Data Solutions

F5 Data SolutionsDecember, 2010

Nigel Burmeister

Director, Product Marketing

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Today’s News

• F5 announces enhancements to award-winning Data Solutions portfolio, including: – ARX Cloud Extender product – Qualification of 3rd party cloud storage offerings– New ARX Virtual Edition (VE)– iControl® storage management API

• Press release date: December 6, 2010

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Company Snapshot

F5 Networks is the leading provider of Application and Data Delivery Networking. Our products are strategic points of control in the Data Center.

Founded 1996 / Public 1999

Approx. 2,010 employees

FY09 Revenue: $653M

FY10 Revenue: $882M

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Applications & Storage

InternationalData Center

Technology Snapshot

PC - Home

PC - LAN

WLAN

Cell

Remote - WAN

Enterprise Manager

TMOS

iControl

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager BIG-IP

WOM Module

BIG-IPEdgeGateway

BIG-IP LocalTrafficManager

BIG-IP ApplicationSecurityManagerBIG-IP Web

Accelerator

BIG-IP LinkController

ARXFile/Data Virtualization

FirePassSSL VPN

Focus for this announcement

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File Virtualization Snapshot

Applications and Users

NAS and File Servers

BEFORE

Applications and Users

NAS and File Servers

AFTER

• Transparency: masks storage changes from applications and users

• Mobility: seamless cross platform, cross vendor data movement

• Policy: migration, automated tiering, dynamic capacity balancing

File Virtualization

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Data Management Challenges

Data Growth

Budgets and Staffing

Growth• New content• New applications • Multiple copies • Longer retention• BIG data

Responsiveness• Consolidation• Managing change• Proliferation of new

storage technologies

• Align IT to business

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STORAGE APP SERVER WEB SERVER

F5 Enables an Agile IT Infrastructure

ACCESS

…through strategic points of control

ARXBIG-IPBIG-IP

Strategic Points of Control for Data Traffic…• Leverage NAS/File Server building blocks• Virtualize file storage resources• Enable seamless mobility and optimal data

placement based on policy• Are heterogeneous, enabled by open standards

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Alternatives

Scale, CostEffectiveness

Freedom of Choice

More of the same Array-based Intelligence

Network-based Intelligence

Unified access, automated tiering

Unified access, mobility, automated tiering

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Major Release Elements

Cloud Storage Support

ARX API

ARX Virtual Edition (VE)

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Cloud Storage Support

• Cloud storage is a promising additional tier

• Identifying and moving appropriate data to the cloud is a potential inhibitor

• Tiering to the cloud is a natural evolution of ARX’s automated tiering capability

• F5 enables seamless integration of cloud and provides proven benefits today

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Source: F5 Networks, July 2010

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F5 Tiering to the Cloud Model

Public Cloud

F5 ARX

Applications and Users

ARX Cloud Extender

3rd Party Gateway

Private CloudTier 0 Tier 1 Tier 2

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Customer Example

Environment: Currently tiering with ARX between NAS devices

Critical Issue: Cost of managing growing volume of archive content

Reasons: Organization keeps data forever in support of their mission “that the future may learn from the past”

Requirements: Automated, transparent identification and movement of data to external cloud provider

Solution: ARX cluster with tiering and IRM VFS solution

Existing Storage

Iron Mountain VFS

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Details of Initial Cloud Storage Support

• F5 ARX Cloud Extender– New software product – Native support for cloud, object storage and NAS– Availability: CYQ4, 2010

• 3rd Party Gateway Support– Iron Mountain VFS– NetApp StorageGRID– Availability: Now

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Major Release Elements

Cloud Storage Support

ARX API

ARX Virtual Edition (VE)

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F5 iControl Storage Management API

• Allows partners and customers to leverage strategic points of control for data traffic

• Leverages ARX detection of file system changes– Allows for registration of file / directory level changes– Removes the requirement for integration with each NAS system

• Adds value to existing data management applications– E.g. Classification, Quota, Replication, Backup, etc.

• Similar evolution to F5 BIG-IP iControl / iRules • Availability: Now (ARX version 5.2)

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F5 ARX API

F5 ARX

Private / Public Cloud

Tier 0 Tier 1 Tier 2

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F5 Data Manager

Example 3rd Party Apps:

• Chargeback• Search / Index• Quota• Auditing• Backup• DR Coordination• Customer solutions

ARX API

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API Example: Data Classification

Perform full treewalk and build app. metadata

Scan filesys and update app. metadata

Filesys1 Filesys2

FileSrv1 FileSrv2

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FileSrv3

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FileSrv4

Filesys5

FileSrv5

Application App.Metadata

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API Example: Data Classification

Application

Change Notifications

ARX

Filesys1 Filesys2

FileSrv1 FileSrv2

ARX API

App.Metadata

Policy actions

Filesys3

FileSrv3

Filesys4

FileSrv4

Filesys5

FileSrv5

Obtain virtual file system updates from ARX

Process and act on updates

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Major Release Elements

Cloud Storage Support

ARX API

ARX Virtual Edition (VE)

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ARX Virtual Edition (VE)

• Extends reach of F5’s strategic points of control– e.g. distributed facilities

• Enables new hybrid solutions with OEM partners, allowing this intelligence to be integrated with other offerings

• Availability: Q1 CY2011– OEM / partner version– Trial version– Production version

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New Deployment Options

Expand awareness:

Let everyone experience the power of ARX first hand…

Expand market:

Enable partner solutions where consolidation matters…

Partner-IntegratedSolution

VMware

VM

GuestFiler

VM VM

GuestGW

VMware

VM

GuestARX-VE

Product and TrialVersions

GuestARX-VE

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Summary

• An agile storage infrastructure is critical to meeting the challenges of growth and change

• F5 provides strategic points of control that enable this agile infrastructure

• F5 Data Solutions Fall ‘10 release augments these solutions with 3 major additions:1. Cloud support provides a seamless path to private and

public cloud

2. Data management API enables partners and customers to leverage F5’s strategic points of control

3. Virtual Edition extends application for F5’s strategic points of control

• Fall release is part of F5’s broader agile IT vision