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Peter Silva  //  Peter Silva covers security for F5 Networks 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.

Now having his Telco background he moved to Verio to focus on access, IP security along with web hosting. After losing a deal to Exodus Communications (now Savvis) for technical reasons, the customer still wanted Peter as their local SE contact so Exodus made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. As only the third person hired in the Midwest, he helped Exodus grow from an executive suite to two enormous datacenters in the Chicago land area working with such customers as Ticketmaster, Rolling Stone, uBid, Orbitz, Best Buy and others.

Bringing the slightly theatrical and fairly technical together, he covers training, writing, speaking, along with overall product direction and evangelism for F5’s security line. Prior to joining F5, he was the Business Development Manager with Pacific Wireless Communications. He’s also been in such plays as The Glass Menagerie, All’s Well That Ends Well, Cinderella and others. He earned his B.S. from Marquette University, and is a certified instructor in the Wisconsin System of Vocational, Technical & Adult Education.

 
May 16 / 12:33am

F5 Agility Summit 2012 - Welcome to Shanghai

I welcome our partners and customers to Shanghai for the F5 Agility Summit with a special thanks to our sponsors: VMware, BlueCat Networks, BroadHop, Cenzic, Oracle, ServiceSource, Splunk and WhiteHat Security.

F5 Agility Summit 2012 - Welcome to Shanghai

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May 11 / 5:39am

Interop 2012–The Video Outtakes

As always, there are takes that don’t make the cut and Interop 2012 was no different.  Here are the flubs, outtakes and bloopers from our video voyage including the complete destruction of our booth.

Interop 2012–The Video Outtakes

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May 10 / 1:26pm

Interop 2012–That’s a Wrap

I wrap up the Interop 2012 from Las Vegas.  Special thanks to F5'ers Ken Bocchino, Lori MacVittie, Ken Salchow, Jeff Stathatos, Danny Luedke and Sam Richman along with Brian Monkman from ICSA Labs and especially you, our viewers.

Interop 2012–That’s a Wrap

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May 10 / 12:44pm

Interop 2012 - F5 in the Interop NOC Statistics

I meet with F5's Professional Services Consultant Sam Richman to review some of the stats from the World’s Largest Portable Network.  Highlights  included:  BIG-IP Data Center Firewall pushed a Terabyte of data; BIG-IP Web Accelerator delivered 100 gigabytes of content from cache; almost 70% of the Interop website was delivered thru cache; 16 million syslog messages and the Nerf N-Strikes had a peak of 12 Nerf darts per second.

Interop 2012 - F5 in the Interop NOC Statistics

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May 9 / 12:41pm

Interop 2012 - Interview with Brian Monkman of ICSA Labs

I interview Brian Monkman, ICSA Labs' Technology Programs Manager, about ICSA certification, the importance of 3rd party tests, how ICSA conducts their certification testing along with Breaking News that the BIG-IP Family is now ICSA Certified for IPSec!!

Interop 2012 - Interview with Brian Monkman of ICSA Labs

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May 9 / 11:52am

Interop 2012 - Splunk Reports for BIG-IP Data Center Firewall with Danny Luedke

Peter Silva talks with F5 Product Marketing Manager Danny Luedke about the BIG-IP Data Center Firewall and showcases the new Splunk reports for BIG-IP Data Center Firewall Solution.

Interop 2012 - Splunk Reports for BIG-IP Data Center Firewall with Danny Luedke

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May 7 / 9:47pm

Interop 2012 - F5 in the Interop NOC

Peter Silva visits with Ken Bocchino of the F5 Professional Services Team to share & show how F5 is providing many of the critical infrastructure components of the largest temporary network in the world.

Interop 2012 - F5 in the Interop NOC

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