How DevOps Helps Grease the Gears of the Application Economy

How DevOps Helps Grease the Gears of the Application Economy

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Written By
Darryl K. Taft
Darryl K. Taft
Jan 27, 2015
2 minute read
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How DevOps Helps Grease the Gears of the Application Economy

1 - How DevOps Helps Grease the Gears of the Application Economy

by Darryl K. Taft


Applications Needed

2 - Applications Needed

In the app economy, it is applications that define the customer experience.


High Expectations

3 - High Expectations

More than nine out of 10 executives face increased pressure to release apps more quickly.


Increased Deployments

4 - Increased Deployments

DevOps enables enterprises to increase the pace and rate of software or services deployments.


Global Survey

5 - Global Survey

The CA study, conducted by Vanson Bourne, featured 1,425 senior IT and line-of-business executives at enterprise organizations with revenues of $500 million or more in financial services, health care, retail, telecommunications and media/entertainment industries.


DevOps Drivers

6 - DevOps Drivers

Forty-two percent of respondents said DevOps helps improve the performance of applications, while 29 percent said they are driven to DevOps because it enables simultaneous deployment across platforms.


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Leaders vs. Laggards

7 - Leaders vs. Laggards

The CA study showed that 49 percent of respondents from companies that are leading in the app economy said they are using DevOps, but only 6 percent of respondents from companies lagging behind said they use it.


DevOps Skills

8 - DevOps Skills

Sixty-three percent of respondents said they are hiring folks with DevOps skills, and 51 percent said they would hire a consulting firm with DevOps expertise.


DevOps Tools

9 - DevOps Tools

According to the survey, the top tools needed for DevOps are application performance management tools, followed by performance testing and then functional testing tools, among others.


DevOps Obstacles

10 - DevOps Obstacles

Security or compliance concerns ranked as the biggest challenge to DevOps adoption in the survey. Organizational complexity was another big challenge.


DevOps Benefits

11 - DevOps Benefits

Survey respondents said some of the major benefits for adopting DevOps include higher frequency of services deployments and more collaboration between departments.


More Benefits

12 - More Benefits

Other benefits of DevOps include faster time to market, less time fixing applications, and lower development testing and operations.

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