BIG-IP platform enables company's virtualized server infrastructure to scale applications quickly.

F5 Networks,Inc., a provider of application delivery networking, today announced that Joyent, a cloud computing vendor, has deployed the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager solution in its infrastructure as a Service server virtualization architecture.

The company states that Joyent's primary cloud computing offering is a line of virtualized servers called Joyent Accelerators. Its customers use collections of Accelerators to power large-scale websites and web applications. It articulates that Joyent uses its F5's BIG-IP devices as the backbone to its cloud computing IaaS. The company avers that the BIG-IP platform provides traffic handling 2–10 Gbps, while its, iRules scripting language provides Joyent with flexible management and deployment of its cloud computing infrastructure.

''Cloud computing is now a proven, highly scalable, and cost-effective way for companies to increase agility and accelerate innovation while limiting risk and cost,'' said Jason Needham, Sr. Director of Product Management at F5. ''However, the infrastructure required to provide cloud computing has to be capable of massive, unpredictable on-demand throughput. F5's Application Delivery Controllers and iRules give customers unmatched flexibility to suit their particular environments.''

''I've looked at the market and tried virtually everything, but there is nothing else like the F5 BIG-IP system,'' said Jason Hoffman, co-founder and CTO of Joyent. ''BIG-IP LTM is the only application switch capable of scaling to handle the thousands of back-end systems Joyent needs to thrive. Without it, we wouldn't have a business, to be honest.''

''Being able to deliver the power of F5 BIG-IPs coupled with the flexibility of cloud computing has helped Joyent achieve tremendous growth. Joyent's annualized revenue is up over 35% since August of this year,'' said David Young, co-founder and CEO of Joyent.