The survey was conducted at the 2013 DevOps conference in Boulder, CO which was co-founded by JumpCloud and SoftLayer. The majority of attendees were from Foundry Group, TechStars, and Bullet Time Ventures companies. Two major themes emerged: automation is critical for success but many organizations lack time due to too many tasks and priorities. The survey also found that DevOps practices are being adopted more quickly than expected by smaller organizations and that basic tasks like patching are still too manual for many.