2020 blog posts(94)
State of Application Strategy 2021: Modernization Mania
This framework maps the technology evolution that accompanies the business journey from physical to digital models. Each phase is marked by a business initiative that is enabled by technology.
By Lori Mac VittieThe State of Application Strategy 2021: Necessity is the Mother of Motivation
Like many proverbs, the origins of "necessity is the mother of invention" is muddled. Often attributed to Plato, it is also ascribed to a variety of other well-known writers. Lacking an authoritative ...
By Lori Mac VittieSafer Together: Equinix and F5 DNS
There are many tropes in film and television. We're aware of them, even if we don't implicitly recognize them. A common set of tropes revolves around the hero of a story.
By Lori Mac VittieStrategic Benefits of a Robust Data Architecture
The payoffs of a well-constructed data architecture go beyond operational process. The benefits extend into strategic operational efficiencies, deeper business insights, and the ability to reach adjac...
By Ken AroraOpen Banking Will Unlock Opportunities in the Platform Economy for Financial Institutions
In 2018, Epic Games landed a $15B USD valuation. Many attributed this incredible event to its viral video game, Fortnite. With over 200 million users across the world, the game pulls in billions of do...
By Lori Mac VittieThe Unfiltered State of Application Survey Respondents
Whether we’re talking digital transformation, application architectures, or the importance of telemetry in maintaining a digital business, the soon-to-be-released results of our annual survey help sha...
By Lori Mac VittieThe Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2021
As each year comes to a close, tech pundits blow the dust off their crystal balls and share their predictions for the coming year. For Peter Silva's annual list, he's compiled a collection of what the...
By F5How Multi-Cloud Made Automation a Necessity
This is the reality of cloud properties. They all use the same mechanisms – APIs, consoles, processes – to perform common operational tasks. This is one of the benefits of cloud. And in terms of onboa...
By Lori Mac VittieThe Fourth Wave of Cloud is Imminent
We recently crested the third wave of cloud. Concurrently, the pandemic has shifted a lot of enterprise attitudes. One has been the approach to remote work. Another is that toward public cloud. In fac...
By Lori Mac VittieHow Cloud-Based Infrastructure Enables 5G Innovation
When it comes to 5G and innovation, one's imagination is the only limit. We all know that 5G is largely meant to satisfy the insatiable appetite for lightning-fast speeds and real-time (sub-millisecon...
By F5Delivering Deeper Insight and Visibility for BIG-IP with Splunk
BIG-IP excels at inspecting, analyzing, filtering, and reporting on network traffic, it creates a lot of very useful data. However, parsing and extracting insight from this stream of information can b...
By F5Credential Stuffing Increasingly Targets Video Games
Gaming accounts and microtransactions are valuable enough to have become substantial targets for hackers. Given that these accounts—like those in other industries—can be used across platforms (website...
By Lori Mac VittieMusings on Monitoring after App Modernization
Whether through a mobile app using APIs to interface with an existing monolithic mainframe app or via message queues that connect Slack to a traditional client-server based customer service applicatio...
By Lori Mac VittieOne Gateway to Secure them All
The advantages just aren’t about defense; careful control over entry points also results in a multiplicative increase in the efficacy of defenders. It’s no surprise, then, that these principles are of...
By Lori Mac VittieEdge is Driving an Infrastructure Renaissance
As organizations ramp up their generation of data and seek to extract business value from it, analytics and automation powered by AI and ML will certainly be on the table as technologies put to the ta...
By Lori Mac VittieCloud Native and Open Source (without the Hassle)
It’s hard to find an enterprise company who hasn’t considered cloud native technologies to help meet user demands or to be more agile. So, what's holding organizations back? Some are wary of the criti...
By F5Why a Structured Data Design Strategy Matters: An Example
A thoughtful and deliberate data strategy is fundamental to enabling the quality and cost-effectiveness of the most important business workflows. Further, when the workflows are instrumented to transm...
By Ken AroraCDM-Related Tips for Better Monitoring and Managing of Cyber Threats
A key component of improved federal cybersecurity is visibility, which is being addressed through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) pro...
By Ryan JohnsonHispanic Heritage Month 2020: Opportunity, Welcome, and Family
This blog concludes a two-part series celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month through the voices of our employees and members of F5’s Latinx e Hispanos Unidos Employee Inclusion Group (EIG). Alej...
By Alex FigueroaScaling DDoS Protection at the Edge
While it's true that 2020 has seen different DDoS attack patterns emerge, what is also true is that DDoS attacks at the infrastructure layer are still DDoS attacks. They are what we might call "tradit...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Edge Client 7.2.1: Improving Security And Simplifying User Experience for Network and Web Application Access
Jay Kelley: For those unfamiliar, the F5 Edge Client is an SSL VPN client used to provide access to enterprise networks for employees working from home or remote locations. The most exciting new featu...
By Jay KelleyWhat is SOAR and How Can Agencies Leverage it in their Cybersecurity Efforts?
By its industry definition, SOAR comprises “technologies that enable organizations to collect inputs monitored by the security operations team…SOAR tools allow an organization to define incident analy...
By Lyle MarshAdaptive Applications are Data-Driven
There's a big difference between knowing something's wrong and knowing what to do about it. Only after monitoring the right elements can we discern the health of a user experience, deriving from the a...
By Lori Mac VittieCOVID-19 Illuminates New Digital Sales Realities
COVID-19 has forced many to tear up the rulebook and (virtually) start again, as the lines between field sales and digital operations continue to blur beyond recognition. The pandemic has put a rocket...
By Alex Wilson
Performance Testing NGINX Ingress Controllers in a Dynamic Kubernetes Cloud Environment
We compare the performance in a dynamic Kubernetes cloud environment of three NGINX Ingress Controllers (one from the Kubernetes community and two from F5 NGINX). As the number of pod replicas scales ...
By Amir RawdatDetecting Fraud in Digital Workflows Requires More than Data
The industry saw nearly 250,000 attempts of credit card fraud in 2019. That breaks down to about one attempt every two minutes. Detecting fraud today requires a correlation of data, collected from as ...
By Lori Mac VittieEnhancing the User and Administrative Experience with Secure Hybrid Access
This fusion of BIG-IP Access Policy Manager and Azure Active Directory means support for identity federation, centralized user access (via single sign-on), and increased application security (via mult...
By Jay KelleyHispanic Heritage Month in 2020
Lupita Vallejo: Mexico is a country rich in culture, language, music, artifacts, and far more. We are more than our world-renowned food, historic landmarks, and perfect weather. What really defines my...
By Lupita VallejoSlow is the new Down
The central problem with measuring site performance today can be summed up as: "We don't measure the cost of slow. We measure the cost of downtime." Humans tend to work toward what they're measured on...
By F5Using the Modernizing Government Technology Act to Improve Cybersecurity (Now)
When the Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT Act) was signed into law in 2017, its purpose was to provide agencies with funds they can apply to their IT modernization efforts, including those a...
By Michael Coleman