F5 vs Imperva

F5 Networks, Inc. is a multinational American company which specializes in Application Delivery Networking technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, availability of servers, data storage devices, and other network resources. F5 is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has development, manufacturing, and sales/marketing offices worldwide. F5 originally manufactured and sold some of the industry's first load balancing products. In 2010 and 2011, F5 Networks was on Fortune's list of 100 Fastest-Growing Companies worldwide.

Imperva is a provider of cyber and data security products. Imperva is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. Imperva has received a total of $53.7M in venture capital funding, including over $20M in its Series D round in April 2008. Imperva's investors include Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, USVP and Venrock. Imperva's belief is that an organization's most important asset today is datacustomer, financial and intellectual property, each of which need to be protected from insiders and hackers. To protect data, Imperva claims to have built a data security suite to protect both structured and unstructured data: