Key Findings from the State of Application Delivery 2015. The State of Applications Services presentation was highlighted in F5 Networks State of Application Delivery 2015 Webinar featuring Manny Rivelo, EVP Strategic Solutions, Cindy Borovick, Director Business Intelligence, and Lori MacVittie, Principal Technical Evangelist. To watch the complete webinar or sign-up for future F5 webinars go to: www.F5.com/SOAD

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THE STATE OF
APPLICATION
SERVICES

2. ROLES
respondents knowledge of organization’s current deployments and future plans?
65
PERCENT
61
PERCENT
58
PERCENT
44
PERCENT
41
PERCENT
Network
Equipment
Systems
Infrastructure
Servers/Storage
Server
Virtualization
Systems
Management
Security Application
Development
31
PERCENT

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19
PERCENT
VERTICALS
Finance/Insurance/Banking
Education
14
PERCENT
12
PERCENT
Healthcare
12
PERCENT
Technology
Telecom
Consulting/Reseller
8
PERCENT
8
PERCENT
309 North American Respondents

4. WILL NOT DEPLOY
WITHOUT
Q. I’d rather eat worms than deploy an application without which of the following applicationservices
n=300
16%
33%
40%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
Identity &
Access
Security
Availability

5. CONFIDENCE LEVELin company’s ability to withstand an application level security threat.
49.07%7.87% 43.06%
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SDN. SDDC. DEVOPS.
Programmability is included as an integral component for virtually every
emerging architectural model and trend. Programmable infrastructure is rapidly
becoming not a nice-to-have but a must-have for data centers to scale to meet
the demands of the next generation of apps.

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VMware
72PERCENT
Python Scripts OpenStack
27PERCENT
23PERCENT
What tools or frameworks do those who rated API-enabled infrastructure as important to
very important use today?
Puppet: 21% Chef: 14%

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Why are organizations interested in SDN?
41PERCENT
Improve Time to Market Reduce OpEx Reduce CapEx
59PERCENT
38
PERCENT
A full 11% are interested in SDN because of a CxO level mandate

9. Do you agree current layer 2-3 SDN architectures lack the ability to
provide the services that applications require?
SDN and Application Services
41PERCENT
59PERCENT
YESNO

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Application Availability is priority one
Security remains top of mind for customers
Programmability is vital to business agility
Success for SDN will be centered on its ability to reduce operating expenses
and delivery L4-7 services
KEY FINDINGS