For businesses seeking to obtain significant ROI from virtualization and cloud computing incentives, the actual expenditures of managing an expanding number of applications-stretching across several sites and occasionally beyond corporate management-can result in declining returns. Elasticity comes with the price of difficulty and an incapability to preserve power of all applications and data.

F5's collection of Application Delivery Networking devices, in combination with third-party software, hardware, and service provider solutions, unite to offer you an innovative way of comprehending and controlling how, when, and where your applications are deployed through one device at a moment's notice, thus reducing switching costs and increasing control both inside and outside of your organization. Because the infrastructure of your services will be controlled across reliable servers and cloud deployments, you will reduce complexity and centralize control. You will be able to visualize the complete picture of your network, applications, and users granting you the capability of using your context to decide how applications and data are distributed.