Solutions
E-Commerce Solutions
Give your customers a seamless, secure shopping experience
E-commerce sites must be available and responsive at all times. Your customers expect fast, easy shopping and if they don't get it from your site, they will abandon their cart and go elsewhere. But a streamlined experience can't come at the expense of security. A breach could not only take you offline--it could take you out of business.
Once you've attracted customers to your site, you need to deliver a consistent, pleasant shopping experience so they will keep coming back. That means doing everything you can to make sure your servers don't get bogged down with the overhead of SSL encryption. You also need to be able to serve every request, add new servers quickly to handle increasing loads, and secure your site against application-level attacks that could harm your customers and your reputation.
Why do I need F5 for e-commerce?
Only F5 offers a total approach to delivering applications across networks using a unified architecture. With F5, you can handle more shopping sessions with far fewer servers, and make your entire operation easier to manage.
Benefits of using F5 for your e-commerce solution include:
- Accelerating server response by compressing traffic, caching redundant web page elements, and handling SSL processing.
- Balancing connections across redundant servers, while maintaining a consistent connection with each shopping session.
- Executing automatic failover to secondary data centers when primary servers become overloaded or unavailable.
- Speeding up replication of data among data centers for failover capability or disaster recovery.
Top Case Studies
- Shopzilla - Rings up big data management and operational efficiencies with intelligent file virtualization
- Ritz Interactive - Puts F5 WebAccelerator to the test in e-commerce sites
- Komplett - Delivers fast and reliable e-commerce experience to 1.5 million users with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Top White Papers
F5 solutions guide for the e-Commerce industry
How do I implement a solution for e-commerce?
F5 makes deploying an e-commerce solution nearly effortless. With our packaged optimization profiles and security policies, we take the guesswork out of optimally configuring F5 devices for an e-commerce solution. F5 deployment guides show you in step-by-step detail how to configure F5 devices for e-commerce implementations.
