Webcasts

Duration: 53 minutes

In this webcast, Richard Villars (Storage Systems, IDC) offers insights based on one-on-one interviews with senior IT managers at leading companies from around the world who experienced direct economic consequences of rapid file growth. These companies all reported that file virtualization provided relief.

Duration: 44 minutes

How can you improve application performance and security while also enabling growth--especially in challenging economic times? Gartner Research Vice President Joe Skorupa explains how in this webinar focusing on the value of the network. Skorupa describes how Application Delivery Networking (ADN) helps enterprises to do more with less, citing the ROI that ADN solutions provide. He also underscores the importance of enabling application developers, security teams, and network architects to collaborate for the good of applications, users, and the business overall.

Duration: 43 minutes

How can enterprises collaborate with IT constituents, design scalable systems, and take their infrastructure to the next level? In this Webcast, Gartner Fellow and Managing VP Daryl Plummer examines some of the major challenges confronting enterprise IT organizations as they develop, deploy, and deliver applications. Plummer discusses the increasing composite nature of enterprise architectures with ERP/CRM environments, and he talks about how various technology layers in the application lifecycle can be exploited in a cost-effective, logical manner that meets unique business and technical requirements.

• Oracle application partner section

Duration: 37 minutes

What is Application Delivery Networking? What's driving changes in organizations to need Application Delivery Networking? Why do companies struggle with application deployments? And finally, how do you overcome these challenges? Hear Forrester's Senior Analyst Rob Whiteley and F5's VP of Product Management & Product Marketing Erik Giesa in this 37 minute webcast define Application Delivery Networking and how it solves critical deployment issues.

Duration: 27 minutes

In this 27-minute Webcast, hear Joe Skorupa (Gartner), Joerg Nalik (SAP), and Ken Salchow (F5) discuss the challenges faced by organizations deploying enterprise applications and the value of F5's Application Ready Network. This Webcast is a must for anyone implementing the latest solutions based on the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise SOA platform.

• The F5 Application Ready Network for SAP

Duration: 50 minutes

Want to achieve zero data loss? Data replication and WAN acceleration appliances can optimize your company's current disaster recovery solutions. In this Webcast, you can learn how to start measuring RTO and RPO in minutes, not hours, and how blink-of-an-eye data replication can be achieved with WAN optimization, bringing your enterprise increased speed and increased savings. Join Forrester Research senior analyst Stephanie Balaouras and F5 product manager Kevin Hohenbrink as they talk about business continuity and disaster recovery.

• Presentation - "Disaster Recovery: Data Replication and the WAN" (PDF)
• Report - "The Impact of the WAN on Disaster Recovery Capabilities" (PDF)

Duration: 72 minutes

Wondering how to protect your end users and your enterprise against today's most dangerous Internet threats? Tune into this Webcast to discover best practices and approaches for secure computing, led by keynote speaker Peter Firstbrook of Gartner. You'll also hear from Jay Chaudhry (Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer for Secure Computing), Dr. Paul Judge (Chief Technology Officer for Secure Computing), and Alan Murphy (Technical Marketing Manager and Security Evangelist for F5).

Duration: 24 minutes

The RSA Conference is the most important gathering of the information security community each year, and at RSA 2007, some of the best-known security bloggers decided to take a break from the bustle of the conference. This esteemed crew got together at the Foreign Cinema Restaurant, a French bistro and movie house in San Francisco, for an evening hosted by Network Security Podcaster Martin McKeay and sponsors Stephen Toulouse (of stepto.com and Microsoft) and Richard Stiennon (of Fortinet.com). Check out the guest list, including Bruce Schneier, Richard Mogull from Gartner, and F5's own Lori MacVittie, as we roam the crowd and talk to the best minds blogging on security today.

Duration: 6 minutes

Every year, the RSA Conference proves to be a pivotal gathering for the information security community, attracting the best and brightest in the field. F5 brought a large presence to the RSA 2007 Security Conference in San Francisco, including our own Manager of IT Network Engineering Brian Hatch, author of "Hacking Linux Exposed" In this video interview, Hatch talks with Network Security Podcaster Martin McKeay about the second edition of his book and Linux OS security concerns, defenses, and hacks, as well as how Hatch and his team push F5 technologies to the limits in "bizarre" ways.

Duration: 31 minutes

"Ninety-percent of application projects are either late or just never completed," says Zeus Kerravala, SVP of Research at the Yankee Group. To fix this problem, network administrators and application developers need to come together during the design process to ensure availability and scalability. If organizations can focus more on improving how current applications perform, rather than deploying new technologies, they could see double-digit improvements in productivity. In this on-demand rich-media program, Kerravala joins Lori MacVittie of F5 and technology host Bill Laberis for a comprehensive discussion on creating application fluency in the network. You'll walk away with a deeper understanding of the importance of harnessing the network to break application performance bottlenecks.

• White Paper - "A House Divided: Time to Bridge the Gap Between Applications and Networks" (PDF)

Duration: 65 minutes

You probably already have business-continuity plans in place for the next hurricane, blizzard, or other natural disaster-but are you ready for the threat of avian flu? You have likely heard the hype in the headlines, but F5 teams up with Gartner and RSA Security to separate fact from fiction. This one-hour Webcast with Vice President and Gartner Fellow Ken McGee and F5 Product Manager Hari Krishnan will help you prepare your company for the IT challenges of a potential pandemic. You will learn what the experts know now about avian flu, how a worldwide pandemic would affect businesses, why many existing business-continuity plans are insufficient, and more.

Duration: 15 minutes

No matter which design buzzword you choose these days - SOA (service-oriented architecture), ILM (information lifecycle management), virtualization, and so on - chances are there's a business driver behind it.

Duration: 32 minutes

Companies today are moving more and more of their mission-critical applications and data into web browsers. Unfortunately, many of the features that make browsers so convenient also make them incredibly insecure. As a result, hackers are able to use web-based applications to penetrate corporate systems and access private customer databases. The resulting identity theft has become a major concern to corporations and consumers alike.

Duration: 13 minutes

A look into the changes in attitudes and technology that encompass the emerging school of thought known as asset-centric security.