{"id":4805,"date":"2012-11-27T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=82e6f5c361c229256da5b04bae9210da"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:33:00","slug":"f5-adds-big-ip-solutions-for-amazon-web-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/f5-adds-big-ip-solutions-for-amazon-web-services\/","title":{"rendered":"F5 Adds BIG-IP Solutions for Amazon Web Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"org fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2F&amp;esheet=50488914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=F5+Networks%2C+Inc.&amp;index=1&amp;md5=5ff3a69e08816c93a8da9962e9c71cce\">F5 Networks, Inc.<\/a> today introduced a BIG-IP<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> virtual edition for AWS, which leverages F5\u2019s complete portfolio of <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Fbig-ip%2F&amp;esheet=50488914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=BIG-IP+products&amp;index=3&amp;md5=164bcd06ec4340b4b998bef4e312420e\">BIG-IP products<\/a> for the AWS cloud. This announcement addresses organizations\u2019 escalating demand to extend their data center and applications to AWS, maintaining enterprise-class reliability, scale, security, and performance. F5\u2019s new AWS offering is also the featured attraction at the company\u2019s booth <strong>(#506<\/strong>) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Freinvent.awsevents.com%2F&amp;esheet=50488914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=AWS+re%3A+Invent+conference&amp;index=4&amp;md5=936128c874781a8045ef31ea33240b09\">AWS re: Invent conference<\/a> at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, November 27\u201329. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnterprise customers have come to rely on BIG-IP\u2019s strategic awareness that provides important information on how applications, resources, and users interact in order to successfully deliver applications,\u201d said Siva Mandalam, Director of Product Management and Product Marketing, Cloud and Virtualization Solutions at F5. \u201cSince BIG-IP for AWS will have equivalent features to physical BIG-IP devices, customers can apply the same level of control for their applications in AWS. With BIG-IP running in enterprise data centers and on AWS, customers can establish secure tunnels, burst to the cloud, and control the application from end to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BIG-IP solution for AWS includes options for <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fit-management%2Fsolutions%2Fintelligent-traffic-management%2Foverview%2F&amp;esheet=50488914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=traffic+management&amp;index=5&amp;md5=999110a72ae0d04608bebc7ad988a9d7\">traffic management<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fpdf%2Fwhite-papers%2Fcloud-balancing-white-paper.pdf&amp;esheet=50488914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=global+server+load+balancing&amp;index=6&amp;md5=4ef523a30a4ae6117e10adb3316aef70\">global server load balancing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fglossary%2Fapplication-firewall%2F&amp;esheet=50488914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=application+firewall&amp;index=7&amp;md5=f68265d680c981625812038846c7ffe4\">application firewall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fglossary%2Fweb-acceleration%2F&amp;esheet=50488914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=web+application+acceleration&amp;index=8&amp;md5=03c675242d8b0d9ff4e55940bba64d67\">web application acceleration<\/a>, and other advanced application delivery functions. With the new F5 offering:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-13607\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>F5 ADN services operate seamlessly in the cloud<\/strong> \u2013 BIG-IP<br \/>\nvirtual editions are being made available to a growing number of<br \/>\ncustomers seeking to leverage cloud offerings. Availability for AWS<br \/>\nexpands on F5\u2019s broad support for virtualized and cloud environments<br \/>\nbased on vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Enterprises can confidently take advantage of cloud resources <\/strong>\u2013<br \/>\nAWS customers can easily add F5\u2019s market-leading availability,<br \/>\noptimization, and security services to support cloud and hybrid<br \/>\ndeployment models.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>IT teams are able to easily scale application environments <\/strong>\u2013<br \/>\nProduction and lab versions of BIG-IP virtual editions for AWS enable<br \/>\nIT teams to move smoothly from testing and development into production<br \/>\nto support essential business applications. Customers can leverage<br \/>\ntheir existing BIG-IP configuration and policies and apply them to<br \/>\nBIG-IP running on AWS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Supporting Facts and Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">F5 has the greatest market share for the advanced application delivery<br \/>\ncontroller (ADC) market, deployed within the enterprise and service<br \/>\nproviders markets. According to Gartner, Inc., F5 has 59.1% market<br \/>\nshare based on Q2 2012 worldwide revenue.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">F5\u2019s initial product offering will use the AWS \u201cbring your own<br \/>\nlicense\u201d (BYOL) model, which allows customers to buy perpetual<br \/>\nlicenses from F5 and then apply these licenses to instances running in<br \/>\nAWS. To evaluate or purchase BIG-IP software modules, customers should<br \/>\ncontact their local<br \/>\nF5 sales office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAs enterprises consider which applications to move to the cloud, many customers have asked for the same advanced application control they have in their local data centers,\u201d said Terry Wise, Head of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at Amazon Web Services. \u201cThe BIG-IP solution for AWS enables enterprises to quickly move complex applications to AWS while maintaining high levels of service at a lower overall cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnterprises want the flexibility and scale of cloud services, yet they can struggle with application complexity and sufficient control,\u201d said Rohit Mehra, VP of Network Infrastructure at IDC. \u201cThe challenge lies in easily expanding IT\u2019s service portfolio with cloud and hybrid capabilities while keeping the applications fast, secure, and available. BIG-IP\u2019s native availability inside Amazon Web Services allows enterprises to deeply embed a strategic awareness of how applications behave in cloud adoption scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how F5 enables organizations to realize the full potential of cloud computing, visit F5 (booth #506) at the AWS re: Invent conference. During the event, Siva Mandalam from F5 will deliver a presentation focused on \u201cOptimizing Enterprise Applications and User Access in the Cloud\u201d at 1 p.m. PT on Wednesday, November 28.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=93dd1afe-3569-4c70-8e7e-c177b1c2ce63\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7yazunJ_CnqmfRMADs7Y5rppvuM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7yazunJ_CnqmfRMADs7Y5rppvuM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7yazunJ_CnqmfRMADs7Y5rppvuM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7yazunJ_CnqmfRMADs7Y5rppvuM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/1sVE5lqK8Mw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F5&#x2019;s new BIG-IP virtual solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS)        enable customers to extend their data centers to the cloud while keeping        applications fast, secure, and available     LAS VEGAS&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;F5        Ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,56,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-aws","category-amazon-web-services","category-aws","category-load-balancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}