Radio Victoria Argentina Secures a Profitable Multicloud Future
Radio Victoria Argentina, a multinational manufacturer and distributor of electronic consumer goods, is migrating to a multicloud app architecture to increase the efficiency of its app delivery and its service to customers and suppliers. Its new distributed infrastructure will be secured and connected by F5 Distributed Cloud Services.
Business Challenge
Consumer electronics have always been at the forefront of the e-commerce revolution. From the arrival of the Internet to mobile devices, the segment led the race to deliver seamless multi-channel experiences from mobile devices to brick and mortar stores. Based in Buenos-Aires, Radio Victoria Argentina has played a key role in this revolution, manufacturing its own brands and distributing famous global brands including TCL, RCA, Hitachi, and ZTE throughout Latin America.
But maintaining market share and adapting to changing retailer needs require the business to constantly refresh its enterprise systems. These include the technology that connects Radio Victoria Argentina with its supplier network, which stretches from the Americas to China.
A fast-growing hybrid workforce adds to the complexity. A large after-sales team and remote employees in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina need secure access to business systems.
“Suppliers, customers, and employees require fast, seamless access to our systems,” says Gustavo Fernández, Regional IT Manager at Radio Victoria Argentina. “Any shortcomings in these areas can lead to losses in manufacturing, administration, or sales, resulting in brand dissatisfaction.”
To safeguard opportunities for growth in this complex, global environment, Radio Victoria Argentina initiated a cloud migration strategy aimed at expediting the delivery of innovative services to suppliers, customers, and employees while enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.
Solutions
To optimize its multicloud operations, Radio Victoria Argentina is expanding its collaboration with F5, a trusted technology partner since 2018. F5 BIG-IP solutions have protected the business from external threats while ensuring the availability of critical applications and services. This includes F5 load balancing technology, which is instrumental in ensuring redundant data connectivity between different departments and in balancing traffic for services.
Now, as the business migrates most of its infrastructure to a multicloud environment, F5 Distributed Cloud Services will support business-critical applications and networks. “We operate in a highly competitive marketplace,” says Fernández. “We are working with F5 to prepare a resilient cloud environment that meets the rapidly evolving needs of customers and suppliers.”
One key component of this strategy is secure multicloud networking using F5 Distributed Cloud Services. The solution simplifies and secures connections across Radio Victoria Argentina’s increasingly hybrid IT infrastructure, which spans cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. As a result, the company’s IT team can more effectively streamline the decentralization of applications within this complex environment.
In preparation for the cloud migration, Radio Victoria Argentina also adopted Distributed Cloud WAF and Distributed Cloud API Security. These solutions are ideal for the company’s future decentralized environment, according to Fernández. "We can improve API management while enhancing security," he says. "F5 Distributed Cloud WAF allows us to enforce consistent security policies across our entire cloud, on-premises, and edge deployments."
Results
Deliver value to strengthen relationships
Moving to a multicloud environment supports Radio Victoria Argentina’s vision to be the leading company in the electronic products and home appliances market in Argentina and Latin America. It makes the business more attractive to suppliers under pressure to reduce friction and costs across the supply chain while giving customers the opportunity to operate more efficiently, respond more quickly to market changes, and ultimately deliver a better consumer experience.
With F5 Distributed Cloud Services, Radio Victoria Argentina can manage this heterogenous infrastructure from a single, unified interface. Distributed Cloud Network Connect helps Radio Victoria easily set up and manage connections to ensure smooth communication between clouds, data centers, and edge locations. Greater control and visibility also help identify potential issues faster. All these capabilities drive efficiency and value that can be passed on to suppliers and customers.
Ensure continuous app availability
For Radio Victoria Argentina, F5 has been a trusted partner ever since the business re-architected its entire network to ensure the quality and continuity of its services.
“We are really proud of what we have achieved so far,” says Fernández. “With the help of F5 we have uninterrupted availability of our services—for customers, suppliers, and employees—24 hours a day, 365 days a year.“ Fernandez also praises F5 load balancing technology. Previously the business used an active/passive backup system. Now it can keep its main systems active and always ensure the high performance of applications, whatever their location, from on-premises to any cloud hosting environment.
Deliver DNS redundancy without downtime
The ability of F5 solutions to scale bandwidth and handle DNS requests with redundancy and without downtime is another advantage. Radio Victoria Argentina used to experience service drops of four to five minutes due to DNS changes. Now, with F5 Distributed Cloud Services, everything happens seamlessly. The business is freed from the burden of managing manual DNS modifications. Delays caused by waiting for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to propagate changes are now a thing of the past. If DNS outages happen, users won’t even notice, thanks to transparent failover features that ensure uninterrupted service.
Secure networking in public and hybrid clouds
F5 Distributed Cloud secure multicloud networking simplifies management of different infrastructures and policies used in heterogenous environments, providing network teams with streamlined provisioning and consistent visibility across hybrid architectures.
“Secure multicloud networking by F5 Distributed Cloud Services not only facilitates connections between diverse locations but also offers centralized visibility and control,” says Fernández. “We can monitor traffic flow, troubleshoot issues, and quickly make informed network configuration decisions.”
Reduce IT workloads
F5 Distributed Cloud Services relieve pressure on the IT team. Fernández says, "F5 is a game-changer for managing our vast service portfolio. With centralized control, we can streamline administration significantly. Additionally, real-time security insights from F5 solutions empower us to proactively address potential threats and improve our overall security posture, reducing the risk of future attacks."
Develop a future-proof distributed cloud roadmap
By embracing F5 Distributed Cloud Services, Radio Victoria Argentina is well-positioned to thrive in the cloud era. It can confidently migrate its IT apps and infrastructure while maintaining the exceptional performance, security, and operational efficiency that F5 solutions have consistently delivered throughout their long-standing partnership.
“Our core mission in IT is to offer exceptional service to both our internal and external customers and suppliers, from the supply chain to the online store, reaching our end customers,” concludes Fernández. "F5 goes beyond just technology—they understand our business. We’re excited to continue working with them into the future.”
- Support a multicloud migration
- Secure connections in distributed environments
- Gain visibility and control over the entire network
- Enforce API security and streamline API management
- Mitigate attacks on web apps
- Migrate apps to a distributed cloud environment
- Protect business-critical data
- Safeguard against network outages