F5 Networks, Inc. announced that Varolii is using F5 products to guarantee the high application availability for its customers, including prominent Fortune 1000 and Fortune 500 companies. One major U.S.-based airline depends on Varolii to send its passengers updated flight information via personalized voice, text, or email messages. Another airline uses a Varolii automated communication application to adjust flight and ground crew schedules when necessary.

During Superstorm Sandy in November 2012, more than 150 large U.S. organizations used Varolii solutions to send critical communications to their employees, crisis teams, state and local emergency responders, utility customers, and students. Prior to implementing F5 technology, Varolii relied on slower, expensive network systems and had to manually redirect web traffic to alternate data centers by configuring each application. But several years ago, the organization installed BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager(TM) (LTM(R)) devices, which enabled Varolii to quickly and easily direct network traffic across multiple servers to guarantee the highest application availability.

Varolii also deployed several BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager(TM) (GTM(TM)) devices, which help the company provide near-instantaneous geo-redundant operational capabilities. The F5 solution has also helped Varolii reduce the service recovery window for one of its most critical applications from 45 minutes to 30 seconds. In addition, with BIG-IP LTM, Varolii has eliminated up to four hours of monthly planned maintenance outages for customers because it no longer has to manually redirect traffic.

The F5 technologies have also played a role in the organization's data center consolidation, which reduced the number of servers by 40%.