Three Ways F5 Distributed Cloud Services Are Accelerating Enterprise Cloud Transformation

Today’s enterprise companies are powered by apps and APIs. But with a mix of legacy and new modern application services – they’re often faced with increased operational inefficiencies and security risks. Fortunately, F5 has a solution.

One of the biggest challenges enterprise companies face today is maintaining their competitive edge in a crowded marketplace. But so many find themselves held back because the applications and APIs that power their businesses bring significant operational overhead, technical debt and security challenges, making them increasingly unreliable and draining on resources to support.

A 2023 survey by F5 found that 85% of companies run their apps from different vendors across multiple environments, including data centres, multiple clouds, and edge locations. Given that the average enterprise company runs 364 applications*, there are many opportunities for things to go wrong.

Introducing F5 Distributed Cloud Services

F5, commonly known for their hardware-based solution, has recently launched F5 Distributed Cloud Services, a SaaS-delivered service that securely connects and delivers any type of application – regardless of where they’re deployed.

Let’s dive deeper into F5 Distributed Cloud Services and see how they help drive the following outcomes:

• Simplified Management
• Enhanced Security
• Increased Agility

1. Simplified Management

When enterprise companies run applications across highly distributed environments, they’re probably creating several headaches for themselves:
Disparate tooling management across different teams and infrastructure
Increasing security risk and exposure
Network latency and poor application responsiveness
F5 Distributed Cloud Services is a cloud-native SaaS-based solution that securely connects, and delivers a broad array of applications anywhere – on-premises, in the cloud or at the edge.

Companies can simplify their operational procedures for securing and delivering their applications with F5 Distributed Cloud Services, where everything every application can be delivered securely while ensuring optimum performance regardless of where they’re deployed.

F5 offers a single cloud-based platform that lets the enterprise manage all applications, whatever the environment. Fewer management headaches, fewer security issues, more time to focus on the needs of the business.

2. Enhanced Security

Did you know that out of the 364 apps the average enterprise company has on its system, only 45% of them get used on a regular basis?

The issue with unused apps and APIs is that they act as an entry point for cybercriminals and to potentially breach enterprise defences.

A significant factor behind this is the fact that companies are running a diverse portfolio of applications across equally diverse, distributed environments. Where applications are deployed is evolving, they are no longer confined to a server in the data centre – they now live in multiple clouds and are decentralised across multiple branches and remote edge sites. How these applications communicate with one another has also changed with an increased reliance on APIs – all of which contribute to the expanded attack surface area that cybercriminals are intent on exploiting.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services can help by delivering the following key capabilities:

• Easily enforce universal security policies for applications across multiple clouds, in the data centre or at the edge
• AI/ML driven threat detection
• Discover shadow APIs and integrated security policy enforcement
• In-line defences against large-scale network and application layer DDoS attacks
• Secure global private network connectivity for applications and services across multiple clouds and edge environments
• Simplified life cycle management for globally distributed edge-based applications
• Globally distributed content caching and load balancing

3. Increased agility

Your customers are deploying enterprise applications across highly distributed environments, and they’re facing several challenges that are inhibiting their productivity and agility.

Applications that are deployed in the data centre, multi-cloud, and remote edge sites – become slow, unreliable, and most importantly, create increased security risks.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services can accelerate your customers’ digital transformation efforts:

• Simplify cloud networking and app connectivity across all distributed environments
• Reduces the impact of skill gaps in your customers’ businesses
• Increases visibility – providing valuable insight into network and application performance issues across all sites
• Saves time – the faster you discover any issues, the faster you can fix them
• Accelerates time to market – maintain your competitive edge with flexibility and scalability of modern apps and legacy VMs

Think of the old way of connecting environments as baking a big, traditional wedding cake. If one of your guests tells you they are gluten-free, you will have to bake a whole new cake to accommodate them. In the data centre age, deploying apps from different vendors with different requirements was a huge undertaking.

In the modern cloud era it is more akin to baking a tray of cupcakes. You can change one cupcake at a time without disrupting the entire tray. That’s why F5 Distributed Cloud Services are the ultimate solution for the modern cloud era. Whatever setup makes your guests (and your apps) happiest; you can adapt with ease.

Unleash Ultimate Security with F5 Distributed Cloud Services from Exclusive Networks

Exclusive Networks is the global cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure, accelerating the transition to a ‘totally trusted’ digital world. F5’s Distributed Cloud Services deliver industry-leading security and performance and, coupled with Exclusive Networks’ team of talented local experts, can transform your customers’ cloud experiences and security postures at scale.

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About F5
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organisations to secure and optimise every app and API anywhere—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organisations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats.

For more information, go to f5.com.

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*Source: Productiv