Blog posts by Tom Atkins
Senior Product Marketing Manager | F5
Blog posts written by Tom Atkins(34)
F5 BIG-IP v21.1 is now generally available, bringing PQC and AI security enhancements
F5’s newest version of BIG-IP strengthens PQC readiness, while adding new AI protection capabilities
By Tom AtkinsA sneak peek into F5 BIG-IP v21.1: AI security, PQC, and software enhancements
Learn how F5’s BIG-IP v21.1 delivers AI security and PQC-readiness.
By Tom Atkins
Build secure and resilient digital experiences with F5’s enterprise application delivery and security architecture
F5’s application services architecture is designed to help customers maximize performance, control, and security, while simplifying their day-to-day operations.
By Tom Atkins
F5 BIG-IP v21.0: Control plane, AI data delivery and security enhancements
Learn how F5's BIG-IP v21.0 transforms AI app delivery and security with modernized solutions for control plane, server reliability, & application scalability.
By Tom Atkins
Seven Reasons to Upgrade Your F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition
In the world of app delivery and security, it’s essential to keep pace with tech advances. For F5 BIG-IP VE customers, periodic upgrades are critical. Here’s why.
By Tom Atkins
BIG-IP Next: Securing and Delivering the Next Application Era
Recognizing that the complexity and magnitude of today’s application and threat landscape will only rise in years to come, the core tenets for BIG-IP Next are that of simplification, security, and sca...
By Tom AtkinsCentralizing BIG-IP Advanced WAF Threat Visualization, Alerting, and Reporting With Azure Sentinel
Cyberthreats have become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, giving security teams little choice but to invest heavily in the latest and greatest technologies to protect their application portfo...
By Tom AtkinsCircumvent iSeries Supply Chain Delays: Five reasons to Switch to BIG-IP Virtual Edition
At a time when speed is of the essence however, IT organizations are increasingly being hampered by lengthening component lead times brought about by the global semiconductor shortage – much to the fr...
By Tom AtkinsLeveling Up Your AWS WAF with F5 Managed Rules
According to Forrester’s 2021 State of Application Security Report, a staggering 39% of all cyberattacks last year targeted web applications, and for good reason. The public-facing nature of web apps,...
By Tom AtkinsBIG-IP VE for SmartNICs Solution adds support for L4 Traffic Acceleration and Carrier-Grade NAT
Astonishingly, a little over a year has passed since F5 launched the BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs solution, which as a reminder, is the product of an integration between the BIG-IP Virtual Edition and an I...
By Tom AtkinsBIG-IP VE for SmartNICs Solution adds support for L4 Traffic Acceleration and Carrier-Grade NAT
Astonishingly, a little over a year has passed since F5 launched the BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs solution and during this time, both the internet and application landscape have continued to rapidly evolv...
By Tom AtkinsMitigate DDoS Attacks up to 300x Greater in Magnitude in Cloud Environments: Introducing BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs
For service providers and enterprises transitioning to 5G network infrastructure and modern cloud architectures, virtual environments can now be hosted on low-cost, standards-based servers while movin...
By Tom AtkinsSoftware & High Performance: Why They Don’t Have to Be Mutually Exclusive
The benefits of migrating away from hardware-dominated environments to cloud and software-defined architectures are well known—increased scalability, operational agility and economic flexibility, to n...
By Tom AtkinsAzure Strategy Still Coming Together? Here’s Four Ways F5 Can Help
All cloud journeys are unique and can be complicated, with very different objectives, strategies, and hurdles. So let’s take a look at how F5 can help you and your applications wherever you are in you...
By Tom AtkinsThree Scenarios where Policy Consistency is Beneficial
The key to simplifying multi-cloud architectures is to standardize elements wherever possible. By employing tools that can be used across environments, much of this complexity is abstracted away as yo...
By Tom AtkinsConquer your Cloud Security Concerns: Join us at AWS re:Inforce!
F5's Tom Atkins provides a quick snapshot of relevant cloud security topics leading into this week's inaugural AWS security, compliance, and identity conference in Boston.
By Tom AtkinsAlibaba Cloud Support – Extending F5’s Multi-Cloud Ecosystem
With consistent services and policies in the Alibaba Cloud, and across other supported cloud environments, operations teams can comfortably secure and optimize any app while providing developers the a...
By Tom AtkinsAnnouncing Availability of Google Cloud’s Anthos with F5 Container Ingress Services
With the general availability of GKE On-Prem (a core component of Google Cloud’s Anthos), F5 reveals its integration with this new solution, allowing its users to get one step closer to crafting a tru...
By Tom AtkinsBolster your API security on AWS with New Managed Rules for AWS WAF
Building on the trio of managed rules for AWS’ native WAF delivered in the fall of 2018, we are excited to announce another ruleset which focuses solely on the protecting your APIs against existing an...
By Tom AtkinsLooking Back on Another Year of Innovation for F5 on AWS
As the dust from the recent re:Invent conference settles, Tom Atkins reflects and takes a closer look at the most notable advances from what has been another dynamic and productive year for F5 on AWS.
By Tom AtkinsF5 WAF Support for AWS Security Hub – Empowering Centralized Security Reporting
Modern security is a multi-vendor proposition. F5’s industry-leading Web Application Firewall solutions (such as Advanced WAF) can now be integrated with AWS Security Hub, allowing predefined alert in...
By Tom AtkinsGet Straight Down to Business on AWS, with F5’s New Quick Start
Before the start of AWS re:Invent, we’re excited to share the new Quick Start integration between F5 and AWS. F5’s Tom Atkins discusses how the service launches, configures, and runs the AWS compute, ...
By Tom AtkinsF5 Helps Launch AWS Consulting Partner Private Offers Program
F5 is one of an exclusive group of launch partners of AWS’ Consulting Partner Private Offers Program, giving partners extended capabilities in making F5 application services available to customers via...
By Tom AtkinsPay-As-You-Go BIG-IP VE and Advanced WAF Now Available for Azure Government
Perfect for development and test purposes, these instances provide true cloud-native operational flexibility with no long-term commitments or contracts.
By Tom AtkinsConquer Your Cloud Security Concerns with F5 Advanced WAF on AWS and Azure
These virtual editions protect applications and data with complete feature parity across on-premises and multi-cloud deployments.
By Tom AtkinsA Brief Catch-Up Ahead of the AWS Public Sector Summit
F5 recently authorized and now fully supports the use of its entire CFT portfolio in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region too.
By Tom Atkins