Security vendor F5 Networks has launched a service it claims will orchestrate disaster recovery and business continuity between data centers more efficiently.

It could also encourage more companies to move important applications from the data center to the Cloud.

F5’s BIG-IP application services can now run with VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service which, it says, will help enterprises extend the application services of their data centers into the Cloud.

The global distribution of applications, automation and cloud bursting will all be improved by the integration of F5’s services with VMware, according to the security vendor.

This in turn will improve the processes of disaster recovery and business continuity.

The service is designed to make scaling applications possible and subsequently to improve their performance in the cloud - without sacrificing availability or user experience.

This will encourage more companies to adopt cloud systems as a means of supporting production workloads, which would ultimately change the distribution of workloads in data centers.

The system uses F5’s BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager – which has been validated by Mware to work with its vCloud Hybrid Service – to improve the processes of application management, system performance and system recovery.

According to Calvin Rowland, F5’s VP of business development, more companies will put powerful application services – which they currently trust only to the data center - into the Cloud.

The global availability of applications between enterprise data centers and multiple vCloud Hybrid Service locations would make the software more portable.

This is turn would create a more resilient system as companies would have a safety net of seamless application failover.

“We’re offering customers a way to elegantly combine a comprehensive set of software defined application Services that go beyond basic load balancing,” Rowland said.