F5 Networks, provider of application delivery networking, has release of its BIG-IP version 11 software, which builds on F5’s vision of the dynamic data centre.
The company claims this new version aligns IT functions and services more closely with business requirements, speeds provisioning of services on an application-by-application basis, and enables better visibility and reporting of IT resource utilisation.
With this new tool, IT teams will have a comprehensive view of users, applications, and the network to deploy and provision application services on a per-application basis as rapidly as they can provision virtual machines.
It aligns the right services – such as authentication, data protection, traffic management, and acceleration – to each application, especially as new applications are deployed or as existing applications are deployed across virtual and cloud environments.
F5 CTO and SVP of Product Development Karl Triebes said with BIG-IP v11, F5 changes the traditional network paradigm and makes it as simple to provision the application delivery network as it is to create new virtual machines.
"BIG-IP v11’s application control plane architecture aligns application control, visibility, and manageability, and allows additional services to be added on demand as current conditions require," Triebes said.
The company said that IT teams will be able to streamline operations and dramatically lower OpEx by managing application services as a whole rather than as individual devices and objects using the new tool.
BIG-IP v11 enables application-specific configurations to move with applications as new instances are created locally, virtually, or in the cloud.
Additionally, F5 offerings now provide application-specific intelligence for a variety of popular applications from vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and others.
BIG-IP v11 gives organisations the capability to configure, monitor, grow, and secure their business applications independently; raises IT efficiency with enhanced analytics and management capabilities; and its iApps technology simplifies deployment of application service
F5 said its new architecture also reduces OpEx and CapEx with resilient and elastic pay-as-you-grow architecture; and protects corporate assets with unified network and application security services.
BIG-IP version 11 software will be available in the third quarter of calendar year 2011.
