F5 Completes Acquisition of Volterra

Combination to create the first Edge 2.0 platform for enterprises and service providers
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), the leader in application security and delivery, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Volterra, the first universal edge-as-a-service platform. With the addition of Volterraās technology, F5 is creating an edge platform built for enterprises and service providers that will be security-first and app-driven with unlimited scale.
āI am incredibly excited to welcome Volterra to the F5 family and get to work bringing Edge 2.0āa key part of our Adaptive Applications visionāto customers,ā said FranƧois Locoh-Donou, F5 President and CEO. āJoining forces, we will deliver the enterprise-grade features, including world-class security and scale, that have been missing from the edge until now.ā
āCurrent edge approaches were not designed with enterprises in mind,ā said Ankur Singla, founder of Volterra. āWhen Harshad and I started Volterra, we knew the edge would need to be delivered with the scale of public clouds, but with management and security integrated with the data centers where so many enterprise apps still live. Given F5ās leadership in Adaptive Applications and their vast enterprise customer base, I could not imagine a better partner to empower customersā business transformation through modern apps.ā
Volterraās unique multi-cloud technology solves key edge and security problems and has allowed it to quickly gain more than fifty enterprise customers, including three of the top fifteen global telcos.
āWe are excited to work with Volterra to architect an unprecedented edge computing environment across our 5G network,ā said Keiichi Makizono, SVP and CIO, SoftBank Corp. āVolterra has demonstrated that it solves critical operational challenges within existing telco cloud service offerings, increasing operator efficiency and revenue streams while delivering a cloud-native experience that will drive developer adoption.ā
The F5+Volterra Edge 2.0 Platform
The modern edge has been evolving for more than twenty years. The F5+Volterra Edge 2.0 platform will be designed to address challenges found with current edge solutions that are built on CDNs and have limited security features. This new enterprise-focused edge is security-first and app-driven, with unlimited scale.
- Security-first. The sophistication of cybercriminals and nation states has increased to the point that commodity security is no longer capable of effectively protecting enterprises. F5+Volterraās Edge 2.0 platform will deliver the full range of F5ās industry-leading security products in a SaaS model. F5ās AI technology for fraud and abuse protectionāthe primary line of cyberdefense for the majority of the largest banks, airlines, and federal agenciesāwill be made easily deployable by any enterprise.
- App-driven. The edge should meet the requirements of the app, not the other way around. The Volterra platform is based on industry-standard containers, enabling enterprises to ābuild once, deploy globally,ā rather than rewriting code based on a closed edge providerās constraints. F5 simplifies operations to accelerate time-to-market and lower cost of ownership, powering more than 70% of the worldās top 10,000 websites and 48 of the Fortune 50.
- Unlimited scale. Third-party CDNs cannot match the scale and capital investment of the public clouds of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google; nor can a single public cloud match the scale of all clouds combined. The F5+Volterra Edge 2.0 platform represents the first open edge architecture, enabling DevOps and developer teams to seamlessly shift workloads across clouds and even to data centers, without reimplementation or retooling, enabling the largest scale and best performance possible.
Additional Information
Extending Adaptive Applications to the Edge ā Blog from Kara Sprague, EVP and GM of BIG-IP at F5
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) is a multi-cloud application security and delivery company that enables our customersāwhich include the worldās largest enterprises, financial institutions, service providers, and governmentsāto bring extraordinary digital experiences to life. For more information, go to f5.com. You can also follow @F5 on Twitter or visit us on LinkedIn and Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technologies.
Source: F5 Networks
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