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Simplify scalability of applications and operations
Scalability is one of the key benefits of cloud computing. The ability to easily and automatically scale applications, operations, and infrastructure on demand delivers a fast return on investment and big efficiency gains.
But scalability without the proper infrastructure support can degrade efficiency when the necessary policies for performance and availability can’t be applied across all application deployments. Scaling an application without scaling its supporting services leads to poor performance and ultimately undesirable downtime.
F5 provides a consistent operational framework through which repeatable and intelligent scalability policies can be applied to applications and infrastructure alike. By integrating with leading virtualization and cloud computing management frameworks, F5 solutions collaborate across environments to help you automatically maintain optimal performance and availability.
Why do I need cloud scalability?
Business benefits of using F5 for cloud scalability include:
- Reduced downtime.
Applications and supporting delivery services can be scaled up or down automatically without disruption. Even if only a single instance is required to meet demand, F5 ensures that failure will not disrupt application services. - Context awareness.
F5 gives you a complete picture of the user, network, application, and services, so you can use context to determine how applications and infrastructure services are scaled to meet demand. - Fault isolation.
The higher density of virtual machines increases the potential for a failed application to impact the availability of other applications. With flexible, intelligent scalability technology you can automatically handle application failure without impacting other applications. - Architectural agility.
A flexible and adaptable cloud scalability solution from F5 gives you the architectural agility you need to integrate resources deployed in the cloud or in the data center to assure the highest levels of availability and performance.
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How do I extend scalability to the cloud?
F5 enables the integration of network and application delivery components in a multi-site model. Both inside the existing data center and in the cloud, F5’s application control plane and dynamic control plane architecture adapts to constantly changing conditions in the environment. It gives your organization the visibility and control you need to manage scale and growth and the context required to optimize the use of cloud-based resources.
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What F5 offerings do I need to extend scalability to the cloud?
F5’s unique, platform-based approach means that BIG-IP solutions, including virtual editions, use the same highly scalable foundation that can scale the necessary supporting application services—such as web application security, identity, and access management—along with the application itself. BIG-IP solutions leverage vCMP and ScaleN technologies to seamlessly increase and decrease capacity on demand, delivering the highest levels of availability and performance.
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) enables scalability at the site level, so applications can span data centers and clouds. By integrating with its local counterpart, BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), BIG-IP GTM is able to make real-time decisions for user requests to ensure performance and availability.
BIG-IP LTM integrates with leading virtualization and cloud management solutions, providing the bidirectional communication necessary to support scalability at the application level on demand. BIG-IP LTM also provides carrier-grade protection against multi-layer attacks.
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