New F5 solutions enhance developer and IT
operations productivity with app-centric visibility and
fine-grained control over delivery and security of digital
services
Coinciding with its Agility 2020 event, F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today
introduced new solutions to provide enhanced application visibility
and control throughout the application lifecycle. These solutions
give customers end-to-end visibility into the health and
performance of applications, along with integrated traffic,
security, and API management controls to take action based on those
insights, surfacing new ways to lower operational overhead and
achieve faster time to market.
For most organizations, delivering powerful new digital
experiences to their customers and employees requires stitching
together capabilities from a mix of traditional and modern
application architectures and infrastructure environments. As these
organizations embrace multi-cloud strategies, this landscape only
gets more diverse and complex. Recognizing that applications are
the most important assets of digital organizations and that all
organizations today lack toolsets enabling effective management of
those assets, F5’s focus is on closing that divide—with end-to-end
application-centric visibility being the first step. F5 powers
applications from development through their entire lifecycle,
surfacing insights, behavioral patterns, and anomalies via
telemetry outside the reach of other vendor tools, so that
organizations can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and
secure digital experiences.
“Today, nearly every organization is accelerating their digital
transformation efforts, but they are flying blind, as they lack
visibility into how many applications they’re running, let alone
how each app is performing or if those apps are secure,” said Kara
Sprague, EVP and General Manager of BIG-IP at F5. “Applications,
traditional and modern, derive many advantages in being distributed
throughout on-prem, cloud, and microservice environments—but this
often fragments visibility and enterprise-wide control. F5 empowers
app owners, developers, and IT operators with the telemetry and
closed-loop automation required to effectively troubleshoot,
identify threat areas, and deliver new digital capabilities in
minutes, not days or weeks.”
F5 is introducing three complementary offerings to deliver
superior visibility, actionable analytics, and automated traffic
management and security across an organization’s entire app
portfolio. F5’s BIG-IP and BIG-IQ solutions offer health, security,
and performance analytics and deep troubleshooting tools for NetOps
and SecOps teams. NGINX Controller complements this with additional
capabilities for AppDev and DevOps teams, providing API-driven
visibility, analytics, and controls via ADC, API management, and
application security services running on NGINX Plus. Through
integrations with BIG-IQ, NGINX Controller, and other F5
offerings—as well as a vast array of third-party integrations—F5
Beacon aggregates telemetry from across the application data path
to offer a complete end-to-end view of applications as well as a
holistic, enterprise-wide view of an organization’s application
portfolio for use by application owners, IT operations
professionals, and line-of-business managers.
Specifically, the company is introducing:
- F5 Beacon – A new SaaS offering, Beacon delivers the
platform for true end-to-end application visibility, providing
actionable insights to facilitate troubleshooting and
decision-making for application owners and IT operations
professionals. Beacon ingests telemetry data streams from multiple
sources such as BIG-IP, NGINX, and F5 Cloud Services, as well as
third-party technologies to provide an end-to-end view of
application topologies, dependencies, user experience, health, and
performance. Additionally, Beacon Insights, through an open and
extensible platform, help solve the challenges associated with
end-to-end anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and security
visibility and compliance. Beacon is differentiated from other
solutions in the monitoring and analytics space in that it is
application-centric, orienting data and analytics around the unit
of an application, enabling organizations to focus efforts on
improving end-to-end application performance and end-user
experience. Beacon is further differentiated in that it
accomplishes this without requiring significant integration work;
it surfaces rich insights on end-to-end application performance by
tapping into the telemetry data from F5’s broad portfolio of
application delivery and security offerings (including NGINX),
which are used by half of the world’s applications, as well as a
growing number of third-party offerings.
- BIG-IQ 7.1 – As the most comprehensive central
management, orchestration, and analytics solution for F5’s BIG-IP
app services, BIG-IQ capabilities include app services management,
security-specific dashboards, and tight integrations with the F5
Automation Toolchain. With BIG-IQ, operations teams gain visibility
into the overall health, status, and performance of their BIG-IP
app delivery and security services from an application-centric
dashboard. This latest release enables visibility of legacy
application services, streamlines management workflows, and adds
new security management functionality.
- NGINX Controller 3.4 – NGINX’s application delivery and
performance platform offers a broad set of services for load
balancing, analytics, and API management in and across clouds. With
an application-centric approach, this version of NGINX Controller
enhances per-app analytics and improves declarative API
capabilities, ensuring NetOps, DevOps, and other teams can manage
tasks across the entire application lifecycle. As a result,
enterprises can speed time to market with collaborative workflows
integrated into CI/CD pipelines via API calls or the updated GUI.
Through NGINX Controller, teams can simplify deployment,
configuration, and monitoring for NGINX Plus, whether it’s deployed
as a load balancer, API gateway, or a proxy in a microservices
environment.
These three offerings are designed to integrate capabilities
from across the application data path—the pathway through which
application traffic flows to reach an end user—helping
customers:
- Gain End-to-End Visibility of Dynamic App Functions for
Optimized Digital Experiences
Comprehensive app visibility has proved elusive in light of
several factors, including the proliferation of myriad monitoring
and analytics tools. These monitoring and analytics tools are
typically decoupled from the underlying application services that
perform critical functions in delivering and securing the
application. Ultimately, what’s been missing—and what F5 Beacon
delivers—is an easy way to harmonize different levels of visibility
and analytics around these important functions and across
traditional and modern applications deployed in on-premises and
multi-cloud environments. App owners and IT operations
professionals can get a holistic view of app health and risk across
their application portfolio and drive improvements in SLAs such as
availability, responsiveness, and mean-time-to-resolution through a
granular mapping of the end-to-end application topology and
associated application delivery and security services.
- Combine Visibility and Controls to Improve Business
Outcomes
Unique to F5 is the ability to combine different dimensions of
visibility and control throughout the app deployment and delivery
lifecycle. For instance, BIG-IQ offers visibility into and
management and orchestration of the BIG-IP application services
footprint, most commonly used for load balancing, firewall, access
management, and app security for traditional applications spanning
multi-cloud environments. NGINX Controller does the same for NGINX
Plus deployments, most commonly used as the web server, ingress
controller, API gateway, and load balancing solution in modern,
container-native applications. F5 Beacon provides end-to-end
application-centric visibility across traditional and modern apps,
combining telemetry from both BIG-IP and NGINX Plus footprints with
agents such as Telegraf, webhook APIs, and a growing number of
third-party ecosystem integrations.
- Simplify the Deployment of Advanced Controls for SaaS and
Container-Based Apps
With organizations ramping up their digital initiatives, the
world is also shifting toward new application architectures relying
on SaaS solutions and microservices that are quickly spun up in
containers and then securely connected and authenticated via APIs.
As enterprises look to deploy technologies like containers
orchestrated by Kubernetes, F5 is introducing a set of solutions to
provide needed visibility for traffic management, API management,
and app security. Designed to run natively in clouds and
containers, NGINX Controller provides deep insights into the
performance of modern app architecture components through telemetry
and integrations with NGINX Plus.
For additional perspective on today’s news, please see the new
executive blog from Kara Sprague, Light It Up: A Look at F5’s New
Tools for Application-Centric Visibility.
Availability
F5 Beacon, BIG-IQ 7.1, and NGINX Controller 3.4 are all
generally available today.
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through
their entire lifecycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our
customers—enterprise businesses, service providers, governments,
and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing,
and secure digital experiences. For more information, go to f5.com.
You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on LinkedIn
and Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and
technologies.
F5, BIG-IQ, BIG-IP, NGINX, NGINX Controller, NGINX Plus, and
Beacon are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc. or its
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