Over the past five years we’ve tracked the deployment of application services and seen a consistent set topping the charts every year: antivirus, network firewall, SSL VPN, and load balancing. While there are few services that appear capable of unseating one of these power application services, DDoS protection is a contender. It’s risen from 53% in 2015 to an impressive 67% this year—enough to put it in the number six position. In addition, the growth in container deployments has driven rapid adoption of services designed to optimize containerized apps.
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56% of respondents are employing containers; gateways, app security, and availability are growing in importance.
Containers aren’t coming to a data center near you—they’re already here. More than half of respondents (56%) are employing containers today, a trend that has grown rapidly over the past five years.
Rising container deployments drive growth in Ingress control.
An Ingress controller routes external application-layer requests to
the appropriate resource inside the container.
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INGRESS CONTROL
While the average number of application services in use overall is 14, that drops by half for public cloud deployments. This means that organizations are deploying apps in the public cloud, but they are not matching application services deployments at the same rate.
Disparity between on-premises and public cloud app services deployments leads to security concerns.
While 66% of respondents deploy a WAF, only 33% indicate that they use a WAF for production applications deployed in a public cloud. Other security-related application services suffer the same decline in use in the public cloud, which is troubling, because it is nearly impossible to achieve security policy parity without the application services that enforce it.
Preview key finding 04: Systems-thinking automation is changing organizational structures.
Antivirus
Network firewall
SSL VPN
Load balancing
IPS/IDS
and spam mitigation
“For each of the application services below, please indicate your company’s current deployment status."
WE ASKED:
FIGURE 04:
TOP 5 APPLICATION SERVICES DEPLOYED TODAY
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