F5 Networks, an application delivery specialist, has been boosted by two recent acquisitions. The acquisition of NGINX was finalised in May 2019, which significantly enhanced F5’s ability to deliver enterprise-grade services for all applications – traditional and modern – wherever built or deployed. NGINX stands out as a trusted open source leader in web and application server technology, providing cloud-native support for container-based microservices environments and new application services such as API Management.
“Together, F5 and NGINX bridge the gap from applications to infrastructure and from developer to operations,” said Yazeed Almaso, NGINX Sales Manager for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region, F5 Networks.
In January 2020, F5 introduced NGINX Controller 3.0, the first major product as a combined company. The first in a new series of releases, the cloud-native application delivery solution helps organisations increase business agility, mitigate risk and enhance digital experiences.
In January 2020, F5 also completed the acquisition of Shape Security, a leader in online fraud and abuse prevention, adding protection from automated attacks, botnets and targeted fraud to F5’s portfolio of application services.
The union offers organisations comprehensive, end-to-end application security, potentially saving billions of dollars lost to fraud, reputational damage and costly disruptions to critical online services.