F5 Networks on Tuesday announced that the latest release of the F5 BIG-IP
product family has been certified by ICSA Labs as a network firewall, helping
customers protect their public-facing websites from today’s massive cyber
attacks. The newly certified solution handles eight times more traffic at the
same cost of the closest competitor’s solution.
“F5 provides an entirely new and more intelligent approach for defending
public-facing web properties and DNS services against harmful attacks,”
said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management at F5. “Many of the
world’s largest and most prestigious brands are leveraging F5’s BIG-IP
solution to protect web properties that have substantial traffic levels and
are frequent targets of malicious attacks. An added benefit of our solution
is that it delivers dramatically better price/performance than traditional
firewalls... (more)
In the case of technology – as with mythology - the whole is often greater
(and more challenging) than the sum of its parts.
The chimera is a mythological beast of scary proportions. Not only is it
fairly large, but it’s also got three, independent heads – traditionally
a lion, a goat, and a snake. Some variations on this theme exist, but the
basic principle remains: it’s a three-headed, angry beast that should not
be taken lightly should one encounter it in the hallway.
Individually, one might have a strategy to meet the challenge of a lion or a
goat head on. But when they conve... (more)
By now, everyone even vaguely familiar with information security knows the
military maxim of blitzkrieg – burst through the hardened defense at a
single point and then rush pell-mell to the rear where the soft underbelly of
any static army lies. It is a good military strategy, provided you have the
resources to break through the defenses and follow up with a rapid advance
into the rear areas. While there are variants of this plan, and a lot of
discussion about how/when it is strategically worth the risk, historically
speaking it has been a smashing success. Germany did it to Fran... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage
gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in
your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing
standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access... (more)
REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/12 -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)
News Facts
Oracle today announced that it has won a 2011 GOOD DESIGN Award from The
Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center
of Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The world's largest and most
distinguished design competition, GOOD DESIGN annually bestows international
recognition upon the world's most prominent designers and manufacturers for
advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and
originality. For 2011, the Museum received submissio... (more)
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