TABLE 1 Demographics of Interviewed Organizations Number of employees 25,343 12500 Number of it staff 2.914 Number of external customers 14.5 million 5 million Number of business applications1,688 Revenue per year S13.09 billion S8. 62 billion United States(2), Lithuania, Netherlands, Switzerland, and United Kingdom Industries Financial services(2), IT services(2), software, and telecommunications Source: IDC. 2018 Interviewed organizations' criteria for choosing to deploy NsX Advanced Load Balancer for application ices focused on cost, agility, and scalability Much lower costs when compared with hardware-based approaches. One NSX Advanced Load Balancer customer noted: The key factors for us in selecting NSX Advanced The key factors for us in Load Balancer were the inflexibility of having a hardware selecting NSX Advanced Load based solution and the cost of adding hardware. The software. Balancer were the inflexibility based solution with VMware also made sense financially and of having a hardware-based that is what we were trying to address. solution and the cost of Agility and elastic scalability in terms of application delivery adding hardware. The and load-balancing capacity. According to one customer, "We software-based solution with chose NSX Advanced Load Balancer because we needed an VMware also made sense ADC platform that gave us more agility and visibility into what financially and that is what was going on using analytics. We needed something that was we were trying to address AP/ managed rather than manually operated. We also needed thing that would scale out as our Paas scales out and that was not bound by physical devices To achieve these objectives, interviewed organizations have deployed an average of 18 Avi Service Engines at 3-4 datacenters across their operations. The number of business applications supported by NSX Advanced Load Balancer averaged 507, including varied applications and projects. One organization specified that it is supporting"groundbreaking, digital applications"with NSX Advanced Load Balancer while another is creating an internal platform-as-a-service(PaaS)offering as part of a broader IT modernization initiative For the most part, these organizations are running NSX Advanced Load Balancer with on-premises virtualized environments, but two organizations have made NsX Advanced Load 2020|DC #US43643418RF©2020 IDC #US43643418RF 5 TABLE 1 Demographics of Interviewed Organizations Average Median Number of employees 25,343 12,500 Number of IT staff 2,914 800 Number of external customers 14.5 million 5 million Number of business applications 1,688 650 Revenue per year $13.09 billion $8.62 billion Countries United States (2), Lithuania, Netherlands, Switzerland, and United Kingdom Industries Financial services (2), IT services (2), software, and telecommunications n = 6 Source: IDC, 2018 Interviewed organizations' criteria for choosing to deploy NSX Advanced Load Balancer for application services focused on cost, agility, and scalability: ▪ Much lower costs when compared with hardware-based approaches. One NSX Advanced Load Balancer customer noted: "The key factors for us in selecting NSX Advanced Load Balancer were the inflexibility of having a hardware￾based solution and the cost of adding hardware. The software￾based solution with VMware also made sense financially and that is what we were trying to address." ▪ Agility and elastic scalability in terms of application delivery and load-balancing capacity. According to one customer, "We chose NSX Advanced Load Balancer because we needed an ADC platform that gave us more agility and visibility into what was going on using analytics. We needed something that was API managed rather than manually operated. We also needed something that would scale out as our PaaS scales out and that was not bound by physical devices." To achieve these objectives, interviewed organizations have deployed an average of 18 Avi Service Engines at 3–4 datacenters across their operations. The number of business applications supported by NSX Advanced Load Balancer averaged 507, including varied applications and projects. One organization specified that it is supporting "groundbreaking, digital applications" with NSX Advanced Load Balancer, while another is creating an internal platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering as part of a broader IT modernization initiative. For the most part, these organizations are running NSX Advanced Load Balancer with on-premises virtualized environments, but two organizations have made NSX Advanced Load "The key factors for us in selecting NSX Advanced Load Balancer were the inflexibility of having a hardware-based solution and the cost of adding hardware. The software-based solution with VMware also made sense financially and that is what we were trying to address