On  April  20 ,  2022 ,  F5 ,  the  world's leading multi-cloud application service manufacturer  , held the "Cloud Without Borders, Architecture Future"  F5 Multi  -Cloud Application Service Technology Summit online.  At this conference,  F5  will put the vision of "making a better digital world into life", the development strategic direction of "protecting, delivering, and optimizing any application and  API  anytime, anywhere ", and the development strategy direction of "embracing open source, embracing localization, and embracing digital innovation. "China's landing strategy has been comprehensively displayed and interpreted. F5  Global CEO Mr. Fan Zhonglin, F5  Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Chinese Scientist Mr. Lin Geng, and  F5  China General Manager Mr. Zhang Yiqiang and other important guests all came on stage and brought exciting discussions and speeches.

At this conference, more than  5,000  attendees watched the live broadcast of the conference online.  In the main venue of the summit and the four special scenes of perceptually controllable applications, application security, distributed cloud services (going overseas solutions), and partner ecology,  F5  presented a selection of more than  50  topics.

Step into the era of applications where perception is controllable and seize the endless opportunities of digital transformation

During the summit,  F5  delved into the global trends of digital transformation and application services.  Mr. Lin Geng, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Chinese Scientist of F5  , said that today, the global epidemic has "forced" all enterprises into digital enterprises, and digital business has led to an explosive growth in the number of applications, which has brought a variety of Opportunities, but also  brought great challenges to the  IT architecture.

Lin Geng pointed out that digital business needs a perceptual and controllable  IT  architecture, and application delivery and application security play a key role in the development of digital business.  F5  's architectural framework provides solutions in several key areas, including application delivery and security protection , observability, insight and automation, and AI-based security protection such as bot defense and threat detection and response solutions.  F5  's end-to-end product portfolio provides a full range of application services from code to customers, helping users solve many challenges such as reducing multi-cloud complexity, modernizing operations,  deploying workloads at the edge through  SaaS , and providing end-to-end digital security.  F5  is working hand in hand with users to enter the era of application that is perceptually controllable, accelerating and escorting the digital transformation of enterprises.

Leading product, open source strategy, localization strategy, three major releases lead the development of the Chinese market

As a global leader in multi-cloud application services,  F5 brought three major releases at the summit, leading the development of the Chinese market with advanced technologies, products and strategies.

Feng Yong, Technical Director of the Architect Department of F5  China, solemnly released a brand-new modern application platform that  F5  has sharpened for five years, carefully built, leading the industry, and redefining the application delivery and security market.  Feng Yong pointed out five major advantages of the new product, which can be fully automated to deploy to meet the needs of the rapid delivery of modern applications to the market; the modular design meets the application needs of multi-user, multi-application and multi-cloud applications ; the  API -first design of the container base meets cloud-native applications ; The data layer and the control layer are completely separated, which improves management performance by a hundred times and meets the needs of continuous updates of  DevOps  ; multiple authorization models reduce customer  TCO  .

Zhang Shu, General Manager of the Software Division of F5 China, released the NGINX Enterprise Edition based on trusted open source. Zhang Shu introduced that after NGINX was certified by a trusted open source project, the Enterprise Edition came into being. It inherits all the functions of the NGINX community edition and maintains all the advantages of the NGINX community edition. It is lightweight, fast, flexible, and high-performance, and can be widely used in various scenarios in all walks of life. At the same time, it can enjoy the technical support services of the manufacturers, which fundamentally changes the traditional predicament of lack of support for open source products and no way to seek help.

At the same time, F5 China officially announced today that it has signed a strategic memorandum with its local partners Tongmingzhiyun (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Lizun Information Communication Software System Co., Ltd. to jointly build a trusted open source ecosystem and jointly promote the development of open source technology in China. Rapid development to better serve Chinese customers.

Embrace open source, embrace localization, embrace digital innovation, and land in the Chinese market down-to-earth

In China, F5 is down-to-earth, vigorously promoting the development of landing, and fulfilling its commitment to Chinese customers. Among them, an important part is digital innovation in the field of open source. With the "14th Five-Year Plan" incorporating open source into the top-level design for the first time, open source has ushered in a take-off development in China. At this conference, Wu Yanjun, chief engineer of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Intelligent Software Research Center, Guo Wei, chairman and president of Digital China Group, founder of Tongmingyun, Zhang Yiqiang, general manager of F5 China, and Wu Jingtao, COO of Brilliance Data, etc. The big coffees jointly visited the roundtable forum and expressed their views on the implementation of open source in China from different levels such as demand, policy and technology.

Mr. Zhang Yiqiang, General Manager of F5 China, took NGINX's landing in China as the entry point, and expounded the exploration and efforts made by F5 in landing the Chinese market. He said that F5 is driven by leading technologies from around the world, and must do three things for open source localization: establish the NGINX open source community, establish a standardized communication platform for open source enthusiasts and developers around the world, and promote the development of open source technology ; Release "NGINX Enterprise Edition " , so that enterprise-level customers can better enjoy the service and technical support of the original NGINX factory, and avoid the market chaos of scattered, chaotic, miscellaneous and lacking; increase the promotion and training of NGINX technology, Let more people make good use of NGINX technology.

Looking ahead to a new era, F5 joins you in the future of the digital world

As far as F5 is concerned, this grand online summit not only allows Chinese users to appreciate the forward-looking technical route and development trend, but also showcases the world's leading products and technologies. .

Mr. Zhang Yiqiang, general manager of F5 China, concluded that for the past 20 years, we have been providing high-quality services and technologies to Chinese customers. In the future, we will continue to introduce the world's most advanced technologies and solutions to China. F5's partners jointly develop localized products, and live up to the expectations of customers and partners who trust F5 . Together, we will move towards the future of the digital world.