F5 Chassis Delivers Cost Savings and Operational Efficiency with ScaleN™
April 17 2014 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
New VIPRION® 2200 and F5’s
high performance services fabric support applications with
on-demand scaling, consolidation, and resource flexibility without
disruption
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- VIPRION 2200 is the industry’s first
modular Application Delivery Controller chassis in an appliance
footprint (2U), giving customers unparalleled price/performance in
its class and over 50% price-per-instance savings compared to
single appliances.
- Innovative ScaleN technology provides
resource elasticity and multi-tenancy, expanding the capacity of F5
solutions—physical and virtual—to seamlessly scale and consolidate
application services on demand.
- Customers can take an all-active
approach to device clustering for efficiency, realizing additional
savings by eliminating passive standby devices for high
availability.
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced an addition to its VIPRION®
product line. The new two-slot VIPRION 2200 chassis combines the
capabilities of F5’s ScaleN™ and Clustered Multiprocessing™ to
address all aspects of performance and scalability for
organizations’ vital application services. With F5’s VIPRION
offerings, customers report the ability to consolidate services and
reduce costs even while supporting growth.
The new offering is ideal for midrange customers looking for the
on-demand scalability of VIPRION but have rack space constraints—or
related concerns such as power/cooling requirements—that require an
appliance footprint. Providing unmatched performance in a 2U form
factor, the VIPRION 2200 brings true pay-as-you-grow performance
within reach for organizations seeking to bolster their
infrastructures without sacrificing future flexibility. With the
option of adding an extra blade to increase performance, the device
offers easy scalability with no operational disruption. Customers
can simply add more capacity as business needs grow.
Adding Device Resources to F5’s Elastic Services
Fabric
First introduced in 2011, F5 pioneered ScaleN device service
clusters (DSCs) to give customers the ability to align device
resources in an all-active configuration, improving resource
utilization compared to traditional active/passive high
availability (HA) pairs. With F5’s virtual Clustered
Multiprocessing (vCMP®) technology, the VIPRION chassis provides
the highest density multi-tenant solution in its class to enable
efficient consolidation of application services and underutilized
ADCs. The new chassis can be deployed to extend a multi-tenant
fabric of application resources. In line with this approach, F5’s
hardware solutions elegantly integrate with the company’s virtual
offerings to promote Software Defined Application Services™ that
can be extended from the data center to the cloud.
Integrating with Powerful F5 Technologies for Added
Value
The VIPRION 2200 chassis is also designed to take advantage of
F5’s unified offerings, including:
- iRules® for enhanced
programmability
- iApps® for streamlined application
deployments
- iHealth® for valuable diagnostic,
monitoring, and analytics information
- Good, Better, Best tiered pricing
models to consolidate services and go beyond load balancing
- Community resources on DevCentral™ that
further extend the capabilities of F5 solutions
Delivering Unmatched Performance and Scalability in its
Class
VIPRION 2200 offers the application delivery capabilities that
matter most to enterprises with high-traffic, mission critical web
applications, including:
- 160 G of L7 throughput and 4 million L7
requests per second (RPS)
- 72 Gbps of SSL bulk crypto throughput –
2x the closest competitor
- 80 Gbps of hardware compression – 5x
the closest competitor
- Accelerated hardware DDoS protection
against over 50 attacks
- Up to 40 high performance virtual
BIG-IP® guests (and up to 1280 instances in a 32-device cluster)
with compelling price-per-instance savings over other appliance
offerings
“We see customers supporting a growing number of applications
with a variety of physical, virtual, and cloud-based solutions,”
said Karl Triebes, EVP of Product Development and CTO at F5. “With
the 2200, organizations can add scalable processing power in an
appliance form factor, while maintaining the ability to upgrade
systems on demand. In addition, with ScaleN and the F5 Synthesis™
architecture model, customers choosing to deploy hardware and
software together can easily combine resources from each within a
unified services delivery fabric.”
AVAILABILITY
The VIPRION 2200 chassis is generally available now. Please
contact a local F5 sales office for additional information and
product availability in specific countries.
SUPPORTING RESOURCES
- VIPRION Datasheet
- ScaleN Page on f5.com
- ScaleN White Paper
- ScaleN Blog Post on DevCentral
ABOUT F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and
software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully
deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions
broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a
rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and data center
orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the
infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. The
world’s largest businesses, service providers, government entities,
and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of cloud, security,
and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.
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technology.
F5, F5 Synthesis, ScaleN, VIPRION, Clustered Multiprocessing,
vCMP, iRules, iApps, iHealth, DevCentral, Software Defined
Application Services, and BIG-IP are trademarks or service marks of
F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other
product and company names herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
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