F5 Networks on Tuesday announced that the latest release of the F5 BIG-IP
product family has been certified by ICSA Labs as a network firewall, helping
customers protect their public-facing websites from today’s massive cyber
attacks. The newly certified solution handles eight times more traffic at the
same cost of the closest competitor’s solution.
“F5 provides an entirely new and more intelligent approach for defending
public-facing web properties and DNS services against harmful attacks,”
said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management at F5. “Many of the
world’s largest and most prestigious brands are leveraging F5’s BIG-IP
solution to protect web properties that have substantial traffic levels and
are frequent targets of malicious attacks. An added benefit of our solution
is that it delivers dramatically better price/performance than traditional
firewalls... (more)
Cloud Computing is still a hot topic in 2012. For the Small and Medium
Business (SMB) community, it is a game changer. Unlike the days of past,
cloud computing offers leverage previously only available to enterprise class
companies. In essence, cloud computing levels the playing field for SMBs. I
wrote about this back in June [...]
... (more)
VIENNA, Va., Jan. 23, 2012 —NJVC, one of the largest information technology
solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Virtual
Global, a premier provider of software and cloud computing platform solutions
for a variety of industry and federal customers, announce the release of a
joint white paper, “Platform as a Service (Paas): What Is It? Why Is It So
Important?.”
The paper clarifies the confusion surrounding PaaS for IT decision makers in
the federal government. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology
(NIST) suggests PaaS as a component of th... (more)
A couple weeks ago there was an interesting discussion on Twitter amongst the
#clouderati about ways to manage risk in a public cloud environment. I
believe it was a fragment off the discussion that James Urquhart
(@jamesurquhart) started about how "Cloud is complex" and one from Alistair
Croll (@acroll) about 2012 Cloud Predictions (see: #8)
Beyond the normal discussion about how companies need to "design for failure"
(re: applications) when using public clouds, someone brought up that SLAs
will need to evolve before companies can better mitigate risk. Most people
tended to dis... (more)
MILPITAS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/12 -- Aryaka, provider of the world's
first cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution,
today announced TMC has named Aryaka a winner of the Cloud Computing
Excellence Award as one of the companies that most effectively completes the
cloud story by providing the 'network' in the cloud.
"The cloud delivery model has fueled a competitive spirit within the vendor,
developer and provider communities that has resulted in a wave of new
products, services and applications being introduced at an unprecedented
rate," said Erik... (more)
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