Podcasts

Duration: 14 minutes

HP ran tests on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 using F5 technology, and the results were dramatic: F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator improved throughput to the branch office by up to 8x in a symmetric configuration. Listen to this podcast to hear about the testing methodologies and results, discussed by Jimi Ibbett, senior member of the technical staff, Solutions Alliances Engineering at HP; Ryan Korock, solutions architect at F5; and Jeff Bellamy, senior business development manager at F5. You'll also learn more about the HP-F5 partnership and F5's Application Ready Network for Microsoft.

• Podcast - 'F5 and HP Partner to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007'

Duration: 8 minutes

Ken Salchow, F5's manager of technical marketing, talks about F5's Application Ready Networks (ARNs). These road-tested architectures cover best practices and deployment support for specific solutions from F5 and major software vendors. F5 currently offers ARNs for Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle products. This podcast describes how ARNs benefit customers and why F5 believes they are important.

Duration: 40 minutes

F5 DevCentral's Jeff Browning sits down to talk about F5's Application Ready Network (ARN) initiative with Karen Jester and Calvin Rowland. During this interview, they discuss what ARN really is, how it's tested, how actual customers utilize it, and get into the details on how ARN came to be.

Duration: 7 minutes

Peak traffic can overload servers and cause bandwidth congestion, leaving web sites unavailable to users. Commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDN) improve performance, but costs are unpredictable, highly variable, and wreak havoc on budgets. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how you can control and lower CDN service costs by reducing repeat downloads of content even dynamic content using Intelligent Browser Referencing.

Duration: 6 minutes

Enterprises want to distribute content closer to their remote users, but can't use commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), because the information is internal, dynamic and confidential. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator can be deployed symmetrically to create an enterprise CDN (eCDN) that gives enterprise web sites high availability, DOS protection, the fastest user experience, and helps ensure that regulatory compliance is met.

Duration: 23 minutes

In order to bring about the next-generation data center, enterprise infrastructure and data architectures need to be redesigned, explains Christopher Lynch, senior vice president of data solutions for F5 Networks, in this IT Link podcast.

Duration: 13 minutes

Meeting PCI (Payment Card Industry) requirements for application security is more than just implementing a Web Application Firewall for requirement 6.6. Learn how F5 addresses multiple PCI requirements across all of our products.

Duration: 15 minutes

Application security as a concept has many different connotations, ranging from dealing with application security only in code, implementing solutions in existing technologies such as firewalls, and "porting" application business logic to a traditional on-the-wire Application Firewall solution. The primary barriers to entry for true application security on the wire have included long deployment times and performance. With its new BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) release, F5 has addresses both of these issues head-on, creating a simple, robust "Drop and Go" Application Firewall and fully integrated Application Deliver Security platform. Learn how BIG-IP ASM can help you deploy a complete application security solution while optimizing and accelerating your applications as well.

Duration: 15 minutes

Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn't cover all parts of the virtualization story. What does virtualization mean within the context of end-users, operating systems, application server, management, etc? These are the questions that all IT departments are dealing with today as they plan their various virtualization migration plans. Before you begin to move towards a fully virtual user and Data Center environment, learn where each independent virtualization category sits in your environment and how to address each one individually.

Duration: 11 minutes

Listen to key benefits and new capabilities in FirePass 6.0.2 and how you can use FirePass SSL VPN to maximize productivity of your mobile workforce. Hear about how FirePass differs from other SSL VPN products and adds additional business value to enterprises deploying SSL VPN.

Duration: 12 minutes

Mike Krasnow, F5 Network's Product Marketing Manager, discusses BIG-IP version 9. Krasnow explains the benefits that organizations can expect by upgrading from version 4. In version 9, F5's has taken a quantum leap ahead with both their software architecture and hardware platforms to ensure that applications are not only available, but also fast and secure.

Duration: 12 minutes

Ken Salchow, F5 Network's manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating the access network from the service network. IMS will benefit ISP's by allowing them to offer a greater variety of products, with more network efficiency, and IMS will benefit consumers, providing new choices in products, services and mobility. Salchow suggests that IMS brings the concept of Fixed Mobile Convergence one step closer to reality.

Duration: 15 minutes

Deploying dynamic Web applications in the enterprise offers significant benefits, but application performance is often slow, especially for remote and mobile users. F5's BIG-IP^® WebAccelerator^™ addresses this problem with Dynamic Caching, a patented technology that helps to deliver highly dynamic Web-enabled applications to users five to ten times faster, while greatly reducing Web infrastructure costs. In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, Architect at F5 Networks, explains the difference between dynamic and static caching, how WebAccelerator's Dynamic Caching feature works, and how it can help offload your network and speed up Web application delivery.

Duration: 11 minutes

Organizations rely on dynamic Web applications like Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle Portal, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and Siebel CRM. But while users working near the corporate office's data center have virtually instant access, mobile and remote users get long delays-or even worse, they find that an application doesn't work at all. In this podcast, Podtech's Michael Johnson talks with Joe Hicks, F5 Product Manager, who discusses the inherent challenges in Web application delivery, and how acceleration technologies can offload servers, reduce bandwidth needs, and increase application performance and user satisfaction.

Duration: 11 minutes

Network and application performance are affected by many factors, including network latency, packet loss, congestion, chatty applications, verbose protocols like HTTP, and data center consolidation. These combine to slow down Web applications, especially for the increasing numbers of remote and mobile users. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Product Manager, helps you understand how to maximize ROI by choosing the correct acceleration technologies to meet your particular network optimization and application performance goals.

Duration: 12 minutes

Servers are being overwhelmed by computational tasks they weren't designed to handle, and organizations are losing time and money as they struggle to manage server licenses, power needs, rack space, and data center costs. With commonly used Web page objects, the same data is getting served over and over again, which burdens servers and slows down network and application performance. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Product Manager, talks about Web acceleration technologies that can simultaneously offload servers while speeding up Web applications for remote and mobile users.

Duration: 15 minutes

Many organizations need faster access to data and Web applications, but they find upgrading bandwidth offers negligible improvements in data transfer and application performance. In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, Architect at F5 Networks, discusses byte caching, compression ratios, Web application delivery optimization, corporate CIFS optimization, TCP Stack, and file caching.

Duration: 11 minutes

Join F5 Technical Marketing Manager (and service-oriented architecture guru) Lori MacVittie on Infoworld's SOA Report. Host Dave Linthicum brings Lori on as "an SOA expert," to describe what organizations need to consider when moving towards a secure SOA and how developers can benefit from a policy-based security system, which can help them adapt more quickly to a changing security environment. Topics include protecting readable data using encryption and decryption, setting up access control to services and the operations beneath them, and managing data scrubbing and data integrity issues.

Duration: 10 minutes

Peter Silva, a technical marketing manager at F5 Networks, talks about secure remote access, business disaster preparedness, the "people factor", and F5's Firepass application solution.

Duration: 14 minutes

As corporations expand and adapt to a mobile workforce, issues of remote access and security have become even more crucial to basic business operations. Peter Silva, a technical marketing manager at F5 Networks, talks about secure remote access and its role in workforce continuity, business continuity, and an overall disaster recovery plan.

Duration: 13 minutes

F5's Core Technical Marketing Manager, Ken Salchow, explains redirection in a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plan, and outlines best practices for data disaster preparedness.

Duration: 22 minutes

According to a recent Forrester study, fewer than 50% of organizations can recover from a primary data center failure in five hours or less - and less than 10% can measure recovery time in 120 minutes or less. Join us for this podcast as PodTech's Michael Johnson talks with Kevin Hohenbrink, F5 Product Manager, who defines some of the terminology and ideas surrounding data recovery and outlines the important parts of a business-continuity/disaster-recovery plan. You'll learn about business-impact analysis and its importance in a recovery strategy, and you'll also hear about the F5 approach to data replication and disaster recovery, especially involving WANJet, our appliance-based data compression and accelerator tool.

• Podcast - 'Data Replication & Disaster Recovery' Part 1
• Podcast - Data Replication & Disaster Recovery' Part 2
• More information 'WANJet'

Duration: 6 minutes

AJAX requests are typically smaller than their traditional HTML counterparts, but there are more of them. With more data being exchanged at a faster rate, no standards support, immature toolkits, and human-readable application logic, AJAX has a plethora of application delivery and security hurdles to overcome. AJAX isn't going away - in fact, it's being adopted at an incredible rate. That means we need to address the performance and security concerns of this fledgling technology sooner rather than later. In this podcast with Dr. Dobb's Journal, F5 Technical Marketing Manager Lori MacVittie expands on her article "The AJAX Application Delivery Challenge," which discusses the application delivery and security hurdles faced by AJAX developers.

• Podcast - 'The AJAX Application Delivery Challenge'
• Article - 'The AJAX Application Delivery Challenge'

Duration: 15 minutes

The continued proliferation of mobile devices is driving a need to allow access to corporate data from an increasing number of endpoints. At the same time, evolving compliance and regulation issues are driving a reconsolidation of the enterprise data center to enforce more stringent access and audit controls. Unified Access is a new security paradigm of management, enforcement, and auditing based on intelligent, business-based rules that encompass the entire enterprise infrastructure-all managed from a central point. Join us as PodTech's Michael Johnson talks with Ken Salchow (F5 Technical Marketing Manager) and Abby Guha (RSA Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise Authentication Solutions) about solutions for unified secure access.

• Podcast - 'Unified Secure Access - The way of the future?'
• More information - 'F5 Unified Access White Paper'
• More information - 'F5 alliance with RSA'

Duration: 14 minutes

Increasingly, organizations of all kinds are finally feeling the pressure to migrate from the well-known and universal IPv4 standard towards the IPv6 standard, especially in international and governmental markets. IPv6 has been around for over a decade but has seen slow adoption until now. PodTech's Michael Johnson speaks with Ken Salchow, F5 Technical Marketing Manager, about F5 solutions for IPv6 and IPv6 migration.

• Podcast - 'Bridging the gap to tomorrow: IPv6 and BIG-IP'
• White Paper - 'IPv6 - Bridging the Gap to Tomorrow'
• More information - 'BIG-IP IPv6 Gateway'

Duration: 17 minutes

One of the major myths regarding how to improve application performance is that adding bandwidth can solve problems across a WAN. That is rarely the case, as explained in this podcast with F5 Product Management Director Ameet Dhillon. In this talk with PodTech's Michael Johnson, you can learn about the major factors that negatively affect application performance across a WAN, including latency, packet loss, and chatty protocols, and you can find out how F5 can help mitigate them.

• Podcast - 'The Myth of Bandwidth and Application Performance'
• White Paper - 'The Myth of Bandwidth and Application Performance'
• More information 'WANJet'