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• Creating the correct DevOps culture: Failure is a part of the success

  At its core, DevOps is a practice rooted in culture and philosophy. It takes time to develop and master, and for all its benefits, it’s also prone to disaster.

• Sophistication of cyber-enabled crime frequently underestimated

  The image of a lone, hoodie-clad hacker continues to lead organisations to underestimate the sophistication of cyber-enabled crime, according to David Warburton, senior threat research evangelist for F5 Networks.

• Sharing is caring, but keep your botnets to yourself

  The boom of mobile applications has superseded traditional services, revolutionising customer experience as we know it.

• F5 readies ADCs for public cloud

  F5, considered the market-share leader in application delivery control (ADC), today released new versions of its flagship BIG-IP product that make it easier to use the company’s load balancer, firewall and other application delivery services not only in data centers but in the public cloud.

• F5 Networks brings back retired exec after CEO resigns over "personal conduct"

  F5 Networks, the Seattle-based application delivery networking company with an increasingly cloud-oriented focus, has announced that CEO and President Manuel Rivelo has resigned "for matters regarding personal conduct unrelated to the operations or financials of the Company."

• Cisco, Microsoft & other big enterprise IT firms miss Best Places to Work cut

  It’s not that the biggest names in enterprise IT and networking aren’t good places to work, according to employees submitting reviews to jobs and career marketplace Glassdoor. It’s just that they aren’t “Amazing!” or “Great!” places to work, according to Glassdoor’s list of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2016.

• Where SDN falls down

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Google employees say it's the best big company to work for

  Google employees love their jobs more so than workers at any other big company in the United States, according to the <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm">2014 Glassdoor Employees' Choice Awards rankings.</a>

• The POODLE flaw returns, this time hitting TLS security protocol

  Webmasters who patched their sites against a serious SSL flaw discovered in October will have to check them again. Researchers have discovered that the vulnerability also affects implementations of the newer TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol.

• F5 CTO: We're working hard on the transition to software

  F5 Networks is a veteran player in the network management market, having sold its load balancing hardware - or application delivery controllers, as it prefers to call them - to large numbers of data center customers.

• F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT

  F5 Networks CEO John McAdam said Tuesday at his company's Agility conference in New York that, in essence, the future of IT is complicated, confusing and riddled with security threats - and that's a good thing.

• Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud

  Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well.

• Cloud computing swallowing up branch office hardware

  The popularization of cloud computing and ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet connectivity mean that the days of the specialized branch office IT appliance are numbered, according to industry sources.

• F5 tries to stay ahead of the curve with moves into security and beyond

  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 jumps into BYOD with new app manager

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