Quality and security suffer in the push for digital transformation

A new survey of 1,300 CIOs and senior DevOps managers in large organizations finds it’s getting harder for IT teams to maintain software reliability and security amid the rapid acceleration of digital transformation and rising complexity of cloud-native environments. The study from Dynatrace finds 90 percent of organizations say their digital transformation has accelerated in the past 12 months. 78 percent of organizations deploy software updates into production every 12 hours or less, and 54 percent say they do so at least once every two hours. However DevOps teams spend 31 percent of their time on manual tasks involving detecting code quality issues and vulnerabilities, reducing the time spent on innovation. In addition 55 percent of organizations make tradeoffs between quality, security, and user experience in order to meet the need for rapid transformation. "It’s difficult for teams to accelerate the pace of innovation while also maintaining the highest quality and security standards," says Bernd Greifeneder, founder and chief technology officer at Dynatrace. "More frequent software deployments, combined with complex cloud-native architectures, make it easier for errors and vulnerabilities to escape into production where they impact customer experience and create risk. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day […]

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