The proliferation of applications, the proliferation of cloud and hybrid architectures, and the rise of distributed applications that rely heavily on microservices and APIs have created challenges for enterprises' digital transformation. As the core of IT application architecture, application delivery has important strategic value, and only by correctly grasping its direction can it meet the requirements of modernization, including agility and digital support capabilities, and empower business applications. As a company that provides multi-cloud application security and application delivery, F5 empowers enterprises with strong capabilities in digital transformation.
There is no doubt that the market for operating digital businesses is several orders of magnitude larger than the market for physical businesses. However, the digitalization process does not stop there, because the application only solves the efficiency of completing specific tasks in the business process. But without a digitally streamed workflow, human intervention can still hinder the pace of business development. A new workload layer is needed to focus on orchestrating workflows across applications to generate digital services, adding to the chaos of an otherwise complex environment due to digitalization. Meeting these challenges will undoubtedly require F5 application delivery technology.
F5 provides services and solutions around the three major architectures of the next-generation application delivery facility – infrastructure, security and application architecture. In terms of security architecture, F5 provides comprehensive and flexible protection for enterprise application infrastructure, application access, and application layer through SSLO and application layer security solutions. With microservices architecture and containerized deployment becoming the preferred architecture for many enterprises, F5 will transform applications and infrastructure with NGINX to accelerate enterprise modernization.
At the level of multi-cloud ecosystem, F5 has continued to deepen cooperation in distributed databases and high-availability joint solutions for cloud workloads by joining hands with outstanding domestic cloud service providers such as Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud, and has also actively deepened technical cooperation with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud in the field of microservice architecture and cloud security, and has worked with vendors such as Tongzhiyun to promote the prosperity and development of the open source ecosystem in China, and actively established an NGINX community that meets the requirements of trusted open source.
In terms of application security delivery, Larry Zhang, vice president of technology for F5 North Asia, also added the uniqueness of F5 application delivery - most companies do protection from Layer 1 to 4 and below layer 4 of the network layer, while F5 does protection at layers 4 to 7 of the network layer. For F5, it is important to build a new line of defense for digital security by putting applications at the center and protecting, delivering, and optimizing any application and API anytime, anywhere, to help enterprises embrace modern applications more securely.
As application traffic grows exponentially, global IT infrastructure resources are under increasing pressure to deliver unprecedented performance and scalability. In a multi-cloud world, F5 is reimagining application delivery to help enterprises intelligently adapt to evolving and diverse network and application requirements.