top 10 reasons why f5 makes sense
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Today’s Business Challenges
Consumerization of IT
Flexible Work
Cost-effective growth
Increase productivity and profits
Diverse Computing Models
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Business Priorities
Scaling Business without
Scaling Costs
Improving Customer Experience
Business Risk Management
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Enterprise Wide Unified Customer Experience• Single-sign-on (SSO) - simplifies user experience accessing
multiple application services
• Unified point of enforcement for application access control
• Mobile OS support – iOS, Windows, Android and Linux
Unobtrusive Security for your Customer• Secure access solutions including preconfigured endpoint
inspection checks
• Granular access control
• Integration with Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Two Factor Authentication (2FA) solution providers
• Protect against application layer attacks
• Device Agnostic Optimized Performance regardless of service
Reason 1: Improving Customer ExperienceCustomer Centricity
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Device Agnostic Optimized Performance regardless of service
• Optimized content delivery to support BYOD
• Server-side asymmetric acceleration for application content – up to 8x improvements
• Client-side acceleration – up to 8x faster user access
• Traffic prioritization
Reason 1: Improving Customer ExperienceCustomer Centricity
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Customer Experience Visibility
• iApp AnalyticsCustomer Context
• Differentiated customer service• Context-aware services
New Services Onboarding
• Application deployment times reduced by 84%, time savings of two months
• iApp Templates, Application deployment and solution guides
• F5 DevCentral community – 100,000 active members
Reason 2: Proactive Customer Care and OutreachCustomer Centricity
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Reason 3: Balance between Insourcing and OutsourcingScaling Business without Scaling Costs
Managing As A Single Secured Infrastructure
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Reason 3: Balance between Insourcing and OutsourcingScaling Business without Scaling Costs
Capacity on Demand – “Cloud Bursting”
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Getting more out of virtualization investments• Offload CPU intensive operations (SSL, caching,
compression, etc.) to free up VM capacity for servers
• Network Device Consolidation of key traffic management and protection functions on single device.
Reason 4: Consolidating IT investmentsScaling Business without Scaling Costs
F5 solutions achieved 30% decrease in CPU load, which increases the VM density per server by up to 40%, enabling greater savings and ROI.
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Scaling N+1 Clustering: Scale out On-demand• Flexible multi-tenancy and virtualization• Scale out across pools of BIG-IP devices• Dynamic application failover• Distributed policy sync
Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing (vCMP)• Next-generation multi-tenancy• Complete separation and Resource
isolation.
Reason 4: Consolidating IT investmentsScaling Business without Scaling Costs
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F5 Provides Detailed Reporting for: • Government Compliance - HIPAA,
FIPS • Financial – PCI2.0 • Industry - CC-EAL2/4 3, ICSA,
IPv6, DNSSEC
Reason 5: Regulatory ComplianceBusiness Risk Management
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• Groundbreaking performance and scalability
• Support up to 120 million concurrent connections
• 320 Gbps of throughput on top of the industry’s fastest application firewall
• 10x faster performance than other• remote user access solution can support
up to 60,000 users concurrently
• Secure and Scalable DNS Protection
• 3rd Party Integration for Vulnerability Scanning
• Reduced costs and complexity
Reason 6: Cyber Attack & Security Risk MitigationBusiness Risk Management
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• 24x7 Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Provides for continuous business availability monitoring
• Global Business Continuity and Traffic Management
• Active-Active Data Center – Maximizing the ROI in Datacenter investments
Reason 7: Achieving Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery ObjectivesBusiness Risk Management
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World Class Product Support
• 24x7 multi-lingual technical support from 8 global support centers
• ISO 9001:2008 certified with customer satisfaction scores of 9.3.
• 150 global RMA depots.
• iHealth provides a complete view of the system health as well as runs diagnostics on F5 solutions
• Basic and Advanced training on F5 solutions and products are also available via accredited training centers globally.
Reason 8: Support InfrastructureBeyond the Solutions and Technology
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The F5 DevCentral community portal
• The largest in the industry – 100,000 members, in 191 countries
• Includes customers, partners and developers
Reason 9: Community and Partner Eco-SystemBeyond the Solutions and Technology
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Reason 9: Community and Partner Eco-SystemBeyond the Solutions and Technology
F5’s Service Provider Partner Ecosystem
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Reason 9: Community and Partner Eco-SystemBeyond the Solutions and Technology
F5’s Enterprise Partner Ecosystem
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Reason 10: Market LeadershipBeyond the Solutions and Technology
F5 Networks is the leading provider of Application and Data Delivery Networking.
Our products sit at strategic points of control in any infrastructure.
Fiscal Year 2011 Revenue US$1.15B
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Reason 10: Market LeadershipBeyond the Solutions and Technology
Publicly-traded on NASDAQ
2,900 employees IPO in 1999
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Reason 10: Market LeadershipBeyond the Solutions and Technology
Strong Quarterly
Growth
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Business Drivers
Customer Initiatives
F5 Solution /Features
Benefits
Customer Centricity – Customer Retention & Increase Rev/Customer
Improve Customer Experience
• Consolidation of Systems (SVOC) - Unified Customer Experience
• Unobtrusive Security - Transparent
• Performance Improvement at Client and Server End
Flexible SSO, Application Proxy, IDM, End Point Scanning, SSL-VPN, Application Security, IBR, TCP Express, Compression and Caching
• Up to 10X improvement in application performance
• Simplified access for customer across services
Proactive Customer Care & Outreach
• Customer Experience Visibility
• New Service Onboarding
• Customer Context Awareness
AVR, iX Suite, Context Switching, CookieX, AAA
• Improved Customer Loyalty
• Better Customer Segmentation
Business Drivers – Customer InitiativeF5 Solution-Benefit Matrix
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Business Drivers
Customer Initiatives
F5 Solution /Features
Benefits
Scaling Business without Scaling Costs – Lower TCO/OPEX/CAPEX, Increase Productivity and Efficiency
Helping to strike a cost effective Insourcing vs. Outsourcing Balance
• Management as a secured single infrastructure
• Capacity on Demand-Cloud Burst
Unified Secure management solution across multiple service delivery platforms- Federated Authentication- VE/Appliance
Mix- iSession
• Lower upfront capital expenditure
Helping to Consolidate IT Investments
• Increase VM Density & Increasing server utilisation/efficiency
• Scale as you grow• Applications Services
Resiliancy
OneConnect, Server/App/SSL offloads, ScaleN, vCMP, Device Consolidation, VIPRION SaYG
• Better ROI for Virtualization Investments
• Operational cost savings
• Lower TCO
Business Drivers – Customer Initiative - F5 Solution - Benefit Matrix
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Business Drivers
Customer Initiatives
F5 Solution /Features
Benefits
Business Risk Management – Better Regulatory Compliance, Faster Service Outage Response and Improved Security Posture
Helping with Regulatory Compliance/Cyber-Attack Risk Mitigation
• Govt Compliance - HiPAA, FIPS
• Financial - PCI, SOX• Industry - CC-EAL,
ICSA
Adaptive Multi-layered Threat Management (Web Application Firewall, IDC Firewall, Secured Remote Access)
• Reputation protection
• Reduced risk of sensitive data loss – lower risk of litigation
Helping to achieve BC/DR Objectives/SLA
• Facilitating 24x7x365 Business Availability
• Outage monitoring and minimizing downtime
Active-Active DC, DNS Infrastructure Protection -DNS express/DNSEC, LDVM
• Improved employee productivity
• Improved customer service availability
Business Drivers – Customer Initiative - F5 Solution - Benefit Matrix
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