Is DevOps more effective and efficient compared to traditional operations?  Rebel Labs seem to think so and it has a compelling report that backs up its claims.

According to Rebel Labs’  IT Ops & DevOps Productivity Report 2013 – Tools, Methodologies and People report, DevOps is the key initiative that delivers much benefits to engineers, managers, and businesses.

Rebel Labs conducted a survey that involves over 600 IT professionals and asked them about which activities consume their work weeks, why failures happen and how teams recover, which tools & technologies they use and ask whether teams are truly in control of their software releases.  It then compared the results to what traditional Ops teams answered to the following questions and found out that DevOps team have it figured out.

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Why DevOps trump traditional Ops

According to the report, DevOps won because:

• DevOps teams spend more time automating repetitive tasks, improving infrastructure, working on self improvement, and doing social activities compared to traditional Ops;
• DevOps teams recover faster from failures, less than 10 minutes faster than traditional Ops; and
• DevOps teams release software faster, about half as much time traditional Ops does it.

The report also highlighted the productivity tools DevOps teams use that make their work much faster and it includes Selenium and Junit for Test Automation, Puppet and Chef for Infrastructure Configuration, Nagios for Monitoring, Bash Shell Script, Python, Ruby and Perl for Scripting Languages, and Vi/Vim/Gvim as Popular Editors.

For more of Rebel Labs’ report, check out the full report by downloading it here.