From the box to the "cloud": allowing users to enjoy a more relaxed application delivery

A long time ago, when it came to networking and security equipment, the first reaction was-"box". Each data center flooded with the kind of iron box, in the dim room of brightly colored lights, optimize and protect the business.

Yes, until now, this is a common state in various data centers. Many of the engineers on duty in the computer room even moved around the iron box all day, and practiced a muscle.

Hosting your own servers in the data center, and then protecting your data with state-of-the-art big iron boxes, seems to be the practice of many large enterprises. After all, many things are done by themselves, in the case of sufficient manpower and abundant funds, these are not problems.

But what should they do in the face of inconvenient deployments of "boxes" or less well-funded businesses?

As a result, some users began to ask more specific requirements-"I do not want the box, can you sell me the software?" "Some manufacturers feel that there is a variety of reasons, but the more credible one is: customized hardware can better play the role of products." Some manufacturers have been trying to open up software versions to customers after a brief tangle. Users put them on their servers and put them in the data center.

The problem seems to be solved and both sides are happy. But...... Technology in the continuous development of cloud computing, after the surge, customer demand has changed.

Maybe one day, the manufacturer will receive a call.

User: "Hello, we need an application delivery solution, excuse me, do you have the online version of the cloud?" ”

Manufacturer: "What?" We have a hardware version and a software version, but there is no online version of the cloud. ”

User: "Oh, our cabinet is full and the hardware is not right." ”

Manufacturer: "Never mind, you can use our software version." ”

User: "Do not want to install." ”

Manufacturer: "..."

With the development of the foreign Amazon, domestic Aliyun, Sheng and so on, this kind of demand seems to be more and more. Some manufacturers have taken evasive attitude, while some manufacturers are beginning to figure out how to meet the needs of this part of the user.

Research and Development director: "The product into a cloud?" Sounds cool. ”

Sales Director: "Can you make a lot of money?" Can you make a lot of money? Can you make a lot of money ...?

Marketing Director & Director of Research and development: ""

CEO: "Let's Do It". ”

Some advanced equipment manufacturers and cloud service providers have started a vigorous research and development campaign in unison. But...... The provision of services and good service after all is not the same, need to have a certain accumulation. As a result, some vendors and cloud service providers began to collaborate.

Cloud service provider: "Pro, let's cooperate." ”

A device manufacturer: "I was going to call you." ”

Thus, in November 2012, international application delivery maker F5 Networks announced the introduction of a BIG-IP virtual version for the Amazon AWS, which could be used to fully use the F5 Big-ip family's full range of products for the AWS Cloud. This solution addresses the higher requirements of the enterprise to extend data centers and applications to AWS while maintaining enterprise-class reliability, scalability, security, and performance.

F5 Networks China technical director Wu Jingtao said: "We can now put our products to the Amazon virtual machine use, and then there will be further cooperation with Amazon, do not rule out the F5 into the AWS Cloud App Store and so on." The advantage of the F5 application delivery controller is that it helps the enterprise to enhance application performance in the case of ensuring enterprise application and resource control, which makes F5 a unique strategic control point in the network. ”

Prior to this release, F5 has provided customers with virtualized services and cloud environments based on vsphere, Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM.

F5 is now able to provide an application delivery (Application-delivery) tool for the enterprise on AWS, which means that the enterprise can quickly access cloud computing resources when its data center is overloaded to ensure that its applications continue to function, which is called the Cloud eruption (cloud bursting). When a company is often confronted with a sudden amount of processing, it is much more cost-effective to give the calculation to AWS than to buy expensive, often idle hardware.

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