Case Study: Fire Mountain Gems and Beads achieves enhanced security, performance, and manageability with F5 Networks

Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Gains Security, Manageability, Efficiency with F5 Solution

Fire Mountain Gems and Beads, a leading online jewelry supplier, faced end-of-life devices, rising maintenance costs, hard-to-diagnose security and performance problems, and risky change management in its on‑premises data center. To address these challenges the company worked with F5 Networks, adopting the BIG‑IP product family (BIG‑IP LTM, APM, DNS, ASM), F5 IP Intelligence Services, and F5 Professional Services to modernize its infrastructure.

F5 Networks consolidated and virtualized Fire Mountain’s functions on BIG‑IP, deploying intelligent traffic management, two‑factor VPN access, web application firewalling, and threat blocking to boost security, visibility, and performance. The deployment made change management faster and safer and delivered measurable savings — roughly 50% less than a piecemeal hardware refresh and up to 65% savings using the Best licensing versus buying components individually — while producing faster page loads and easier problem diagnosis.

Fire Mountain Gems and Beads

Mike Sullivan

Network Architect