F5 Networks Case Studies

West Virginia University Hospitals

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:52:44 EDT

West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) wanted to increase the availability of its Epic clinical applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes, while easing the user authentication process. With F5 solutions, the organization can provide higher uptime for its Epic and Exchange environments, and can give doctors and nurses more reliable access to these critical applications.

Financial Services Company - Application Availability

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:51:00 EDT

A financial services company needed to increase the availability and performance of a critical customer website. The company also wanted to ensure the site achieved the required level of security to meet industry compliance standards. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM), the company gave its customers reliable access to their financial investment data, and improved its ability to comply with regulations.

Business Research Company

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:40:41 EDT

After deploying the F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager, the business research organization's bandwidth utilization improved five-fold, enabling the company to avoid purchasing costly additional bandwidth and complete the data replication in days rather than weeks.

Sinclair College

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:18:00 EDT

Sinclair Community College's outdated network appliances made it difficult for the IT staff to manage traffic efficiently. Since implementing F5 BIG-IP advanced Application Delivery Controller and security solutions, performance has improved, applications are easier to manage, the IT staff is more productive, and the entire environment is better protected.

Healthcare: ADC Solution

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:52:00 EDT

A healthcare organization's small application management staff must ensure high availability and fast delivery of thousands of critical administrative and clinical applications. To meet those goals, the organization uses an integrated solution that includes F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Application Policy Manager (APM), managed by F5 Enterprise Manager.

Allrecipes.com

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:08:00 EDT

Allrecipes.com is the world's largest digital food brand with sites and apps serving more than 34 million home cooks in 22 countries globally each month. It receives 700 million visits each year and must guarantee high availability and fast performance. Allrecipes.com relies on the intelligent traffic management and performance features in F5 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP GTM to provide high availability and fast-loading web pages.

Large U.S. Retailer: Application Scalability

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:44:00 EST

A U.S.-based retail store chain had less than a month's notice to provide computing support for up to 2,000 new customer service agents. To provide the capacity needed, the company chose an F5 solution. By eliminating the need for new servers and reconfiguration, the F5 solution saved the company substantial capital and operational costs, increased its processing capacity, and enabled it to manage traffic effectively.

Belgium Gives Citizens Secure and Fast Access to Personal Data Online

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:30:00 EST

The RVP is the government agency that handles pension information for the citizens of Belgium. When it decided to make pension data accessible over the Internet to all employed people and pensioners in the country, it had two key concerns. First, it had to secure its highly personal and sensitive data from unauthorised access. Second, it had to ensure high performance and availability for a potential user base of many millions of people. Using F5 BIG-IP products, the RVP can now provide citizens with a secure, convenient way to view their pension information online. The high performing F5 solution scales to accommodate traffic spikes, enables the RVP to comply with many regulations, and has also eased IT management tasks.

Zorgverzekeraar CZ verbetert snelheid, beschikbaarheid en veiligheid van applicaties met F5-oplossing

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST

Zorgverzekeraar CZ behartigt de belangen van ruim 3,3 miljoen verzekerden en heeft circa drieduizend medewerkers. Tot de verzekerden behoren particulieren (Zorgverzekeringswet) en instellingen (AWBZ) in een aantal regio's in Zuid-Nederland en in de regio Haaglanden. Daarnaast biedt CZ bedrijven geïntegreerde oplossingen voor zorg-, verzuim- en integratievraagstukken. CZ is in de afgelopen anderhalf jaar sterk gegroeid. Zo nam de zorgverzekeraar op 1 januari 2009 de zorgverzekeringsactiviteiten van Delta Lloyd en OHRA over. Onder dezelfde labels voert CZ de zorgverzekering van deze partijen uit. Er is sprake van kruisbestuiving, want OHRA en Delta Lloyd bieden op hun beurt inkomens-, schade- en levensverzekeringen aan CZ-klanten.

McGill University

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:11:19 EST

McGill University wanted to demonstrate it was ready to support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) as part of an overall network modernization effort. The university chose to implement the IPv6 Gateway feature built into F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager. The university saved time and money and had the right technology to support IPv6 now and in the future.

Financial Services Organization

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:52:00 EST

A large financial services company faced critical application outages whenever a data link went down in any one of its five charter countries. By deploying F5 BIG-IP Solutions, the organization exceeded 99 percent network uptime; network recovery measured in hours, not days, and business continuity, even amid regional Internet outages.

U.S. Government: Server Virtualization

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:32:00 EST

A systems integrator specializing in major IT projects for the federal sector was asked by a large government customer to create a consolidated, standardized, and centrally-managed server and storage platform in a virtualized environment. With F5 Application Delivery Controllers, the government agency is able to ensure high availability for applications and support a stable and secure virtualized infrastructure.

Lokahi

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:41:51 EST

Lokahi Solutions, a cloud computing service provider, must ensure that its private cloud stack, the Lokahi Infrastructure Virtualization Engine, remains highly secure and continuously available. To achieve that level of performance, the company implemented F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers as a critical component of its cloud environment.

Human Kinetics Video Case Study

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:00:00 EST

Human Kinetics publishes and sells print, online, and multimedia materials related to kinesiology. It hosts its own e-commerce website and nearly 40 other educational and storefront sites, which together get about half a million unique visits per month. A year after its deployment, HK's third-party network solution had become unstable, was inflexible and difficult to support, and impaired performance. HK replaced the solution with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Application Security Manager.