Two-thirds of IT leaders want DevOps skills to modernize operations

A new survey of enterprise IT operations leaders by infrastructure monitoring and management specialist OpsRamp reveals that 64 percent indicate DevOps is the most sought-after skill. Other in-demand skills are cloud certifications (61 percent), industry knowledge (56 percent), data science (47 percent) and machine learning (44 percent). Among other findings, nearly 60 percent of organizations have more than half of their mission-critical workloads running in the public cloud. The report suggests effective IT teams must now consider the cloud, along with microservice application architectures, serverless infrastructures, and pay-as-you-go pricing, as a fundamental approach to accelerate digital transformation. The study also… [Continue Reading]