2,197TOTAL NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS

FINANCIAL SERVICES

15%

GOVERNMENT/PUBLIC11%

HEALTHCARE5%

MANUFACTURING/CONSTRUCTION

12%

OTHER15%

TECHNOLOGY18%

TELECOM/CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER

15%

EDUCATION9%

INDUSTRY

4%

RESPONDENT ROLE

CLOUD

ARCHITECT/DEVOPS

APPLICATION

ROLES

13%

SECURITY

19%

EXECUTIVE

24%40%

INFRASTRUCTURE/

NETWORK

© 2017 F5 Networks Source: The State of Application Delivery, 2017

01 |

Use of automation-enabling frameworks and

technologies explodes

INSIGHT

AUTOMATION ADOPTION

52%

21%

2017

2017

2016

Organizations using at least one

framework more than doubled

year over year

61% Use two or more

frameworks

35%

21%

55%

14% 11%

Cisco OpenStack Vmware Python Puppet

+14%

+19%

+6% +4%

+22%The percentage of respondents using

VMware is the same as the number of

respondents who have settled on on-

premises private cloud as their only

cloud implementation: 55%

Coincidence?

02 |

Organizations automation efforts use more than

one tool to get the job done

INSIGHT

HYBRID- STACK RULES PRODUCTION

61% Use two or more

frameworks

The average number of frameworks in

use is the same as the average

number of cloud models in use: 1.8

Coincidence?

49%also use Cisco

OpenStack users

16%also use Python scripts

Cisco users

35%also use Cisco

VMware users

03 |

Organizations seeking scale and cost containment

over deployment velocity

INSIGHT

SCALE over SPEED

01 02 03

$6% C-LEVEL SAID SO 2% JUST WANT THEIR BONUS

Reducing OpEx is the

number one driver

(62%) behind

respondents’ adoption

of SDN, with similar

margins separating it

from time to market

(33%)

Coincidence?

04 |

Respondents recognize the importance of APIs and

Templates

INSIGHT

Programmability is Critical

23%

31%

15%

53%

2016 2017 2016 2017

LESS IMPORTANT MORE IMPORTANT

On a scale of 1-5, how important is API-enabled infrastructure?

(1-2) Less Important (4-5) More Important

2017

52%

MORE IMPORTANT

Templates have become

significant components of cloud

and automation frameworks.

Coincidence?

On a scale of 1-5, how important are

templates?

(1-2) Less Important (4-5) More Important

ON A SCALE OF 1-5 (1 = LEAST, 5 = MOST)

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