Making the journey to HTTP/2

Reducing application delivery time, costs and the risk of downtime

Published October 2015

A powerful but radically different version of the Web’s defining standard is now available and new research suggests many IT departments aren’t ready. While HTTP/2 enables dramatic improvements to both the speed and security of mission-critical Web applications, most companies are likely to find deploying it a complex and time-consuming task. An exclusive new survey from IDG Research reveals that large numbers of IT professionals know little about the new protocol or the technical challenges it can present and even fewer have a strategy in place for collecting HTTP/2’s considerable benefits without suffering its potential pitfalls.