The good news: Businesses seemingly activate new cloud applications each day. The bad news: IT executives in midmarket and large organizations say they're struggling with ongoing cloud management, and many businesses still lack basic DevOps best practices, new survey results reveal.Among the latest data points:42% of IT executives said their internal teams don’t have the expertise and/or resources to migrate applications to the cloud; and 39% said they don’t have the ability to optimize cloud deployments for cost and performance; and 34% said they’d be unable to manage cloud technologies on an ongoing basis. Meanwhile, 33% of IT executives said their most skilled staff is working “just to keep the lights on.” Those data points emerged from a survey of 200 IT executives in midsize and large U.S. companies, organized by NetEnrich. Participating companies had annual revenues of between $400 million and $10 billion.Roughly 97% of respondents said they’re moving applications and workloads into a public, private or hybrid cloud environment. ChannelE2E's reaction: The figure isn't surprising -- where else, after all, can a business put a workload these days besides public, private or hybrid? Fully 68% said that DevOps has been integrated well into their traditional IT and tech operations teams. ChannelE2E's Reaction: It sounds like survey participants were a bit too generous when describing their own DevOps progress, especially since DevOps is so new to so many companies. Moreover: In the same survey findings, 58 percent of IT departments said they don't yet have a DevOps team.
CSPs, DevOps, IT management, Midmarket
Midmarket Businesses Reveal Cloud Management, DevOps Struggles

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