June 13th News: F5’s DevCentral Moves to the Cloud

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• DevCentral runs F5’s cloud-enabled ADN solution in multiple Bluelock Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud

• Allows DevCentral to adhere to IT best practices for scale, control, and security.

• DevOps Agility Becomes a Reality

• Enterprise grade security brings peace of mind

• TMOS in the Cloud Affords Great Control, Scale, and Ops

 

Summary of F5 DevCentral Announcement

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“With F5, Bluelock is able to provide a more

advanced set of solutions to our customers

without the need for costly infrastructure or

long term commitments.

Pat O’Day

Chief Technology Officer

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F5 DevCentralF5’s Global Technical Community

• Over 100,000 members worldwide

• 55% of visits originate outside U.S.

• Over 60,000 Forum Posts All Time

• iRules, iControl, Advanced Design/Config, ISV solutions, and more!

• Critical platform for our customers and partners to build skills and connect with peers

• Members express high product satisfaction

• Member NPS scores world class; over 2x higher than non-member customers

“F5 Networks has set the gold standard for all scripting environments combined with a community site with its TCL based iRules and DevCentral community.” - Zeus Kerravala, ZK Research, 2012

“F5 has developed a large community of committed users [DevCentral] that fuels the use of iRules to solve unique data center application challenges, creating an increasingly loyal and engaged user base.” - Gartner – Magic Quadrant for ADCs, 2010

“…DevCentral creates a modest network effect for F5 and it would be difficult for a competitor to replicate the large and growing library of custom configuration and scripting templates available..." - By Grady Burkett, CFA – SeekingAlpha.com

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Challenges Driving Changes

DevCentral Challenges

• More applications, modules, open source, and more

• More new internal customers

• More globally distributed users

• More security risks (Hacktivist reality)

• Social application complexity, vectors

• Open source framework

• Public + Security Vendor bulls-eye

What’s Required?

• Faster, more frequent code pushes

• Improved understanding of app and infrastructure dependencies &

• iRules

• Application Flows

• Real vs. Expected Vulns

• Better performance

• Manageable security plan

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The Public Cloud Conundrum

• The “Big” Public Clouds• Too much “trust and push”

• SLA and security doubts

• Traditional hosting vendors on path to cloud• Patchwork approach not really cloud

• Cost basis too high to consider

• Enterprise-focused cloud providers• Built to be cloud

• Understand enterprise reservations and needs

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Bluelock

Leadership | Established pure Cloud leader

Partner & Customer | BIG-IP experience

Reseller | F5 Cloud Licensing Program pioneer

Credible Tech | Technical credibility with F5 teams

Partner Reach | VMware leading partner

Secure | Security / standards compliant (SSAE-16, SAS-70 Type 2, PCI-DSS)

Compatible | VMware platform / F5 IT standard

Cost | Lower OpEx than existing environment

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DevCentral Journey to the Cloud• Performed a 14-day Bluelock Test Drive

• Vigorously mapped out operational plans and processes

• Determined application changes required

• Initiated 30-day build out• Design and infrastructure build out

• Functional and scale/failure testing

• Operational and process testing

• Coordinate IT to cloud migration

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DevCentral Cloud Architecture

We look like an enterprise architect’s mind thinks.

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DevCentral @ Bluelock: Ideal Enterprise Cloud

• DevOps Agility Becomes a Reality

• Faster, more frequent pushes

• Reduced complexity + affordable environment consistency

• Closer integration across key workgroups for instant responsiveness

• Enterprise Grade Security Brings Peace of Mind

• Great firewall protection, less management hassles with F5

• ASM Web app firewall protects app, strengthens dev process

• Help from Whitehat Sentinel – prepare to be humbled

• TMOS in the Cloud Affords Great Control, Scale, and Ops

• vDatacenter looks like an enterprise architect thinks

• Access to iRules, iControl, iApp – the entire Swiss army knife

• Rapid TMOS updates – faster, better, more satisfying; opportunity to test new things

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Project Benefits• For Community

• Faster, more rapidly improving community experience

• Insight into how we run in the cloud to help them understand the options

• For Partners• Opportunity to collaborate on enterprise cloud efforts

• Showcase their capabilities for F5 customers

• For DevCentral• Improved DevOps to grow our business

• Enterprise grade security for peace of mind

• TMOS in the cloud = control and scale

• Learning how we can help customers embrace the cloud