Application service environments have become more complex as organizations improve the digital services they provide to users and pursue a broader range of infrastructure models to improve performance and reduce costs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud migration, according to F5’s 2022 State of Application Strategy Report, with three-quarters of organizations deploying applications in public cloud environments.

Data collected from F5 Silverline – a cloud-based managed services platform that detects and mitigates DDoS attacks in real-time – revealed a 3% year-on-year decrease in the total volume of attacks recorded in 2021.

El Abdouli, who has over 22 years of industry experience, will be in charge of ensuring that F5’s channel ecosystem is ready to design and deliver best-in-class IT solutions for customers of all sizes.

One significant source of data bias is legacy of agent-based systems, which require additional software to be deployed on any system from which you want to collect data. Agents are usually paired with an analytics platform. In the past, pricing of these products often included the cost of agents. Discounted for large deployments, of course, but nonetheless a costly proposition.