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Yeah, You’re Doing DevOps
The Stack Overflow annual survey of developers came out this month, and it has a lot of interesting data points in it. There is a lot that I wish was different about their questions/methodology, but one thing caught my attention. Docker, Kubernetes and similar tools (Ansible and Terraform are in there at lower percentages, for […]
CircleCI Report Finds DevOps Teams Adjusting to New COVID-19 Normal
An annual State of Software Delivery report published today by CircleCI suggests that after a spike in developer activity last spring at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pace at which code is moving through a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has returned to normal levels even as developers continue to work from home. […]
Survey Finds Security Champions Fostering DevSecOps
A survey of 99 application development and IT security professionals suggests organizations that appoint a security champion within their application development teams are making more progress toward implementing best DevSecOps practices. According to the survey conducted by ZeroNorth, a provider of an application security automation and orchestration platform, 84% of respondents said they believe the […]
Survey Sees Faster Shift to Open Source Software
A survey of 638 IT professionals finds the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is, like other slumps, driving increased adoption of open source software. Conducted by Tidelift, a provider of commercial support and maintenance for open source projects, the survey finds 44% of respondents reporting their organizations are now more likely to […]
Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills
The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%). Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux […]
Survey Surfaces Lots of Edge Computing Diversity
A global survey of 1,652 published today by Eclipse Foundation suggests a flood is lifting all platform boats as IT organizations begin to build and deploy a wide range of edge computing applications. The survey finds artificial intelligence (30%) is the workload organizations plan to deploy on edge computing platforms, followed closely by control logic […]
Survey Uncovers Issues Even With Advanced IT Teams
Even in the best of times, IT teams struggle with myriad issues related to managing their application environments A survey of 1,000 C-level executives at software-as-a-service (SaaS) application providers finds that while the bulk of respondents are “highly confident” or “confident” that their cloud applications were running efficiently (91%), many also are still concerned about […]
New Survey Highlights Codebase Size Problems
Sourcegraph and Dimensional Research have released a survey of developers at large organizations, which shows a massive growth in codebase size, number of repositories in use and complexity concerns. “The Emergence of Big Code – A 2020 Survey of Software Professionals” is definitely intriguing reading, and a few of the results are eye-opening—such as the […]
Financial Services Rise Above in Database DevOps
Financial services, pat yourselves on the back. A new study from Redgate shows financial services have superior database DevOps and database monitoring compared to other sectors. Financial IT appears to outperform other industries with high-quality database monitoring benchmarks consistently. For example, financial services on average are far quicker to detect and remediate failed deployments. Below, […]
Survey Surfaces High Reliance on DevOps to Build and Deploy APIs
A survey of 13,586 IT professionals who work with application programming interfaces (APIs) published today by Postman, provider of an API development platform, finds best DevOps practices are now widely employed to both produce and consume APIs. The primary method through which teams working on APIs collaborate is by sharing URLs (42%). However, publishing API […]
Shifting Left With DevSecOps: ESG Report Exposes Difficulties
A recent report asks the tough questions about DevSecOps adoption, and the results are surprising In a world of increasing development velocity, companies are placing more responsibility on developers to enact quick deployments. Naturally, security is “shifting left” as well. Theoretically, DevSecOps sounds great, but it opens up many questions. Who exactly is responsible for […]
Survey Surfaces Impact of COVID-19 on DevOps Teams
A survey of 500 IT and engineering professionals across software and finance industries published today by Harness, a provider of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, suggests there is significant room to improve application development processes now that most DevOps teams are working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey finds only 43% of […]
Survey: Cloud Security, DevOps Emerging as Enterprise Priorities
A survey published today by 2nd Watch, a provider of IT services, finds that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud security and DevOps have emerged as the top two priorities for large enterprise IT organizations. The survey queried more than 100 IT directors working at companies with at least $500 million in annual […]
Pandemic Provides IT Teams a Chance to Shine
Few would argue that the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn’t dramatically changed enterprise IT. This is especially so when it comes to both the management of IT as well as the very relationship between IT staff and the rest of the business. But how many would have predicted that the relationship between IT and business leaders […]
Survey: DevOps Haves Benefiting Over Have-Nots
A global survey of 400 global IT executives and practitioners conducted by Longitude, an arm of Financial Times Group, on behalf of New Relic suggests organizations that have embraced best DevOps practices are starting to enjoy material financial benefits over rivals that have not yet made similar investments in modernizing application development processes. The survey […]
How COVID-19 Has Affected Digital Transformation
The current COVID-19 pandemic may have changed the way many of us work and impacted productivity, but digital transformation marches on. With technology arguably more important than ever, digital transformation needs acceleration, and companies are beginning their journey with the cloud. That’s according to results from a survey by cloud service provider Ancoris and the […]
Survey Finds IT Teams Rising to COVID-19 Challenge
In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been the ultimate test for IT teams. The bulk of many workforces overnight became remote workers. Many of those end users are now starting to return to the office, but no one knows for sure if they will be sent back home again because of another flare-up. A […]
Businesses Modernizing Apps in Wake of Pandemic
A survey of 5,000 business decision-makers, IT decision-makers and app developers published suggests organizations are taking advantage of the crisis created by the global COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the modernizing of apps using DevOps practices. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, the survey finds 80% of respondents said organizations must modernize the technologies […]
Survey Finds SRE Role Remains Largely Aspirational
Monitoring tools provider Catchpoint, in collaboration with the DevOps Institute, has published a survey that finds there is a significant gap between the tasks and duties that define the role of what a site reliability engineer (SRE) should be versus what is actually occurring within IT organizations that have hired SREs. Based on a survey […]
Report: Confidence in Digital Transformation Lacking
Results of a recent survey conducted by the Corporate Board Member Institute shows a majority of respondents see their organizations’ digital transformation efforts aren’t keeping pace with the current business environment. The survey polled more than 200 directors of public companies in February, before the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, and the results […]
Report: SD-WAN Shift to the Cloud Accelerates
The rate at which software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) are being consumed as a cloud service appears to be accelerating in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A global survey of 750 IT professionals conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Barracuda Networks finds over half of respondents (52%) are looking […]
Survey Sees Increased Agile Adoption During COVID-19
A report published by Digital.ai, the parent company of CollabNet VersionOne, finds 43% of organizations have increased their reliance on agile application development methodologies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 15% saying it has increased significantly in the last 90 days. The report also notes 33% of respondents say they have increased or […]