F5's new BIG-IP solutions enable customers to accelerate
applications, ensure FIPS compliance, and increase the efficiency of
dynamic data centers
F5
Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application
Delivery Networking, today announced new BIG-IP®
platform offerings. Adding to F5's broad range of Application Delivery
Controller (ADC) solutions, the BIG-IP 11000 platform is specifically
designed for high levels of throughput, making it an ideal solution to
support application acceleration to improve user experience, and data
center-to-data center replication to enhance disaster recovery efforts
and overall business
continuity.
With today's announcement, F5 is also introducing Federal
Information Processing Standard-compliant Hardware Security Module
editions of the BIG-IP 11000 and 11050 platforms to help government,
healthcare,
and financial
services organizations meet demanding security requirements,
including SSL encryption mandates. By enabling customers to manage FIPS
security through the BIG-IP system instead of on individual servers,
organizations are able to save up to 25 percent on compliance costs
alone. In addition to the new 11000 series releases, F5 is expanding its
6900 series to include the BIG-IP® 6900S hardware platform to
support applications that require high levels of SSL processing.
"F5 provides a broad portfolio of hardware
and virtual
ADC platforms to help organizations seamlessly and efficiently
integrate application services within a scalable, dynamic data center
framework," said Karl Triebes, SVP of Product Development and CTO at F5.
"The 11000 platform is particularly well suited to help organizations
combine acceleration and optimization services with other application
delivery functions, resulting in superior user experience, significant
cost reductions, and streamlined management operations. By providing
flexible deployment options for customers, organizations can grow their
infrastructures on demand to take advantage of resource-based computing
models, including cloud environments."
Details
F5 provides purpose-built hardware for the BIG-IP product family to help
organizations address their most significant application delivery
challenges. Along with the recent introduction of F5's BIG-IP
version 11, F5's extensible hardware and software solutions
integrate application delivery, security, acceleration, and optimization
services to meet customers' evolving needs. With the introduction of the
BIG-IP 11000, 11000/11050 FIPS, and 6900S platforms, F5 is enhancing its
flexible deployment options to help organizations implement dynamic data
centers with hardware-based or hybrid
application delivery architectures.
Combined with BIG-IP version 11, the new hardware platforms help
customers:
- Integrate Application Delivery Services for Streamlined Operations
With the BIG-IP system's TMOS®
architecture, only F5 can provide truly integrated application
delivery services, enabling organizations to accelerate applications,
scale deployments, and consolidate infrastructures.