F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Scalability
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reviewer1250289
Sr. Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is scalable so I rate scalability an eight out of ten.
View full review »I rate the scalability of F5 BIG-IP AFM an eight out of ten.
We have four units of approximately 20 engineers using this solution in my company.
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reviewer1250289
Sr. Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees
It is scalable. There are 20,000 to 30,000 people who use it on a daily basis. Their roles vary from content editors to content viewers at different levels of the organization. Its usage might increase.
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
April 2024
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More than 1,000 users use the solution in our organization.
View full review »Advanced Firewall Manager scales well with a flexible SKN architecture, allowing easy capacity and high availability expansion. This scalability extends to hybrid setups, enabling consistent policies and configurations across on-premise and cloud environments through the BigIQ solution. It ensures seamless synchronization for efficient management.
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Jabu Mtsweni
Head: Cyber and Information Research Centre at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
The solution is scalable, but there are costs involved.
We have approximately 10,000 users using the solution. The solution is being used daily.
View full review »Our organization has 1000 F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) users. It is a scalable platform.
View full review »It is a scalable solution.
View full review »F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is a scalable solution. Two administrators from IT use the solution for load balancing, and two administrators from security use it for WAF.
View full review »The scalability would be based more on the hardware aspect. I'd rate its ability to scale at a six or seven out of ten, since it is rather fixed. It's still hardware and not fully virtualized, which makes scaling limited.
View full review »The scalability and cost-effectiveness of the solution is really good. Hardware appliances can forward some crazy amounts of traffic. However, this is not like all other firewalls. Scalability is pretty much somewhere in the middle. You always have some additional models on the same hardware or even in virtual machines. In general, it's not good, and it's not bad. You need to take everything into account.
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Omar Brenes
Executive of the Telecommunications Area at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability of F5 BIG-IP AFM has been very good.
We have approximately 3,000 users using this solution in my company. If we have another system we will increase our usage.
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HaniAsaad
Senior Presales Consultant at Innovative Solutions
The solution is scalable.
View full review »The application is scalable.
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reviewer1306038
Contracted IP Development Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is scalable because it doesn't depend on hardware. If you run this product on a Viprion, it will be scalable, but not too much. If you run the same product with the same version in a standalone device or on a virtual system, you will use the power and scale of the associated device. It's scalable because you are able to use the same product in different hardware. If you buy a powerful server, and you can scale your F5 as a virtual system easily.
View full review »F5 is also highly scalable. You can easily upgrade from one version to the next or even upgrade the machine. The hardware is scalable. We can and have easily upgraded a deployment either by turning on or applying a license. As for the machine, you can upgrade the physical hardware or you can use a virtual machine because they have a Virtual Machine Edition. The scalability is versatile and straightforward.
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reviewer1189323
Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
They have many options to scale. They have a very stable, versatile FM, but we rely on the physical units. I can see that it's very scalable. Whatever you want to add, you can add to the same cluster.
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reviewer1003632
Founder / Senior Security Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution is very scalable. Companies should not face issues when they need to expand.
We have 20 enterprises using the solution currently. They are mostly banks.
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reviewer1434246
Technology Consultant / Cloud Security Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's not as easy to scale because you have to purchase new hardware to scale up.
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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