
![]() Karl Triebes Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technical Officer, F5 |
Karl Triebes Karl Triebes is responsible for overseeing the company's technology roadmap and leading our engineering team. Triebes has a successful track record of driving the development of enterprise networking and next-generation telecommunications products, including Layer 4-7 switches. Prior to joining F5, Triebes was CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Foundry Networks in San Jose, where he was responsible for the strategic direction of corporate product architectures, including the technology roadmap. Triebes received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University. |

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F5 Virtualization Expert Discussion F5 Virtualization Experts Ken Salchow, F5 Technical Marketing Manager and Charlie Cano, F5 Solutions Architect lead a discussion on how F5 customers are implementing virtualization with F5 solutions and how F5 works with VMWare and Microsoft. |
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Aligning Application Infrastructure with Business through Service-Oriented Application Delivery
A successful SOA implementation relies as much on the flexibility of your network as it does the services which will be delivered on it. Just as brittle, inflexible application integration technologies have been deemed unsuitable and unable to meet today's volatile business needs, so too have the static, inflexible network technologies of the past become a hindrance to the delivery of dynamic, flexible service-oriented applications. |
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Keeping Your Head Above the Cloud: Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual
One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center. |
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Management Networks-Living Outside of Production
Creating a global personal or business presence today is only a few clicks away, thanks to the new capabilities in Information Technology (IT). Data communications has also changed dramatically. Many of today's applications are housed in large data centers; because of that, they are distributed to remote users who operate these applications away from the central data center. |
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The F5 Acceleration Portfolio
Applications don't always perform as expected, especially when running across large or complex networks. Bandwidth is often underutilized, and sluggish response times frustrate users. This paper provides an overview of the acceleration features available across three F5 product lines. |
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Vulnerability Assessment Plus Web Application Firewall (VA+WAF)
Inside an enterprise lives an IT security professional responsible for website security. He takes his job seriously, because if his employer's websites get hacked, he gets the late night call from the boss upstairs. |
































