F5
“APPLICATIONS ARE THE BACKBONE OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY .”
GENG LIN EVP AND CTO , F5
The last one , edge , is an ever-evolving challenge to enterprise businesses and hence an opportunity for F5 . How can the user experience be made consistent and secure wherever the application or the digital service is being accessed ?
Lin is well placed to answer this having led Google ' s engineering and service team as it set out to solve the last-mile challenge within its own ecosystem . Other early movers such as Amazon and Facebook have taken the same route to build their own in-house solutions , but not all enterprises have the same level of resources and technical expertise to do so . And as many enterprises retain their traditional applications while integrating modern applications built on microservices and cloud-native architectures , their environments are becoming more complex , leading to inconsistent application performance and new security vulnerabilities .
While the edge posed a challenge to business enterprises aspiring to evolve digitally before COVID , the pandemic has significantly amplified this challenge . “ COVID has accelerated digitization and application delivery to the edge at a pace we have never seen before ,” says Lin . “ The
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