F5
EMEA, FEBRUARY 2018
PROGRAM NEWS
F5 LAUNCHES SUPER-NETOPS INITIATIVE
F5 last week introduced the Super-NetOps initiative, an industry training and community-based program aimed at evolving network operations functions and enabling application services to be delivered through a service model. The goal of the Super-NetOps program is to help network operations professionals address this challenge by learning the skills necessary to standardise critical application services and provide them within automated toolchains.
> F5 Launches Super-NetOps Initiative ‒ Press announcement
> F5 Super-NetOps Training ‒ Information page
> What is Super-NetOps? ‒ Video
> Lightboard Lessons: Why Super-NetOps ‒ Video
> Scale your Apps and your People (This time for free) ‒ Article
MARKET RESEARCH
STATE OF APPLICATION DELIVERY
Last month, F5 announced the results of its 2018 State of Application Delivery report. In its fourth year, the report examines the vital role of application services. Over 3,000 IT, networking, application, and security professionals from around the world weighed in on application delivery topics ranging from public and private cloud and multi-cloud adoption, to rising security challenges, to automation, orchestration, and the future of enterprise application services.
> Digital Transformation Drives Automation and Multi-Cloud ‒ Report
> 2018 Report: The State of Application Delivery ‒ Video
> Digital Transformation Changes Everything ‒ Article
> Digital Transformation Driving Automation and Multi-Cloud Despite Security Concerns ‒ Article
> What's Changed in the State of Application Delivery ‒ Article
> Security Edges Out Availability as Most Important App Service ‒ Articl
PRODUCT NEWS
F5 ANNOUNCES BIG-IP PER-APP VIRTUAL EDITION
F5 is excited to announce the general availability of the BIG-IP Per-App Virtual Edition (VE). Per-App VEs enable customers to rapidly develop applications with enterprise-class application and security services for private cloud environments. Customers can consume Per-App VEs via Subscription, Enterprise License Agreement (ELA), and Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) to align with their OpEx or CapEx budgets.
> F5 BIG-IP Per-App VEs: Cloud Application Delivery and Security Solutions ‒ Product overview
> Subscription Licensing Offer for BIG-IP Virtual Edition ‒ Product overview
> F5 Enterprise License Agreement for BIG-IP Virtual Editions ‒ Product overview
BIG-IP V13.1 RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE
F5 is excited to announce the release of BIG-IP version 13.1. For F5 partners, TMOS v13.1 provides several opportunities to help customers in their adoption of public and private cloud environments for their applications. The v13.1.0 release continues the product development momentum to enhance and extend cloud and security solutions, and improve product usability and quality. New use cases include support for Microsoft Azure Stack private cloud, Microsoft Azure ADFS PIP, Account takeover prevention, and MQTT for IoT applications.
F5 RELEASES NEW HIGH-END BIG-IP iSERIES PLATFORM
The BIG-IP iSeries 11X00 platform is available for ordering. For F5 partners, the BIG-IP iSeries 11x00 (i11600 and i11800) presents a great opportunity to talk to large enterprise and service provider accounts about scaling up application and security services or consolidating platforms as increased vCMP density, higher CPU performance, and increased memory provide greater scalability.
> BIG-IP Hardware ‒ Product page
> BIG-IP System: Gain Agility with the Most Programmable Cloud-Ready ADC ‒ Data sheet
NEW CLOUD TEMPLATES EXPAND INTEGRATION
F5 continues to evolve multi-cloud support with new and updated Cloud Formation Templates (CFTs) for public and private cloud environments. For F5 partners, these CFTs drive profitability with faster, more consistent installation and configuration services. F5 cloud solution templates speed up and simplify the deployment of BIG-IP VEs in various cloud environments. The 7th release sees the addition of a number of new templates and a whole multitude of updates to existing templates.
> F5 Networks Solutions ‒ GitHub page
> Cloud Solutions: Public Cloud ‒ Solution page
BIG-IQ CENTRAL MANAGEMENT V5,4 NOW AVAILABLE
F5 is proud to announce the release of BIG-IQ version 5.4. BIG-IQ provides a central point of control for F5 physical and virtual devices and for the solutions that run on them. It simplifies management, reduces TCO, helps ensure compliance, and drives increased agility by providing the tools needed to deliver applications securely and effectively. While this release includes hundreds of new and improved features, the most important new functions can be seen in Application centric management, Programmability and automation, and Enhanced application and access security.
> BIG-IQ Centralized Management ‒ Product page
> BIG-IQ Centralized Management: Simplify Management in an Application-Centric World ‒ Data sheet
> Automating Application Deployment with BIG-IQ ‒ Article
> Release Note: BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.4.0 ‒ Technical product page
> A Tour of the BIG-IQ CM 5.0 User Interface ‒ Video
> BIG-IQ Community ‒ DevCentral page
PARTNER NEWS
FLOWMON JOINS F5 TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE PROGRAM
Flowmon Networks announced that it has joined F5's Technology Alliance Program. Flowmon and F5 have joined together to help service providers fight multi-vector DDoS attacks and to protect their customers' businesses. The solution also fits the needs of enterprises which need to ensure availability of their applications. The solution is built upon the integration between Flowmon DDoS Defender and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM).
> DDoS Protection for Business Critical Systems ‒ Flowmon product page
> Flowmon DDoS Defender: DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation Module ‒ Flowmon product brief
> BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager ‒ Product page
F5 ACHIEVES AWS NETWORKING COMPETENCY
In October, F5 announced it had achieved the AWS Security Competency designation. F5 is now proud to announce it has received AWS' new Networking Competency accolade. The BIG-IP Virtual Edition platform showcased its ability to ensure performance, availability, and security for business-critical applications hosted within the AWS cloud. By obtaining both the Security and Networking Competency certifications from AWS, F5 has set itself apart as a one-stop shop for customers migrating their workloads and applications to AWS.
> F5 Achieves AWS Networking Competency ‒ Article
> How F5's WAF Earned its AWS Security Competency ‒ Article
> Another Year of re:Invent, Another Year of Advances for F5 on AWS ‒ Article
> AWS Competency Program ‒ AWS program page
F5 JOINS CLOUD NATIVE COMPUTE FOUNDATION
We are excited to announce that F5 has joined the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) at the Silver level to emphasise our commitment to open source technologies. In addition to F5 joining CNCF, we will also be a Silver sponsor of the Linux Foundation, the umbrella organisation for CNCF. The foundation hosts a significant number of open source projects such as Kubernetes (container management) and Envoy (service mesh proxy). We're seeing substantial interest in our container integrations with Kubernetes as well as OpenShift and Cloud Foundry.
> Open Source Spotlight: F5 Announces It Will Commit More than Code ‒ Article
> Cloud Native Computing Foundation ‒ CNCF website
> How Containers Scale: Service Mesh versus Traditional Architecture ‒ Article
CONTENTS
CASE STUDIES
• The independent Swiss IT services group ELCA Informatique developed a highly available and scalable peak protection solution for its ticketing platform. ELCA now utilises BIG-IP LTM as load balancer for PeakProtect. They also rely on BIG-IP APM for access protection, and BIG-IP ASM as WAF.
• For Infosys, India's second largest IT services company with offices in 50+ countries and over 198,000 employees, managing the massive amount of data traffic had caused a strain on its infrastructure. Through the implementation of F5 solutions Infosys has been able to optimise its data center infrastructure to ensure availability, security, and performance of their intranet apps to meet both current and future requirements.
• Hansung University needed to improve their security posture and enhance the performance of applications during the course registration period. By consolidating security solutions and network equipment with F5, the university protected itself from cyberattacks, provided a reliable end-user experience, lightened its operational workload, and reduced its maintenance costs by 20%.
• Government Service Insurance System, a social insurance institution, had plans to introduce online services to its members. It turned to F5 for a one-stop solution to effectively deliver and protect applications and website.
COMPANY NEWS
F5 Announces New Strategic Positions
F5 announced the addition of four new executives to its leadership team. Kara Sprague, in the new role of SVP, General Manager of ADC, and Ram Krishnan, in the new role of SVP, General Manager of Security, will lead product portfolio management and product and solutions marketing for their respective business units. Tom Fountain has been named as the EVP and Chief Strategy Officer. In this new role, he will lead the mergers and acquisitions program and be responsible for driving the long-term strategy to accelerate growth. In addition, Ana White has joined F5 as the company's first EVP and Chief HR Officer.
F5 Announces Q1FY18 Results
F5 announced revenue of $523.2M for the first quarter of fiscal 2018, up 1.4% from $516.0M in the first quarter of fiscal 2017. Growth was driven by services and software solutions. "We continue to see momentum with our software offerings, driven by customers deploying our solutions on-premises and in the public cloud," said François Locoh-Donou, F5 President and CEO.
PRODUCT NEWS
EoS of BIG-IP 2000, 4000, 5000, 7000, 10000
With the release of the BIG-IP iSeries appliances, F5 has announced the end of sale of the BIG-IP 2000, 4000, 5000, 7000, and 10000 series platforms effective April 1st, 2018.
The new BIG-IP iSeries platforms provide improved performance, capacity, and reliability, including TurboFlex capabilities and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) hardware offload.
NOW is your opportunity to reach out to customers on this platform and urge them to purchase spares and/or discuss upgrade options. Please contact your F5 Partner Account Manager to learn more.
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