Catching up to the Cloud:The Network’s Rapidly Evolving Role In ITaaS

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Is IT-as-a-Service a Good Idea?

• Our survey shows 43% say somewhat/extremely attractive

Extremely unattractive; 6%

Somewhat unattractive; 16%

Neutral; 34%

Somewhat attractive; 31%

Extremely attractive; 12%

Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011

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The Shift to The Dynamic Data Center

• The static data center used to work

• Then came virtualization & cloud

• Then the era of applications

• Then traffic diversification

• And now IT is buckling …

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Cloud Computer: IDG Global Cloud Study

• 88%: Cloud is a priority within next 18 months

• 70%: Security is critical for cloud

• 68%: High availability is key for cloud

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The Shift to The Dynamic Data Center

• 64% of developers including video in apps

• 1,912 average web transactions per user per day

• 28% of developers use HTML5

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Traffic Diversification

• Amazon: 100 billion objects stored in S3

• Google: 5 billion API calls/day

• Facebook: 5 billion API calls/day

• npr: 1.1 billion API-delivered stories/month

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How Far Along are You?

Changing the way IT thinks

Hybrid cloud

Chargeback

Self-service provisioning

PaaS

IaaS

Storage virtualization

Server virtualization

26%

35%

48%

34%

33%

32%

11%

6%

67%

57%

44%

57%

54%

54%

47%

25%

7%

8%

8%

9%

13%

14%

42%

69%

Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011

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When will IT-as-a-Service become common?

1 year 3 years 5 years 7 years or more Never

7%

36% 37%

19%

7%

Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011

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Problem: Networks Aren’t Adaptable Enough

Applications Focus on Business Logic and Functionality

Traditional Networks are Focused on Connectivity

• New Security Hole• High Cost To Scale• Slow Performance

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How Do You Fix the Problem?

Hire an Army of Developers?Add More Infrastructure?

More Bandwidth

Multiple Point Solutions

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How Automation Helps – Automated Policies

• Optimizing the network for specific applications takes weeks … and can be frustrating

• Automated application policies reduce process to hours

• Applies to applications, the network, cloud, etc.

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Will Your Organization Achieve IT-as-a-Service?

• Our survey shows 43% say somewhat/extremely likely they will

Extremely unlikely; 8%

Somewhat unlikely; 20%

Neutral; 28%

Somewhat likely; 31%

Extremely likely; 12%

Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011

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A Brave New World …

• Applications are complex, composite, distributed

• Workplace is mobile, non-PC endpoints abound

• Traffic is diversified

• Everything creates and consumes data

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Applications Are Central

• The network used to manage applications

• In the future, applications will manage the network

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IT Must Change

• Today you configure the network largely by hand

• Tomorrow, if you don’t change, you will drown

• Instead, build a dynamic data center

• And manage the manager

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Dynamic Data Center

• Reconfigure dynamically

• Manage by policy, not device

• Context-aware policies

• ADC manages services

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Application Control Plane Architecture

• 10-100x faster deployment of applications

• Reduces CapEx

• Reduces OpEx

• Enhanced scalability

• Enhanced security

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