State of Application Strategy 2022: Asia Pacific Prioritizes Edge Deployments, Security Workloads

From the results, we see A/NZ and India stepping up as trailblazers for Asia Pacific, from leading the shift to the public cloud to deploying emerging technologies (this observation is consistent with our historical findings of past State of Application Strategy reports too).

Respondents from A/NZ and India also seem to be well aware of challenges around their relative geographical size; the findings place them as the top two regions with the highest level of edge deployments.

In fact, compared to last year, there's an overall growth in edge deployments in Asia Pacific. Besides A/NZ and India, growth has also been promising in areas like China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This indicates that the technologies supporting the apps are also shifting to the edge.

Asia Pacific Respondents Have Their Eyes on Security and Delivery at the Edge

Now, what type of technologies are being deployed at the edge? In line with the global average, Japan, India, and ASEAN regions prioritize running security workloads at the edge, while collecting and processing data at the edge is key for China and Taiwan. Korea wants to ensure their application performance is kept on top of its game, and A/NZ and Hong Kong similarly prioritize providing a positive digital experience for their users.