on 07-Jun-2015 19:58
Surprisingly, business owners and business line C-level executives increasingly become the driving force of cloud adoption in the organizations-
In the last couple of years, business around the world have witnessed the shift toward cloud computing. They have seen the advent of cloud technology, from simple usage such as store personal data to a more complex one such as being used by government to store public data (healthcare and social security data), as well as business to extend the functionalities of their current IT system.
In Asia Pacific’s business world, according to a Frost & Sullivan’s study in collaboration with F5 Networks: The New Language of Cloud Computing, only 9% of enterprise don’t have plans for usage of cloud technology at the moment, while the rest: 23.8% are at the planning stage, 32.6% are in the process of implementing cloud technology, and 34.5% are currently using cloud services.
Looking from business standpoint, beyond ‘only’ cost saving reason, there are three key business factors that drive the growing adoption of cloud technology. The three factors are:
Nevertheless, with the growing popularity and adoption of cloud computing in business, applications become increasingly critical in IT infrastructure. For users, the application accessibility has become the sole factor that count and can massively impact their experience.
To tackle that challenge, the Enterprises need to have the means to deliver applications in a fast, secure and highly available manner to users regardless of the of deployment model that business has chosen; whether on-premises, hybrid, and/or as-a-service. Specifically In the cloud and hybrid deployment model, F5 provides the application delivery capabilities through F5 Silverline™ and F5® BIG-IQ™ Cloud which specifically developed to help businesses seamlessly configure and automate application delivery services in cloud and hybrid infrastructures.