Pankaj Patel

Nile/California is a technology company based in San Jose, CA. Nile/California provides enterprise network performance solutions that prioritize reliability and predictability while minimizing total cost of ownership. The company's solutions are backed by service level agreement guarantees, and their approach to network-as-a-service ensures that their solutions "just work." The company was founded in 2018 by John T. Chambers, and Pankaj Patel has been the CEO since 2018.

Part of F5, Inc., Lilac Cloud, Inc. is a company based in Saratoga, CA that provides F5 Distributed Cloud CDN services. F5 Distributed Cloud CDN provides integrated security with support for content caching and containerized edge-based workloads for richer digital experiences. The product is built on a high-performance, secure private network and enables rich digital experiences for end-users. It leverages integrated security including web application firewall (WAF), distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation, API security, and bot defense from the same platform purpose-built for multi-cloud and microservice-based edge workloads. The company was founded by Harish Devanagondi, Jay Shah, Bhaktavatsalan Raghavan, and Harish Devanagondi has been the CEO since incorporation. Lilac Cloud was acquired by F5, Inc. on February 01, 2023.