Always available apps with F5 Networks solutions

The most important challenge for IT departments is to provide guaranteed and secure access to business applications. Softline offers F5 Networks products designed to solve this problem.

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For over 20 years since its inception, F5 Networks has been developing solutions for smart application load balancing. Gartner reports its software as the leader in the Application Delivery category, which, in addition to balancing solutions, includes a variety of tools and technologies to ensure high availability, security and application performance.

F5 Networks solutions are designed for on-premises, distributed, cloud or hybrid infrastructures where mission-critical services are under heavy load, server counts and privacy requirements are high. These can be corporate business applications in the data center, the back-end of the bank-client system, social networks, online stores, government service portals and other web services.

More than 16,000 organizations worldwide use F5 Networks products, including 49 Fortune 50 companies.

Softline recommends the following F5 Networks solutions

F5 BIG-IP is the company's flagship solution. It is a hardware application delivery controller that is housed in a server rack. Has a set of software modules that work on a common platform. The client can independently choose the composition of the modules, depending on the licensing scheme.

F5 BIG-IP makes it possible to distribute the load of working servers, taking over:

load balancing of internal and geographically distant servers;

managing connections with multiple providers and choosing the most suitable connection;

analysis of packets at all levels of the OSI model, from 4th to 7th, and resisting any unauthorized access attempts;

user authentication and authorization;

caching web pages with all kinds of customization functions;

performing SSL encryption and decryption.

BIG-IP software modules run on a single TMOS (Traffic Management Operating System) platform, which ensures their maximum efficiency in collaboration and facilitates centralized management of the entire system.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a virtual application delivery controller installed on all leading hypervisors (VMware vSphere, KVM and Community Xen, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V) and cloud services (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) running on standard servers.

BIG-IP VE provides advanced application delivery services including advanced traffic control, acceleration, DNS, firewall and access control that run on dedicated hardware. VE software images are available for download and are easily ported between virtualized on-premises data centers, public and hybrid cloud environments.

VIPRION is a powerful hardware platform with the ability to increase or decrease its performance without any disruption to applications and services.

With BIG-IP solutions powered by the VIPRION platform, you can quickly deploy and scale your application delivery infrastructure to meet the changing requirements of your company. With VIPRION, there is no need to add new devices, you can simply increase the capacity of an existing platform!

With high bandwidth, connections and SSL efficiency, VIPRION can handle high workloads while maintaining high application availability and performance.