The Death of the ADC has Been Largely Exaggerated

What we've learned from our annual research, including our "deep dives" into AI, APIs, and multicloud models, is that organizations are hungry for a platform that provides both delivery and security services and supports both for workloads in any environment: public cloud, colocation center, on-premises, and even at the edge.

They want an ADC, but they want a modern ADC. An ADC that addresses the most common delivery and security challenges and offers a way to handle those that are not so common. They want an ADC that fits their very hybrid application portfolio: a mix of modern and traditional and, increasingly, AI applications.

They also want to harness the power of AI for application delivery and security. They want AI to help generate policies and custom code, to mine for insights that will help them address performance and security problems before they turn into an incident. And they want AI assistants to offer real-time support and improve the efficiency of decision-making​.

But they also want that ADC to be deployable anywhere they deploy applications.

What the market wants-and needs-is an ADC that addresses the complexity of operating a hybrid IT estate and the emerging challenges of employing AI applications across nearly every business and operational function.

An ADC that doesn't exist today. But it will.