Given the way applications need to dynamically scale, load balancers have become a standard component of most IT environments. But when a developer initially builds their application, they often don’t ...

As the number of application workloads IT organizations are being required to manage steadily increases, inside and out of the cloud, an ability to master load balancing has become a lot more ...

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F5 Networks just closed its NGINX deal which will help the company on its evolution away from hardware in favor of software and services. F5 Networks on Thursday closed its deal to buy one of its ...

F5 Networks on Monday announced that it will acquire NGINX, which provides popular open-source software of the same name, for $670 million. The deal advances F5's aim of capitalizing on the trend ...

F5 Networks says it is acquiring NGINX, one of the most popular web servers on the internet today, for $670 million. The deal is a huge one for F5, which focuses on cloud and security application ...

Nginx is developed with performance and low memory usage in mind and can be used as an HTTP server, as a reverse proxy server and as a load balancer. This makes it appealing to websites that receive a ...

Nginx 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 address a remote code execution flaw that could lead to compromised servers The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security ...

Nginx is betting that its open-source Web server software, now used by many large Internet services, will also find a home in the enterprise. The second release of Nginx’s commercial package, called ...