Another developer, Patrick Debois, did show up in the empty room, however. He was presenting a paper called “Agile Infrastructure and Operations” during the conference and Shafer’s session had caught his attention. The two later met up in a hallway and had a long talk. Three months later, they formed the Agile Systems Administration Group, whose goal was to foster greater collaboration between developers and systems administrators.

These events a decade ago are widely considered the “little bang” that gave birth to DevOps, the much-hyped movement that strives to unify development and operations through increased collaboration and automation in order to build, test and release software faster.

DevOps awareness and adoption clearly are on the rise. Nearly two-thirds of organizations were using DevOps to one degree or another by the end of last year, according to Gartner. Forrester labeled 2017 “the year of DevOps” and said its “questions and discussions with clients have shifted from ‘What is DevOps?’ to ‘How do I implement at scale?’ ”.

As more businesses that have been piloting DevOps in smaller teams and projects in contained environments expand these agile practices across the organisation, it’s a good time to ask what DevOps success looks, feels and smells like.

What are the telltale signs that DevOps has not only taken root in an organisation but has grown into a smooth machine powering a faster, better software development lifecycle?

I’d suggest that a company which has embedded the following four truths into its daily existence can say it is fulfilling DevOps’ promise. Here they are — the DevOps grand slam, if you will.

1. It’s the velocity, stupid.

Just as the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign simplified its winning formula with the phrase “it’s the economy, stupid,” DevOps is about one thing: shortening the software development lifecycle. If you measure the time it takes for a feature to be programmed, developed and deployed into production and that time is decreasing, you know your DevOps objectives are being met.

But how do you get there? This is where things often get complicated.

It’s important to remember DevOps’ true origins – a desire by developers to sidestep perceived obstacles on the operations side of the house in moving code into production faster.

Popular tools like Jenkins and Kubernetes were created by developers for developers to meet the excellent objective of faster release cycles, and they often work well in smaller teams executing one-off projects.

But these tools are not consistently battle-tested and production-ready. If a company is trying to manage DevOps at a larger scale the cookie-cutter templates with, say, Chef and Puppet aren’t going to cut it.

To make sure their DevOps strategy can successfully scale, companies need a smart tools approach. Which leads to #2…

2. DevOps doesn’t mean Dev and Ops must use the same tools.

While a telltale sign for a good working DevOps environment is a healthy collaboration between developers and operations, it’s a myth that each must use the same tools to achieve their mutual goal of delivering high-quality new services faster.

DevOps should not be the combining of developer and operations responsibilities, but rather a complementary relationship of equals. Operations should not be told to use tools that weren’t built for them. Operations should be able to use tools that were built for operations.

A healthy, mature DevOps culture doesn’t force tools made for developers down the operations staff’s throats and recognises that operations should be able to use the technology they feel is best for assuring the deployment of resilient, secure applications.

3. It’s not just DevOps, it’s DevSecOps.

More and more organisations are adopting the next level of DevOps – DevSecOps, which requires development, operations and security teams to work collaboratively throughout the application lifecycle to detect security vulnerabilities.

This “everybody is responsible for security” approach differs from traditional models where the security team gets involved only after code is nearly final and “hardens” it in a process that can take weeks or even months to complete.

If a company is moving to the DevSecOps model, chances are it successfully mastered DevOps principles first and is applying lessons learned.

4. Orchestration is crucial.

The DevOps world is strewn with moving parts – the aforementioned tools and others like Mesos… PaaS… Docker container managers… and on and on. This hodgepodge is difficult to wrangle into a coherent, consolidated workflow.

So if you’re not running scalable, automated orchestration (which is the responsibility of the operations team, by the way), you’re not properly prepared to run container clusters, and that means you’re not really doing DevOps right.

Organizations that want to succeed with DevOps must understand that orchestration tools have become essential as part of the DevOps process.

As DevOps enters its second decade and adoption continues to grow, it’s important that organisations know what success looks like.

Written by Scott Willson, Product Marketing Director for Continuous at CA Technologies

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According to Oracle’s co-founder, Larry Ellison, in a blog post: “Both Oracle’s SaaS and PaaS business are doing great.

“The software company also has large expectations for its IaaS offering.”

‘Costs less than AWS’

According to him, Oracle’s new Gen2 IaaS is faster and costs less than Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Currently, Oracle is investing in IaaS because of Amazon recently launching Aurora.

According to Amazon’s blog post, Aurora is “a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database built for the cloud which combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.”

Improving IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings

Although SaaS and PaaS pushed Oracle’s cloud revenues to US$1.2 billion, he believes that “IaaS will be growing even faster and before long, it will become Oracle’s largest cloud business.”

To stay on top of the game, Oracle must improve its IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings, according to Market Realist.

If Oracle puts its main focus on IaaS, it should potentially attract customers to its cloud offerings, as well as compete with its biggest rival Amazon.

Written by Leah Alger

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Taking advantage of being one of Microsoft’s ExpressRoute partners, and leveraging its low latency cloud connection services such as Multi-Cloud Connect and Software-Defined Exchange Service, it has “achieved fast and secure connections to Azure”.

Microsoft’s Gold Cloud Platform status has now been awarded to the following NTT groups worldwide:

• NTT Communications
• NTT Com Manages Services SAU
• NTT America
• NTT Europe
• NTT Com Asia (Hong Kong)
• NTT Singapore
• NTT Com ICT Solutions (Australia)
• As well as two Asian based subsidiaries; Emerio and Netmagic.

Damian Skendrovic, NTT CEO, said: “Gold status is an important recognition of our competency in the cloud arena.

“With Microsoft Cloud Platform Competency, we are helping enterprises to manage their hybrid cloud infrastructures, delivering on SaaS and PaaS solutions available in the Azure and Azure Stack marketplace that will enable our customers to optimise on performance and reach their business goals.”

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) remains the fastest growing sector with a 47% growth as Microsoft and Amazon lead the pack.

The second fastest growing area is enterprise software as a service (SaaS) with a 31% growth – Salesforce and Microsoft being the leading vendors.

John Dinsdale, chief analyst and research director at Synergy, said to CloudTech: “We tagged 2015 as the year when cloud became mainstream and 2016 as the year when the cloud started to dominate many IT market segments. In 2017, the cloud was the new normal.

‘Cloud technologies generate revenues’

“Major barriers to cloud adoption are now almost a thing of the past, with previously perceived weaknesses such as security now often seen as strengths.

“Cloud technologies are now generating massive revenues for cloud service providers and technology vendors and we forecast that current market growth rates will decline only slowly over the next five years.”

The research also found the weakest areas in revenue includes the private and public cloud led by Cisco and Dell.

Written by Leah Alger

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The digital performance management company’s participation in the programme will be available on SAP App Centre, providing SAP partners and customers with an innovative AI-powered, fully automated, stack performance monitoring solution for the Cloud Foundry stack on SAP Cloud Platform.

Matthias Scharer, vice president for business operations at Dynatrace, announced to Business Wire: “You need to have digital performance management built into digital services and applications in today’s hyper-complex, hyper-scale IT ecosystems.

“Being in the SAP App Center means Dynatrace’s powerful capabilities are available in easily consumable, preconfigured build packs. This helps those building and running applications on SAP Cloud Platform to monitor workloads with ease and fully optimise performance across hybrid and cloud native environments, and throughout the entire application lifecycle.”

With comprehensive application development services and capabilities, SAP Cloud Platform is SAP’s agile platform as-a-service (PaaS) for digital transformation.

‘Allowing businesses to leverage information’

The platform allows businesses to collect, manage, analyse and leverage information of all types, to extend and connect to business systems, and to innovate new edge scenarios to allow businesses to run better.

Marc Geall, senior vice president at SAP Cloud Platform Ecosystem, added to Business Wire: “The pressure to innovate faster while supporting performance has never been higher. Performance management is critical, and with the Dynatrace solution, partners are primed for building apps on our cloud. It extends the value of our innovation pack for SAP Cloud Platform to help optimize performance of apps based on SAP Cloud Platform.”

“SAP partners can use the Dynatrace solution at no cost to monitor their Cloud Foundry development environment while they create apps for SAP Cloud Platform – a real benefit for our partner community.”

Through Cloud Foundry build pack Dynatrace will also be available under a commercial license for customers and partners via the SAP App Centre to monitor workloads on SAP Cloud Platform.

Written by Leah Alger

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New research from analyst firm Research and Markets shows that DevOps is shifting from being an emerging trend in the IT market to one that is gaining popularity at a rapid pace.

Why is DevOps platform market seeing such growth?

Thanks to providing a holistic IT environment for the automation of software development processes, DevOps tools are becoming much more popular within the IT industry, in turn increasing the need for a standardised platform.

The need for a standardised platform

According to the report, software development processes are now requiring standardised platforms in order to bridge the gap between software developers and operational teams.

Commenting on the report, an analyst from the research team said: “PaaS is built where the entire IT environment is designed to support test and development processes. Instances of PaaS on public cloud include IBM Bluemix, CloudFoundry from Pivotal, and the Google App Engine whereas for PaaS on private cloud include hosted CloudFoundry. Cloud platform vendors usually offer automation and management tools to consolidate and integrate applications directly into their cloud platforms. As a result, IT organisations get better automation features in the same turnkey cloud platform. This has made PaaS essential for those organisations who approached DevOps and want to automate, test, and develop services.”

Key DevOps players

The report recognises firms such as CA Technologies, IBM Corp., Puppet Inc., Rackspace Inc., and Red Hat Inc., as key players in the global DevOps platform market.
Other prominent vendors in the market are: CFEngine, Chef, Cisco, Clarive, CollabNet, DBmaestro, Dell, Docker, HP, Inedo, Infosys, Microsoft, SaltStack, VersionOne, and VMware.

Edited from press release by Jordan Platt

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