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A long time ago, when it came to networks and security devices, the first reaction was "boxes". The kind of iron boxes that are full of data centers are brightly lit in the dim computer room to optimize and protect the business.

Yes, until now, this is also a common state in various data centers. Many engineers on duty in the computer room even developed muscles by moving iron boxes around all day.

It seems to be the practice of many large enterprises to host their own servers in the data center and protect their data with technologically advanced iron boxes. After all, many things are done on their own, in the case of sufficient manpower and funds, these are not a problem.

But what should they do in the face of companies that are inconvenient to deploy "boxes" or do not have enough capital?

As a result, some users began to put forward more special requirements-"I don't want the box, can you just sell me the software?" Some manufacturers feel inappropriate for a variety of reasons, but the more credible one is that customized hardware can give better play to the role of the product. After a brief struggle, some manufacturers began to try to open up software versions to customers. Users install it on their own server and put it in the data center.

The problem seems to have been solved and both sides are happy. But. With the continuous development of technology and the surge of cloud computing, the needs of customers have changed again.

Maybe one day, the manufacturer will receive a phone call.

User: "Hello, we need an application delivery solution. Excuse me, do you have an online version of the cloud?"

Manufacturer: "What? we have hardware and software versions, but we don't have an online version in the cloud."

User: "Oh, our cabinet is full and the hardware is not suitable."

Manufacturer: "it doesn't matter, you can use our software version."

User: "do not want to install."

Manufacturer: "…"

With the continuous development of foreign Amazon, domestic Aliyun, Shengdayun and so on, this kind of demand seems to be increasing. Some manufacturers have adopted an evasive attitude, while others have begun to figure out how to meet the needs of these users.

Director of R & D: "sounds cool the product into a cloud (sounds cool)."

Sales director: "can you make a lot of money?" can you make a lot of money? can you make a lot of money …... "

Director of Marketing & Director of Research and Development: "…"

CEO: "Let's do it."

Some advanced equipment manufacturers and cloud service providers all started a vigorous R & D campaign. But. After all, it is different to provide services and make good use of services, which requires a certain amount of accumulation. As a result, some vendors and cloud service providers began to cooperate.

Cloud service provider: "Dear, let's cooperate."

An equipment manufacturer: "I was just about to call you."

Therefore, in November 2012, the international application delivery manufacturer F5 Networks announced the launch of a virtual version of BIG-IP for Amazon AWS, which can fully utilize the full range of products of the F5 BIG-IP family for the AWS cloud. The solution meets the higher needs of enterprises to extend data centers and applications to AWS while maintaining enterprise-class reliability, scalability, security, and performance.

Wu Jingtao, technical director of F5 Networks China, said: "at present, our products can be installed on Amazon's virtual machine, and after that, there will be further cooperation with Amazon, not ruling out the possibility of letting F5 into AWS's cloud app store and so on. The advantage of the F5 application delivery controller for enterprises is to help enterprises enhance application performance while ensuring enterprise application and resource control, which makes F5 a unique strategic control point in the network. "

Prior to this release, F5 had already provided customers with virtualized services and cloud environments based on vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM.

F5 can now provide enterprises with application delivery (application-delivery) tools on AWS, which means that enterprises can quickly access cloud computing resources to ensure that their applications can continue to run when their data centers are overloaded, which is also known as cloud explosion (cloud bursting). When a company is often faced with a sudden large amount of processing, handing over calculations to AWS can be much more cost-effective than buying additional expensive but often idle hardware.

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