Case Study

Suzuki Manufacturing Builds a Storage Environment for Agility and Growth

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:45:00 EDT

American Suzuki Motor Corporation prides itself on providing value-packed automobiles, motorcycles, ATVs, scooters and marine engines. Its IT organization shares that commitment to customer satisfaction. When rapid data growth began impacting users by dragging down the performance of its Windows storage, the IT team took action. Relying on the powerful data management capabilities of F5 ARX file virtualization solutions, American Suzuki Motor Company seamlessly transitioned to a higher-performance network-attached storage (NAS) environment and implemented an automated Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy that slashed backup times and storage costs.

First American Improves Application Performance and Mobility with F5 and VMware

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EDT

The First American Corporation supplies businesses and consumers with online information in five primary industry segments, including title insurance and services, specialty insurance, and data and analytics. A $6.2 billion company comprising 200 business units, First American is the country’s largest such information provider. Traditionally, each business unit had its own IT shop. But recently, First American created a cohesive IT operation capable of providing a standard services catalog, service level agreements (SLAs), and disaster recovery guarantees for all business units. Now centralized using F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions and a highly virtualized server infrastructure with VMware, IT is far more nimble, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting business needs than it was previously. Looking forward, they are also planning to implement F5’s FirePass SSL VPN solution.

SaaS Application Performance with F5 Solutions

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:45:00 EDT

Transplace redesigned its IT infrastructure for higher efficiency and to provide a better customer experience. The redesign included virtualization technology from VMware. To realize the full benefits of its virtualized environment, the company used BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking devices from F5. As a result, Transplace has boosted the performance and availability of its enterprise applications, including its signature, revenue-generating SaaS platform.

Business Continuity Planning for Maximizing Data Center Uptime

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

Next to ensuring the safety, health and well being of your employees, the next most important business continuity task is resuming business-critical operations. Keeping servers highly available is what likely keeps most data center managers up at night. There is a higher probability that most data centers will be affected by a virus, hardware failure, power failure or upgrade gone wrong than by a more disastrous weather-related event like wind, fire or rain.

Virtualization - The New Frontier

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:15:00 EDT

There is a lot of hype today about server virtualization. You wouldn't know it, but the reality is the technology is still only deployed on about 6-8 percent of the installed x86 server base worldwide. To take this penetration rate to a more meaningful level requires that we in the industry find a way to gain adoption in the small and medium-sized enterprises. To date, these organizations have been largely shut out of the market by the high cost and complexity of available solutions.

Healthcare IT Security

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:00:00 EDT

A dangerous but likely sight in almost any hospital care unit is an unattended computer workstation, accessible by any passerby. If by chance the computer is locked, simply flip over the keyboard and you?ll often find the generic logon ID and password posted on the bottom; a failsafe for all caregivers in the care unit wanting to log on.

Across Continents, Close to the Chest

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:00:00 EST

Data backup is typically the bane of most IT departments? existence ? a necessary evil, if you will. While it can often be a mundane process that?s a drain on IT resources, it is in fact a vital part of any company?s business continuity or disaster recovery plan, and often having a foolproof backup system in place is essential for complying with regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.