Fragile to agile: New SolarWinds study finds IT resilience requires a holistic approach

SolarWinds released its 2025 IT Trends Report, “Fragile to Agile: The State of Operational Resilience.” The report captures the current state of operational resilience and how companies are navigating their most pressing IT challenges. In partnership with UserEvidence, SolarWinds surveyed more than 600 IT leaders across nine countries to assess how organisations define, measure, and achieve operational resilience in a rapidly evolving landscape.

The findings show that while nine in 10 IT professionals describe their organisations as resilient, fewer than half feel confident handling core challenges like:

• Bring-your-own-device policies (26%)
• Managing increasing user expectations (36%)
• Artificial intelligence (38%)
• Remote and distributed workforces (45%)
• Managing cyberthreats (52%)

“When faced with IT problems and disruptions, urgency may pressure companies to turn to tactical technology fixes, like new tools or innovations,” said RJ Gazarek, senior director of product marketing at SolarWinds. “However, as this report suggests, technology without a holistic game plan ...