TECHNOLOGY solution facilitates virtual workload mobility and policy-driven application delivery to significantly reduce operating costs without compromising on consistent , scalable network and L4-L7 services .
F5 Networks has also benefited from a strong partnership with VMware , which includes interoperable solutions around technologies such as End User Computing , network virtualization , data centre and cloud management , and VMware vCloud ® Air™ hybrid cloud platform . Security has been high on the agenda for the past year , as highlighted by the company ’ s acquisition of Defense . Net in May 2014 . The cloud-based security services company gives F5 a competitive edge in providing solutions to defend against application-layer , networklayer , and data center threats delivered via the Internet such as distributed denial-of-service ( DDoS ) attacks . The acquisition of Defense . Net complements existing F5 solutions such as its Advanced Firewall Manager .
In November 2014 , F5 announced new hybrid service capabilities to help organizations scale IT resources across dynamic cloud and data center deployments . Under the company ’ s new Silverline™ banner , F5 will offer extended security , optimization , and availability services from hosted and managed infrastructure , marking F5 ’ s entrance into the cloud services delivery space .
The F5 Silverline services delivery platform expands the company ’ s F5 Synthesis™ architecture to enable application services
‘ Powered by an elastic multi-tenant and high performance services fabric , F5 Synthesis enables customers to rapidly and cost effectively provision layer 4-7 services . customers ’
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