F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect vs. OpsCompass

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect Would be incredibly useful when having to juggle multiple cloud providers. Also XC would be fantastic for standardization and consistency of the whole networking stack. It may be less useful for incredibly specialized cases where very specific traffic manipulation is needed. Any use-cases with heavy APM usage would have to be carefully considered as those features didn’t make it into XC yet.

Incentivized

Our AWS Cloud was a perfect fit for OpsCompass. We needed a better method for understanding the size/extent of our Cloud--rather than the manual approach we'd been using. It's saved us a lot of time, and allowed us to delay adding additional heads for at least six to nine months. It also gives us a better/faster grasp of potential security issues - we see them right away, and we can assess each issue far faster than ever before. When we expand to Azure, Ops Compass will be able to do the same thing for us. (We have no plans to expand into Google Cloud Platform, but Ops Compass works well in all 3 clouds, apparently.)

• Centralized Hybrid ingress for our cloud workloads
• Centralized ingress for our existing on-prem BIG-IP devices
• Application visibility to address end-to-end visibility into the end-user experience

Incentivized

• Quick inventory of all my cloud resources
• Detects changes to my cloud resources--including the source of the changes (user or system)
• Cost impacts of changes to my cloud infrastructure

• The support model needs a quite a bit of work. I personally have experienced an outage on the platform. due to mis-configureation Although the outage was due to engineer error it took over 2 hours before we were able to speak to an engineer
• Proxy v2 protocol to allow our organization to capture and view the source IP address

Incentivized

• I would like to see more integrations to help surface alerts. Slack would be great, as an example.
• An imbedded tour or onboarding would help our new users, but overall, the product is pretty easy to figure out

Architectural change with a focus on multi-cloud

Incentivized

F5 Distributed Cloud Network additionally interconnects our cloud improving our security and creating secure IPsec SSL tunnels between our clouds, improving the page load of the application published in the Load balancer in Distributed cloud, and additionally adding a security layer easy to implement with the WAF for all web applications in our company

Incentivized

This software as a service (SaaS) links, divides, and protects network traffic over one or more edge sites, data centers, and public clouds. It offers the adaptability needed to operate across many transit choices, such as the F5 Global Network, private corporate networks, and cloud provider linkages. Additionally, faster time to resolution and more effective issue management are achieved by end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting.

Incentivized

We like that OpsCompass is native, multi-cloud, and gives us a consistent method and approach to managing our security across multiple environments. It was more attractively priced and had easier, simpler deployment. It took us about 30 minutes to get it connected to both of our clouds and get a quick view of all of our infrastructure.

• Remove VPN
• Reduction of investment in operational support
• Uptime availability
• Access to specialized advice and support
• Eliminar VPN
• Reducción de inversión en soporte operativo
• Disponibilidad uptime
• Acceso a asesoría y soporte especializado

Incentivized

• Our team was able to do roughly 30% more with the product. The automation helps us spot issues without a lot of manual work
• We identified changes that would have had a massive cost impact--spinning up or forgetting about infrastructure we didn't need.
• OpsCompass prevents configuration drift and maintains a healthy state across multi-clouds.