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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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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: 8.6

  • Cloud Management Security

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

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Systems Integration

    Integration of internal and external systems to support multi-cloud management

    Category average: 8.2

  • 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

Impressions MCN

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Secure connectivity between public and private clouds

la conectividad entre nubes piblicas y privadas de forma segura

Pros

  • Do not use VPN s2s to communicate between clouds
  • implicit security for applications
  • revolutionizes the concept for secure communication
  • no USAR VPN s2s para comunicar la nubes
  • la seguirdad implicita para las aplicaciones
  • revoluciona El concepto para comunicci[on segura

Cons

  • Talk time. The message to better position the technology.
  • talk vez El mensaje para posicionar mejor la tecnologia

Alternatives Considered

Waapp

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are studying the F5XC solution for our micro-saas and multi-cloud environment, to upload our CDN, which is currently Akamai.

Pros

  • Alb
  • Uc for cloud
  • Api gateway

Cons

  • Ecommerce

Return on Investment

  • high distribution
  • does not work with versioning
  • alta distribuicao
  • nao trabalha com versionamento

Alternatives Considered

Akamai CDN

Other Software Used

CloudfloorDNS

Review

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

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

Distributed Cloud Network Connect a must for your business solutions

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This helps our organization to extended our network to an outside perimeter. This solution is simple to implement and very reliable for medium and large scale networks. We are looking forward to continuing to implement this solution in future projects.

Pros

  • Security
  • automated Layer 3 virtual overlay network across Platforms

Cons

  • Solve the heavy inter-object dependencies when configuring advanced routing

Return on Investment

  • Automation
  • Network visibility
  • Cloud network management

Other Software Used

Azure App Service, AWS Certificate Manager, Microsoft 365