Along with cloud, we’re getting more DevOps and IT self-service

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.

The cloud computing boom is fueling an unprecedented level of interest in DevOps — to the point that close to two-thirds of organizations have now adopted this practice. That’s the word from RightScale, Inc. which just released a survey of 1,068 IT managers and professionals, exploring the impact of cloud computing on IT operations and practices. Along with greater adoption of DevOps, there’s a parallel movement to self-service IT, that long-sought-after holy grail of user-centric computing.

Overall, the survey found that when it comes to cloud, everybody’s doing it. Ninety-four percent, in fact say their organizations surveyed are running applications or experimenting with infrastructure-as-a-service, and 87 percent of organizations are using public cloud. These numbers are much higher than most I’ve seen (typically in the 30 percent to 50 percent range), and may incorporate those people running pilots or merely noodling around with cloud services at this point…

But, gray areas aside, the survey also caught a rising interest in new ways of managing IT. Along with the rise of cloud, there’s been a concurrent rise in DevOps, which brings developers in synch with operations teams. DevOps is now practiced at 62 percent of organizations, up from 54 percent in a similar survey conducted in 2013…

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