Securing Your Apps in Cloud Environments

Recently, we've had a sharp increase in the number of customers asking about F5's role in transitioning to and securing hybrid and public cloud deployments. We'll be delving deeper into this in our next Colorado User's Group meeting, but I'll highlight a few key considerations here.  VMware notes five key factors when moving to the cloud: 1) Existing and new applications support, 2) Security and compliance, 3) High availability, 4) Network flexibility and reliability, and 5) Time to value.  {(https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vcloud-air/Moving-to-Hybrid-Cloud-Top-5-Considerations.pdf)}  

F5 solutions play a key role in each of these five factors. If you're considering an OpenStack deployment or a public cloud like Azure, Amazon Web Services, Verizon Terremark, or VMware vCloud Air- F5 can provide consistent security policies for applications while maintaining high availability.

If your familiar with F5 primarily as an application load balancer, it may be time for a fresh look as you move to the cloud.