IPAD
IPAD VPN connectivity continues to be a hot topic on this BLOG. Not only the top viewed article, but also a very hot topic amongst our customers, both Federal and Private sector.
To continue the discussions and provide more info to the community I reached out to Matt Kucherawy from f5. I wanted to get his take on transitioning from an IPSEC (client based model) to and SSL model and providing secure access to remote devices such as the IPAD.
We have a few solutions that can provide security. Of course we need to discuss with the client what their particular security policies are. However In a nutshell, we have a free Edge Portal (SSL protected web apps) and Edge Client (full SSL/DTLS tunnels, good for RDP, PCoIP and whatever other apps). In particular, for supporting the IPAD, the full Edge Client is most appropriate with the larger screen, and Bluetooth keyboard, etc.
Questions from our customers around supporting the IPAD using a VDI model are quite popular. To quote an existing deployment using f5;
We have iPad connecting to VMware View (SSL and DTLS) and XenApp (SSL), and WE LOVE IT!
See this case study of a large energy company using View with iPad. We got it working so quickly, they canceled their evaluation of Citrix Netscaler and signed a PO.
In fact, f5 was awarded the “Technology Innovator of the Year” title last week at VMware PEX for our VDI solutions, among other things: (full coverage here)
Both Edge Portal and Client are available for free on the iTunes store:
The Edge Portal/Client can be used with the BIG-IP APM module (goes on top of LTM), BIG-IP Edge Gateway devices (which is APM + WebAccelerator + WAN Optimization) and Firepass.
APM and Firepass (see our recent article/video on Firepass here) are both available as Virtual Editions, so you can have an end-to-end virtual VDI deployment if desired (small scale only due to the SSL hit on x64 CPUs).
For further information on the solution please feel free to contact Matt K or myself.
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