F5 extends App Delivery Services for Cloud

F5 Networks has announced BIG-IQ Cloud, which is a new software-based management solution that enables customers to deploy application delivery and network services in a consistent, fast, and repeatable manner across public and private clouds, traditional data centres  and hybrid environments.

With an extensible, modular architecture, BIG-IQ offers an intelligent framework that centralizes management of the application control plane to provide intuitive, flexible, and scalable management capabilities for the F5 BIG-IP product family. This solution is a key milestone in supporting F5’s goals of delivering application-layer SDN services and bringing superior application intelligence and programmability to software defined data centers.

"Organizations are pursuing a wide variety of on-premises and off-premises cloud solutions to bolster efficiency and reduce costs. With BIG-IQ Cloud, F5 customers can seamlessly configure and automate application delivery services - such as availability and optimization – in cloud and hybrid infrastructures. In line with our vision for application-layer SDN, BIG-IQ Cloud offers customers an effective way to dynamically scale services, infrastructure, and application resources in concert," said Jason Needham, VP of Product Management and Marketing, F5.

With BIG-IQ Cloud, application services can be rapidly provisioned and made available to new users and systems in a matter of minutes.

BIG-IQ Cloud is now available in India.