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COVID-19 FUELS APPETITE FOR APP MODERNISATION , AI AND EDGE COMPUTING
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 catalysed 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 , organisation 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 COVID-19 pandemic has vastly accelerated a global Digital Transformation that was already underway . Progress that might normally have taken a decade has leapt forward in a single year ,” said Lori MacVittie , Principal Technical Evangelist , Office of the CTO at F5 .
“ In a short time , more organisations than ever have modernised and distributed applications – and the application security and delivery technology solutions that support them – closer to users . Add to that the use of Edge Computing and we ’ re starting to see incredible momentum for the emergence of truly adaptive applications that can grow , shrink , defend and heal themselves based on the environment they ’ re in and how they ’ re being used .”
App modernisation efforts
Since the last SOAS report , the adoption rate of AI and Machine Learning , a marker of late-phase Digital Transformation , more than tripled to 56 %. Furthermore , 57 % respondents embraced digital expansion , which is a 37 % increase on last year . The latter shows an intensifying focus on business process automation , orchestration and digital workflows , stitching together disparate applications to create seamless digital experiences . The same objective is being achieved through the use of APIs . There was also an eyecatching 133 % annual rise in respondents saying they are modernising internal or customer-facing applications , with 77 % now doing so .
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