GitLab Survey Sees DevOps Gains as Developers Exercise More Control
A global survey of 3,650 software professionals published by GitLab respondents indicates developers are exercising more direct control over IT environments. More than a third of respondents (35%) said developers define and/or create the infrastructure their applications run on, with 14% actually monitoring and responding to infrastructure events. Additionally, 18% of developers instrument code for […]
Report: More Appreciate the Value of Observability
Observability may be a core tenet of any best DevOps practice, but the number of organizations that actually engage in it is still not nearly as high as it should. A survey of 400 software engineers published this week by Honeycomb, a provider of an observability platform, finds nearly half said they are not currently […]
Survey Surfaces Root Causes of DevSecOps Tension
Results of a survey published by SaltStack, a provider of IT automation tools, suggests tensions between cybersecurity and IT professionals on the one side and DevOps teams on the other are running high. According to the survey of 130 cybersecurity and IT leaders, 70% of respondents said their organization is sacrificing data security for faster […]
Survey Finds More Data Disruption Occurring
A global survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers with more than 250 employees conducted by Dell Technologies finds on average organizations managed 13.53 petabytes (PB) of data in 2019, a nearly 40% increase since 2018. The same survey also finds that as the amount of data has increased, so, too, has the cost of downtime. Those […]
DevOps Brings Pressure to Bear on Database Management
The rise of DevOps is starting to have a significant impact on the rate at which databases now need to be deployed and updated. A global survey of more than 2,000 developers, database specialists and IT leaders conducted by Redgate Software, a provider of tools for automating the management of databases, finds nearly half (49%) […]
Survey Sees Open Source Adoption, Quality Gains
A survey of 959 IT leaders published this week by Red Hat finds increased reliance on and adoption of open source software is now being driven by perceived higher quality as much as it is cost concerns. The survey finds higher quality of software (33%) was the top reason they chose open source, followed by […]
Are US Workers Threatened by Automation?
There’s been plenty of predictions about the impact of automation on the workforce: from enhancing the ability of workers to do their jobs to those who argue intelligent automation will eventually decimate the human workforce. The issue even made it to the Democratic presidential 2020 primary race with candidate Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend.” Still, if […]
Certificates a Fly in the DevOps Ointment
The way cybersecurity teams have managed certificates is turning out to be a major impedance that could best be addressed by more organizations adopting best DevSecOps practices in 2020. A survey of 108 attendees at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 conference conducted by Venafi, a provider of tools for assigning identities to machines, finds […]
Survey Sees More Complex API Challenges Ahead
A survey of more than 10,000 developers of application programming interfaces (APIs) suggests there’s lots of room for improving the overall efficiency of API lifecycle management. The survey was conducted by Postman, a provider of a platform for building APIs. Respondents on average said they only spend a quarter of their time (26%) on the […]
Survey: DevSecOps Progress Remains Elusive
Results of a survey of 103 IT professionals attending the recent DeveloperWeek Austin conference suggests that awareness of cybersecurity issues is clearly rising among developers, yet most organizations still have a long way to go toward before approaching anything resembling adoption of best DevSecOps practices. Conducted by WhiteHat Security, a unit of NTT Communications, the […]
Survey Sees Massive Adoption of Microservices
Under increasing pressure to innovate faster, a majority (84%) of organizations taking part in a recent survey have already embraced microservices. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of API management platform provider Kong, polled 200 senior IT leaders in organizations with more than 1,000 employees. Among the results, 89% of technology leaders agree […]
Testing Emerges as DevOps Hurdle in Mainframe Shops
A survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development using mainframes finds 90% believe automating more test cases could be the most important factor in their success, as the pressure to accelerate innovation increases. However, the same survey finds only 7% of organizations automate the execution of test cases involving mainframe code today. […]
Survey Surfaces Uneven Approaches to DevSecOps
A ZeroNorth survey shows implementing DevSecOps is rife with questions for many organizations, with no clear answers There’s general agreement that digital business transformation initiatives are driving an overall acceleration in the rate at which applications are developed. At the same time, however, given the critical nature of those applications, cybersecurity has never been more […]
Report: More Salesforce Customers Adopting DevOps
A survey of 201 executives who work in organizations that have adopted the Salesforce Lightning platform finds a surprising number are employing DevOps practices to customize Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Conducted by Beagle Research Group on behalf of Copado, a provider of a commercial continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce SaaS environments, the survey […]
Survey Suggests DevOps Drives Digital Business Transformation
A survey published this week by New Relic, a provider of IT monitoring services, suggests there is a high correlation between organizations that have embarked on digital business transformation initiatives and adoption of best DevOps practices. Revealed at the Futurestack conference hosted by New Relic, the survey 750 global senior IT decision-makers of enterprises with […]
ESG Survey Sees Long DevSecOps Road Ahead
A study published by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in collaboration with Data Theorem, a provider of tools for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) and mobile applications, finds that while a lot of progress has been made in terms of adopting DevSecOps, most organizations still have a very long road ahead before they can claim DevSecOps […]
Survey: DevSecOps Easier Said Than Done
While there’s clearly a lot of interest in best DevSecOps processes, a survey of more than 3,000 DevOps practitioners suggests adopting DevSecOps will require a lot of patience and perseverance. The “2019 State of DevOps Report,” co-written by Puppet, CircleCI and Splunk, ranks respondents on a scale of High, Medium and Low in terms of […]
DevSecOps Becomes a Higher Cloud-Native Priority
At the Cloud Native Security Summit, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) today revealed the results of a survey of 600 senior IT leaders that finds organizations are looking at DevSecOps as a way to address the complexities of managing and securing cloud-native applications. According to the survey results, 43% of respondents said their biggest challenge with […]
GitLab Survey Surfaces Major DevSecOps Challenges Ahead
A report based on a survey of 4,071 software professionals published this week by GitLab, a provider of a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform, found that while appreciation of the potential value of DevSecOps best practices is high, the ability to implement those practices is uneven at best. According to the survey, half […]
DevSecOps Survey Finds Failure to Communicate
While it’s generally agreed that shifting more cybersecurity responsibility onto the shoulders of developers is a good idea, a failure to communicate across application development and cybersecurity teams has contributed to little progress in achieving DevSecOps. A survey of 1,310 IT decision-makers conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Trend Micro […]
Survey Finds Reliance on APM Mainly Reactive
A survey of 358 strategic IT decision-makers in enterprise organizations across North America and Europe conducted by the market research firm GigaOm on behalf of SolarWinds, a provider of IT management tools, finds that roughly half of the respondents consider themselves proactive in their use of application performance management (APM) tools. That definition is based […]
Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Codefresh published the results of a survey of 130 developers that finds not only are nearly a third (32%) not using any type of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform at all, but 60% said their organization has yet to take full advantage of automation to accelerate application […]
Survey Finds Wide Gap Between DevOps Adoption and Success
A recent HBR survey shows there is work to be done to advance DevOps in organizations A survey of 654 subscribers to the Harvard Business Review found that while 86 percent of respondents said it is important for their organizations to be able to build and deploy software quickly, only 10 percent said they are […]