Application services for your private cloud
Gain agility and efficiency, while maintaining control over your infrastructure.
Why F5?
While most private clouds can handle basic load balancing natively, they lack vital application delivery services. It’s on you to deliver the private cloud security, availability, and performance your users expect. F5 app services provide application delivery and security, integration with cloud management and orchestration systems, consulting, and enterprise support.
Security
Secure your applications and ensure data privacy with identity and access management, web application firewall (WAF), distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation, and SSL services.
Availability
Use advanced algorithms to distribute traffic to the best-performing servers and take advantage of a multiple-step monitor to enable application and non-HTTP health checks.
Performance
Optimize a configurable TCP stack to deliver across WAN and cellular networks, as well as an HTTP/2 gateway that provides additional compression and request multiplexing, without altering back-end infrastructure.
Visibility
Gain insights and deliver apps faster using application-related data to proactively monitor and troubleshoot deployments.
Smarter focus
Developers focus on critical applications, not app services.
Smarter process
Service templates codify standard configuration elements.
Smarter integration
Deploy a new instance with just a few clicks on a GUI.
Smarter investment
Build an environment with the flexibility you need now—and in the future.
Multi-tier architecture.
Provider tier
High-capacity, multi-tenant hardware deals with L4 load balancing, network firewalling, SSL decryption, access control, and network optimization at the edge of the network, where it has the greatest impact.
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Tenant tier
Specific tasks such as web-application firewalling, advanced application monitoring, traffic management, and content routing can be fulfilled by a software-only platform close to a single or small number of applications (tenants) tied to an organizational unit.
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Deploy the right application services in a private cloud.
F5 application services provide the private cloud security, performance, and management your apps require.
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Provides intelligent traffic management as well as advanced application security, acceleration, and optimization.
Access Policy Manager
Integrates and unifies secure user access to applications.
Advanced WAF
Deploys web application firewall (WAF) services close to apps, so they’re protected wherever they reside.
BIG-IP DNS
Manages traffic and keeps apps online during high query volumes and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
Protects apps from even the most aggressive volumetric DDoS attacks.
BIG-IQ Centralized Management
Manage licensing, traffic, security, and policies for physical and virtual devices from a single pane of glass.
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