Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 06 | Page 28

TRENDING Andreas Grabner, DevOps Activist, Dynatrace the future. However, the speed of releases can come at a cost. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of CIOs admitted they are forced to compromise between faster innovation and the need to ensure customers have a great “ MODERN ORGANISATIONS SUCCEED OR FAIL BASED ON HOW RAPIDLY THEY CAN INNOVATE IN THE NEW ENTERPRISE CLOUD. software experience. “Every organisation on the planet is a software company these days. Market leaders like Amazon are releasing multiple software updates every second. Consequently, the modern approach to delivering software is about agile, fast development cycles and releasing into dynamic, hybrid multi-cloud environments,” said Andreas Grabner, DevOps Activist, Dynatrace. “Yet end-users also expect the steady flow of new features and updates to work perfectly, without compromise. The challenge for IT is to deliver fast, while moving to a cloud-native architecture and maintaining user experience.” The new global CIO report, Speed of Innovation in the Cloud: The Top 5 Challenges looks at the pains organisations face as they strive for new heights of agility and speed. Key findings include: Cloud enables agility but CIOs struggle with: • Ensuring software performance isn’t negatively impacted (67%) • Identifying if moving an application Perform Europe, the event at which the research was announced 28 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com