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  • Hybrid Clouds are hot, SDNs and DevOps coming on strong

    Some 80 per cent of companies are building hybrid Clouds, according to a survey of 3000 architects and engineers conducted by F5 Networks. Many respondents are also considering building software-defined networks and implementing DevOps over the next two to five years.

    Written by Clint Boulton14 Jan. 16 21:27
  • Cisco, Microsoft & other big enterprise IT firms miss Best Places to Work cut

    It’s not that the biggest names in enterprise IT and networking aren’t good places to work, according to employees submitting reviews to jobs and career marketplace Glassdoor. It’s just that they aren’t “Amazing!” or “Great!” places to work, according to Glassdoor’s list of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2016.

    Written by Bob Brown09 Dec. 15 17:34
  • Google employees say it's the best big company to work for

    Google employees love their jobs more so than workers at any other big company in the United States, according to the <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm">2014 Glassdoor Employees' Choice Awards rankings.</a>

    Written by Bob Brown11 Dec. 14 01:23
  • The POODLE flaw returns, this time hitting TLS security protocol

    Webmasters who patched their sites against a serious SSL flaw discovered in October will have to check them again. Researchers have discovered that the vulnerability also affects implementations of the newer TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol.

    Written by Lucian Constantin09 Dec. 14 09:42
  • F5 CTO: We're working hard on the transition to software

    F5 Networks is a veteran player in the network management market, having sold its load balancing hardware - or application delivery controllers, as it prefers to call them - to large numbers of data center customers.

    Written by Jon Gold07 Aug. 14 01:33
  • F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT

    F5 Networks CEO John McAdam said Tuesday at his company's Agility conference in New York that, in essence, the future of IT is complicated, confusing and riddled with security threats - and that's a good thing.

    Written by Jon Gold06 Aug. 14 07:00
  • Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud

    Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well.

    Written by Stephen Lawson05 Nov. 13 15:02
  • Cloud computing swallowing up branch office hardware

    The popularization of cloud computing and ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet connectivity mean that the days of the specialized branch office IT appliance are numbered, according to industry sources.

    Written by Jon Gold16 July 13 13:08
  • F5 tries to stay ahead of the curve with moves into security and beyond

    F5 Networks is best known for its high-end network management hardware, especially its BIG-IP line of load balancers. Those offerings have fueled annual revenue growth from $525 million to more than $1.3 billion since 2007, even in the face of the recent recession.

    Written by Jon Gold28 Feb. 13 20:11
  • F5 jumps into BYOD with new app manager

    F5 Networks on Tuesday will announce a mobile app manager product aimed at simplifying the integration of the omnipresent personal smartphone into corporate networks.

    Written by Jon Gold19 Feb. 13 14:16
  • F5 to acquire SDN vendor LineRate Systems

    F5 Networks plans to extend the reach of software-defined networking to improve application performance by acquiring software startup LineRate Systems.

    Written by Stephen Lawson11 Feb. 13 18:28
  • F5 introduces new integrated firewall capability for the data center

    F5 Networks today rolled out a raft of new and more powerful Application Delivery Networking tools, including its most capable device to date, the Viprion 4800, and an advanced firewall that, when deployed on the 4800, is said to offer industry leading performance.

    Written by Jon Gold31 Jan. 13 17:14
  • Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com

    It's the busy time of year for Allrecipes.com, which gets 700 million visitors annually, and to accommodate the surge of recipe-seekers, it's necessary to cook up some serious network changes in the data center.

    Written by Ellen Messmer19 Dec. 12 11:39
  • F5 boosts capacity, transaction capabilities of its application delivery hardware

    F5 Networks this week debuted the 4200v version of its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers -- specialized hardware designed to help lessen the load imposed on network-based services -- significantly bolstering the transaction handling and capacity over its current high-end box.

    Written by Jon Gold19 Oct. 12 15:45
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