Case Studies

With roughly 70 percent of its consultants working from client sites or from home, A.T. Kearney depends heavily on email, instant messaging, VoIP, and other unified communications services. The company needed to ensure that these tools are secure and available to users from any location and on any device. With the F5 advanced Application Delivery Controllers, A.T. Kearney eliminated the need for costly infrastructure investments at branch offices worldwide and, at the same time, dramatically improved application availability and performance.

BlueLock's virtualized environment enables the company to provide cost-effective IT infrastructure services while ensuring that clients' infrastructures always meet their business needs. BIG-IP LTM helps BlueLock take full advantage of the efficiencies and opportunities its virtualized environment offers.

First American created a cohesive IT operation capable of providing a standard services catalog, service level agreements (SLAs), and disaster recovery guarantees for all business units. Now centralized using F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions and a highly virtualized server infrastructure with VMware, IT is far more nimble, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting business needs than it was previously.

Hobsons delivers a powerful suite of education-oriented SaaS-based applications to colleges and universities. As such, Hobsons' application delivery infrastructure is mission-critical. The company chose ADN devices from F5 Networks, running the TMOS operating system, BIG-IP version 10, to support its SaaS infrastructure. With this solution, Hobsons is able to reduce its own costs while providing shared services that help its customers do more with less.

IlliniCloud is a non-profit cooperative that hosts applications for school administration, facilities management, student performance tracking, multimedia, and library management for K–12 school districts throughout Illinois. To optimize the delivery of these services through its private cloud and to help member districts manage annual data growth of up to 300 percent, IlliniCloud chose F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers and ARX intelligent storage virtualization products. With these solutions, IlliniCloud can provide cost-effective and highly reliable cloud-based applications to member districts. The co-op significantly reduced its storage costs and recouped its ARX investment in less than one year.

Lokahi Solutions, a cloud computing service provider, must ensure that its private cloud stack, the Lokahi Infrastructure Virtualization Engine, remains highly secure and continuously available. To achieve that level of performance, the company implemented F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers as a critical component of its cloud environment.

Rackspace Hosting wanted to broaden its product portfolio by offering customers an easy way to link dedicated managed servers to cloud-based servers. The company used Application Delivery Networking devices from F5 to help build a hybrid service called RackConnect. Now, Rackspace customers can mix and match dedicated managed and cloud hosting platforms for ultimate scalability, flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs.

SpringCM, an award-winning provider of cloud content management solutions, needed to keep pace with its rapid growth while continuing to provide customers with high performance, cost-effective solutions. To ensure the cloud advantages of lower costs and higher flexibility, SpringCM chose Application Delivery Networking (ADN) devices from F5.

Relying on the powerful data management capabilities of F5 ARX file virtualization solutions, American Suzuki Motor Company seamlessly transitioned to a higher-performance network-attached storage (NAS) environment and implemented an automated Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy that slashed backup times and storage costs.

Transplace redesigned its IT infrastructure for higher efficiency and to provide a better customer experience. The redesign included virtualization technology from VMware. To realize the full benefits of its virtualized environment, the company used BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking devices from F5.