With the emergence of new multi-cloud and edge-based architectures, it’s important for businesses to deliver fast and available modern applications across multiple cloud environments. Over 50% of enterprise-generated data will be produced and processed outside of traditional data centers or a single centralized cloud by 2022.1 Distributed cloud services are the new reality for organizations that want to succeed—and F5 is leading the charge to help businesses adapt to these changes.
F5 offers unique SaaS-based deployment and lifecycle management of hardware and infrastructure software, allowing customers to focus on application software development instead of infrastructure management. Connect cloud and private datacenters to any edge location for fast and reliable connectivity anywhere your customers are.
Protect the fleet of edge infrastructure and apps from internet vulnerabilities and physical tampering, to reduce downtime and security risk. Secure connectivity across cloud and edge enables improved productivity for DevOps and SREs. F5 offers cloud and container native security or robust private datacenter security solutions to meet your application and governance model needs.
F5's SaaS-based delivery of platform services, coupled with a high-performance global network, significantly reduces the cost of deployment, operations, and application downtime at the edge. Create application-specific security and deployment policies to enable DevOps to deploy anywhere without risking other applications on your infrastructure.
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F5 Distributed Cloud Services offer a better way to deliver cloud-native modern app services with unparalleled performance and availability at scale. Organizations can deploy and run containers and microservices applications anywhere customers demand service—from colocation providers and cloud partners out to the customer edge—offering cloud-native operations, consistent security, and end-to-end observability anywhere your applications need to run.
F5 enables DevOps to deploy on a modern platform that secures and automates app delivery capabilities to any cloud or edge site.
Deliver integrated and consistent platform services to deploy, secure, and manage infrastructure and apps at the on-prem edge, in public and private clouds, and in the F5 application delivery global network. F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack enables up to a 12x reduction in time-to-market by simplifying the deployment and operation of applications at the edge, reducing dependencies on cloud-hosted origins.
F5 gives DevOps, SecOps, and NetOps teams distributed services for deploying, connecting, securing, and operating applications and data across the edge, multiple clouds, and our global network.
Distributed Cloud Services can be delivered to apps running on any platform, on any public or private cloud. Connect and secure apps running in VMs, containers, bare metal, or serverless.
Support multiple service discovery protocols simultaneously. Consul, Kubernetes, and DNS work out of the box. Istio or Linkerd service mesh can integrate with a Distributed Cloud Services ingress/egress gateway.
F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh connects, secures, and delivers applications deployed across multiple clouds and edge sites. Distributed Cloud Mesh’s unique, distributed, proxy-based and zero-trust architecture significantly improves security by providing application access without network entry across clusters and sites. Using F5’s global network backbone, it delivers deterministic, reliable, and secure connectivity across multiple clouds, edge sites, and to and from the Internet.
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1 Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020, Gartner
