F5 2025 State of Application Strategy Report Reveals Talk Becomes Action as AI Gets to Work
F5 News, Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
F5 report highlights AI-driven transformation amid operational complexity; 96% of surveyed IT decision makers have deployed AI models, up from a quarter in 2023
IT leaders are increasingly trusting AI with business-critical tasks from traffic management to cost optimization, according to the industry's most comprehensive report on application strategy.
F5's 2025 State of Application Strategy Report, which surveys global IT decision makers1, found that 96% of organizations are now deploying AI models, up from a quarter in 2023.
There is also a growing willingness to elevate AI to the heart of business operations.
Almost three-quarters of respondents (72%) said they want to use AI to optimize app performance, whereas 59% support the use of AI for both cost-optimization and to inject security rules, automatically mitigating zero-day vulnerabilities.