Achieving the ultimate ‘Five Nines’ of web site availability (around 5
minutes of downtime a year) has been a goal of many organizations since the
beginning of the internet era. There are several ways to accomplish this but
essentially a few principles apply.
Eliminate single points of failure by adding redundancy so if one component
fails, the entire system still works. Have reliable crossover to the
duplicate systems so they are ready when needed. And have the ability to
detect failures as they occur so proper action can be taken.
If the first two are in place, hopefully you never see a failure but
maintenance is a must.
BIG-IP high availability (HA) functionality, such as connection mirroring,
configuration synchronization, and network failover, allow core system
services to be available for BIG-IP to manage in the event that a particular
application instance bec... (more)
Yet another retailer has confessed that their systems were breached and an
untold number of victims join the growing list of those who have had their
data was stolen. This one could be bigger than the infamous Target breach. I
wonder if some day we’ll be referring to periods of time by the breach that
occurred. ‘What? You don’t remember the Target breach of ’13! Much
smaller than the Insert Company Here Breach of 2019!’ Or almost like
battles of a long war. ‘The Breach of 2013 was a turning point in the fight
against online crime,’ or some other silly notion.
Don't MIss Peter Si... (more)
Oracle’s David Wallace, Director of Partner Architected Solutions, takes
over the mic – literally – and offers some insight of the F5 and Oracle
global partnership…from an Oracle perspective. After many years and many
joint solutions, David covers some of the coolest F5/Oracle integrations that
are being used by 47 of the top Fortune 50 companies. Very well versed in our
joint solutions, David has joined the F5 booth staff for the last 4 years at
#OOW14.
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Related:
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Find F5 Oracle OpenWorld 2014: F5 & Oracle Integration
(feat Gauthier) Oracle OpenWorl... (more)
I wrap it up from #OOW14. Special thanks to guests Dana Gauthier, Jonathan
George, David Wallace and Rubyanne Deang along with Natasha, Robert, Jonathan
& Courtney for their spectacular camera work. And of course, thanks to you
for watching. I also give a quick update on the Shellshock vulnerability and
how to find information on f5.com. Reporting from San Francisco, that’s a
wrap!
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Related:
#OOW14: Find F5 #OOW14: F5 & Oracle Integration (feat Gauthier) #OOW14:
Delivering Oracle Apps from the Cloud (feat George) #OOW14: Partner
Architectural Solutions (feat Wallace) #OOW14:... (more)
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is focused on improving the
security of software. Their mission is to make software security visible, so
that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions
about true software security risks and their OWASP Top 10 provides a list of
the 10 Most Critical Security Risks. For each risk it provides a description,
example vulnerabilities, example attacks, guidance on how to avoid and
references to OWASP and other related resources. Many of you are familiar
with their Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security R... (more)
Peter Silva covers security for F5’s Technical Marketing Team. After working in Professional Theatre for 10 years, Peter decided to change careers. Starting out with a small VAR selling Netopia routers and the Instant Internet box, he soon became one of the first six Internet Specialists for AT&T managing customers on the original ATT WorldNet network.
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