Big IP Review
February 16, 2024
Big IP Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP
There's a lot of different ways that we use it. We use the WAF, which I didn't even mention the WAF, but we also use the GTM for load balancing of our VS for the internet, as well as internal applications. And we also use the LTM to balance the backend servers for that. All of our applications are load balanced through the F5 and we have multiple hundreds of them. We use it to balance between data centers. So for disaster recovery.
- It's pretty stable. I mean, it is very fast switches. It's almost a seamless experience switching in the back end, doing all the switching. Nobody notices it. So I think the connectivity and the logic works pretty quickly. Not that easy to use, but easy to use.
- Right now I don't have anything that needs to be done differently. I mean a nicer, more modern, more features on the ui, ux, which I'm hearing about on this next IP or whatever it's called, IP Next whatever.
- Saved us money because we've been able to (I don't remember the exact number because this happened like five years ago, but) we were able to consolidate at least five different technologies into one.
- I don't remember all the CapEx terms and the opex terms and all that, but some way it saved us a whole bunch of money in our operational costs. I guess that's opex.
- With the new products that we're going to be going to for the distributed cloud, we're going to save even more money by consolidating our cloud with our on-prem management.
Do you think F5 BIG-IP delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with F5 BIG-IP's feature set?
Yes
Did F5 BIG-IP live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy F5 BIG-IP again?
Yes