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Education Solution Provider Helps Customers Do More with Less Using F5 Solutions

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公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
  • America
国家
  • United States
产品
  • BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
  • BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
  • BIG-IP WebAccelerator
  • BIG-IP Application Security Manager
技术栈
  • iRules
  • TMOS
  • Virtualization Technology
实施规模
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
技术
  • 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 应用开发平台
适用行业
  • 教育
适用功能
  • 商业运营
用例
  • 交通监控
  • 远程资产管理
  • 网络安全
服务
  • 云规划/设计/实施服务
  • 系统集成
关于客户
Hobsons is an education solution provider that was founded in 1974. The company provides web-based technologies that help educational institutions promote students’ readiness for college and the workplace, advance their marketing initiatives, recruit students, manage information, and deliver online tools that help increase student retention. Hobsons relies on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, and delivering highly available and reliable applications to its customers is the company’s top priority. The company has to contend with significant increases in web traffic that coincides with student application and enrollment deadlines. Hobsons also has to support a range of users, including prospective students completing online applications and administrators needing access to the same systems for recruitment efforts and application reviews.
挑战
Hobsons, an education solution provider, delivers a suite of education-oriented Software as a Service (SaaS)-based applications to colleges and universities. These include web-based course and career planning, recruiting, enrollment, and retention tools. The company's application delivery infrastructure is mission-critical, and it has to manage significant increases in web traffic that coincide with student application and enrollment deadlines. Hobsons also has to support a range of users, including prospective students completing online applications and administrators needing access to the same systems for recruitment efforts and application reviews. The company needed a solution that could easily direct different types of traffic to different pools of servers and manage users’ authorization and access to various applications, without requiring modifications or adjustments on the customer's end.
解决方案
Hobsons implemented BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) at its four data centers, and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) at two of the data centers. The deployment coincided with the release of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), which enables BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP WebAccelerator, and BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) modules to run natively on F5’s TMOS plug-in architecture. Using iRules, Hobsons can easily direct traffic to the appropriate application server pools—whether physical or virtual—and manage the redirection of traffic from the data center that it closed to other locations, as well as from its legacy systems to its newer applications. To optimize the performance of its applications, Hobsons also uses BIG-IP WebAccelerator features, such as: Intelligent Browsing Referencing, SSL offload, and dynamic caching and compression.
运营影响
  • With the BIG-IP system, Hobsons has streamlined its data center management, resulting in significant time savings.
  • The flexible management and server offload capabilities that F5 products provide, result in lower costs for Hobsons, and, consequently, a better, more cost-effective SaaS environment for Hobsons’ customers.
  • The BIG-IP system results in server hardware cost savings for Hobsons because it enables the company to offload CPU-intensive tasks from its web and application servers.
  • The BIG-IP system also creates a more cost-effective environment for Hobsons’ customers. BIG-IP devices enable Hobsons to manage traffic on their end, without asking customers to change anything within their environment.
数量效益
  • The offloading of SSL tasks and browser connections directly translates to roughly a 20 to 30 percent reduction in the number of servers needed to support the application.
  • The compression capabilities of BIG-IP devices reduce bandwidth usage by 30 to 50 percent.

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