2017 F5 makes applications fly!

[51CTO.com original article] In 2017, what will you make fly? At the beginning of 2017, F5 officially launched the "We Make Apps GO" campaign and looked forward to the development direction of application delivery technology: F5 can make applications "fly" faster, smarter, and more secure!

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How important are applications to the business?

As a long-term leader in the field of application delivery, F5 has been focusing on improving the user experience of applications as the primary direction of research and development for more than a decade. Whether in the cloud or in local data centers, whether on mainframes or mobile clients, F5's direction of development coincides with the general trend of market development. A previous report stated that by 2017, the number of downloads of various applications will reach 200 billion times, and about 50% of enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region will use up to 200 applications in their business, and 15% of enterprises will have more than 1,000 applications. It is no exaggeration to say that the era of application king has arrived.

For business managers and chief information officers, the more proficient employees are in using applications, the wider the types of applications, and the more complex the connected devices, the more the enterprise IT system needs to provide a reliable, flexible and seamless application infrastructure that allows enterprise employees to obtain relevant information and data anytime and anywhere.

On the surface, the purpose of enterprises using various applications is to perform certain functions and tasks. Applications generate, transmit and store data on the network. In fact, every time an application is started, downloaded, linked, or even every line of code is run, it relies on the complex operation of a set of infrastructure, which seamlessly integrates availability and security to ensure that each application can perform its functions. This pillar is application services, which include a complete set of technologies and services that can enhance the availability, security and acceleration performance of applications. In short, without a solid service foundation designed specifically to support applications, current enterprise applications will face paralysis, let alone support for enterprise business.

F5 is a leading provider of the best application services for enterprise users. In 2017, F5 is committed to making applications fly and helping enterprise users' applications become faster, smarter, and more secure.

How to make the application fly?

Make applications faster. Making applications faster is a constant demand of every user. F5's products and solutions can make data flow more scientific and faster. Especially in the field of application delivery, F5 optimizes link loads with excellent technical strength, allowing data to be transmitted along the optimal path during application transmission. More importantly, with the changes in the current application usage environment, F5 can provide network managers with customizable solutions in complex scenarios across networks and architectures. Doing so can not only bring users a faster user experience during the delivery process, but also help enterprises deploy or change their own application architecture more quickly, so that they can better grasp every fleeting business opportunity in the rapidly changing market.

Make applications smarter. The surge in demand for IT resources has made CIOs and CTOs of enterprises more willing to look to the more flexible and elastic cloud, which results in an increasingly complex application environment. How to migrate enterprise applications to the cloud securely and intelligently, and manage and apply them scientifically in the cloud, so as to give full play to the advantages of the cloud, is the direction that F5 has been working on. Based on F5's technology and solutions, whether users want to migrate some applications to the public cloud, build their own private cloud center, or use a flexible hybrid cloud model, enterprise users can intelligently manage, control, and distribute IT applications to ensure that enterprise applications always maintain high availability. At the same time, through F5's core application delivery solution, all computing resources of enterprise users can be transparently presented to managers in a more pooled manner. This highly intelligent management method can enable CIOs and CTOs to shift their focus from the previous architecture to the business model, so that the entire IT resources can truly serve the enterprise business model and even become the main booster of enterprise business growth.

Make applications more secure. The popularity of applications has doubled the pressure on enterprise IT departments. Criminals have evolved from simple network attacks in the past to current application attacks. As users can access more data from multiple terminals, application security protection has become a top priority for enterprise IT departments, among which protecting the security of application infrastructure and business is a top priority. As the manufacturer closest to applications, F5's application security solution can perceive all security attacks on the server front end. This dynamic defense based on application behavior analysis can effectively prevent enterprise user information leakage, and can ensure high security whether it is mobile or PC. In addition, with the further implementation of the cloud, the security of cloud applications has also become a new challenge that network managers have to face. More than half of the CIOs of Asia Pacific companies list security as the primary consideration for migrating applications to the cloud. Through F5's cloud application security solution, security experts can deploy security policies for cloud applications like local operations, and even call cloud resources to resist attacks involving large-scale computing resources such as DDOS when necessary. F5 believes that in the era of "applications are king", only end-to-end security solutions can truly make users worry-free.

Nowadays, applications have penetrated into every aspect of our work and life. As the demand for applications continues to deepen, enterprise managers will view the value of application services from a development perspective and gradually incorporate application services into enterprise development strategies. As an application service provider, F5 hopes to provide "flying" services to more enterprise users.

In 2017, F5 will continue to promote the "We Make Apps GO" campaign. If you are interested, you are welcome to join the campaign! Please pay attention to F5's official Weibo and WeChat, where the latest activities will be waiting for you!

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