Cloud computing and on-demand IT: F5 announced new solutions to helps organizations.

F5 is extending and improves its portfolio, henceforth, it is easier for organizations to scale to the cloud, extend software defined
network (SDN) deployments, and add intelligence and programmability to IT environments, the company has announced yesterday newsolutions.

This means as from now, organizations can seamlessly scale operations to realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT.

Henceforth with this announcement, F5 is introducing:

• BIG-IP^® v11.4 software, providing enhanced features including integration capabilities with SDN topologies based on VXLAN and NVGRE environments
• Increased programmability and control-plane extensibility with F5’s new iCall^™ technology, providing the dynamic automation of event-driven policy decisions in the network
• Updated platform offerings, including the completion of the BIG-IP hardware refresh, on-demand licensing, and more powerful BIG-IP virtual editions with the industry’s broadest hypervisor support

According to F5, ScaleN intelligently allocates resources to scale systems up, down, in, and out as needed across physical and virtual solutions with complete device flexibility and resilience. It also aims to provide a way to seamlessly consolidate infrastructures and maximize application availability without paying an associated performance penalty for adding new services.

Availability

‘’BIG-IP v11.4 software and the BIG-IP 5000 and 7000 series hardware platforms are generally available now, with support for iCall, ScaleN’ .The 5 Gbps throughput version of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager^™ Virtual Edition is expected to be available by the end of this month’’.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks helps organizations meet the demands and embrace the opportunities that come with the relentless growth of voice, data, and video traffic, mobile workers, and applications, in the data center, the network, and the cloud.