Cloud Storage Solutions

Business benefits of using F5 for cloud storage include:

• Flexibility to choose the right cloud storage solution.
  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 needs.
• Easy integration of cloud storage into your existing environment.
  Virtualizing your file storage infrastructure enables you to seamlessly integrate cloud storage offerings into your existing environments.
• Automatic tiering of appropriate files to the cloud.
  Automated tiering policies ensure that only appropriate files are migrated to cloud storage, without any additional IT overhead.
• Minimized hidden costs for accessing files in the cloud.
  By only migrating appropriate files, you can maximize the cost savings from cloud storage by minimizing the bandwidth costs and performance impact of file access.

F5 enables the integration of data center storage systems with cloud-deployed storage services. Using F5 solutions as part of a holistic data management plan, you can implement a more efficient, tiered storage strategy to maximize utilization while lowering operational and capital costs.

Using F5 solutions, you can form a flexible, intelligent storage foundation that automatically enforces data management policies to make the best use of storage resources whether in the data center or in the cloud.

F5 ARX solutions virtualize the file storage infrastructure, simplifying file access across multiple storage devices and different storage types. ARX devices provide a rich set of non-disruptive data management policies to automate file placement and movement between storage tiers, without downtime or impacting user access to data. Depending on the cloud storage provider, you can use either ARX Cloud Extender or a third-party gateway device to provide a local cloud storage tier to front-end storage capacity in the cloud.