EXECUTIVE INSIGHT
Where we find ourselves now is totally different . From our survey , the average customer is deploying applications across four-and-a-half different deployment locations . Maybe that ' s their on-prem data centres , co-location facilities , two public clouds , or maybe one public cloud and the Edge . What that means is that they now have 10 times more application data paths that they have to manage and secure than when they just had their application sitting in their data centre .
That level of complexity is not being made up for with new resources . Obviously , there ' s a tremendous talent gap in cybersecurity , and it ' s not really been served to them by rationalisation or consolidation of vendors . There ' s just an enormous amount of vendors and tools across all these different environments . We call that a crisis .
What F5 is doing about that is we have committed to making application delivery and security ridiculously easy . We are doing that by providing customers with the only solution provider that can deliver , secure , and optimise any app , any API , anywhere .
Going forward , we ' re integrating more and more of the product families that we have – BIG-IP , NGINX , and Distributed Cloud – in order to address all of our customers ' delivery , security , and connectivity needs in hybrid and multi-cloud environments .
Q . YOU ’ VE HIGHLIGHTED THE CYBER SKILLS GAP THE INDUSTRY IS CURRENTLY FACING , BUT THERE IS A SIZABLE GENDER GAP TOO . WHAT CAN BE DONE TO FIX THIS ?
» We have a huge talent gap , and it ' s a gap that needs to be addressed . If we only address it with half of the available talent supply , we ' re not really making the smartest choice there .
Equally , if we ' re looking at building technology solutions that serve the diversity of the constituents that consume technology , and I think it ' s fair to say that technology is now permeated into every corner of human lives , it ' s really important that we have a diverse representation of the people that are creating that technology and also servicing it .
22 June 2024