Whether you’re adopting a public, private, or hybrid cloud, the F5 Cloud Migration solution can help ensure that your applications are fast, secure, and available.

Cloud computing can help organizations provide better services while reducing costs and streamlining IT. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers are promising faster build and deployment times, quicker ROI, and more flexible payment terms compared to services deployed from private data centers, and many organizations are looking to capitalize on these benefits. When not deployed properly, however, IaaS can create management overhead, fail to deliver predictable user experiences, and result in a generally disappointing service.

The growth and maturity of the IaaS market have assisted many in the drive to do more with less—providing more services for customers and employees, but doing so more efficiently. Largely driven by a difficult economic climate, the need to be more competitive by running leaner data centers has never been so high. In many cases, however, IaaS providers are not meeting data privacy requirements or Service Level Agreement (SLA) availability expectations for mission-critical production applications. These failures are preventing most organizations from making an all-in commitment to replace private IT infrastructure by migrating to the cloud. In addition, legacy applications can require dedicated infrastructure and ongoing support, hence the popularization of a hybrid architecture consisting of both public IaaS providers and private data centers.