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The research highlighted that scaling DevOps practices is critical to accelerating the release of high-quality digital services . However , siloed teams , manual approaches and increasingly complex tooling slow innovation and make teams more reactive than proactive , impeding their ability to drive value for the business . The 2021 global report , Deep Observability and Advanced AIOps are Key to Scaling DevOps Practices , reveals :

• Increased pressure to release faster . On average , organisations release software updates to their critical applications every 41 days and this frequency is expected to increase by 58 % in the next two years .

• Demands for faster releases put quality at risk . In fact , nearly a quarter of respondents ( 22 %) admit they ’ re often under so much pressure to meet the demand for faster innovation that they must sacrifice code quality .

• Near universal agreement that DevOps is critical to achieve speed and quality . 98 % of respondents say extending DevOps to more applications is key for Digital Transformation and optimising customer experience .

• Manual tasks are a barrier to DevOps success . More than a quarter ( 27 %) of DevOps teams ’ time is spent on manual CI / CD tasks , which reduces time spent on innovation .

• DevOps leaders see increased automation and end-to-end observability as keys to DevOps success . Organisations are investing in the automation of manual CI / CD tasks ( 62 %), eliminating manual incident response ( 62 %) and end-to-end observability ( 45 %) to boost developer productivity .

• A unified platform is necessary for DevOps success . 74 % of respondents say end-to-end observability will be essential to DevOps in the future and 71 % of respondents say a unified platform that seamlessly integrates their toolchains will be critical to scaling DevOps beyond a single lighthouse project .

“ In today ’ s hyper-digital age , organisations must deliver innovation faster than ever before . DevOps and SRE practices are critical to achieving this goal , but organisations are struggling to scale these to drive maximum speed , quality and reliability ,” said Andreas Grabner , Director , Strategic Partners at Dynatrace .

“ Development , DevOps and SRE teams are still grappling with time-consuming manual processes , siloed cultures and an explosion of alerts from their monitoring tools , which hinders their efforts to accelerate Digital Transformation . To overcome these challenges , organisations need a more intelligent solution that combines end-toend observability , precise insights and continuous automation . This will help teams to work together more effectively and consistently deliver high-quality software faster and more efficiently .” p

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