SpringCM uses F5 BIG-IP for cloud platform

BANGALORE, INDIA: F5 Networks, Inc., a provider in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that SpringCM, a cloud enterprise content management platform, uses F5 BIG-IP solutions

To provide customers with the best possible application performance while keeping costs low, Spring designed its network and application delivery infrastructure using ADN technology from F5 and virtualization solutions from VMware.

“Our application traffic triples in volume every six months,” said Schalk Theron, VP of Operations at SpringCM.

He added, “The savings we experience with F5 technology allows us to deliver a more cost-effective service to our customers. Since implementing BIG-IP three years ago, we have not spent a single dollar more on ADN equipment, and we’re using the BIG-IP WebAccelerator module to save at least 30 percent annually on bandwidth costs.”

The Spring cloud platform operates on hundreds of virtual machines and includes a pair of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) devices with BIG-IP WebAccelerator to efficiently manage web and application traffic.

SpringCM also uses BIG-IP LTM Virtual Edition  (VE) at secondary data centers. And F5’s customizable iRules programming capability enables the company to flexibly manage and monitor application traffic on physical and virtual servers, said a press release.

“ F5 products help us achieve high flexibility and scale, while keeping costs low. SpringCM cloud solutions are not only three to five times faster to implement, customers also typically achieve 50 to 80 percent lower total cost of ownership versus on-premises alternatives.” added Theron.

SpringCM is also evaluating a combined F5 and VMware solution to migrate virtual machines over long distances in real time.