The steady growth of unstructured data is a serious concern. By using storage virtualization in the data center and combining it with intelligent services to tier data to cloud storage, your IT department can dramatically simplify storage management. Plus, you’ll reduce long-term storage costs.
F5 can help you implement a consistent and scalable data management strategy with minimal disruption to your users. By extending data management policies to the cloud with F5—including securing data with enterprise-class encryption—you can take advantage of cloud storage services while maintaining a consistent, operationally efficient data management plan.
Seamlessly integrate the cloud into existing environments
Built on an object storage platform and accessed over a public WAN, cloud storage can be fundamentally different than your existing file storage infrastructure. F5 solutions virtualize the file storage environment and translate between local file access and cloud storage protocols so you can seamlessly integrate private or public clouds into your existing environment.
- Preserve online and transparent access to files across local and cloud storage tiers.
- Translate between existing file access that uses industry-standard CIFS and NFS file sharing protocols, and web services APIs used by cloud storage platforms.
Maximize benefits and minimize costs
While cloud storage offers compelling cost savings, it also introduces new challenges, such as the cost for network bandwidth and the performance impact of accessing files over a public WAN. F5 provides automated storage tiering policies that ensure only inactive and other appropriate files are migrated to cloud storage to minimize unexpected new costs.
Choose the right cloud storage solution with the flexibility you need
Whether you want to build your own private cloud infrastructure or outsource with a public cloud service, F5 supports a wide range of cloud storage solutions to meet your unique business needs.
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