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IBM PureSystems
IBM PureSystems represents the next generation of integrated hardware and software platforms designed to capture the possibilities of cloud and virtualization initiatives and fold them into a dynamic network architecture. The F5 product family enhances the performance, security, and availability of applications delivered over high-capacity networks.
From global load balancing and sophisticated contextual access control to greater application availability, F5 products complement PureSystems by adding a strategic point of control in the network. The result is improved security, better performance, faster application deployment, and higher resource utilization for a better return on investment.
Why do I need F5 for my IBM PureSystems deployment?
Application Delivery Networking devices, modules, and virtualized platforms from F5 maximize the dynamic capabilities of next generation computing architectures powered by PureSystems.
Benefits of F5 products for PureSystems
- Gain greater value from cloud, virtualization, and dynamic infrastructure initiatives (private, public, hybrid).
- Increase application performance, availability, and security.
- Implement contextual security and defend against a spectrum of attack vectors while easing regulatory compliance.
- Ensure business continuity and fast disaster recovery with global load balancing that directs users to the best performing data center.
- Consolidate data centers and servers and achieve faster response times while offloading workloads for greater resource utilization.
- Speed application deployment with flexible F5 iApps templates, features of the BIG-IP system that enable fast configuration of application-specific services.
How It Works
Make your network a more agile infrastructure for application delivery. Applications running across networks encounter a wide range of performance, security, and availability challenges that can be mitigated to improve application delivery, increase control, and optimize resources. The F5 BIG-IP product family is a system of hardware, software, and virtualized application delivery functions that enhance the quality of service delivered by PureSystems and provide a high-availability environment for enterprise-class applications such as IBM WebSphere Application Server. The advantages of deploying both hardware and virtual editions of BIG-IP products with PureSystems include:
- Offload encryption and compression onto hardware-based platforms to increase virtual machine (VM) density and improve performance.
- Improve front-line security to defeat attacks before they reach the application environment.
- Enhance control, granularity, and elasticity with a virtualized Application Delivery Controller (ADC) for individual applications, customers, or lines of business.
Further enhance your solution with software modules providing single sign-on capability, application firewalls, web acceleration, and WAN optimization. Hardware, virtual editions, and software work in tandem to deliver a unified, high-availability platform for application delivery, optimization, and control in PureSystems environments.
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How do I deploy F5 products with IBM PureSystems?
BIG-IP system hardware and software work in tandem to create a single, unified point of control for application delivery, high-availability, and optimization of PureSystems environments.
For more information on how to deploy an F5 solution for IBM PureSystems, please send email to IBMGlobalAlliance@f5.com.
