Alane Moran

Rackspace Hosting wanted to broaden its product portfolio by offering customers an easy way to link dedicated managed servers to cloud-based servers. The company used Application Delivery Networking devices from F5 to help build a hybrid service called RackConnect. Now, Rackspace customers can mix and match dedicated managed and cloud hosting platforms for ultimate scalability, flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs. Customers can dynamically provision resources, manage web and application traffic, and load balance in real time among the two environments. F5 technology helped enable a rapid time-to-market for RackConnect, and it also helps the company expand the benefits of its cloud by simplifying customers' migration. Business Challenges Rackspace, based in San Antonio, Texas, provides hosting solutions to businesses of all sizes, across a portfolio of IT servi... (more)

F5’s BIG-IP Edge Gateway Solution Provides Breakthrough Approach to Unifying and Optimizing Access to the Data Center

Details With this release, F5 continues to deliver on its vision of unifying its ADC solution set and redefining how customers implement, share, and cost-effectively extend their Application Delivery Network all the way to the client. With approximately five times the scaling capability and up to an eight times improvement in application performance, the BIG-IP Edge Gateway offers enterprises significant ROI at less than half the cost of alternative, disparate technologies. The new BIG-IP Edge Gateway enables customers to: Dramatically Reduce CapEx with Unified Services and Simpl... (more)

F5 Unlocks True Potential of ‘On-Demand IT’

F5 Networks has  introduced its BIG-IP Version 10.2 software to help extend enterprise data center architecture to the cloud, and enable enterprises and service providers to realize the potential of ‘On-Demand IT' through a dynamic services model. To help customers unlock the power of ‘On-Demand IT,' F5 is detailing a comprehensive approach that integrates disparate technologies for application delivery, security, optimization, data management, and infrastructure control-all critical technologies needed to realize the true flexibility and agility of virtualization and cloud com... (more)

F5 Strengthens Presence and Support in China

Virtualization Expo on Ulitzer F5 Networks has announced the expansion of their support and manufacturing operations to strengthen service levels and operational efficiency in China. "China is the largest market for F5 in the Asia Pacific region, with great strength in the banking and service provider sectors. This expansion will enable us to better assist both our partners and customers," said Julian Eames, SVP of Business Operations at F5. "Our efforts there demonstrate F5’s continued commitment to grow our business in China and beyond." Support Centers Deliver Best-in-Class Ser... (more)

I'll Call You Back, I'm in Mongolia

I've always thought the term mobile worker to be something of a misnomer. Most of them, it seems to me, are actually sitting at a desk in a spare upstairs bedroom, or on a nice day, in the garden. Even the most dedicated road warriors never really log on from anywhere more exciting than the Costa Coffee at Watford Gap Services. Step in F5 Networks, which will be demonstrating the more adventurous side of remote working later in the month when a sponsored team of adventure travelers will set off, not to a reseller seminar at the Swindon Holiday Inn, but across central Asia to Mong... (more)