F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect

Most of our clients operate in fragmented environments: GCP for ML workloads, aws for backends and on-prem databases. So we are using F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect to stitch these services together securely and consistently across environments. We are also using it to standardize zero-trust security policies across workloads. But this is mostly for clients in fintech and healthcare.

• The full observability into service flows
• Service meshes
• Standardization of zero-trust security policies

• It has cut down engineering time for fragile edge failovers by over 40 percent - on high availability setups
• An overall lowered cost of ownership for cloud networking, i estimate it to be around 20%
• Reduced deployment complexity by half

AWS App Mesh and Azure Service Fabric

AWS CloudFormation, Azure AI Studio, (EOL) Cisco CloudCenter

More than 90 percent of our clients in finance run distributed applications that span AWS, Azure, and on prem systems. F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect becomes the connective glue that enforces security policies across those environments. Without it, every environment would need its own API gateway setup, WAF tuning and certificate management.

• granular policy enforcement at the edge
• an integrated WAF with adaptive threat detection

• Onboarding to API production ready takes way less compared to when we used separate gateways and manual certificate rotation
• reliability in cross cluster communication has lowered the number of late night incident escalations, better sleep for me lol

TeamViewer, F5 on IBM Cloud

very productive and secure, have been using for last 2 years, really like the product and would recommend it

• cloud API

• very productive and secure, have been using for last 2 years, really like the product and would recommend it

11:11 Hosted Private Cloud

11:11 Hosted Private Cloud, 360 Total Security, 360 App Services Inc

Instrumental in transforming our application networking and security framework. We utilize the platform to effortlessly link distributed applications across diverse cloud environments, ensuring uniform performance, robust security, and comprehensive observability -Easily connect different applications via APIs, security, scalability

• Numerous aspects within infra where we require a zero trust security and features like Geo-Fencing and IP Reputation Filtering, WAF, granular access policies
• Syncing between services of google cloud and AWS and features like Federated Identity Management, load balancing, Identity aware routing, Service discovery across cloud boundaries and DNS
• The synchronization between on Prem and cloud services and features like Identity-aware routing, Layer 7 load balancing, serrvice discovery between on-prem and cloud, Zero trust policy enforcement

• Inconsistent policies and procedures and now its all seem to be sorted and now requires less support
• Deployment cycle time was reduced and achieves a faster adoption of newly added contents
• Saved migration cost and more gave durability to the existing setup

AWS App Mesh and Azure Service Fabric

Barracuda Application Protection, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), F5 BIG-IP DNS

When we were forced to accelerate our move from on prem to cloud post Covid 2 years ago, the biggest challenge was securing connectivity between legacy ERP systems in our data center and the new workloads we were standing up in Azure. App connect's ability to bridge those environments through encrypted tunnels gave us a way to transition without exposing supply chain data. 2 years down the line and still underpins the operations on our cloud based systems.

• Edge network optimization ensures low latency supplier and customer transactions across global regions
• multicloud connectivity

• Biggest one so far is when it cut migration time by about half in our 2023 on prem to cloud transition
• Supplier API onboarding came down to days, sometimes even hours from weeks

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack, Cisco Catalyst Switches, IBM Maximo Application Suite