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The IT infrastructure is key to the success of virtually any major business initiative, from quickly integrating a strategic acquisition to bringing products to market cost-effectively, yet traditional IT architectures are static and inflexible. Any sudden change in business requirements forces IT staff to respond with manual, one-off technology fixes that consume time and resources. F5 provides strategic points of control throughout the IT infrastructure, enabling organizations to scale, adapt, and align with changing business demands and drive business forward on a solid foundation of IT agility.

Why is F5 different?

F5 is the only vendor that provides an open architectural framework, offering IT organizations new ways to deliver services that generate true business value. This unique framework includes:

  • F5 TMOS ®
    The universal, shared product platform that adds intelligence and complete control to application delivery.
  • F5 iRules™
    The event-driving scripting language that customizes how application traffic is intercepted, inspected, transformed, and directed.
  • F5 iControl®
    The open API that helps automate communications and eliminates the need for costly manual intervention.
  • F5 Data Management Operating System
    The core of F5′s scalable and intelligent file virtualization solutions that simplifies and automates data delivery.

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Who relies on F5?

Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP all recommend F5 to their customers and continually develop joint innovation and integration with F5 through strategic partnerships. Many of the world’s leading organizations rely on F5 solutions

ARX® Series

Simplify Data Management and Reduce Costs with Intelligent File Virtualization. Today’s storage environments are complex, inflexible, inefficient, and rapidly expanding. As the volume of unstructured data continues to skyrocket, your organization needs the ability to efficiently manage file data while keeping storage costs in check.

F5 ARX file virtualization devices enable you to dramatically simplify data management and reduce storage costs. By introducing intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, ARX eliminates the disruption associated with storage administration and automates many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in cost, agility, and business efficiency.

Reduce storage expenses

ARX solutions help you dramatically reduce your file storage capital and operating expenses. Automated tiering policies enable you to easily integrate lower-cost or capacity-optimized storage technologies into your existing storage environment. Plus, ARX automates many manual data management tasks, reducing operational costs while ensuring that users and applications always have access to data.

Decrease backup time and costs

Many companies back up all of their files repeatedly, even though only a small fraction are modified on a regular basis. ARX automated tiering policies decrease the amount of unchanging or non-critical data being backed up regularly, enabling you to dramatically reduce backup and recovery times, backup media consumption, and backup costs, without sacrificing data protection.

Optimize existing storage assets

Through virtualization, ARX solutions eliminate “islands of storage” to improve capacity utilization on existing systems. ARX consolidates resources into a unified storage pool, so you can get the most out of your existing storage investments, reclaim stranded or unused capacity, and defer additional storage purchases.

Gain storage flexibility and choice

ARX offers you the flexibility to manage your storage infrastructure in the way that best meets your business needs. With ARX, you can move data easily whenever and wherever you want, including between heterogeneous storage devices, without impacting users. Powerful policies help you perform a range of data management tasks–whether it’s moving entire file systems or even individual files–automatically and non-disruptively.

Simplify data management

ARX solutions eliminate the complexity of file storage environments by consolidating hundreds or thousands of client-to-server mappings to a more manageable number. Physical mappings are replaced with virtual ones, enabling you to perform many storage management tasks, such as tiering, capacity balancing, replication, and migration, without client reconfiguration and without impacting client access.

ARX Cloud Extender

F5 ARX Cloud Extender works with the automated storage tiering capabilities of F5 ARX file virtualization devices to seamlessly extend the file storage infrastructure from the data center to the cloud. Customizable tiering policies automate the process of identifying and moving appropriate data to the cloud, which minimizes IT overhead and cost of access. And, data stored in the cloud is presented as if it resides locally in the data center, so users and applications can access information as they always have.

Data Manager Software

F5 Data Manager offers file system discovery, data profiling, and powerful reporting to give you a detailed look inside the file data environment so you can apply better management policies to create a more efficient, cost-effective storage environment.