FINAL WORD
Recent F5 developments, innovations and
commitments in this space include:
BIG-IP Cloud Edition. The newest version
F5’s BIG-IP Virtual Edition and BIG-IQ
management platform delivered on a
per-application basis. Customers want a
much more consumable, easier-to-manage
offering of Virtual Edition. They also want
to cut the spin-up time for an application
and reduce TCO per megabyte, while still
offering secure and trusted application
services. Cloud Edition delivers on all these
fronts. It is currently available in VMware
private cloud and AWS or Microsoft Azure
public cloud environments and there are
plans to further expand its availability via
Google Cloud
F5 Cloud Services. F5 is determined
to keep pace with enterprises moving
more workloads to the public cloud.
Currently in public preview, F5 Cloud
Services will enable ‘as-a-Service’
consumption of a broad range of
application services, starting with
DNS Delivery and Global Server Load
Balancing (GSLB). Designed as a fully
managed solution operated by F5, it
will not require customers to deploy or
manage the software in any way
Cloud-native application services.
F5 will soon introduce a new cloud-
native application services platform,
specifically designed for the applications
DevOps and AppDev teams care about
most. Customers need application
services optimised for continuous
integration and continuous deployment
workflows. F5’s new platform will help
to deploy traffic management services
simply and cost-effectively with the
speed and automation expected for
modern cloud environments
Silverline. Businesses need more help
when it comes to securing apps in the
cloud or on-premises. This is particularly
true when upfront investments in
IT infrastructure and support are
prohibitive. F5’s cloud-based, fully
managed Silverline security services
reduce the burden on oversubscribed
security teams by protecting against
a variety of attacks, including DDoS,
OWASP Top 10 and malicious bots.
Applications stay available and security
teams can focus on what they need
to do
Aspen Mesh. F5’s cloud-centric
innovation credentials were
recently bolstered by the
recent announcement of Aspen
Mesh – its fully support service
mesh built on Istio. Businesses
across the world are fast
transitioning from monolithic
to microservice architectures.
While container orchestration
tools like Kubernetes have
solved microservice build and
deploy issues, many run-time
challenges remain unsolved.
Aspen Mesh addresses this
challenge by making it easy
to manage the complexity of
microservice architectures
“Only the effective management
of application capital will truly
unlock game-changing innovation
and profit. Going forward, it will
be less about physical assets,
infrastructure and staff volume.
Applications are the real competitive
differentiator,” Surve added.
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