Traffic continues to skyrocket as enterprises and service providers accelerate their digital transformation, resulting in more apps, users, and usage than ever. Meanwhile, the existing hardware platforms in place are rapidly aging. While some customers are "sweating their assets," many others are at the breaking point due to high operating costs, appliance sprawl owing to so many point products, burdensome manual processes, and increasing support and maintenance issues.
What's undisputed is that we are living in a cloud-first, software-first world. Yet, many apps still benefit from the predictability, high scalability, performance, and operational simplicity of an integrated and engineered hardware system. With existing hardware platforms, however, customers cannot leverage modern architectures for their apps that unlock the benefits of being built with DevOps-friendly microservices - not without forcing operations teams to perform all the systems engineering and manage the resulting complexity.
The VELOS platform is the next generation of F5's chassis-based systems, which deliver unprecedented performance and scalability in a single Application Delivery Controller (ADC). As with VIPRION, F5's existing chassis-based system that has been in the market for more than 10 years, customers can seamlessly scale capacity by adding modular blades in a chassis, without disrupting users or applications, rather than having to install and configure new appliances. Now, VELOS can bridge traditional and modern application architectures by supporting a mix of traditional BIG-IP tenants as well as next-generation tenants with F5 BIG-IP Next, which will unleash the true power of running on a microservices-based architecture.
