BANGALORE, INDIA: F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of application delivery networking (ADN), announced that its BIG-IP solutions had been integrated with VMware vSphere 4 and VMware vCenter Server.

Pat O'Day, CTO, BlueLock, a managed technology services company providing virtual cloud resources through an infrastructure-as-a-service model, said: "With F5 and VMware vSphere 4, we're able to provide a flexible service platform to support clients' IT and cloud initiatives. Our clients rely on automated service provisioning to increase efficiency and keep operation costs down. Leveraging integration between F5's BIG-IP and VMware vSphere 4, BlueLock's supporting architecture can scale virtual resource pools effortlessly as demand fluctuates, or as network and application conditions change."

Integration with VMware vCenter Server had been made through F5's open API, iControl, which enables rapid integration with third party management systems. Due to the flexibility of iControl, organizations can tailor their networks to be more responsive to the dynamic changes happening in the virtual infrastructure.

Shekar Ayyar, VP, Infrastructure Alliances, VMware, said: "VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter Server help customers respond rapidly and easily to application demands. F5 BIG-IP solutions extend this agility to the network to enable consistency in application state throughout the data centre and in private clouds, enabling faster responses with less manual intervention."