Raymar's f5 ® Availability Solution

Availability Solutions

Prevent downtime and increase productivity by keeping your applications consistently available

Your applications need to be consistently accessible in order to prevent costly downtime and lost productivity. f5 ® technology gives you the power and flexibility to set availability priorities based on requirements such as security, uptime, reliability, and performance

Global Load Balancing Solutions

Maintain fast and responsive user access, regardless of network conditions

Global load balancing adds flexibility and adaptability to your network, so users always have access to applications and data—even if service to your primary data center is interrupted. This type of technology helps organizations support the technical and business goals of application and data availability without sacrificing performance.

f5 ® 's global load balancing technology always directs end-users to the closest or best-performing data center available. Our load balancing capabilities are based on multiple factors, including proximity, performance, and availability, ensuring that end users receive the best experience possible when interacting with applications.

Business benefits of using f5 ® for global load balancing include:

• Improved business continuity. Users are directed transparently to the appropriate data center, even in the face of disasters or any other unexpected large-scale outage.

• Lower management costs and higher availability for distributed applications. Our technology automates the management of dependencies between individual application services.

• Geographic load balancing. For sites maintaining content in different languages, this ensures that users around the world get the information they need in their own language.

• Dramatically improved application performance. With advanced monitoring at the application level, users can be directed to the data center that will best deliver the application for each individual.

Link Load Balancing Solutions

Use redundant links to get a better return on your application investment

Businesses rely upon links to the Internet to generate revenue, interact with partners and suppliers, and conduct much of their daily business. Link load balancing helps maintain redundant, easily managed links to meet business needs, ensuring consistent availability without having to rely solely on Internet service providers.

f5 ® 's link load balancing technology manages multiple ISP links to the data center automatically, choosing the best-performing link to ensure compliance with service-level agreements. Our solutions can intelligently compress traffic, reducing WAN link bandwidth for lower ISP costs—and cutting down on bandwidth bottlenecks for faster application delivery.

Business benefits of using f5 ® for link load balancing include:

• Better ROI on application investments. f5 ® technology maximizes bandwidth use to increase application efficiency.

• Improved business continuity. Intelligent monitoring of connectivity ensures continued service in the event of a link outage.

• Increased customer satisfaction and employee productivity. Our solutions make sure that applications stay fast and responsive by always choosing the best performing link.

Local Load Balancing Solutions

Make sure your users are always connected to a responsive, scalable system

Local load balancing ensures high availability for your applications by monitoring the health and performance of individual servers in real time. This ensures that local users are always connected to a fully functional, responsive system that is best suited for handling their requests.

f5 ® 's approach to this technology offers more than simple "load balancing." Our solutions can optimize, secure, and transparently scale the applications that businesses need to run and interact with customers and partners, while also mitigating the risk of security breaches.

Business benefits of using f5 ® for local load balancing include:

• Less risk of security breaches. We employ many different security options as a core feature of our platform. Our local load balancing solutions address both network- and application-focused attacks, as well as business-oriented breaches involving information leaks.

• Increased agility. We can help your business be more agile by enabling you to address security and application problems dynamically and immediately.

• Transparent scalability. The ability of applications to scale transparently makes sure that your service-level agreements and availability goals stay in line with business needs.

• Reduced server and bandwidth cost. Our solution triples server capacity through a rich set of infrastructure optimization capabilities, and reduces bandwidth costs by up to 80 percent through intelligent HTTP compression, bandwidth management, and more.