Cloud is increasingly where applications reside in APAC: F5 Networks

Source: F5 Networks website.

F5 Networks has released findings from The State of Application Delivery in APAC 2015 survey*, including that organisations are increasingly embracing a "cloud-first” philosophy.

The survey reveals that the use of applications by Asia Pacific (APAC) companies is growing and shows no sign of abating. Amongst those surveyed, almost half (45%) currently deploy between one and 200 applications, while almost 10% of organisations currently deploy more than 3,000 applications. The study also showed that at least 41% of IT decision makers are open to moving up to a quarter (24%) of their applications to the cloud by 2016, while almost 24% are keen to move between 25 to 50%.

“As applications continue to be a critical part of the business strategy, organisations are seeking the same confidence level in cloud deployments that they’ve seen in the data centre. Companies in every industry rely on applications to drive customer engagement, employee productivity and revenue today. In fact, our research revealed that mobile applications and big data analytics are considered more important trends than the Internet of Things. These findings suggest a growing hybrid environment across the region, with a mix of on premise and off premises solutions increasingly being adopted by enterprises,” said Emmanuel Bonnassie, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, F5 Networks.

Despite the growing popularity of hybrid clouds, 29% of organisations attributed slow adoption to the failure to identify a comprehensive identity and access management policy. Furthermore, another 35% also admitted to the lack of internal knowledge of the scope of cloud usage as an impediment to adoption.

Additional survey results reveal that security is top priority for APAC organisations, outranking the importance of availability and performance when it comes to applications. Four in 10 (42%) of survey respondents believe that application services cannot be deployed without security. Yet worryingly, a further quarter had no plans to deploy distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, suggesting that many organisations in the APAC region still fail to view various types of attack as a significant threat to their business.

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*Based on survey data from 3,200 IT decision makers across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, the findings detail their current and planned use of application services.