January 2011
38 posts
Dispelling the New SSL Myth →
Claiming SSL is not computationally expensive is like saying gas is not expensive when you don’t have to drive to work every day.
DevCentral Top5 1/28/2011 →
This week brought new meaning to the old, familiar phrase “so overstuffed with goodness it’s unknowable”. Well okay, maybe it’s a silly new phrase I just made up, but that doesn’t change the fact…
F5 Friday: Join Robin “IT” Hood and... →
Mobile users. cloud computing . End-runs around IT security by developers. The trend has always existed, it’s just speeding up now. IT needs to take back control – and fast. But first IT needs…
F5 Friday: Join Robin “IT” Hood and Take Back... →
Mobile users. cloud computing . End-runs around IT security by developers. The trend has always existed, it’s just speeding up now. IT needs to take back control – and fast. But first IT needs the tools with which to do that…
DevCentral Weekly Podcast 162 - A Suse-Suse-Studio... →
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Welcome to the one hundred and sixty second edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that…
F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module in Data... →
Data loads are constantly on the rise: where transmissions once included only plain-text email and a few static web hits, people now send rich text email, dynamic web pages including multiple AJAX…
20 Lines or Less #44: Redirecting, Re-encrypting,... →
What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That’s the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show…
Citrix XenApp (BIG-IP v10) →
This guide shows how to deploy the BIG-IP LTM version 10.2.1 with Citrix XenApp using the Application Template. Tested with XenApp versions 5 and 6.
Scatter Plotting Response Times With iRules And... →
We’ve presented several articles in the past utilizing the Google Charts API with iControl and iRules. A few of these include
Creating an iControl PowerShell Monitoring Dashboard With Google…
Bloomberg interview with F5's CEO →
F5 CEO, John McAdam, speaks with Bloomberg to address the market’s reaction to F5’s FYQ1 earnings and the outlook of the Application Delivery Networking market. McAdam explains that the company…
Simplify VMware View Deployments →
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or the ability to deliver desktops as a managed service is an attractive and cost effective solution to mange a corporate desktop environment. The success of…
Get Your Money for Nothing and Your Bots for Free →
Cloning. Boomeranging. Trojan clouds. Start up CloudPassage takes aim at emerging attack surfaces but it’s still more about process than it is product.
VMware View 4.5 (BIG-IP APM VE, LTM VE) →
This document provides guidance and configuration procedures for deploying the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition (LTM VE) and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager Virtual Edition (APM VE) version…
Cloud Usage: What If We’re Doing It Wrong? →
Lori and I were talking shop over the weekend, and one of the things a co-worker had said on an email thread triggered an entire series of observations from me. Not being one to keep…
More Users, More Access, More Clients, Less... →
It used to be that “mobile” access implied “remote” access. That’s no longer true. As the variety of clients continue to expand along with the venues from which we users can access corporate…
DNS is Like Your Mom →
Both are taken for granted but provide vital services without which you and your digital presence would be lost. In the case of DNS, that should be taken literally.
More Users, More Access, More Clients, Less... →
It used to be that “mobile” access implied “remote” access. That’s no longer true. As the variety of clients continue to expand along with the venues from which we users can access corporate resources the ability to intelligently enforce access-control policies also increases in strategic importance.
iRule::ology; Connection Limiting Take 2 →
Welcome to the series in which we tear apart an iRule line by line to see what’s really going on. What is iRule::ology, you ask? i·Rule·ol·o·gy –noun, plural -gies. 1.The derivation, that is,…
DNS is Like Your Mom →
Both are taken for granted but provide vital services without which you and your digital presence would be lost. In the case of DNS, that should be taken literally.
F5 Helps CSG's Content Direct Meet Stringent... →
F5’s BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module accelerates data center replication and improves bandwidth efficiency in Dell EqualLogic storage environment.
Get Your Money for Nothing and Your Bots for Free →
Cloning. Boomeranging. Trojan clouds. Start up CloudPassage takes aim at emerging attack surfaces but it’s still more about process than it is product. Its solution is particularly well-suited for developers who are being forced to become ops when deploying applications in public cloud envirnments.
DevCentral Top5 1/21/2011 →
Settling into the new year there is goodness a plenty on DevCentral this week. Between group revamps, site improvements and maintenance, including trimming the page size down to a more svelte,…
F5 Friday: ARX VE Offers New Opportunities →
Virtualization has many benefits in the data center – some that aren’t necessarily about provisioning and deployment.
Data Center Feng Shui: Process Equally Important... →
Like Subway, too often we fail to recognize that ingredients is only half a successful recipe. Process is the other half.
Is There Such a Thing as a Safe Area of the Web? →
It only takes one click ….
F5 Friday: There’s an App for That (And It’s In... →
The consumerization of IT is well underway. Supporting secure remote access via what are traditionally “consumer” gadgets is a must.
The Zero-Product Property of IT →
Network and applications. Operations and developers. IT and the business. These relationships are technical, personal, and organizational and all require each other to flourish.
Don’t Conflate Virtual with Dynamic →
Focusing on form factor over function is as shallow and misguided as focusing on beauty over brains.
Don’t Conflate Virtual with Dynamic →
Focusing on form factor over function is as shallow and misguided as focusing on beauty over brains.
Getting Started With Ruby and iControl →
Here on DevCentral we’ve released libraries for a number of the big languages from Java and Perl to Powershell. Up until now there has not been much love for Ruby. Well, that’s…
A bit of Friday levity →
While I don’t necessarily believe this to be accurate, this is sure a strong depiction of how it feels when coding on a large project sometimes. Credit goes to xckd.com for the image, and for…
F5 Friday: BIG-IP WOM With Oracle Products →
It’s not just having partnerships, it’s what you do with them that makes a difference
DevCentral Weekly Podcast 159 - 2010 In Review →
Welcome to the one hundred and fifty ninth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have…
PCI Turns 2.0 →
…Or 6 years old in human time. When PCI DSS was born, it was actually five different procedures from each of the major credit card issuers: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB and Discover….
Attacks Cannot Be Prevented →
You can put into place technology to mitigate and defend against the effects, but you can’t stop the attack from happening
Fun with Hash Performance and Google Charts →
Currently, I’m working on an update to Deb’s excellent tech tip on hash load balancing. During the prep stages, I started thinking about hashing algorithms in general and how resource intensive…
Achieving Scalability Through Fewer Resources →
Sometimes it’s not about how many resources you have but how you use them
Achieving Scalability Through Fewer Resources →
Sometimes it’s not about how many resources you have but how you use them