F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: Protection and automation for your applications
If you are reading this post it is because you are probably interested in overcoming those problems with secure delivery and protection for critical applications in your business. Or you probably got here because you also need to make your business applications easier to scale and manage.
And you do well because optimizing your applications’ performance means taking off without limits towards a better use of business mobility, the use of Cloud Computing services and software-defined networks (SDN).
Look no further, F5 has the solution you need for the delivery of applications with automation and orchestration in a reliable, secure and optimized way. Learn about the advantages of the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
With this solution of F5 you have the necessary tools to manage, automate and customize in a more flexible way the Cloud infrastructure, as well as your virtual and physical infrastructure.
Key advantages of the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM):
- To deliver applications quickly and reliably.
- To optimize today’s web applications with HTTP/2 to ensure that your customers and users have access to the applications they need, whenever they need them.
- To automate and customize with programmable infrastructure.
- To achieve a better control of your applications, from connection and traffic to configuration and management, with the F5 iRules LX for network programmability.
- To facilitate full deployment, manage and visibility into your applications through User-defined F5 iApps templates.
Find here some of the questions that may arise before investing in this innovative F5 solution for the protection and automation of your business applications:
HOW F5 BIG-IP LTM MANAGES ITS APPLICATIONS?: This capability can be achieved by the F5 BIG-IP LTM because it includes static and dynamic load balancing to eliminate single points of failure. It also tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers in a group, ensuring that your applications are not just always on, but also are more scalable.
HOW DOES IT ACHIEVE THE SECURE DELIVERY OF APLICATIONS? This F5 solution for managing applications uses its own SSL visibility tools that are industry leaders for inbound and outbound traffic. This will protect your entire user experience more profitably by encrypting everything from client to the server. The solution also activates powerful defenses against DDoS attacks and provides ICAP services for data loss protection (DLP) and virus protection.
HOW DOES IT OPTIMIZE APPLICATION DELIVERY? BIG-IP LTM is able to improve page load times and the user experience with HTTP/2 like no other solution. It also optimizes intelligent caching, extensive connection management and optimization, compression. It also makes real-time protocol and traffic-management decisions.
HOW IS VISIBILITY AND MONITORING OF THE FLOW OF ITS APPLICATIONS ACHIEVED? F5 Analytics captures application-specific statistics such as URL, throughput and server latency in order to accurately monitor application performance.
HOW DOES IT ACHIEVE AUTOMATION AND ORCHESTRATION? Thanks to F5 Automation Toolchain, traffic can be more easily managed. At the core of the F5 Automation Toolchain is the Application Services 3 Extension (AS3), which enables administrators and developers to automate layer 4–7 application services. In addition, the F5 Declarative Onboarding allows the initial provisioning of F5 solutions, as well as the configuration of layer 2–3 objects such as route domains, routes, self IPs and VLANs.
DOES THE BIG-IP LTM ACHIEVE A PROGRAMMABLE INFRASTRUCTURE? Yes. BIG-IP local traffic policies allow you to inspect, analyze, modify, route, re-direct, discard or manipulate traffic to solve common use cases previously covered by the F5 iRules script language.
DOES IT ALLOW THE NATIVE SUPPORT FOR VIRTUAL NETWORKING? This F5 solution has a BIG-IP SDN services module natively supports VXLAN and NVGRE to offer gateway. BIG-IP LTM has capabilities to unite virtual and traditional networks.
Globenet International Corp, in its capacity as an F5 certified partner, brings you multiple guarantees not only to provide you with this product, but also to accompany you in every step you take with advice, installation, maintenance or technical support if required.
Do not miss the opportunity to have the F5 BIG-IP LTM. Results will be automatically visible: better agility, protection and management of your business applications. Not to mention that your organization’s staff will be able to accelerate private clouds, without damaging application infrastructures.
Think about it!: A proper handling and optimization of your applications will definitely boost innovation and profitability in your business.
If you have a few more minutes see in this video the different implementation options available in BIG IP LTM and a demonstration on how to implement BIG IP LTM in your laboratory or in a real-time environment.
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