COVID-19 fuels appetite for app modernization, AI and Edge Computing

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F5’s seventh annual State of Application Strategy (SOAS) report shows how the pandemic has advanced Digital Transformation across the world, with increased emphasis on AI, telemetry and multi-cloud deployments. COVID-19 has catalyzed the speed and depth of the world’s Digital Transformation efforts, according to F5’s latest State of Application Strategy (SOAS) report. Now in its seventh year, the research features survey inputs from 1,500 respondents from a wide range of industries, organization sizes and professional roles. This year’s report strongly underlines how the need to improve connectivity, reduce latency, ensure security and harness data-driven insights is intensifying. It also points to an elevated interest in cloud, As-a-Service solutions, Edge Computing and application security and delivery technologies. “The...

F5 Annual Survey Highlights Accelerated App Modernization and Edge Computing

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the availability of its 2021 State of Application Strategy report. In its seventh iteration, this annual survey identifies several converging trends, many of which have been significantly impacted as organizations revamp digital experiences to address the evolving realities of COVID-era consumers. Companies have significantly sped up their digital transformation efforts in the past year, a theme anticipated to persist beyond the pandemic. With limited in-person interactions, applications—and the digital experiences they facilitate—have become synonymous with an organization’s presence and ability to thrive. “This year’s report highlights the many contrasting priorities that IT teams are currently facing. Of course, there’s the familiar one of flexibility and convenience...