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Solutions Excellence: F5 Application Ready Networking

Solutions Excellence: F5 Application Ready Networking. CONFIDENTIAL. Presented by Owen Cole Technical Director UK&I. Why should you Care about F5‘s Application Ready Networking ??. Application Deployment Challenges.

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Solutions Excellence: F5 Application Ready Networking

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  1. Solutions Excellence:F5 Application Ready Networking CONFIDENTIAL Presented by Owen ColeTechnical Director UK&I

  2. Why should you Care about F5‘s Application Ready Networking ??

  3. Application Deployment Challenges Of all the businesses who undertake software development projects...only 34% prove successful ! Source: CHAOS Chronicles Report

  4. Market Conditions • Businesses Want To Do More With Less • Applications moving online • Businesses look to consolidate Data Centres / Servers etc. • Performance / Security Concerns • Latency • Cost of Bandwidth • Distributed Offices • Data integrity • Application availability • Compliance Issues • PCI • Data protection legislation • Data Centre Efficiencies

  5. Problems you face today!!

  6. - New security hole - High cost to scale - Slow performance ? Application Problem: Networks Aren’t Adaptable Network Administrator Application Developer Traditional networks are focused on connectivity Applications focus on business logic and functionality

  7. Application How Do You Fix the Problem? Multiple Point Solutions More Bandwidth Network Administrator Application Developer • Add more infrastructure? • Faster and centralised fix, applications are offloaded • Costly, complex and hard to manage • Hire an army of developers? • Expensive (code, manage, maintain) • Consumes server cycles • Often not possible ?

  8. What Are The Answers? • Add more servers? • Expensive • Existing capacity is probably not being efficiently utilised in any case • Add more bandwidth? • Expensive • Doesn‘t necessarily solve the problem; is the data passing down the pipe optimised in the first place? • Optimise the WAN? • Solves part of the problem, but a lot of traffic is compressed anyway.

  9. Too Many Boxes Doing “Smarter Things” Applications Users Network Point Solutions DoS Protection Mobile Phone SFA Rate Shaping SSL Acceleration CRM ERP CRM PDA Server Load Balancer ERP Laptop ERP CRM SFA ContentAcceleration ApplicationFirewall Desktop SFA Connection Optimization TrafficCompression Customize Application Co-location

  10. What do you really want ?

  11. F5 key deliveries • Tier 1 Acceleration – Application Acceleration 200% – 1000% performance improvement • Tier 2 Acceleration – Server Offload 200% – 500% performance improvement • Tier 1 Acceleration – Bandwith Reduction 200% – 600% performance improvement

  12. The F5 Architecture Getting Green with Consolidation

  13. Software as a Service Increasing Pressure! • Voice, Video, Data, Mobile • Uncontrolled Management Opex • Exploding User Generated Content IT Manager & App Architect • SSL Everywhere - Security • Consolidation • =

  14. The World’s Only On Demand ADC

  15. F5’s Comprehensive Single Solution Applications Users The F5 Solution Application Delivery Network CRMDatabaseSiebelBEALegacy.NETSAPPeopleSoftIBMERPSFACustom Mobile Phone PDA Laptop Desktop TMOS Co-location

  16. So what is Application Efficiency

  17. Difficult to accelerate SSL content • Users forced to re-download content • Network latency, packet loss, verbose protocols • Web content is bloated • Users are increasingly remote and/or mobile • Data center consolidation • = WEB BASED Applications are Slow IT Manager & App Architect

  18. NO!!!!Really WHAT is it ??

  19. The Application Ready Network In Practice ImprovesResponseTimes 3-10x Servers BIG-IP Web BIG-IP • Optimized OS • Offload ASICs • Server load balancing • Connection management • SSL termination • URL rewrite • Compression • Object caching • Transaction assurance • Application security • Optimised OS • Traffic shaping/QOS • Compression / sequence caching • Network protocol manipulation • Application-specific optimisation Recovers 80% of Server Resources Reduces Bandwidth75%+

  20. Browsers have limits • Typical web app connections Clients Web Applications WAN IE supports only two http connections per site at a time to the same host/domain

  21. mywebapp.com Client Chatty apps & protocols - HTTP & WebApps GET / HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1) Host: www.mywebapp.com Accept: */* Connection: Keep-Alive GET / HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1) Host: www.mywebapp.com Accept: */* Connection: Keep-Alive Refresh or Press F5 key 50 times / 2 * 250 ms = 6.25 sec! HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Content-Type: image/jpeg Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:25:26 GMT Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:23:02 GMT Connection: keep-alive Expires: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:20:55 GMT HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: image/jpeg Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:25:26 GMT Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:33:02 GMT Connection: keep-alive Expires: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:38:02 GMT ………………………….

  22. Clients Web Applications More connections open! • More simultaneous browser connections BIG-IP WebAccelerator WAN IE supports only two http connections per site at a time to the same host/domain

  23. WA “long expires” • Intelligent Browser Referencing • Ensure user doesn’t download duplicate pages/content Content marked as unique & served every time

  24. F5 Provides 3.7x Performance for SharePoint 2007 SharePoint is one of the most popular Collaboration apps

  25. So ...What is Application Ready Networking ?

  26. Industry’s First Validated Web Application Policies: • Validated in Vendor Application Labs - Certified Policies Pre-configured

  27. The Application Ready Network • F5‘s Application Ready Network - architecture and infrastructure designed and optimised specifically for Enterprise Applications from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. • Comprehensive, free-of-charge Deployment Guides for Microsoft SharePoint / Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft OCS, SAP NetWeaver and more

  28. Benefits of F5’s Application Ready Network Application Architect Benefits: Up to 5xperformance increase 33% faster deployment cycles Up to 25% savings on security costs Common, repeatable design saving 50% in operational costs • Network Architect Benefits: • Up to 70%reduction in access control costs • 99.999%availability • Automated failover for WAN/LAN saving20% in operational costs • Up to 70% reduction in bandwidth

  29. Recommendations • No application deployment or architecture discussion should occur without participation across all IT silos. • Think beyond bandwidth and understand all the requirements, to optimise application performance efficiently. • Re-evaluate requirements and possible solutions on a regular basis. This is a dynamic market. • Let servers serve!

  30. Questions ??

  31. Thank You!

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