Private 5G networks are sparking innovation at the edge

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid.  A crucial component to simplifying the edge experience is the network itself. In a recent post,…

Need for Speed Drives Security-as-a-Service

Organizations face new challenges associated with protecting distributed assets against cyberattack in the hybrid IT model that most companies will deploy for the foreseeable future. Threats are emerging at a speed that makes it difficult for internal security practitioners to keep pace. There are zero-day attacks that exploit vulnerabilities before security teams are even aware…

Cost and Complexity Drive Multicloud Networking

Traditional networking is boring. But multicloud networking is hot, according to the more than 1,000 global IT leaders surveyed for F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy report. When asked to identify the most exciting technologies of 2023, multicloud networking was cited by 42% of survey respondents. That’s higher than trendy topics like AIOps and edge…

Digital Transformation Delivers Business Benefits

Virtually every organization worth its salt is involved in digital transformation, and those efforts are starting to pay dividends, according to F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy Report. When respondents to F5’s survey of more than 1,000 IT leaders were asked to list the benefits of digital transformation, IT operational efficiency topped the list (cited…

Hybrid IT is Here to Stay

The hybrid IT architecture is here to stay, according to F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy Report, and that has profound implications for how enterprises should be thinking about modernizing, deploying, and securing applications. Data collected from more than 1,000 survey respondents indicates that IT leaders have come to realize there is simply no one…

What is Oracle’s generative AI strategy?

While Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM have already released their generative AI offerings, rival Oracle has so far been largely quiet about its own strategy. Instead of launching a competing offering in a rush, the company is quietly preparing a three-tier approach. “Our tier strategy resembles a three-layer cake and each of these layers…

Making intelligent automation work at scale

Organizations can reap a range of benefits from deploying automation tools such as robotic process automation (RPA). But adding artificial intelligence (AI) to the mix is where an even bigger payoff can come. “Organizations have been combining automation and AI technologies for a few years now to improve their business processes,” says Maureen Fleming, program…