agility, consistent application and security policies, and operational cost-efficiency.

^{NOV 20, 2012 | WHITE PAPER}
ENHANCING EXCHANGE MOBILE DEVICE SECURITY WITH THE F5 BIG-IP PLATFORM

As the use of mobile devices in the workplace continues to grow, the risk to corporate assets, and the need to mitigate these risks, increases as well. Fortunately, F5® BIG-IP® Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) can help.

^{SEP 5, 2012 | WHITE PAPER}
F5 AND WINDOWS SERVER 2012 DIRECTACCESS/REMOTE ACCESS SERVICES

The F5 BIG-IP platform provides high availability, performance, and scalability when used to deliver traffic management and load balancing for the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Remote Access Solutions: DirectAccess and Remote Access Services.

^{AUG 27, 2012 | WHITE PAPER}
DESIGNING F5 APPLICATION DELIVERY TO MAXIMIZE BUSINESS VALUE

There are many factors to consider when designing and deploying an Application Delivery Network around business needs. F5 addresses those requirements throughout the data center.

^{MAY 17, 2012 | WHITE PAPER}
ENABLE A SCALABLE AND SECURE VMWARE VIEW DEPLOYMENT

A FlexPod data center design complemented by F5 ADCs supports a scalable VMware View solution, as demonstrated and validated by Trace3 and F5.

^{JAN 22, 2012 | WHITE PAPER}
ADAPTABLE AND RESILIENT VDI DEPLOYMENTS

A complete VDI solution should deliver a reliable, high-performing desktop user experience while taming complexity and supporting scalability within a secure, stable framework.

^{JAN 10, 2012 | WHITE PAPER}
BUILDING AN ENTERPRISE CLOUD WITH F5 AND IBM

The purpose of any cloud deployment is to reduce the barriers of creating new services and provide a more agile computing infrastructure. An enterprise cloud brings that agility into the data center for significantly improved manageability and control.