on 03-Feb-2015 07:00
Whether you've bought into DevOps or NetOps or SDN or SDDC (or all of them) as a way to operationalize the data center, one thing is clear: organizations are desirous of ways to deliver applications and their infrastructure faster with fewer disruptions and with greater consistency. Automation and orchestration frameworks offer IT operations groups of all kinds - from storage to compute to network to security - a means to accomplish that task. That means every one who provides enterprise solutions in one of those four IT areas needs to support those efforts through APIs and, more importantly, pre-validated integration with the frameworks and tools customers want to use.
When we asked over 300 customers about the tools and frameworks they use and want to use to automate and orchestrate their application infrastructure deployment experience the overwhelming answer was VMware.
That was a pleasant result to hear, given that we've been partnering with VMware for many years, bringing to market architectures, automation packages and integration with our F5 Synthesis architecture.
So it's probably no surprise that this post brings news of new and expanded offerings with VMware available in VMware's vCloud Marketplace. Availability and security services delivered through BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™, Global Traffic Manager™, and Application Security Manager™ software are now available, having achieved vCloud Air “Elite” certification for all three. With F5 Synthesis Simplified Business Model, customers can take a "bring your own license" approach when deploying VMware vCloud with F5's Good, Better, and Best packages.
F5 also continues its history of contributing at VMware industry and partner events by sponsoring and exhibiting (booth #209) at this year's VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) conference.
We'll also be participating in a variety of activities including:
If you're attending VMware PEX be sure to stop by (that's booth #209). If you aren't (or even if you are) you can follow along on Twitter @f5networks for live updates