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F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect

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What is F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect?

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is a solution used to more easily and securely network across public clouds, hybrid clouds, and edge sites via an agile SaaS-based service. Users can rapidly connect instances deployed across multiple cloud regions and/or different cloud providers using Distributed Cloud Network Connect and its automated provisioning, integrated service stack, and end-to-end visibility. Cloud instances will be connected in minutes and always visible for rapid troubleshooting.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 60 ratings of F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Resource Management

    Ability to manage and deliver cloud resources such as resource discovery and tagging, asset and license management and cloud-to-cloud migration

    Category average: 9

  • Cloud Management Performance Monitoring

    Monitoring of storage, network and application performance metrics to achieve business service levels

    Category average: 8.5

  • Governance and Compliance

    Risk assessment analysis, audits and resource governance capabilities

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Cloud Management Security

    Provision of various security capabilities such as Identity Access Management, encryption, and endpoint security

    Category average: 8.1

  • Automation and Orchestration

    Provision of automated services for application migration, VM images, and configuration management

    Category average: 8.3

  • Cost Management

    Provision of tools for cloud instance rightsizing and user chargeback and billing

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect.
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Alan Vespere
Network Engineer in Information Technology at U of U (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primarily use F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect for on prem and cloud applications for campus and some health care computing. Specifically for load balancing. There are some good tools for troubleshooting connectivity and slowness. And to be honest, it's rarely, if ever, the F5. Solid products and I love to see the improvements that have been made.

Pros

  • Fairly intuitive and easy to navigate.

Cons

  • I'm not an expert, and sometimes trying to find proper documentation can be a bit arduous.

Return on Investment

  • I'm trying to get more involved with automation and pushing more applications into the cloud. Probably the biggest impact is its reasonably overall ease and quickness to deploy new apps.

Alternatives Considered

Citrix Gateway

Sr. Solution Architect

Incentivized
Destry Watson
Sr Solution Architect in Sales at Presidio (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a partner to F5 and sell this F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect product. The clients I see have WAAP (web application and API protection) request and F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is a perfect addition the Big Iron platform they have today.

Pros

  • BOT Protection
  • Security

Cons

  • In my opinion, there is room for improvement in F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect with AI Security Integration with Firewall Support

Return on Investment

  • Additional features that are SaaS based
  • Complement Big Iron

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Rocks

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect has helped create more visibility into our cloud network infrastructure. F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect has provided high-performance networking across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments using a virtual overlay for our cloud environment. F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect has helped provide a single SaaS dashboard for managing network policies, offering end-to-end observability, troubleshooting, and consistent policy enforcement across all sites.

Pros

  • Centralized Ochestration and Visibility
  • Simplified Hybrid Connectivity
  • Integrated Security

Cons

  • Provide more training for F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect product

Return on Investment

  • It has helped in automation of policies
  • Increased Visibility in the network
  • Integrated Security

Alternatives Considered

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), DataSmart and Plasmic

Other Software Used

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Tenna, Akamai Enterprise Application Access

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect App World Review

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Verified User
Consultant in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Help clients to address connectivity of applications across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. Specifically helps with consistency and simplicity in deployments without sacrificing resiliency and choice.

Pros

  • Provides a sometimes critical solution to security, protected paths for traffic.
  • Provides low level (infrastructure level networking) when needed.
  • Provides the ground work for higher level application features and security to be layered on later.

Cons

  • Cleanup of offering names, and organization in portal for usage can help with client adoption and understanding.
  • More validated designs and guidance on recommended practices in the public.

Return on Investment

  • Archives uptime
  • Accelerates implementation of services
  • Empowers new business opportunity

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare and Akamai Enterprise Application Access

Other Software Used

F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall), F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer, Cloudflare, F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect, F5 BIG-IP

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect

Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect product primarily for analytics.

Pros

  • Logging
  • Security
  • Observability

Cons

  • iRule builder

Return on Investment

  • Successful impact
  • availability awareness

Alternatives Considered

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

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