F5 and Omnissa protect and optimize the digital workspace

Yuichi MiyazakiDirector, Technical Alliances | F5

In today’s hybrid multicloud world, virtual desktops and applications represent the backbone of many enterprises. But a sizable number of teams are still looking to modernize their approach to delivering and securing both of these essential elements.

Finding the right way to make it happen can be challenging. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is essential, so teams can’t afford to compromise. Likewise, enterprise apps are firmly embedded in day-to-day operations, and any issues can have a cascading effect on productivity and business outcomes. Organizations need enhanced reliability, performance, and security. But adding more platforms to enable them and increasing operational complexity isn’t an appealing option, especially for teams that are already feeling overwhelmed by tool sprawl.

With these challenges in mind, F5 and Omnissa have teamed up to deliver streamlined VDI and app delivery modernization for today’s enterprises. Together, the two organizations now provide powerful F5 delivery and security capabilities via built-in integration with Omnissa Horizon and Omnissa Access.

By using F5 BIG-IP solutions to support your Omnissa deployments, you can consolidate your DMZ architectures, automate multi-site failover, support secure access across your distributed workforce, and more. These capabilities represent a protected, resilient foundation for powering enterprise VDI and app delivery at scale, helping enable uninterrupted availability and performance for your employees. It’s all supported by deep collaboration with joint channel and system integration partners to help speed up and simplify deployment.

Enabling the next-generation digital workspace

In today’s complex and multi-faceted IT landscape, protecting and optimizing enterprise VDI and apps requires a robust portfolio of delivery and security capabilities. Here are some of the ways BIG-IP can help you protect and accelerate your Omnissa environments while streamlining operations:

• Consolidated DMZ architecture and zero trust security: Use F5 BIG-IP Zero Trust Access as a unified VDI and application proxy to reduce DMZ sprawl and operational complexity by consolidating legacy gateway proxies into a single management platform.
• Intelligent traffic steering and load balancing: Leverage F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for high availability, intelligent traffic distribution, and resilient ingress for Omnissa Horizon Unified Access Gateways and Connection Servers.
• Global availability and automated failover: Provide global traffic steering across multi-site and multi-pod Horizon architectures via F5 BIG-IP DNS, with support for “Active/Active” and “Active/Standby” business continuity and disaster recovery models with automated failover.
• Unified identity and policy enforcement: Take advantage of specialized integration between BIG-IP Zero Trust Access and Omnissa Access to establish a seamless service-provider-to-identity-provider relationship, enabling unified single sign-on and continuous policy control.
• Accelerated VDI migrations: Streamline large-scale migrations from legacy VDI environments to a modern Omnissa Horizon infrastructure secured by F5.

Speeding up deployment through the partner ecosystem

VDI and app delivery modernization both need to deliver rapid time to value. That’s why F5 and Omnissa are collaborating with an extensive network of channel and technology integration partners to make modernization faster, simpler, and more cost-effective. Joint ecosystem partners provide comprehensive architecture, deployment, and professional services to help customers implement and optimize the solution stack.

Powering innovation with a resilient, high-performance foundation
Enterprises need seamless interoperability across identity, security, and application traffic management to safeguard and optimize the digital workspace. With F5 and Omnissa, you can consolidate essential infrastructure and app tooling into an integrated platform that simplifies success for your team.

Reduce single points of failure. Streamline DMZ architectures. Apply zero trust capabilities to help secure employee access. With F5 and Omnissa, organizations can integrate the capabilities needed to support digital work experiences across on-premises and cloud environments.

Learn more by reading our recent press release and visiting our F5 and Omnissa solutions webpage.

Also, if you’re planning to be at the Omnissa One AMER conference in Orlando starting today, be sure to stop by F5 Booth #16.

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Yuichi MiyazakiDirector, Technical Alliances | F5

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