Are traditional firewalls sufficient to protect against today’s sophisticated attacks?

F5 Networks is best known for its high-end network management hardware, especially its BIG-IP line of load balancers. Those offerings have fueled annual revenue growth from $525 million to more than $1.3 billion since 2007, even in the face of the recent recession.

F5 Networks on Tuesday will announce a mobile app manager product aimed at simplifying the integration of the omnipresent personal smartphone into corporate networks.

F5 Networks plans to extend the reach of software-defined networking to improve application performance by acquiring software startup LineRate Systems.

F5 Networks today rolled out a raft of new and more powerful Application Delivery Networking tools, including its most capable device to date, the Viprion 4800, and an advanced firewall that, when deployed on the 4800, is said to offer industry leading performance.

It's the busy time of year for Allrecipes.com, which gets 700 million visitors annually, and to accommodate the surge of recipe-seekers, it's necessary to cook up some serious network changes in the data center.

OzHub is encouraging Australian governments to set a goal of establishing the nation as the top Cloud-ready spot in Asia-Pacific (APAC) by 2020.

While Cloud (hybrid, public, and private), software defined networking (SDN), bring-your-own-device (BYOD), and mobility are receiving a lot of the attention as key industry trends, the explosion of Web enabled technologies and applications are more quietly shifting from ‘nice to have’ to ‘business critical’, F5 Networks worldwide partner organisation and security sales senior vice-president, Dean Darwin, said at the vendor’s annual Agility Forum.