F5 NGINX and Zen Exim to accelerate India’s App Economy for Growth
The combined solution of F5 and NGINX bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi‑cloud application services that span from code to customer.
By Zen Exim Admin
Digital transformation is a driving force for evolving relational databases into the next generation of data management platforms that is capable of supporting advanced business intelligent applications, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, and more agile application development platforms.
In the fast growing App economy, the organisations need a web server to Simplify and modernize applications at scale with high-performance application delivery spanning from monoliths to micro services.
F5 NGINX enables multi-cloud application services across all environments, providing the ease-of-use and flexibility developers require while also delivering the scale, security, reliability and enterprise readiness network operations teams demand.
F5 Networks the global leader in multi-cloud application services, acquired NGINX, an open source leader in application delivery. Together with F5, the combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi‑cloud application services that span from code to customer.
From NetOps to DevOps, modern app teams need a self-service, API-driven platform that integrates easily into CI/CD workflows to accelerate app deployment—whether your app has a hybrid or micro services architecture—and make app lifecycle management easier.
IT professionals and app developers can leverage the advantages of Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft SQL Server in their IT infra to improve the efficiency of the test and development process and shorten the time to value of new application development.
F5 is the company behind the popular open source project, NGINX offering a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications.
The NGINX Application Platform is a suite of products that together form the core of what organizations need to create applications with performance, reliability, security, and scale. It includes NGINX Plus for load balancing and application delivery, NGINX App Protect for security, and NGINX Unit to run the application code, all monitored and managed by NGINX Controller
The benefits of F5 NGINX to the end organisations and its IT teams include:
Easy to use
Consolidate disparate load balancing, proxying, and WAF capabilities into a single ingress/egress software tier.
Efficient
Mission control for your apps and APIs. Get a modular solution to manage NGINX solutions at scale across a multi-cloud environment.
Flexible
Deploy and operate NGINX Controller and NGINX Plus in any cloud, bare metal, virtual machine, or container-based environment.
Power of Software Load Balancer
NGINX Plus is a software load balancer, web server, and content cache built on top of open source NGINX. NGINX Plus has exclusive enterprise‑grade features beyond what’s available in the open source offering, including session persistence, configuration via API, and active health checks.
NGINX Plus is the all-in-one software load balancer, content cache, web server, API gateway, and microservices proxy. NGINX App Protect provides modern application security using F5’s market‑leading WAF technology. Together, they scale and protect modern, distributed web and mobile applications.
NGINX Plus offers industry leading features for organizations and their Apps teams like:
Cost Savings
Helps achieve more than 80% cost savings through a consolidated software platform designed for automation and orchestration, with all the performance levels and latest features.
Reduced Complexity
Reduces the infrastructure sprawl with an all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and WAF platform.
Exclusive Features
Benefit from exclusive features like JWT authentication, high availability, the NGINX Plus API, and advanced data and API security.
The companies who benefit the most from NGINX Plus are ones that run a commercial application or website that requires a predictable, reliable and high performance user experience or those migrating their web architectures from a monolithic application to a lightweight, “scale out” distributed, componentized architecture.
For organisations moving to virtualized/cloud environments and the need a more modern, cloud-friendly alternative to their existing hardware-based LB/ADC solutions; NGINX Plus is a best fit. Media/Content owners doing massive HTTP streaming media (HTTP video/audio) often rely on deploying NGINX Plus in their IT infrastructure.
The NGINX Plus developer license may be used by an individual developer for his or her personal use only. It is intended for private, single-user applications and services in non-shared, local environments. NGINX offers separate non-production subscriptions for NGINX Plus instances used in shared, non-production applications and services, such as test or staging environments that are accessed by more than one user.
Why Zen Exim for F5 NGINX?
Zen Exim is the national value added distributor for F5 Networks in India. Ahmedabad headquartered Zen Exim as one of India’s leading value-added distributor enables its channel partners with the best products in Wireless, Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud, including Surveillance and Server Security.
Zen Exim has more than 4000 registered channel partners across India and SAARC countries, with a strong presence in major Indian cities and countries like Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, etc.The company has local Sales and Technical team available at Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Udaipur. Zen conducts webinar for sales and technical team members of partner along with OEM, where we update partners about latest products, configuration of product, product roadmaps and industry trends.
F5 NGINX PRODUCTS
NGINX Plus:
The only all in one load balancer, content cache, and web server that simplifies IT architecture while reducing costs.
NGINX Controller:
Effortlessly manage load balancers, API gateways and service mesh deployments at scale across a multi cloud environment from a single pane of glass.
NGINX App Protect:
Modern app security powered by F5 WAF technology running on NGINX Plus that prevent downtimes& breaches by securing apps and APIs.
NGINX Unit:
The new dynamic app server from NGINX, Open source, support for multiple languages, and a REST API driven configuration.
NGINX Amplify:
Lightweight monitoring and static analysis for NGINX and NGINX Plus. Completely hosted in the cloud.