WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization is being added to IT shops at a booming rate because IT has seen the benefits: improved utilization rates, reduced CapEx and improvements in flexibility. In this report, The Taneja Group explains that F5 Network's ac...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: April 28, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Data Center Management | Remote Access Software

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, read how TMOS--the foundation and architecture for F5's application delivery controllers running on the BIG-IP platform--brings a wealth of security to existing application delivery networks.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Network Management Services | Network Security | Security Management | TCP

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, learn about F5's TMOS architecture, a collection of real-time features and functions, purpose-built and designed as a full-proxy solution with the power and performance required in today's network ...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2006


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Performance Management | Network Infrastructure | Proxy Server Hardware

WHITE PAPER - If you're worried about the performance of your web applications, you're not alone. Network, client, and data center issues all play a role in how well your web applications perform. Read how an application delivery network can ...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Performance Management | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Many of the challenges associated with SOA deployments are the same challenges when deploying traditional web-based applications. The key to addressing SOA-related challenges is to identify them as early as possible and include the appropriate ...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | SOA | XML

WHITE PAPER - The concept of Unified Access Control (UAC) or Network Admission Control (NAC) is being talked about a great deal within the information security & network architecture industries. In this paper, we will define the depth & breadth of the pi...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2006


Topics:  Access Control | Application Deployment | Information Security | Network Security | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - ADCs are the natural evolution to the critical network real estate that load balancers of the past held, and while they owe a great deal to those bygone devices, they are a distinctly new breed providing availability, performance and securi...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Load Balancing | Network Security

WHITE PAPER - This white paper is intended to shed light on the issues affecting application performance in the wide area, and to give IT managers the knowledge required to design strategic enterprise application acceleration and deployment solutions.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Application Deployment | Bandwidth Management

WHITE PAPER - The intent of this paper is to offer the reader a basic understanding of the Session Initiated Protocol. SIP provides five functions, uses a layered approach that gives it flexibility, and has an openness that enables new applications to utiliz...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Internet Engineering Task Force | SIP | Video Services

WHITE PAPER - While it is important to understand benefits that F5's BIG-IP traffic management solutions bring to an organization, such as high availability, improving application performance, optimizing infrastructure, the goal of this paper...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2004


Topics:  Application Deployment | Data Security | Internet Traffic Management | WAN

WHITE PAPER - One of SOA's main goals is to align IT with the business. As the service delivery network through which applications are delivered is a part of IT, it makes sense that these platforms should also support those goals. This paper explains how app...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Infrastructure | Risk Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This report documents the performance of the top Application Delivery Controllers offered by F5 Networks, Cisco Systems, and Citrix Netscaler. Through the development and implementation of robust and reproducible testing methods, F5 demonst...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Security | HTTP | Network Security | SSL | TCP/IP | Web Application Security

WHITE PAPER - Most organizations are familiar with application security and Web Application Firewalls, realizing that secure application access and delivery are necessities. There are many factors that are driving this push, most notably led by the "we...
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Security | Firewall Appliances | OSI Protocols | Web Application Security | Web Switches