F5 Networks, Inc. : F5 Networks DevCentral Gains Cloud Agility and Scale with Enterprise-Grade Control in the Bluelock Cloud
06/13/2012| 07:05am US/Eastern
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Collaboration with industry leader Bluelock demonstrates how F5's
application delivery virtual appliances enable cloud advantages with an
enterprise frame of mind
F5
Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application
Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that it has migrated its
global online community, DevCentralTM, to a cloud
environment. DevCentral runs F5® cloud-enabled ADN solutions
in multiple Bluelock Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud,
while adhering to IT best practices for scale, control, and security.
Until now, DevCentral was deployed in a one-size-fits-all enterprise IT
environment that also supported financial applications and key business
functions. To support the team's business plans to grow and strengthen
its global community, DevCentral needed to accelerate and optimize its
DevOps initiatives.
"DevCentral has grown into a flourishing, global community of IT
professionals who leverage F5 products to improve business agility.
Rapid delivery of features and capabilities that make it easy for
members to connect with peers, engage in discussion, and share best
practices has always been a top priority," said Jeff Browning, Sr.
Director, Product Management at F5 Networks. "With our move to
Bluelock's public cloud environment, we've increased DevOps agility,
achieving faster, more frequent application updates that optimize
development cycles. This results in accelerated delivery of new features
to satisfy our community, with the scale afforded by a more dynamic
cloud environment--gracefully supporting our growth plan for years to
come."
DevCentral's deployment of virtual cloud appliances mirrors traditional
data center design, including best practices for routing and
replication. Collaboration with Bluelock, where advanced cloud design
comes together with proven F5 ADN capabilities, provides DevCentral with
the following benefits:
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Simplified lifecycle migration from development, to test, to
production, resulting in more frequent, lower risk upgrades
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Reduced complexity without relying on traditional replication
schemes required for disaster recovery and high availability
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Cost-effective operational consistency among all deployments to
provide predictable configuration and testing
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Clear visibility across infrastructure, platforms, and applications
to provide edge-to-core troubleshooting, performance analysis, and more
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Closer workgroup collaboration enabling DevOps through a common
set of virtual data center tools and services shared between
operations and development teams
"Bluelock and F5 Networks have a long history together, helping our
mutual customers achieve agility and scalability in the cloud, and we
can now take that to the developer community," said Pat O'Day, Chief
Technology Officer at Bluelock. "We're pleased to see our partnership
and Bluelock's leading Virtual Datacenter solution directly helping the
DevCentral team innovate and collaborate more easily while remaining
secure--all in the spirit of building an even better community."
"F5's DevCentral has been the gold standard for vendor-driven
communities to date," said Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK
Research. "DevCentral allows IT departments to leverage the power of the
community to help accelerate and customize data center operations and
application support. By migrating DevCentral to a Bluelock cloud
environment, F5 has further increased the value of DevCentral by
ensuring customers are always working with the latest versions of F5's
products and have access to all of F5's capabilities. This will result
in customers being able to leverage F5's technology faster, to a broader
set of applications with minimal risk."
Achieving Cloud Benefits with Assurance of Enterprise Best Practices
Many enterprises have reservations about migrating to the cloud due to
security and performance concerns. Regardless of deployment location,
websites face heightened risks in today's multi-vector threat scenarios.
Social communities, built on user engagement and interaction, expose
even greater threat vectors. The lack of acceleration and optimization
services in the cloud can inhibit the deployment of solutions to improve
application performance. To address these security and performance
risks, DevCentral has employed a multi-faceted security strategy that
utilizes F5's BIG-IP® Local Traffic ManagerTM with
data center firewall services, BIG-IP Application Security ManagerTM,
and BIG-IP Access Policy ManagerTM along with the BIG-IP
Global Traffic ManagerTM, BIG-IP WebAcceleratorTM,
and BIG-IP WAN Optimization ManagerTM solutions. Together,
these represent an industry first: a true cloud-enabled ADN that
delivers the agile benefits of the cloud while leveraging established
best practices from the enterprise.
Today, F5 also announced a cloud licensing program that enables
enterprise-class ADN solutions in the cloud. Providing a unified
architecture for both private and public clouds with virtual editions of
its award-winning BIG-IP platform, F5 now offers its advanced ADN
solutions in a utility billing model.
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About F5 Networks
F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking
(ADN), helps the world's largest enterprises and service providers
realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand
IT. F5® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to
provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application
delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and
accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and
smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to
apply business policies at "strategic points of control" across the IT
infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the
agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy
scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and
services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online
companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and
drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.
You can also follow @f5networks
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for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a
complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.
F5, Access Policy Manager, Application Security Manager, BIG-IP,
DevCentral, Global Traffic Manager, Local Traffic Manager, WAN
Optimization Manager, and WebAccelerator are trademarks or service marks
of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product
and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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