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in order to drive a lot of the automation for its vulnerability discovery . So AI has a really important role to play in supercharging all of these application delivery and security solutions .
Q . WE ’ VE PREVIOUSLY TALKED ABOUT F5 GOING FROM HARDWARE TO SOFTWARE AND BEYOND . WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE NEXT STAGE OF THE TRANSFORMATION AT F5 ?
» That ' s a great question . For a very long time , when we started out on this journey roughly six years ago , we said , " Look , we ' re largely a perpetual hardware player selling into on-prem data centres ." That was 87 % of our product business . Just two years ago , we hit the 50 % mark in terms of becoming software organisation .
Where we see ourselves going is what we describe as SaaS-led . We ' re very specific in the terminology we use for that because we ' re not going from hardware to software to SaaS , but it ' s really about this proposition , and , that I talked about in my keynote , which is we want to have a comprehensive set of solutions , including hardware , including packaged software , and including SaaS , but led from a SaaS perspective to give customers a unified experience , so that we can really continue to meet all of the needs of their diverse applications and APIs .
26 June 2024