Integralis provides enhanced service for eCommerce platforms built on F5
Integralis introduces the ACE team to deliver advanced services for F5’s BIG-IP® unified application delivery platform
Theale, Reading - Thursday 18th June, 2009 – Integralis, leading IT security service provider, today introduced its ACE team to offer advanced customisation and management services for F5’s BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking solutions, which are deployed in eCommerce sites on a global basis. As a strategic partner of F5’s in the UK, Integralis’ dedicated team of professional development engineers have over 9 years of experience working with F5 on customer projects, and have an in-depth knowledge of how to address many of the challenges presented when creating a true eCommerce platform.
“The BIG-IP platform can significantly reduce overhead costs and improve management, but we find companies are not fully exploiting the range of benefits BIG-IP solutions can offer,” said Graham Jones, managing director at Integralis UK. “The introduction of our ACE team aims to address this knowledge gap by taking a view across the entire network, identifying and addressing any areas for concern, reducing overheads and putting in place an SLA that addresses management concerns and provides complete confidence that the eCommerce site will operate on a 24/7 basis.”
“Whether end users of an eCommerce platform are internal or external, businesses need to provide an experience that meets expectations while being both agile and secure. Security vulnerabilities are often ignored, and resultant issues – such as downtime and request timeout – mean user experience is affected,” commented Owen Cole, Technical Director, F5. “Integralis’ ACE team works very closely with their clients—from initial specification right through to deployment and support. This helps ensure that the customers’ eCommerce sites are simple and easy to use for target audiences, and uncomplicated to administrate.”
Integralis’ ACE team has recently provided support to a financial institution, large bank, a central government body and budget airline. The challenges each faced ranged from deployment of new websites that required careful management of online traffic, through to secure server login while maintaining server stability during peak times, and balancing of traffic across multiple SSL VPN units.
In addition to BIG-IP solutions, Integralis’ ACE team is able to provide full life-cycle services around F5’s flexible iRules and iControl open APIs as well. Use of iRules and iControl enables complete control over F5 devices, allowing them to be tweaked to meet exact customer specifications. iRules and iControl means complex application traffic changes can be carried out within minutes.
About the ACE team
All of the ACE team are fully F5 product trained and certified with over 9 years experience of working with F5 as support escalation engineers, training, consultants, and most recently F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ specialists.
Integralis was presented with VAR Partner of the Year 2008 at F5’s EMEA Partner Conference.
About F5
F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5’s flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery offers customers an unprecedented level of choice in how they deploy ADN solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organizations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers trust F5 to keep their business moving forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.
About Integralis AG
Integralis AG (listed in the Prime Standard of the German stock exchange, ticker symbol AAGN, ISIN DE0005155030) is the leading focused Global Security Services Provider. Integralis manages security responsibilities for small and mid-size companies, government bodies and large corporations allowing customers to concentrate on their core business.
Integralis advises customers on their IT Security strategy delivering consultancy, audits, risk management, comprehensive 24/7 support and implementation of the most appropriate technology from leading vendors. Integralis also implements a wide range of Managed Security Services throughout their technology infrastructures on its customer’s behalf.
Its growing corporate and government customers are supported by over 425 employees worldwide and an expanding network of 20 regional centres across Europe and the United States. Integralis UK is an ISO/IEC 27001 certified organisation.
Information on Integralis is available at www.integralis.co.uk
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