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Despite Tech Layoffs, Developer Shortage Continues
Well over one-third (37%) of respondents to a recent industry survey reported that recruiting developers with the needed skills would continue to be a challenge through 2023. More than 2,000 developers and IT professionals participated in the Infragistics survey from December 2022 to January 2023. The survey also found developers and IT professionals are just […]
Mar 2, 2023 · 3 minAll articles by George V. Hulme
Showing 1–24One-Third of Developers Seeking New Job
With the relentless pace of enterprise digital transformation efforts, even in this softening economy, developers still face an enviable job market. The number of open job positions in computer occupations is greater than 804,000, according to National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis and, at 326,000 vacancies, software developers have by far the largest number […]
Despite Democratization, IT Department More Central Than Ever
There’s been talk of the decentralization of IT within organizations for years, and events of recent years have certainly accelerated this trend. Yet, IT has never been more important to the success of the organization. According to ManageEngine’s newly released IT at Work: 2022 and Beyond study, an increasing number of IT-related decisions are being […]
GitLab Gets an Overhaul
GitLab launched its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, which the company said pulls together new DevOps and data science capabilities into the platform. With GitLab 15, GitLab says it provides (or soon will provide) continuous security and compliance, enterprise Agile planning, visibility and observability, workflow automation and increased […]
IT Spending to Reach $4.4 Trillion in 2022
For those who doubted the digital transformation trend, it’s become clear that it’s not a marketing fad or a buzzword but is now standard operating protocol for businesses. A forecast released this week from market research firm Gartner confirms this, as the projected increase in application software, infrastructure software and managed services spending highlights that […]
Successful Digital Transformation: It’s About Strategy
While having a mature digital enterprise helped organizations to better survive – and even thrive, in some cases – the pandemic, that’s not the primary reason why organizations will continue to invest in their digital transformation efforts. According to new research from consultancy Deloitte, businesses will continue to invest in their digital transformation capabilities to […]
Manufacturing Workers Eager to Digitally Upskill
Anyone who has worked in machining within the past 70 years knew that the future of machining was automation. In the 1940s, computer pioneer John T. Parsons and engineer Frank L. Stulen invented, via a contract with the U.S. Air Force, numerical control milling machines. The machines were designed to help the Air Force produce […]
DevOps Jobs Remain in High Demand, Survey Shows
There’s good news for those interested in a career in DevOps or development — there are plenty of opportunities. And there’s even room for those with unconventional backgrounds, according to a newly released report from CodinGame. The CodinGame Developer Survey 2021, which is based on responses from 15,000 international developers and HR professionals, found that […]
AIOps Builds Organizational Efficiency, Survey Finds
Enterprises entered 2020 with big plans. Post-pandemic, AIOps could help them achieve those goals, according to a new research survey from Digitate and CorporateLeader. Enterprises entered 2020 with the best-laid plans; many had efforts lined up to expand their use of cloud services and continue their steady efforts to digitally transform their businesses. Then the […]
Plutora’s Bob Davis: Work From Home and Value Stream Management
American writer Orison Swett Marden said, “Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” After the year that’s passed, with operations and development teams forced to scatter and work remotely, it’s a sentiment DevOps teams […]
To Accelerate Digital Transformation, Accelerate Data Transformation
Successful digital transformations are not possible without successful data transformation. After all, it’s data—and the ability to analyze that data—about an organization’s customers, employees, infrastructure, market dynamics, supply chain, business-technology systems and more that make digital transformation possible. However, last year Gartner said that “information as an asset” is still in its infancy. “Data and […]
COVID-19, Digital Transformation and Teams: Q&A With Red Hat’s Kevin Behr
Even prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, enterprise teams found themselves strained as they pressed to move digital transformation goals from whiteboard to reality. Then along came the big push to work from home and many transformations that were planned to occur years from now were put into action. So how are enterprise teams faring […]
Low-Code the ‘Connective Tissue’ of Transformation
Low-code is helping enterprises bridge siloed data, systems and workers for faster digital transformation Enterprises today are racing to digitally transform their business-technology systems. Those enterprises that create the most satisfying digital customer experiences and successfully streamline internal processes in their back offices will be rewarded with not only increased sales but a more agile […]
Surveys Show COVID-19 Changes to Enterprises Likely Long-Term
The global response by organizations to the novel coronavirus pandemic has been transformational. A recent survey of more than 500 senior decision-makers in the UK revealed just how much the virus forced enterprises to innovate. The independent survey, funded by London-based tech developer Studio Graphene, questioned about more than 500 decision-makers within UK enterprises. Since […]
Report: As WFH Took Hold, Few Adjusted Their Security Posture
In March of this year, how employees worked (if they were fortunate enough to be able to continue to work), changed dramatically following state-led shelter-in-place orders. At first, it was hoped the shift would be a matter of weeks. But as the pandemic continued and weeks stretched to months—and now with more organizations extending their […]
Healthcare Increasingly Embracing DevOps
Speed and efficiency rank high as reasons why among respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations that have adopted DevOps While the novel coronavirus pandemic has hurt many industries, few have faced the immediate difficulties that the healthcare industry has had to manage. While trying to deliver care during one of the most significant healthcare […]
Pandemic Provides IT Teams a Chance to Shine
Few would argue that the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn’t dramatically changed enterprise IT. This is especially so when it comes to both the management of IT as well as the very relationship between IT staff and the rest of the business. But how many would have predicted that the relationship between IT and business leaders […]
SREs Tasked With More To Improve Digital Experiences
The digitization of the enterprise has never moved so swiftly, and never have enterprise environments been as complex to manage. And, never have more businesses been as dependent on their infrastructure and operations being unfaltering. According to a new survey and accompanying report from Catchpoint and the DevOps Institute, site reliability engineers (SREs) and teams […]
COVID-19 Long Tail Budget Impact
Technology budgets have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study from online CIO networking and information hub, Pulse. The pandemic, and its resulting shutdown, will likely continue to have a substantial impact on technology budgets for some time. The initial budgetary impact was substantial. When COVID-19 first arrived, […]
Work from Home: Changing Enterprise Risk and Careers
In recent weeks, there have been a slew of organizations announcing that their work from home policies will be extended through the end of the year such as is the case with Google and Facebook, or perhaps indefinitely such as Twitter and Square. It’s good news to many technology workers who, according to a recent […]
Surviving Through the New Normal
As enterprises move from the first phase of the pandemic to the reopening phase, they’re going to have to determine what tech investments going forward will provide the most value in the their new normal. Emad Georgy, founder and CTO at consulting firm Georgy Technology Leadership, said that while overall tech spending will remain down, […]
Need for Increased Training — Strained Budgets Strain Enterprise IT Teams
As enterprises have increasingly embraced cloud, hybrid IT environments and DevOps methodologies, many of the old siloes associated with IT departments have crumbled—while demand for training and skills that reflect new technology requirements have risen considerably. This new reality was reflected in the findings of a new survey from IT management software provider SolarWinds, and […]
Coronavirus Impact: Enterprises Must Focus on What Works
As the economic slowdown continues, CIOs, CFOs and enterprise technology teams continue to grapple with frozen budgets and how their enterprise will keep their operations functioning as they attempt to move forward with crucial digital transformation efforts, and possibly shelve those initiatives deemed less critical. How are CIOs deciding what projects get postponed? Many projects […]
The Way Forward: Digital Resiliency Wins
As we wrote in Digital Transformation: Digitally Resilient Organizations, digitally resilient enterprises have built themselves business-technology platforms that are elastic, agile and can correctly position themselves to securely meet current business demands. These enterprises are also constantly learning from their data and adjusting as markets, workforce and customers demand. These enterprises have also eliminated the […]