A survey of 1.300 CIOs shows that growing cloud complexity is an increasing challenge for companies. The data explosion through cloud-native technology stacks exceeds human management capabilities. Only monitoring and data analysis solutions can keep track.
Dynatrace, the "Software Intelligence Company," has released the results of an independent global survey of 1.303 CIOs and senior cloud and IT managers. The results show that with the increasing trend towards cloud-native architectures, the data generated in such environments exceeds the ability of current solutions to produce meaningful analytics. CIOs are finding that their teams rely on several different monitoring and data analysis solutions to maintain observability and security. This makes it difficult to find answers quickly and drive the digital transformation forward. The free Global CIO Report 2022 “How to Tame the Data Explosion and Overcome the Complexity of the Cloud” is available here.
Key Results of the Study
- 71 percent of CIOs believe managing the data explosion generated by cloud-native technology stacks is beyond human capabilities.
- More than three-quarters (77 percent) say their IT environment changes at least once a minute.
- The CIOs surveyed stated that their teams use an average of 9 monitoring tools across their entire technology stack, but have only XNUMX percent observability across their IT environment.
- 59 percent of CIOs believe that without a more automated approach to IT operations, their teams will soon be overwhelmed and overwhelmed due to the increasing complexity of their technology stack.
- 64 percent of CIOs say it has become more difficult to attract and retain enough skilled IT Ops and DevOps professionals to manage and maintain cloud-native stacks.
"Multicloud and cloud-native architectures are critical for organizations to achieve their digital transformation goals," said Bernd Greifeneder, founder and chief technology officer at Dynatrace. “While organizations are reaping the benefits of the flexibility and scalability of these technologies, the explosion of observability and security data they are producing is becoming increasingly difficult to manage and analyze. Existing tools - and there can be dozens of them - keep data in silos. This is what makes it difficult and expensive to get insights when organizations need them. As a result, they find it difficult to achieve the highest security and performance standards for their digital services.”
More insights from the CIO Report
- 45 percent of CIOs say it's too costly to manage the vast amount of observability and security data with existing analytics solutions. Therefore, they only keep the most important data.
- On average, organizations collect only 10 percent of observability data for query and analysis.
- Nearly two-thirds of CIOs complain that the costs and delays of reindexing and rehydration make it difficult to capitalize on growing data volumes.
- 43 percent of CIOs believe current approaches to collecting and storing observability data are not meeting future needs.
- 93 percent of CIOs say AIOps and automation are becoming increasingly important to alleviate shortages of skilled IT, development and security professionals. They also avoid teams being overburdened by the complexity of modern cloud and development environments.
“In a sea of data, individual data points are much more valuable when they are in context. That's why teams put a lot of effort into correlating different data streams," continues Greifeneder. “But today's manual approaches are too reactive and too slow – and they miss the most important insights. Teams desperately need a new approach to analyzing and managing observability and security data. AI and automation should underpin this approach and be able to unify all data and keep its relationships and dependencies current. As a result, organizations can maximize the value of their data and people, reduce time spent on simple manual tasks, and enable faster, safer innovation.”
Background of the study
The CIO Report, "How to Tame the Data Explosion and Overcome the Complexity of the Cloud," is based on a global survey of 1.303 CIOs and senior IT professionals working in large organizations with more than 1.000 employees, conducted by Coleman Parkes on behalf of Dynatrace responsible for cloud and IT operations management. The sample included 200 respondents from the United States, 100 from Latin America, 603 from Europe, 150 from the Middle East, and 250 from Asia Pacific.
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