As businesses transform to digital-first organizations, applications and associated services are vital for competitive differentiation. F5 is bringing these solutions to market as IT must enable both established and emerging environments to better integrate DevOps practices, agile development, and cloud resources. F5 sits in a unique position at the convergence of cloud and data center application services, enabling customers to embrace modern infrastructures without sacrificing security and control.

Realizing the potential of a hybrid cloud world

F5 and Equinix empower enterprises to deploy business-critical applications in multiple public cloud infrastructures to achieve greater business productivity, while delivering industry-leading security, availability and performance that today’s businesses demand.

More freedom doesn’t have to mean more complexity

While a combination of solutions does increase flexibility, it also increases the challenge of managing and securing applications across a growing number of environments—not to mention ensuring a reasonable customer experience and controlling costs.

You can mitigate those challenges with F5 to ensure consistent application delivery and security services in any environment.

A faster, more secure road to the cloud

Get the flexibility and scale of public cloud while managing security, traffic, and policy programs in a physical environment. Pushing applications, content, and processing closer to the edge of the Internet creates measurable improvement in performance with lower costs.

Benefits of our partnership with Equinix

Consistent user experience
Establishing a strategic presence for your F5 Big IP cloud gateway within an Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center provides cloud flexibility and consistent user experience across all your applications, no matter what cloud they may be using.

Secure access
Together we ensure you can provide secure access for your users to all applications, workloads and data across your entire hybrid cloud environment (existing IT infrastructure combined with the flexible advantages of public clouds).

Single point of control
By enabling you to orchestrate command and control of network traffic and security across all cloud infrastructure from a single point, we help you deliver a highly resilient and responsive IT infrastructure.

 about the benefits of our partnership with Equinix.