F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the availability of new, multi-cloud-ready application services for the Saudi Arabian market.
Designed to provide consistency in multi-cloud environments, the solutions empower companies with greater deployment flexibility, more effective security and faster time to market.
“The business imperative to deploy applications in multiple clouds – public and private, in colocation facilities, and in datacentres – is on the rise but many are struggling with the management of different development environments, toolsets, and orchestration technologies,” said Mamduh Allam, Saudi Arabia General Manager, F5 Networks.
“F5’s strategy is to ensure we address the complexity of crowd sprawl head on, tackling challenges related to managing application services, inconsistent policies, security, as well as results-driven performance optimisation. We want to give our customers the freedom to deploy any application – anywhere and at any time,” added Allam.
F5’s 2017 State of Application Delivery Report recently revealed that customers are increasingly investing in multiple cloud technologies. Eighty-six percent of the respondents indicated that they are committed to multi-cloud architectures, and 20 percent stated that they will have over half their applications running in the public and/or private clouds this year.
F5’s new offerings include:
New public cloud solutions that help deploy applications faster in any cloud
- F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) is available in the Google Cloud Platform. F5 is giving customers greater choices of cloud platforms, with new ‘bring-your-own license’ offers for instances ranging from 25Mbps to 5Gbps. With the inclusion of Google Cloud, F5 services are now available in all major public clouds. Available now at Google Cloud Launcher in Good, Better and Best versions.
- Cloud solution templates for Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google reduce the complexity of deploying F5 services for applications in the public cloud. These new solution-specific templates simplify and automate common public cloud use cases. Cloud solution templates are also available for OpenStack private cloud environments. Available now on GitHub.
- Integrated marketplace solutions provide easily accessible, pre-packaged F5 services such as WAF and Office 365 federated access that are deployable directly from public cloud marketplaces, meaning companies can leverage their trusted F5 services easily for applications in the cloud. Available now at Azure Marketplace.
New private cloud solutions enable organizations to move to the cloud faster and with more confidence.
- Private cloud package gets customers up and running quickly with pre-tested, certified, and bundled F5 solutions that simplify and automate OpenStack private cloud deployments. Available now through F5 Sales.
Broad line of additional solutions deliver application services in new environments.
- Lightweight Application Services Proxy gives customers flexibility in developing, testing, and scaling applications in cloud and container environments. Available now at DockerStore.
- Container Connector provides the easy provisioning of services for containerized applications, and simple integration of capabilities from management/orchestration systems including Kubernetes and Mesos/Marathon. Available now at GitHub and DockerHub.
- Application Connector delivers application services from the edge of the cloud by automatically discovering cloud-hosted instances and connecting them to the customer’s data center or hosted location. Available now through F5 Sales.