Cost of downtime
The average total cost of unplanned application downtime per year is $1.25 billion to $2.5 billion.
Servers now run more apps than ever. The average hourly cost of an infrastructure failure at large enterprises is $100,000 per hour.
Most large organizations are not too big to fail; they just can’t afford it. The average cost of a critical application failure per hour is $500,000 to $1 million.
The average number of deployments per month is expected to double in two years. Demand for outside management expertise is likely to increase accordingly.
IT organizations that have tried to custom-adjust current tools to meet DevOps practices have a failure rate of 80%, thus making tool replacement and/or addition a critical requirement.
There is an expectation that DevOps-led projects will accelerate the delivery of capabilities to the customer by an average of 15% to 20%.
The average cost percentage (per year) of a single application’s development, testing, deployment and operations life cycle considered wasteful and unnecessary is 25%.
Only 43% of respondents are currently using DevOps practices, while another 40% are currently evaluating DevOps.