Cloud Landing Zone with F5: 3-Week POC

Choosing the right environment - a specific public cloud, edge location, or on-premises data center - for each application is important to best serve the needs of the business. However, that flexibility comes at a high price: an exponentially expanding surface area for potential cyberattacks, loss of end-to-end visibility into the health and performance of digital services, and significantly increased operational complexity and cost.

Trace3 and F5 have a shared vision of transforming traditional network deployment models into a flexible platform that delivers optimized performance, visibility, and security for all applications and APIs across diverse and distributed networks. Trace3’s Cloud Solutions team validated best practices and templates for the design, implementation, and support of F5’s market-leading products on the Microsoft Azure platform. The solution is based on Microsoft Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone (ESLZ) architecture which serves as the foundation for a Well-Architected Framework design, supplemented with the automated deployment of F5’s BIG-IP appliances in the Microsoft Azure Landing Zone. The solution can also be optioned with zero-trust focused advanced security, logging, and monitoring.

OUR PROVEN APPROACH

With combined power of Trace3 & F5, you can:

• Automatically lay down virtual infrastructure such as VMs and subnets within a virtual Cloud Network
• Seamlessly integrate and reduce costs in resources and operations
• Obtain access into an exclusive offering that leverages Trace3 capabilities & expertise with F5
• Convert network security to enterprise value in hybrid cloud

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

Trace3 Cloud Solutions group and Microsoft Partner of the Year in 2021 will evaluate scope and requirements:

• Dedicated Azure Cloud Architects perform Discovery, Planning and Design validation
• Detailed workshops and solution deployment in collaboration with the client teams
• Ability to choose from flexible levels of engagement focused on the client's priorities and timeline

ENGAGEMENT OUTCOMES

DECREASED TIME TO VALUE

• Fully automated and customized deployment
• Reduced MTTR and flexibility to scale quickly

PROVEN CLOUD-BASED DESIGN

• Leverage Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone
• Utilize F5 ecosystem licensing and pricing on the Microsoft Azure platform

CLOUD ADOPTION AND SUPPORTABILITY

• Licensing and Support benefits analysis and recommendations
• Enterprise Landing Zone SME training and hand-off

F5 DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS AND RATIONALIZATION

• Considerations for F5 traditional and Distributed Cloud services
• IaC options for ARM and Terraform

PROJECT TIMELINE (SAMPLE)

Three to Twelve Weeks (Depending upon chosen features)

Plan > Design > Deploy > Operate