The State of Application Load Balancing in 2025 report shows that hybrid cloud is now the dominant operating model, making load balancing central to application security, resiliency, and performance. However, cloud migration success has been uneven, with many organizations reporting only moderate results and ongoing reliance on mixed on-prem and cloud environments. Security and resiliency top enterprise priorities, especially as AI-driven and data-intensive workloads increase pressure on infrastructure. Despite this, many organizations underuse their application delivery controllers, relying mainly on basic load balancing while neglecting advanced security, analytics, and automation features. Dissatisfaction is often driven less by technology gaps than by vendor issues, particularly rising

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