Articles by Frank Strobel

Discover how F5's digital workspace solutions enhance virtual desktop management, end user computing, and network traffic optimization with Omnissa.

Discover the strategic advantages of virtualization migration and how transitioning from VMware to OpenShift improves operational flexibility and security.

As AI makes its entrance, F5 and Red Hat are helping our joint customers secure and manage their AI-powered apps.

As AI makes its entrance, F5 and Red Hat are helping our joint customers secure and manage their AI-powered apps.

The prospect of adding new and complex technology to your already towering stack is daunting. But it doesn’t have to be.

BIG-IP Virtual Edition has long been an important piece of F5’s suite of solutions, in part because you don’t need purpose-built F5 hardware to operate this powerful, yet agnostic, solution. What’s new is how we’re documenting precisely how BIG-IP VE provides the most flexible platform and detailing the steps required to configure your VMware ESXi™ hosts and F5 BIG-IP VEs to deliver enhanced performance.

The launch of F5 Distributed Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) represents significant opportunities for our partner ecosystem and joint customers. This new SaaS offering represents the latest evolution in application security and extends our commitment to securing your enterprise apps—including instances where you work with our partners to maximize security and value.

Organizations know that F5 delivers leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) products, but they might not be as familiar with technology partner Stellar Cyber and their industry-leading Open XDR platform. That will soon change, as the companies have been working hard to smoothly integrate our two offerings.

If you’re a Fastly CDN user, Shape’s industry-leading log analysis capabilities are just a flip of the switch away. There is zero impact on production traffic, so there is no risk of negative consequences—just straight up information gathering.

The modern-day network is often made up of an on-premises data center as well as SDNs and public clouds. In such heterogeneous environments, it’s all too easy for the rules and objects associated with the devices that make up the network to proliferate, adding complexity and risk. To help address this, AlgoSec has worked closely with F5 to extend rich visibility and orchestration capabilities across the entire multi-vendor network security fabric.

Today, "machine" also includes code running independently on devices, APIs, containers, serverless architectures, and of course VMs. Because they are software-defined, these machine types are easily created, changed, and destroyed throughout the day, every day, making software-defined machines an important part of the app development workflow.

There’s nothing like a large conference or event to really show you how new technologies and solutions are impacting the real world. And often, the most meaningful interactions are not with vendors or sponsors, but with the attendees—the people responsible for implementing all the exciting new tools that the rest of us work so hard to develop.

With “machine identities,” we’re simply talking about how to ensure that an automated process can identify itself, and how other automated systems and processes grant the appropriate level of access to relevant resources. This concept is not new. What is relatively new is the scale at which it needs to be implemented.

One of the interesting things about the cyber security industry is the degree to which vendors essentially wind up on the same side.

Frank Strobel highlights the role of F5's partner ecosystem in strengthening security, increasing scale and availability, and reducing operational costs.

With F5 BIG-IP virtual editions, IoT-focused organizations can seamlessly deploy in public or multi-cloud environments with maximum flexibility.

F5 and VMware are partnering to support you—our customers—by integrating our technologies, products, and services to meet your business needs from the data center to the cloud. We have done so for close to 10 years—an eternity in the high-tech industry.

Welcome to the second post in my series about the emerging partnership between F5 and one of the leaders in the hyper-converged infrastructure market, Nutanix. Last month, I discussed how this collaboration helps you enjoy all the benefits of...