UKI Digital Academy is a series of webinars designed and delivered by our F5 Solution Engineers and focused on specific use cases for each of our product areas. The webinars are targeted at UK&I-based customers* with the intent of increasing understanding of F5’s product portfolio.
*If you are not from the UK or Ireland but you are still interested in attending any of the webinars outlined below, please email DigitalAcademy@f5.com for more information.
Each webinar will be repeated on a quarterly basis. Select the webinar(s) you are interested in attending and a member of our team will be in touch to confirm your place.
Leverage F5 Flexible Consumption Program to react quickly to change
Date: 7th June 2022
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM BST
In today’s rapidly evolving marketplace, large enterprises need to be more agile to remain competitive and react quickly to change. Recent world events have highlighted the need to adapt and transform ways of working and engaging with customers at pace. IT teams need the flexibility to dynamically create and scale IT infrastructure to meet business needs. The F5 Flexible Consumption Program (FCP) allows teams to have access to a catalogue of F5 software, hardware and services to deploy application delivery and security services across any public or private cloud. This workshop will highlight what is available with the FCP, and how this is constructed commercially, with examples of how customers have used it to increase agility.
Align NetOps, SecOps and DevOPs teams using BIG-IQ
Date: 8th June 2022
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM BST
Learn how BIG-IQ is allowing security and application teams to manage their own applications without depending on network administrators. AS3 templates make it easy for app teams to spin-up applications with appropriate security and network services and gain visibility with application-specific dashboards. BIG-IQ’s advanced RBAC allows you to manage who can view edit, and deploy dashboards and policies for application delivery and security.
Application Modernisation and Cloud Migration with F5
Date: 9th June 2022
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM BST
Description: Find out how to migrate your applications to the cloud using devops-friendly processes and tooling which utilise F5 technologies, how easy it is to deploy F5 solutions with the various cloud providers using templates and automation. Finally, we will demo a new tool that helps to convert an existing F5 deployment to a declarative format using Application Configuration Converter.
Help your teams work smarter with F5 Next-Generation Hardware and Software
Date: 9 June 2022
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM BST
Learn about how F5’s next-generation hardware and software can resolve your application delivery challenges. F5 Next is F5’s next-generation rearchitected software. We have modularised our software, enabling customers to deploy the precise software they require for each application they host. F5 Next uses pluggable API-first architecture, which is fully automatable with iRules, and our AS3 declarative interface. Our new chassis solution VELOS and our new rSeries appliances represent F5’s next-generation hardware solutions built on a Kubernetes-based platform layer that is tightly integrated with F5’s TMOS software, aligning it with your modern architecture plans. Going to a microservice-based platform layer and an API-first architecture enables F5 to provide a fully automatable system that delivers the agility customers need to efficiently manage and secure their most demanding applications.
Extend your API Security Across Multi-Cloud and Edge Environments
Date: 5th July 2022
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM BST
Modern applications are constantly evolving, with increased dependencies on APIs.
These API endpoints increase an application’s attack surface area and introduce new risks and vulnerabilities that current security tools struggle to mitigate.
Learn how F5 Distributed Cloud API Security addresses modern API challenges with automatic discovery and policy enforcement across APIs which are centrally managed via a SaaS-based console.
See how F5 Distributed Cloud delivers security services closer to workloads deployed in public/private clouds and provides discovery and deep insights with the use of AI/ML, enabling users to manage and go deep into the threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting of modern applications.