Enterprises are expecting rapid advances in the uptake of DevOps at scale over the next five years, according to new survey findings by Fujitsu.
With its focus on unifying software development and software operation, the majority of organizations with more than 500 employees surveyed see DevOps as a valuable approach to cope with continuous change, enabling greater agility and decreasing cost.
Although just 20 percent currently have mature DevOps in place, IT decision makers expect a dramatic shift. Results from the Fujitsu State of Orchestration 2018/19 survey confirm that almost eight in 10 (78 percent) expect enterprises to use DevOps to deliver applications and services at scale within the next five years.
Leading independent analyst firm IDC recently confirmed Fujitsu as a ‘leading player’ in the increasingly popular field of DevOps, citing Fujitsu’s key strengths in its services offering, delivery model and portfolio benefits. However, current DevOps maturity is still low, according to decision makers surveyed by Fujitsu at enterprises in Australia, Finland, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA.
Just under half of respondents (45 percent) currently have DevOps categorized as ‘established’ (25 percent) or ‘fully-established’ (20 percent). Only one in four have completed a DevOps pilot and 22 percent are running or planning a pilot. But only eight percent of the sample had no plans to explore DevOps. The key reasons for pursuing a DevOps model, say those interviewed, are to cope better with continuous change and improvements (42 percent), to become faster and more able to support business change (37 percent) and to decrease costs (36 percent).
Cloud orchestration seen as the key to unlocking truly-effective digital transformation
Fujitsu’s survey reveals a growing realization among large enterprises that cloud orchestration holds the key to unlocking truly effective digital transformation. A significant majority of respondents (81 percent) anticipate a more widespread use of software containers to make orchestration more effective over the next five years.
Further predictions include:
• An increased adoption of microservices architecture (75 percent)
• The widespread use or orchestration of cloud native, digital technologies (83 percent)
• Autonomous services management decisions with minimal human intervention (83 percent) and autonomous technical operations (82 percent)
Brad Mallard, CTO, Digital Technology Services at Fujitsu EMEIA, comments: “DevOps is key to transforming service delivery and enabling businesses to take advantage of the ever-faster evolving capabilities of the cloud. We’re seeing more organizations embrace DevOps multi-disciplinary teams to deliver and evolve their digital vision. The minority have implemented this at scale although the majority are still experimenting and trying to restructure their organization around a new concept.
“The momentum behind DevOps is accelerating for very good reasons—high velocity delivery of products, applications and services with DevOps promises to outpace competitors who are stuck using conventional methods,” continues Mallard. “We are seeing a very clear expectation that DevOps will go mainstream within the next five years, and likely even sooner for organizations planning to accelerate past their competition. With Fujitsu confirmed as a leading DevOps player by a recent IDC report, our advice to organizations is not to delay, but to start thinking about DevOps deployments today.”
