Dimension Data and F5
Riverbed
In collaboration with
Dimension Data and F5
The pace of change facing our
clients’ businesses and the IT
infrastructure that supports it
has never been greater, and is
in fact accelerating. Advances
in computing technology have
resulted in applications running in
consolidated and virtualised data
centres, which may or may not
be owned by the organisation;
commercial drivers demand more
for less; and social changes are
revolutionising the way end users
consume organisational computing
resources through a variety of
fixed and mobile devices (laptops,
tablets, smartphones). These
factors demand a new approach
to network performance and
enhancing end user experience.
Improving and managing end-to-end
performance consistently ranks as a top
priority among CIOs and this is now more
difficult to achieve given changes to,
and the sophistication of, the underlying
communications infrastructure.
“F5’s relationship with Dimension Data has
strengthened significantly over the last 12 months.
Dimension Data’s depth of skill in security,
networking, data centres and Microsoft
solutions along with their global reach
uniquely complements F5’s mission of providing
clients with an agile and secure application
network infrastructure that aligns with their
business demands”
Dean Darwin, SVP WW Partner Organization, F5 Networks
Leading application delivery and security
technologies from F5 alongside the
world-class system integration, support,
and managed services from Dimension
Data offer a compelling value proposition.
Clients can leverage the extensive benefits
of improved performance from their
IT infrastructure and a strong services
partner who can manage a project from
conception through design and deployment,
and manage the hardware and software
throughout the solution’s lifecycle.
Challenges we address
• Significantly improve the
performance, availability, and
security of applications running
across the network.
• Efficiently price, procure, ship, and
deploy application delivery solutions
across a wide global footprint.
• Assist in reducing cost of running
network infrastructure while
meeting business demands.
• Ensure optimal service through the
lifespan of the solution with leading
24x7 maintenance, support, and
managed services globally.
• Add an extra level of security to
applications resident in data centres
with market-leading applicationlevel firewall offerings.
• Consultative sales approach that
ensures the solution assists clients
to achieve their business objectives.
• Accelerate, optimise, secure,
and load balance traffic for the
virtualised infrastructures that form
the basis for cloud computing with
innovative optimisation solutions.
• Free up expensive compute cycles
for focused use on the application
servers themselves by handing
off encryption and other security
processing to an intelligent and
dynamic network.
Dimension Data and F5
Dimension Data Strengths
F5 Strengths
Ability to conduct global business with depth of local skill:
F5 provides strategic points of control throughout the IT
infrastructure, enabling organisations to scale, adapt, and align
with changing business demands and drive business forward on a
solid foundation of IT agility. F5 is the only vendor that provides an
open architectural framework that includes:
• Operations in more than 50 countries and an extended footprint
in an additional 100 countries thorough our preferred partners.
• Sales teams conduct international business utilising a number of
standard transaction models that are commercially efficient for
the client’s business.
• Our Supply Chain Services (SCS) handle logistics, customs, and
excise, and provide clients with a portal to track all activity related
to their orders.
• The International Project Office (IPO) handles the project
management of all large rollouts to client satisfaction.
• Five Global Support Centres (GSCs) handle client support calls
24x7 across the world in 13 local languages, and deliver service
to flexible SLAs.
• F5 TMOS: The universal, shared product platform that adds
intelligence and complete control to application delivery.
• F5 iRules: The event-driven scripting language that enables
customers to customise how application traffic is intercepted,
inspected, transformed, and directed.
• F5 iControl: The open API that helps automate communications and
eliminates the need for costly manual intervention.
• F5 Data Management Operating System: The core of F5’s scalable
and intelligent file virtualisation solutions that simplifies and
automates data delivery.
Deep performance engineering and system integration skills derived
from nearly 30 years of delivering networks, coupled with strong
capabilities in data centre solutions, converged communications
and collaboration, and Microsoft offerings.
Applications running over networks encounter a wide range of
performance, security, and availability challenges that can be
mitigated to improve application delivery, increase control, and
optimise resources by deploying F5 solutions.
Broad lifecycle of services that helps clients plan, build, support,
manage, and improve their multi-vendor IT infrastructure through
the full lifespan of the solution.
Only F5 has DevCentral, an active community of more than 100,000
technical professionals who share innovations in creating scalable,
dynamic networks.
Relationships with global and multinational organisations, in
addition to regional, national enterprises and public sector
organisations. Conducts business with 79% of Global Fortune 100
and 60% of Global Fortune 500.
Many of the world’s leading organizations rely on F5 solutions,
including; 8 of the Fortune 10, 44 of the Fortune 50, 5 of the top
5 healthcare companies, 10 of the top 10 fixed and mobile service
providers, and 16 of the top 20 cloud infrastructure and web
hosting companies.
One of F5’s largest global partners with significant ongoing
investments in ability to procure, deliver, deploy, support, and
manage F5 solutions, ensuring clients receive the leading F5
service available.
F5 has solutions for acceleration, availability, cloud computing,
security, storage, virtualisation, and service providers—equally
applicable across multiple industries, multiple application types, and
many business problems.
Focused programmes for Data Centre Networking and Performance
Optimisation enable us to build specialist network architectures
that support clients’ business objectives and overall IT strategy, and
ensures end-to-end performance of applications running over the
network for good user experience.
F5 takes an application-centric view to deploying application services
that reside in the network, such as authentication, data protection,
traffic management, and acceleration, which significantly reduces
deployment time, lowers OpEx, and streamlines IT operations.
Application services can be provisioned in minutes rather than weeks.
Joint successes
About Dimension Data
About F5
Global mobile operator
By continually building on our knowledge
and expertise in IT infrastructure
technologies, Dimension Data has become
a global leader in the provision and
management of specialist IT infrastructure
services and solutions. Drawing on our 12
383 strong employee base, backed by a solid
track record of 28 years, Dimension Data
applies its expertise in networking, converged
communications, security, data centre
solutions, Microsoft and contact centre
technologies. Our unique skills in consulting,
integration and managed services to create
customised solutions that ensure our over
6,000 clients achieve their business goals.
F5 Networks is a provider of Application
Delivery Networking (ADN) technologies
that optimise the delivery of network-based
applications and the security, performance,
and availability of servers, data storage
devices, and other network resources. F5
BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers
(ADCs) are positioned in front of web and
application servers, balancing traffic and
performing compute-intensive functions such
as encrypting and decrypting transmissions,
screening traffic for security threats,
maintaining open connections with servers,
speeding the flow of traffic, and managing
access to applications and data.
One of the world’s top 3 mobile operators
engaged with Dimension Data when their
existing application delivery infrastructure did
not have the performance to scale with the
expected growth of their Java applications.
The client selected the F5 VIPRION 2400
chassis–based solution to provide the
application delivery architecture the company
needed to scale with the elastic nature of
their Java-based web applications. Dimension
Data and F5 provided design, installation, and
project management professional services to
successfully deploy 22 VIPRION chassis, as
well as ongoing managed services to ensure
the solution continues to deliver appropriate
service levels throughout the lifetime of
the solution.
CS / DDMS-1100 / 10/12 © Copyright Dimension Data 2012
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