CII - The Truth About Siloed Automation
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OVERVIEW
Now more than ever, companies are being asked to "do more with less." Less people. Less budget. The phrase has
become so overused these days that some workers bristle any time they hear it; others tune it out altogether. So,
it is no surprise that the need for ITOps, DevOps, CloudOps, FinOps, and SecOps to properly leverage automation
for cloud-related operations and processes has become more than just lip service. But are companies operating in
vastly inefficient ways because they lack a "home for automations" – a central repository for best "automations"
and elements that can be shared and re-used system-wide across team and regions?
This CII (CloudBolt Industry Insights) report was designed to gauge the reality of silos of automation across
enterprises. Do they leave disparate groups re-inventing the same solutions to common problems? Are these
groups completely unaware that someone else may have previously developed a best practice/approved
approach to a given automation challenge? And how prevalent is the problem and the related issues?
Using Gartner's Pulse Survey Platform in late 2022, we received responses from 350 senior IT and DevOps
leaders at companies with more than 5,000 employees globally (see Appendix for a more detailed audience break-
down and complete survey data). Respondents' answers make one thing very clear: the home for automations
remains a siloed mess.
