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NGINX Announces New Solutions for Application Delivery, API Management, and Service MeshNGINX, Inc., the company based on the popular open source project and offering a suite of technologies designed to develop and deliver modern applications, today announced enhancements to the NGINX Application Platform - including new releases of NGINX Plus, NGINX Controller, and NGINX Unit. These new releases improve NGINX's industry-leading solution in the application delivery controller (ADC (News - Alert)) market, as well as introduce new solutions in the API management and service mesh markets. NGINX provides a single platform to compete in a combined market projected to be worth $5.7B in 2019. "Today, there is little distinction between technology companies and traditional enterprises. Technology is front and center in every business strategy, and enterprises of all sizes and in all industries must embrace digital to attract, retain, and enrich customers," said Gus Robertson, CEO, NGINX. "The latest updates to our NGINX Application Platform help companies achieve better customer experiences, agility, and ROI in the digital era. I'm particularly excited we're adding API management to our existing API gateway capabilities, and service mesh to our microservices architecture. We see both in high demand for companies as they modernize." The three new releases - NGINX Plus R16, NGINX Controller 2.0, and NGINX Unit 1.4 - represent the most substantial set of updates t the Application Platform yet. Updates leverage the modular architecture of NGINX Controller and enable enterprises to provide the right workflows to the right teams managing NGINX Plus in the data plane. These capabilities further simplify application infrastructures by consolidating application delivery, API management, and service mesh management into a single solution - accelerating the journey to microservices. The three product releases unlock five new capabilities:
With these new capabilities, NGINX is the only vendor that helps infrastructure teams deliver north-south traffic flowing from users to apps, as well as build modern apps with optimized east-west traffic. Enterprises can now use the NGINX Application Platform to function as a:
For more information about the updates to the NGINX Application Platform, please visit our blog or tune into the livestream of NGINX Conf on October 9 and 10 from 9 AM to 12 PM ET. About NGINX, Inc. NGINX, Inc. is the company behind the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices-based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation. NGINX investors include Blue Cloud Ventures, e.ventures, Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, MSD Capital, NEA, Runa Capital, and Telstra Ventures. We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA (News - Alert), with our EMEA head office in Cork, Ireland and APAC head office in Singapore.
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