Availability Acceleration Access Virtualization - Consolidation

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Availability | Acceleration | Access | Virtualization - Consolidation

Sales Guide straight to the point

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Aligning business strategy and the IT infrastructure

F5 provides strategic points of control throughout the IT infrastructure, enabling organizations to scale, adapt, and align with changing business demands and drive business forward on a solid foundation of IT agility.

F5® Battlecard

What F5 does ? Initiatives F5 benefits Metrics/ROI F5 Solutions

Availability

Business Continuity

Disaster recovery Dynamic & granular user redirec-

tion / geolocalization 99,9% global High availability LTM: local server load balancing GTM : multi datacenter load balancing Application Deploy-

ment / migration

Scalability, High availability 99,9% uptime for critical Apps / 30% less servers required / 20%

deployment time reduction

LTM with predefined application templa- tes (SAP®, IBM®, Oracle®, Microsoft®) Multi ISP project Control your ISP cost / Optimize

ISP utilization 3* Cost reduction on non produc-

tion traffic Link controller Multi Internet links load balancing

Access / Security

Remote Access (VPN SSL)

Secure app delivery for remote users / Mitigate intrusion risks

Reduce support calls by 40%

(vs IPSec)

FirePass: VPN SSL platform / Edge : VPN SSL + Application Acceleration Authentication

(reverse proxy) Application integrity / Provide

centralized authentication Access consolidation & acceleration APM: authentication module (SSO) on LTM

Application Firewall Compliance

Secure Web apps & critical data / Reach compliance criterias

Opex reduction by 3*

(avoid rewriting application)

APM: Application firewall module on LTM or standalone platform

Acceleration

User Experience Accelerate Web applications /

Avoid application rejection Acceleration for pretested web

apps : SAP, Exchange, WebSphere... Web Accelerator: module on LTM or standalone platform

Data replication (Multi Data centers)

Reduce latency between Multi

Datacenter between 10* & 50* faster time

replication WOM: WAN optimization module on

LTM or standalone platform

Virtualization/

Consolidation

Server Virtualization Increase VM density / Dynamic provisioning

Reduce CPU usage by 30% / Restart 5 times faster new VMs

LTM : local virtualized server load balancing

Virtual desktop Encrypt & Balance traffic with

no performance impact Reduce Connexion servers by 30%

/ 99,9% HA LTM + APM: Local server load balancing

+ authentication module Cloud services

High availability features on existing ESX server / Adaptative infrastructure & cost model

Reach SLA engagement LTM Virtual edition: Virtualized Local server load balancing on ESX server

DC Consolidation Consolidate all functions in one single applicance

Capex/Opex: 2 or 3 platforms moved to one

BIG-IP Series

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F5® Solutions

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Managing Application Traffic

59% of surveyed F5 customers value the ability to use F5 BIG-IP solutions to manage application traffic and move VMs among multiple datacenters.

Source : Survey of 210 F5® BIG-IP™ users - TechValidate®.

Datacenter l Virtualisation

Maximize your infrastructure

BIG-IP® related products

LTM

LTM VE GTM

WOM

Link Controller™

Projects Type F5 Solutions

Business Continuity Plan Global Load Balancing: directs end-users to the closest or best-performing datacenter available Consolidation Reduction of hardware acquisition costs - Ability to bring down an entire datacenter for maintenance Datacenter virtualization Increase VMs density on servers / Dynamic provisioning / VDI Security

WAN Optimization Compression / ISPs Load Balancing / Enabling traffic between datacenters to be optimized, encrypted, and highly available

Private Cloud With a centrally controlled method of delivering applications and data, you move resources anywhere at a moment’s notice without worrying about the host capabilities

Local Traffic Manager

Application delivery networking system that provides intelligent load balancing, traffic management, advanced application security &

acceleration

Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition Available on VMware^® ESX^™

Global Traffic Manager

Automatically direct users to the closest or best-performing data center

WAN Optimisation Manager

Accelerate data replication and applications between data centers Link Controller

Prevent Internet Service Disruptions

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BIG-IP improves Virtual Machine density

Source : Survey of 263 F5® BIG-IP™ users - TechValidate®

BIG-IP improves Virtual Machine density 56% surveyed users are able to run between 10% to 50% more virtual machines because of their F5 BIG-IP.

Prevent downtime & increase productivity by keeping your applications available

Application Delivery

BIG-IP® related products

LTM

LTM VE APM WebAccelerator

Application Delivery Prevent downtime and increase productivity by keeping your applications consistently available Application Migration / Deployment Centralization / pre-configured templates per application

High Availability for Application services 99,9% global High availability (multi-sites)

Web Application Response time optimization (Thin Client) / caching / compression / SSL Mobility / Remote Access SSL Portal / Access Control

Application delivery networking system that provides intelligent load balancing, traffic management, advanced application security &

acceleration

Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition Available on VMware^® ESX^™

Access Policy Manager

Simplify and scale access control for web applications WebAccelerator

Speed up Web applications - Thin Client

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BIG-IP® related products

LTM

ASM

APM

Edge Gateway™

F5 BIG-IP® Testimonial: PCI Compliance

F5 BIG-IP® has made a major contribution to our PCI compliance and ability to process credit card data in the most secure manner.

Source : IT Manager – Medium Enterprise Consumer Products Company - TechValidate®

SSL Acceleration Consolidation of Certificates / Centralized Management/ Selective Content Encryption and Encrypted Cookies

Protection for web applications Application Firewall, reverse proxy, protection against DoS, Bruteforce, SQL injection attacks SSO, Access Control Streamline the web authentication process

Security for the Virtual desktop RDP and PCoIP Encryption / context-aware user access to web applications Compliance Support for a wide variety of compliance standards

An application delivery networking system that provides intelligent load balancing, traffic management, advanced application security &

acceleration

Application Security Manager Web Application Firewall

Access Policy Manager

Simplify and scale access control for web applications: SSO, VDI, AAA

Edge Gateway

Fast and secure remote access

Access

Keep your complex environment secure and accessible with unified security

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Data Replication Acceleration / WAN compression to reduce time for replication

Storage Tiering Automates the placement and movement of data between different tiers of storage Non-disruptive data migration Reduced business disruption and Enhanced data mobility

Cloud Data Storage Automated file storage in the public or private cloud

Storage

BIG-IP® related products

WOM

ARX®

ARX® VE

Return on Investment…

Source : Global 500 Banking Company - TechValidate®

ARX has enabled us to eliminate additional investment in Tier 1 NAS capacity and focus all investment exclusively on Tier 2 NAS throughout the last 18 months.

WAN Optimization Module

Accelerate data replication and applications between data centers

ARX^® Series

Intelligent File Virtualization to simplify Data Management

ARX^® Series Virtual Edition

Storage in a Cloud / Virtualized environment

Simplify data management and reduce costs with intelligent file virtualization

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Westcon Security Sales Guide Memo

Virtual Lab

Citrix

17,1% Radware

10,1%

A10 3,2%

Others 60,6%

f5 Networks 59,6%

Source : Gartner® Inc. Q4 2010, «Advanced Platform ADC» market share