Shape Security and Volterra moving to F5 Distributed Cloud Services

[Rebecca_Moloney]

• Overview
• Product Name Changes
• So what does this mean for you?

Overview

In the last few years, F5 acquired Shape Security, Volterra, NGINX and Threat Stack--broadening the F5 portfolio of products. To simply our growing portfolio, products from Shape Security and Volterra will now converge under a new F5 Distributed Cloud Services brand. 

From now on there will be three primary F5 product brands: BIG-IP, NGINX, and Distributed Cloud Services. 

For more information on these changes, please see the F5 Brand Updates page.

Product Name Changes

The chart below outlines each product's historical name and its corresponding F5 Distributed Cloud Services name: 

Historical Product Name	New Product Name
VoltMesh	F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh
VoltStack	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
VoltConsole	F5 Distributed Cloud Console
Shape Recognize	F5 Distributed Cloud Authentication Intelligence
Shape AI Fraud Engine (SAFE)	F5 Distributed Cloud Account Protection
Shape Client-Side Defense	F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense
Shape Aggregator Defense	F5 Distributed Cloud Aggregator Management
Shape Integrated Bot Defense	F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Shape Enterprise Defense

 

So what does this mean for you?

Your experiences with these F5 products should remain largely unchanged. That being said, here's a few minor changes that may affect you:

1. In-product experiences, DevCentral posts, and other F5 materials will reflect the new names.
   
2. Specific website domains will no longer exist. Volterra.io will redirect to cloud.f5.com, where users can login on the Distrubuted Cloud Services page. Interactions with the respective products, assigned tenant name spaces/URLs, and who you work with for support and customer service will not be impacted.
3. Product documentation for F5 Distributed Cloud Protection Manager and Distributed Cloud Console will also move. You can see the new locations here: 

Historical Product Name	New Product Name	Product Documentation Location
Shape Protection Manager	F5® Distributed Cloud   Protection Manager	The F5® Distributed Cloud Protection Manager user interface contains a “Documentation” link to relevant product documentation.
VoltConsole	F5® Distributed Cloud Console	The F5® Distributed Cloud Console user interface will include links to relevant product documentation. In addition, product documentation can be found at https://docs.cloud.f5.com

Questions about this rebranding should be directed to F5 via the respective email addresses for your region (which can be found at Contact F5.)