Company Research Report: F5, Inc.

Company Overview

• Name: F5, Inc.

• Mission: F5 empowers its customers to create, secure, and operate adaptive applications that reduce costs, improve operations, and better protect users.

• Founded: F5 was founded in 1996.

• Key People:

• François Locoh-Donou, CEO & President

• Kara Sprague, Chief Product Officer

• François Locoh-Donou recently joined the board of Capital One.

• Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

• Number of Employees: Specific number not available.

• Revenue: $2.8 billion for fiscal year 2023.

• What is the Company Known For: F5 is renowned for its enterprise-grade application services ensuring apps are fast, available, and secure—across any on-premises or multi-cloud environment. They offer security, load balancing, network performance, and application availability solutions.

Products

Distributed Cloud Services

• Description: Offers a cloud-native environment for simplified app deployment, security, connectivity, and operations.

• Key Features:

• Distributed Cloud WAF

• DDoS Mitigation

• Bot Defense

• API Security

• Use Cases: Protect applications and APIs, connect across multicloud environments.

F5 NGINX

• Description: Modernizes app delivery, from monoliths to microservices.

• Key Features:

• NGINX One: Combines management, observability, and security tools.

• NGINX App Protect: Offers security features such as WAF and DoS defense.

BIG-IP

• Description: Recognized leader in app security and delivery.

• Key Features:

• BIG-IP Next WAF: Protects apps and APIs.

• Local Traffic Manager: Enhances app performance and delivery.

• Use Cases: Hybrid and multicloud workload management.

Recent Developments

Product Launches

• F5 NGINX One: Combined offering of advanced load balancing, web server, API gateway, and security in a dedicated package, enhancing application delivery and security.

• NGINXaaS for Azure: Infrastructure-as-a-Service delivering secure, high-performance apps from Azure Marketplace.

Partnership Announcements

• F5 and NVIDIA Collaboration: A partnership aimed at enhancing AI deployments using NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs to manage large-scale AI infrastructure.

• Collaboration with NetApp: Focused on improving AI capabilities with secure multicloud networking services.

Strategic Initiatives

• Commitment to Multicloud Security: Joined hands with OVHcloud to deliver advanced multicloud application security solutions.

• AI and RAG Integration: Joint ventures with various partners to enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for AI deployments.

Financial Results and Leadership Changes

• Financial Results: Reported $2.8 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2023.

• Leadership Updates: Appointments of Maya McReynolds and Julie Gonzalez to the board of directors to drive agility and innovation.

The report condenses the complex structure of F5's solutions and identifies strategic partnerships and product developments crucial for future growth. Data is drawn from recent press releases and corporate communications.