Scalability without the right infrastructure can degrade efficiency when service delivery policies can’t be applied intelligently across all of your applications. This can result in poor performance for your users and, ultimately, undesirable downtime.
Implement a consistent operational framework with F5, and you can rely on repeatable and intelligent scalability policies. By integrating with leading virtualization and cloud computing management frameworks, F5 solutions collaborate across environments to help you automatically maintain optimal performance and availability.
Maximize resources
Caching, compression, and SSL encryption consume significant resources, leading to decreased capacity and poor performance. Commoditization of server sizing intensifies these effects, requiring applications to scale out faster and incur higher costs. Using F5 solutions, you can offload these services to a shared application delivery tier, improving performance and capacity.
- Improve capacity and performance of applications by offloading services.
- Simplify provisioning of application delivery services.
- Increase virtual machine density for maximum efficiency.
Ensure availability
The higher density of virtual machines increases the potential for a failed application to affect the availability of other applications. With flexible, intelligent scalability technology, you can automatically handle application failure without affecting other applications. F5 solutions enable the multi-tenant architectures required to protect applications from noisy or failing neighbors.
- Ensure availability with seamless application-layer failover.
- Enable a multi-tenant service delivery strategy to ensure fault isolation and self-service capabilities.
- Integrate on- and off-premises cloud resources to ensure the highest levels of availability.
Scale seamlessly
Seamless, transparent scaling of applications in the cloud requires collaboration across application delivery and provisioning systems. F5 solutions integrate with automation frameworks and leading provisioning management systems to ensure the elasticity of applications you expect from your cloud computing initiatives.
- Increase operational efficiency by transparently scaling applications.
- Ensure availability by proactively monitoring application health and capacity.
Improve performance
Your users expect content to load in the blink of an eye. This expectation is difficult to meet with the complexity of systems and variability in location, user devices, and application profiles. F5 solutions employ a variety of offload, acceleration, and optimization technologies and topologies that help you achieve this seemingly impossible goal.
- Improve response time by offloading resource-heavy processing to the network.
- Enhance performance by integrating feedback from application services into provisioning decisions.
- Speed delivery times by applying the appropriate device-, location-, and application-specific policies that can optimize content to reduce bandwidth and transfer times.
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