Case Study: Medium Enterprise Health Care Company

 

Challenges

  • Addressed the following challenges with their Microsoft applications and technologies:
    • Application downtime
    • Data center operation costs

Environment

  • Deployed the following F5 solutions with Microsoft applications and technologies:
    • BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
    • BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
  • The following Microsoft applications and technologies are used with their F5 BIG-IP:
    • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
    • Microsoft Exchange Server
    • Microsoft Windows Server
    • Microsoft Office Communications Server
    • Microsoft Office
    • Microsoft Outlook Web Access
    • Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
    • Microsoft Exchange

Benefits

  • Consider the following F5 BIG-IP features important to their Microsoft technologies deployment:
    • Local load balancing methods
    • Global load balancing methods
    • SSL offload
    • Caching
  • Reduced CAPEX by between 40% and 60% for their Microsoft environment.
  • Reduced operating expenditure (OPEX) by between 20% and 40% for their Microsoft environment.
  • Gained the following benefits by deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions with Microsoft applications and technologies:
    • Improved application performance
    • High availability
    • Consolidation (reduced hardware and facilities)
    • Increased business agility
    • Meet/exceed SLA’s
  • Rated F5 a 9 out of 10 when asked to recommend F5 to an IT peer responsible for Microsoft applications and technologies.

Testimonials

BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP GTM allowed us to move one of our two geographically diverse data centers to another state, with zero downtime for email, customer connectivity, and employee production.”

Source: TechValidate Survey of a Medium Enterprise Health Care Company TVID: E0D-660-3E1
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Source Info: TechValidate Survey of a Medium Enterprise Health Care Company