India, March 20 -- all of which will make F5 a more attractive supplier to telcos and other operators looking to virtualize their networks.
The NGINX acquisition, announced March 11, bolsters F5's support for modern application architectures: containers, microservices, and cloud-native applications that run on multiple public, private and hybrid clouds, built with open source, Lori MacVittie, F5's principal technical evangelist, tells Light Reading. "They have cloud-native support and are the open source leader," MacVittie says.
F5's acquisition of NGINX accelerates the company's transition to multi-cloud, combining F5 application security and application services for improving performance, availability and management, with NGINX's applic...