Harmeet Kalra, National Manager- Channels & Alliances, F5 Networks

“F5 has been a leader in the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) market, and we continue to execute well on this product line. The market movement towards expanding use cases inside the data center, as well as moving the workloads towards hybrid- and multi-cloud environments has led to a strong pull for us in this line.

With the proliferation of applications, application security has seen tremendous growth—both on-premises as well as in the cloud. F5 added our Advanced WAF to its growing portfolio of integrated and standalone solutions specifically designed for app security, which includes industry leading security capabilities to guard against evolving application threats. In fact, Forrester has recognized us as a leader in Web Application Firewalls in their latest Forrester Wave report.

F5’s Advanced WAF supports a variety of consumption and licensing models, including a per-app basis, as well as perpetual, subscription, and utility billing options for ultimate flexibility in the cloud and the data center. This helps SecOps better collaborate with modern DevOps and NetOps teams to easily deploy app protection services in any environment that can be configured for individual applications or en masse. F5’s holistic approach to application security reduces management complexity, decreases OpEx, and efficiently delivers services to neutralize attacks.

There is a significant shift in customer mindset to leverage Digital Transformation – to either cause or respond to disruption in their businesses. Applications are now the currency of all digital initiatives and is seeing a significant proliferation as an effect of digital transformation. Applications, by the very nature of the new models in which they are being developed (Agile, CI/CD) and deployed (in the Cloud), are living everywhere. This is driving the need for increased Application Security, which is now critical. The third significant trend is that most customers are now considering a Multi-Cloud strategy, which leads into cloud-independence (non-lock-in) becoming a crucial conversation that businesses need to have. 

At F5, our mission is based on the fact that businesses depend on apps. Whether it’s apps that help connect businesses to their customers or apps that help employees do their jobs—we make sure apps are always available and secure, anywhere. The world’s largest enterprises, service providers, financial and educational institutions, government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of security, cloud, and mobility trends.

We are partnering with leading technology partners—AWS, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware, to name a few—to enable our customers to deploy any app, anywhere.

We are a Multi-Cloud Application Services company and executing this vision has been our success mantra. Today, applications are living everywhere, and we at F5 are helping our customers and partners with the freedom to deploy their applications without any constraints. We are not only helping the traditional network and security buyers, but we are also supporting the DevOps and Line-Of-Business owners to derive outcomes from their projects seamlessly. We have deployed F5 WAF & DDOS solutions in major Enterprises, BFSI, IT/ ITES & Govt verticals.”