The F5 Ready program validates BIG-IP
virtual editions within leading cloud provider environments, giving
customers more choice and confidence when deploying apps in the
cloud
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced its new F5 Ready
program that makes it easier for customers to use F5® solutions in
the cloud environment of their choice. F5 Ready™ serves to verify
that F5’s software-based solutions support a broad array of cloud
providers worldwide, making the agility, efficiency, and cost
savings of cloud accessible to more organizations. With the
introduction of this global program, customers can better ensure
the security, performance, and availability of applications in
these cloud environments.
Confidence in Deploying F5 with Industry-Leading Cloud
Providers
F5 Ready promotes interoperability and resource efficiency,
aiding the industry’s migration of applications and services into
private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. The program
verifies F5 BIG-IP® virtual edition compatibility with a growing
list of public cloud service providers, including Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Bluelock, BT, Cisco Intercloud, Datacom, Dimension
Data, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, SingleHop, Skytap, and VMware
vCloud Air. F5 Ready will continue to add cloud providers from
around the globe and across industries to best serve the diverse
needs of customers worldwide.
IT Agility with Flexible Licensing and Consumption
Options
Different application deployments have different licensing
needs—whether organizations are testing a few apps or deploying
hundreds into production. To align with the ways customers are
adopting cloud, the F5 Ready program offers more choice and budget
flexibility with a broad set of cloud-optimized consumption
models:
- Bring Your Own License (BYOL) is
portable, making it easy to extend existing BIG-IP virtual edition
investments to and across cloud environments.
- The F5 Cloud Licensing Program enables
utility (pay-as-you-go) billing and annual subscriptions to support
temporary deployments (like app development and testing) or for
customers who prefer an OpEx model.
- F5 Volume Licensing Subscription is a
subscription licensing option for volume deployments, offering cost
savings of up to 67% with BIG-IP virtual editions.
Commitment to Ongoing Innovation
F5 has invested in this new program and will continue expanding
its efforts to support more cloud providers and ensure the latest
F5 BIG-IP offerings are verified and available on-demand. The
program launches with support for BIG-IP version 11.5.1, and F5
will provide verification for the forthcoming BIG-IP 12.0 code
release upon availability.
This program enables organizations to more easily leverage the
latest BIG-IP enhancements on-demand, in order to best meet their
respective needs. Additionally, F5 Ready assures that customers can
extend and use F5’s programmable technologies like iApps® and
iRules® in cloud environments.
SUPPORTING QUOTES
“Organizations going to the cloud want to know that they don’t
have to give up their valuable application services to get there,”
said Alex Rublowsky, Sr. Director, Licensing Business Models at F5.
“Through the F5 Ready program, customers can keep their trusted
security, availability, and acceleration services—even as they
evaluate cloud service providers, combine technologies from
multiple vendors, and look to scale additional application
resources to public cloud environments.”
“Building and running our applications within AWS is key to
modernizing our data center, and core to driving a more agile
business that responds quickly to our customers’ needs,” said Brian
Singer, Senior Vice President, Products and Marketing at Orbitera.
“Now with F5 BIG-IP virtual editions directly available and
verified within AWS, we are able to extend our existing F5 skills
and policies to ensure the performance, availability, and security
of our cloud-based applications.”
AVAILABILITY
The F5 Ready program is active and continues to add additional
partners. Please contact a local F5 sales office for additional
product and service availability information pertaining to specific
countries.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- F5 Ready Cloud Program Details
- F5 Cloud Computing Page
ABOUT F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center,
telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN)
deployments to successfully deliver applications and services 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 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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and technologies.
F5, F5 Ready, BIG-IP, iApps, and iRules 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
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