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F5 State of Application Services Research Highlights Key Opportunities to Scale and Accelerate Digital Transformation
Sixth annual report finds IT and business process automation growing with multi- and hybrid-cloud architectures SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- F5 Networks
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nSixth annual report finds IT and business process automation growing with multi- and hybrid-cloud architectures\n\n SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nF5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the availability of its 2020 State of Application Services report. This year’s survey showed that many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of increased scale and velocity of application deployment in their businesses. This value, however, can bring significant complexity as organizations maintain legacy infrastructure while increasingly relying on multiple public and private clouds, implement modern application architectures, and face an evolving and sophisticated threat landscape.\n\n\nAt the same time, organizations are adopting more application services designed to accelerate deployment in public cloud and container-native environments, like service mesh and ingress control. Survey data indicates this trend will accelerate as organizations become proficient in harnessing the data their application ecosystem delivers—creating advanced analytics capabilities and better business outcomes.\n\n\n“Applications are not just the most valuable asset in the modern enterprise, they are the vehicle organizations rely on to deliver differentiated digital experiences to their customers,” said Kara Sprague, Executive Vice President and General Manager, BIG-IP at F5. “This year’s report explores the ways application services are an increasingly critical component at each stage of the application lifecycle. From the code that makes up the business logic of an application to the experience on an end user’s device, application services ensure businesses can build, deploy, and manage applications across environments securely and at scale.”\n\n\nThe report reflects input from nearly 2,600 respondents globally across a range of industries, company sizes, and roles. Participants were asked about the challenges and opportunities presented by the ongoing process of digital transformation. Their responses provide a unique view of the trends shaping the application landscape—and how organizations around the world are transforming to meet the ever-changing demands of the digital economy.\n\n\nSurvey Highlights\n\n\nThe survey shows that as companies manage legacy, multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and modern architectures to deliver applications, their require...