F5
Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV)
today announced new hybrid service capabilities to help organizations
scale IT resources across dynamic cloud and data center deployments.
Under the company’s new Silverline™ banner, F5 will offer
extended security, optimization, and availability services from hosted
and managed infrastructure, marking F5’s entrance into the cloud
services delivery space.
The F5 Silverline services delivery platform expands the company’s F5
Synthesis™ architecture to enable application services
within customers’ deployment model of choice: on-premises and/or
as-a-service. Beginning with DDoS protection and security intelligence
services, the Silverline platform will support additional application
delivery capabilities as-a-service in the future.
DETAILS
Ongoing migration of applications to the cloud, increased user and
resource mobility, and an ascension of sophisticated threats have led to
the dissolution of the traditional enterprise perimeter. This requires
organizations to pursue a unified services platform that spans
integrated data center and cloud deployments.
With Silverline, F5 is broadening the reach and utility of its services
fabric to promote nimble IT infrastructures. F5’s investment in hybrid
services delivery and security intelligence licensing options mirrors
the industry’s rising interest in providing programmable application
delivery capabilities across physical and virtual infrastructures to
support Software
Defined Application Services™ and other software-defined
initiatives.
F5’s Silverline hybrid application delivery services and security
intelligence offerings include:
Today’s announcement sees the global introduction of the F5
Silverline DDoS Protection offering. This solution builds on F5’s
acquisition of Defense.Net™, combining on-premises DDoS
protection capabilities with a high-capacity cloud service that can take
advantage of programmable technologies like iRules®
and APIs for customized performance. This approach provides a hybrid
solution capable of absorbing and mitigating a complete spectrum of DDoS
attacks.
F5’s open and programmable architecture enables network security
administrators to extend custom rules to mitigate zero-day attacks. This
offering works seamlessly with F5’s Application
Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions to create the most complete DDoS
protection solution. F5 provides tiered protection levels, based on
customers’ unique needs and potential attack profiles:
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Always On™ – First line of defense. This subscription
continuously stops bad traffic from reaching the network.
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Always Available™ – Primary protection on demand. This
subscription runs on stand-by and can be initiated as needed when
under attack.
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Ready Defense™ – Secondary DDoS protection. This
subscription provides additional capacity to bolster DDoS mitigation
capabilities.
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Secure Web Gateway Services
Secure
Web Gateway Services protect organizations from threats associated
with employee (or outbound) Internet use. Through a partnership with Websense,
F5 Secure Web Gateway Services can limit target activities to encourage
productivity and enhance defenses against malware, corporate
malfeasance, and other attacks against networked environments. Taking
advantage of F5’s Silverline platform, signatures and other
context-based information are provided via the cloud to the BIG-IP®
solution. This approach ensures the most up-to-date Internet context is
part of an organization’s compliance and web security policy.
F5’s IP
Intelligence Services make it easy for organizations to incorporate
IP reputation and blocking capabilities into their overall web security
postures. In a convenient subscription model, F5 IP Intelligence
Services enable BIG-IP to recognize and mitigate malicious activity—such
as phishing or botnets—and boost efficiency by filtering out bad traffic
before it impacts precious IT resources. Similar to F5’s approach to
Secure Web Gateway Services, reputation information is provided via the
cloud to detect threats based on the latest intelligence available,
removing the operational burden of sourcing this information from the
data center.
SUPPORTING QUOTES
“Organizations are looking for the ability to cost-effectively deliver
applications without constraints, with specific IT components as a
secondary concern. F5’s goal with the Synthesis framework is simply to
remove barriers to deploying and scaling application services. Our
Silverline offerings will make core F5 technologies available
as-a-service to help customers embrace hybrid deployments without
forsaking the benefits they’ve seen in the data center.”
Manny Rivelo, EVP of Strategic Solutions, F5
“Efficiently scaling application services such as optimization,
security, and availability is still a priority topic for enterprise
organizations, even as we’ve seen an evolution of how (and where) these
services are applied. F5’s move into hybrid application delivery
services should open up new opportunities with customers looking to move
applications out of their traditional data center environments and take
advantage of the flexibility offered by cloud providers.”
Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst, ZK Research
“Cloud-based services are of increasing interest to customers, and we
see F5 wisely addressing the industry’s momentum around hybrid
deployment models. Starting with the DDoS protection offering, we expect
the company’s Silverline platform will provide an effective means to
bring additional application services to market.”
Dan Wilson, Co-Founder and EVP, Partner Solutions, Accuvant
AVAILABILITY
Unless otherwise indicated, the specific F5 technologies mentioned in
this announcement are available now. Please contact a local
F5 sales office for additional product availability information
pertaining to particular countries.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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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