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F5
Distributed Cloud Explained
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“ So our customers needed us to support them in their journey to satisfy their customers .”
Through a combination of organic evolution and acquisition , F5 has joined its customers on that journey . “ With our flagship BIG-IP brand , for example , we spent a lot of time developing and improving so that it no longer requires that the customer buy a server , it can now be deployed in cloud environments .”
With customers using increasingly complex cloud environments , a new solution was needed . Enter , Distributed Cloud .
“ As our customers were trying to meet their end customer needs , most of them
were getting into a situation where they had extremely complex environments – some cloud , some edge , some on-prem or private data centre – and they had entire teams dedicated to setting up and managing technology stacks for security , for development , for fraud and for IT at each of these environments .”
Through a number of acquisitions in the cloud space , in the form of Volterra , Shape and Threat Stack , Distributed Cloud was formed .
As Goldfarb explains , one benefit of Distributed Cloud is the ability to simplify the management and administration of IT security and application stack across
70 July 2023