New management product provides superior automation,
orchestration, and control of enterprise-class application services in
public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
F5
Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV)
today announced BIG-IQ™
Cloud, a new software-based management solution that enables
customers to deploy application delivery and network services in a
consistent, fast, and repeatable manner across public and private
clouds, traditional data centers, and hybrid environments. With an
extensible, modular architecture, BIG-IQ offers an intelligent framework
that centralizes management of the application control plane to provide
intuitive, flexible, and scalable management capabilities for the F5 BIG-IP®
product family. This solution is a key milestone in supporting F5’s
goals of delivering application-layer SDN services and bringing superior
application intelligence and programmability to software defined data
centers.
“Organizations are pursuing a wide variety of on-premises and
off-premises cloud solutions to bolster efficiency and reduce costs,”
said Jason Needham, VP of Product Management and Marketing at F5. “With
BIG-IQ Cloud, F5 customers can seamlessly configure and automate
application delivery services—such as availability and optimization—in
cloud and hybrid infrastructures. In line with our vision for
application-layer SDN, BIG-IQ Cloud offers customers an effective way to
dynamically scale services, infrastructure, and application resources in
concert.”
Details
Today’s organizations are looking to move their applications to the
cloud as a means to increase infrastructure agility and reduce costs.
However, many enterprises have found that dedicated orchestration and
management tools are needed to fully realize the benefits of this
transition while maintaining visibility across their systems.
BIG-IQ™ Cloud represents a unique approach in addressing
these challenges as organizations integrate their application
architectures with emerging cloud solutions. By leveraging the rich
application intelligence and visibility inherent in F5’s market-leading
BIG-IP® solutions, BIG-IQ Cloud extends valuable services and
control capabilities to the management plane.
Key capabilities of BIG-IQ Cloud include:
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Orchestrated application delivery and network services – With
BIG-IQ Cloud, services can be federated across cloud systems to
simplify management. For example, BIG-IQ Cloud can be integrated with
VMware network virtualization to simplify the process of provisioning
application delivery and network services as part of a VMware
workflow. The solution’s REST API enables users to integrate F5
technologies with existing management and cloud orchestration tools to
create customized solutions for enhanced infrastructure and resource
control. Additionally, network virtualization controller vendors can
integrate their technologies with BIG-IQ via northbound APIs to
coordinate and provision application delivery and network services.
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Self-service and automated service provisioning capabilities –
With BIG-IQ Cloud, application services can be rapidly provisioned
and made available to new users and systems in a matter of minutes.
Without automation tools like those offered in BIG-IQ Cloud, IT
configurations can take weeks to implement manually. And, using F5®
iApps™
templates, customers can easily create, update, and optimize services
to suit their specific application mix, business priorities, and
available IT resources.
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Multi-tenant self-service portal for health monitoring – With
its convenient management dashboard, BIG-IQ Cloud enables
organizations to provide differentiated application delivery and
network services while monitoring application health status.
Administrators gain the visibility to effectively troubleshoot issues
and assist in fault isolation analysis. This is essential for
organizations extending their applications into public cloud
environments where visibility is required to pinpoint any cause of
poor performance or application issues. Moreover, this approach also
allows cloud providers to differentiate or tier the application
services they offer to customers, increasing providers’ visibility
into resource usage and opening up new revenue opportunities.
Taken together, these capabilities provide enterprise customers and
cloud providers with a single, consistent, and actionable view of
application delivery and network services, regardless of where these
services are implemented. As a result, organizations can simplify IT
operations and considerably reduce the amount of time needed to tailor
their application delivery systems for the cloud. Customers realize
improved productivity with smoother application deployments, simplified
management, and a reduction of manual tasks—which in turn lessens the
chance of potentially costly configuration errors.
Supporting Quote
“As customers are looking to improve agility, flexibility, and security
in their IT infrastructures, many are taking different routes to the
cloud,” said Hatem Naguib, VP, Networking and Security at VMware. “Our
goal in working with technology partners such as F5 is to create
seamless, fast, and secure solutions for customers to configure and
deploy their applications with all the necessary network and security
services—regardless of how individual IT teams choose to architect their
systems. By combining BIG-IQ with VMware solutions, customers are able
to scale their applications while maintaining control and visibility.”
Availability
BIG-IQ Cloud is generally available today. Please contact a local
F5 office for availability in specific countries.
Additional Resources
About F5 Networks
F5 Networks (NASDAQ:
FFIV) makes the connected world run better. F5 helps organizations
meet the demands and embrace the opportunities that come with the
relentless growth of voice, data, and video traffic, mobile workers, and
applications—in the data center, the network, and the cloud. The world’s
largest businesses, service providers, government entities, and consumer
brands rely on F5’s intelligent services framework to deliver and
protect their applications and services while ensuring people stay
connected. Learn more at www.f5.com.
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company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States
and other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership”
does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any
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