F5
Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV)
today announced that Denver-based HOSTING,
the leading managed cloud provider for mid-sized enterprises, has
adopted the F5® LineRate®
application proxy software for its new virtualized cloud services
offerings. Using LineRate, HOSTING can now offer customized
enterprise-class cloud traffic management services, differentiated by
higher service level agreements, the ability to scale elastically, and
more customer control over IT budgets via LineRate’s convenient
pay-as-you-use model.
“LineRate allows us to set our business apart by offering superior
customer service,” said Darrell Hyde, HOSTING’s Chief Technology
Officer. “With LineRate, we can give customers a dedicated environment
where they are empowered with full control. They can easily manage
traffic with the added benefit of deeper insights into their IT spend.”
Before initiating the project with LineRate, HOSTING found some
customers stuck between multi-tenant solutions that lacked control and
flexibility, and single-tenant models requiring significant investments
in infrastructure and management. By basing its offerings on LineRate,
HOSTING is able to deliver a highly customized, single-tenant cloud
solution in a virtualized environment, with a subscription pricing model
that helps mid-sized companies better manage their IT budget.
Working directly with LineRate, HOSTING leveraged the native REST API to
build out the rich feature set its customers require, delivered as part
of LineRate’s secure, fault-tolerant, and reliable software
architecture. LineRate’s technology seamlessly integrates with the
HOSTING Customer Portal™ and dashboard. Within the portal, customers can
monitor traffic, add and remove servers, as well as reroute users
intelligently to perform maintenance and upgrades—all with zero downtime.
Eric Pfleckl, Vice President of Technical Services at Natural
Insight, a HOSTING customer providing outsourced workforce
management services, said, “We needed visibility into our throughput and
load balancing environments. The HOSTING solution allows us to see the
applications, create test and stage environments, and reduce downtime.
We also no longer worry about the specific infrastructure and
investments involved. Our new LineRate-based solution will give us the
performance and headroom we need as our business grows.”
For additional information on LineRate’s work with HOSTING please read
our case
study.
LineRate is available as part of HOSTING’s enterprise public cloud
offerings (www.hosting.com).
If you'd like to run LineRate in your own infrastructure, you can also
try LineRate for free and purchase higher performance tiers at linerate.f5.com/buy.
About LineRate
Recognizing the importance of the DevOps movement to its customers, F5
acquired LineRate in February 2013. The LineRate application proxy
software is the first product to be delivered post-acquisition. LineRate
helps DevOps teams simplify the deployment and management of network
services, enabling them to spend less time on infrastructure so they can
focus on creating and improving their most critical and
revenue-generating applications. For more information, please visit linerate.f5.com
and follow us on Twitter at @LineRateSystems.
Additional details and features on LineRate 2.4.0, including new and
expanded security benefits, are available on the LineRate
news page.
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ:
FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps
organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and software defined
networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications to
anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT
through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem of
leading technology and data center orchestration vendors. This approach
lets customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their
needs over time. The world’s largest businesses, service providers,
government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of
cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.
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F5 and LineRate are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in
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About HOSTING
HOSTING helps organizations design, build, migrate, manage and protect
their cloud-based environments. Leveraging enterprise-class networking
and connectivity technologies, HOSTING provides the highest levels of
compliance, availability, recovery, security and performance. HOSTING
owns and operates six geographically dispersed data centers under an
ITIL-based control environment validated for compliance against HIPAA,
PCI DSS and SOC (formerly SAS 70) frameworks. The company’s 3,000 global
customers represent a variety of industries including software,
healthcare, retail, media and entertainment, financial services,
technology and government.
HOSTING's cloud-enabled solutions have been repeatedly recognized by
Gartner Group, placing in the Top 10 in the Managed Hosting Magic
Quadrant in both “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision” in
2012, 2013 and 2014.
For more information, please visit www.HOSTING.com.
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