Dell Networking solutions & F5

Dell and F5 Networks® have partnered to help solve the network challenges associated with a distributed and cloud based environment. F5 Networks, a leader in Application Delivery Networking, helps increase business efficiency through the power of application acceleration and optimization. F5’s technology, a critical component of the Dell Networking solution portfolio, is designed to optimize the network, server, and storage environments to help ensure high levels of performance, security, and availability at a low cost. An investment in Dell Networking and F5’s technology will enable you optimized application delivery and ensure your organizations heterogeneous audience experiences a LAN like experience regardless of location, application or end-point device.

Dell and F5 have the networking solutions to help you meet the challenges of network planning, deployment, and management for the Virtual Era. Hardware, software, a spectrum of networking services, and the right mix of partners such as F5 Networks can empower you to:

• Simplify your network

• Leverage your existing deployment to build on what you have

• Meet changing needs easily and cost effectively

• Build for today with extensibility for tomorrow

Simplify

Together, Dell & F5 can help you address your current IT challenges while also working to reduce costs, streamline cumbersome processes, and improve performance. Utilize F5 solutions to help reduce servers, bandwidth, and management costs.

• Gain strategic points of control wherever information is exchanged, from client devices to application servers and everything in between.

• Utilize your F5 investment to address multiple network challenges. With F5’s operation system, TMOS® (Traffic Management Operating System), reduce the need for additional equipment in the data center, saving on operational expenses.

• Optimize the utilization of your existing infrastructure with advanced TCP connection management, TCP optimization, and server offloading, tripling server capacity and reducing bandwidth costs by up to 80 percent.

• BIG-IP LTM helps you simplify system management by consolidating security, acceleration, and availability in one easy-to-manage platform. By using fewer servers, less bandwidth, less power, and less cooling, while reducing the time spent managing your infrastructure; you can significantly reduce your operational costs.

• Support increased IT efficiency with features such as application policy templates, dashboards, and centralized performance monitoring and management.

Leverage existing infrastructure

Accelerate your applications and utilize existing infrastructure by offloading tasks from the network & servers onto the BIG-IP. BIG-IP LTM reduces traffic volumes and minimizes the effect of client connection bottlenecks as well as WAN, LAN, and Internet latency to help improve application performance up to 3x. You can achieve additional application performance increases with BIG-IP WebAccelerator.

Application Optimization: Cloud based applications delivered regardless of location

The Dell Advantage

• Open standards-based solutions- Leveraging your existing infrastructure

and training investments

• Simple to deploy and manage- Less hardware, fewer hops,

and fewer touch points mean streamlined operations

• No technology or vendor “lock-in”- Augment rather than “rip and replace”- Build for tomorrow on what you

already have

• Extensible and scalable- Supports cloud-based applications

Scales to meet your new requirements and traffic flows, to support the business.

Solution Brief

Protect your investments by securing your applications and data. From powerful network and protocol-level security to application attack filtering, BIG IP LTM deploys a suite of security services to protect your most precious resources—the applications that run your business. Add-on modules for secure access, spam reduction, and application protection provide advanced security options.

Make your network an agile platform for application delivery

Your network’s job is to deliver applications and services, but as your business needs change and grow, it becomes more complex and more expensive for your infrastructure to keep up with these demands.

BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) turns your network into an agile infrastructure for application delivery. It’s a full proxy between users and application servers, creating a layer of abstraction to secure, optimize, and load balance application traffic. This can give you the control to add servers easily, eliminate downtime, improve application performance, and meet your security requirements.

Take control over application delivery. The F5 TMOS® platform gives you control of the connection, packets, and payload for applications. Using F5’s event-driven iRules,™ you can customize how you intercept, inspect, transform, and direct inbound and outbound application traffic. The F5 iControl® API makes it easy to integrate with third-party management systems such as Dell™ Open Manage™ Network Manager.

Plan for growth and avoid downtime

With BIG-IP LTM, you get advanced load balancing and application health monitoring capabilities. BIG-IP LTM enables you to seamlessly add physical or virtual servers and redirect traffic away from issues with specific servers or network components. Exceptional performance ensures your business has room to grow.

• A single integrated solution to reduce infrastructure, improve performance and increase application availability and reliability

• Encryption offload, connection reduction, and caching reduces server CPU utilization and increases scalability

• HTTP and application-specific TCP acceleration improves application performance and minimizes global latency

• Advanced application monitoring improves reliability

• Global traffic management adds intelligence to end-user performance, business continuance and disaster recovery

• Ability to intelligently re-direct traffic based on application-specific awareness

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