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In DEVOPSdigest's first annual list of DevOps Predictions, experts — analysts and consultants, and the top vendors — offer thoughtful, insightful, often controversial and sometimes contradictory predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2016. Part 5 is the final installment of DevOps predictions.
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DEVOPS AND CONTINUOUS DELIVERY DRIVE REVENUE GROWTH
DevOps and Continuous Delivery are intimately intertwined, both with one another and with revenue growth. In effect, applying DevOps principles across the lifecycle smoothes the way or “greases the wheels” for efficient delivery of application code. Indeed, in EMA’s latest survey, almost 90% of the respondents reported their companies are utilizing both, and almost 20% are delivering new code daily or more often. Respondents report business benefits including higher levels of customer satisfaction, faster revenue growth, and better competitive differentiation from their Continuous Delivery initiatives.
Julie Craig
Research Director, Application Management, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
LARGER ENTERPRISES EMBRACE MICROSERVICES
While the theory behind microservices became popular in 2015, adoption has been primarily by smaller, more agile companies, which has spawned other small companies creating tooling services for this new infrastructure. In 2016, microservices will move from theory to practice among larger enterprises, and the foundational work will mature as well as clear winners among microservice tooling companies.
Frank Stratton
Co-founder and CTO, Runscope
DEVOPS FACES CONTAINERIZATION CHALLENGE
DevOps will be dealing with the sloppy mess that will result from undisciplined containerization. Building and maintaining images (even small ones) requires a significant amount of operations discipline that is largely foreign to software developers. This will be a rude awakening on many fronts, but most of all on the security front.
Theo Schlossnagle
Founder and EVP, Products, Circonus
THE DEMISE OF AUTO-DISCOVERY
2016 will be the demise of traditional auto-discovery as a product discipline – with the emergence of provisioning tools that can be leveraged to update dependency maps and CMDBs.
Grant Glading
Sales & Marketing Director, Interlink Software
NEW DEVOPS FOCUS: THE CORE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
DevOps has existed in IT and Data Center environments for several years however the core network has largely been operated using traditional layered operational models. In 2016 we expect to see significant deployment of DevOps methodologies in core network infrastructure to accelerate service delivery and infrastructure optimization applications. The DevOps applications will focus on long standing challenges in network infrastructure agility - connecting multiple network layers (e.g., routers to transport) and multiple vendor platforms together. The scope of implementations will be both massive and rapid – creating a potential service dichotomy and competitive advantage for those taking the lead in leveraging DevOps methodologies.
Tim Pearson
Senior Advisor, Product Line Management, Ciena
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT MOVES TO THE MAINFRAME
In response to competitive digital requirements for innovation, engaged DevOps teams will implement new tools and processes that make mainframe application development mainstream. The mainframe is an ideal engine for modern applications, particularly mobile transactions, and its applications represent decades of intellectual property. Enterprise developers will unite in embracing agile practices that smartly leverage these mainframe assets to further an agenda of customer engagement innovation. Unfortunately the slow and inflexible culture and processes surrounding the mainframe platform have been preventing this from happening. In 2016, the mainframe's tools, processes and culture must evolve to keep up with the pace of DevOps so it can serve as simply another agile platform for innovation.
Christopher O'Malley
President and CEO, Compuware
NEW DEVOPS BUSINESSES ARISE
I predict that there will be new businesses based on the value of DevOps, such as software packages to remove friction in the software development and deployment process. Any time there is a competitive advantage to removing friction, someone will come up with a way to monetize it, and some will be successful.
Thomas Stocking
Director of Sales Engineering, GroundWork
Industry News
Progress announced its partnership with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the world’s largest member association representing the CPA profession.
Kurrent announced $12 million in funding, its rebrand from Event Store and the official launch of Kurrent Enterprise Edition, now commercially available.
Blitzy announced the launch of the Blitzy Platform, a category-defining agentic platform that accelerates software development for enterprises by autonomously batch building up to 80% of software applications.
Sonata Software launched IntellQA, a Harmoni.AI powered testing automation and acceleration platform designed to transform software delivery for global enterprises.
Sonar signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift, a provider of software supply chain security solutions that help organizations manage the risk of open source software.
Kindo formally launched its channel partner program.
Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), Red Hat’s foundation model platform for more seamlessly developing, testing and running generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) models for enterprise applications.
Fastly announced the general availability of Fastly AI Accelerator.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch and general availability of Amazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz in the AWS Management Console.
vFunction released new capabilities that solve a major microservices headache for development teams – keeping documentation current as systems evolve – and make it simpler to manage and remediate tech debt.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced that Infinity XDR/XPR achieved a 100% detection rate in the rigorous 2024 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations.
CyberArk announced the launch of FuzzyAI, an open-source framework that helps organizations identify and address AI model vulnerabilities, like guardrail bypassing and harmful output generation, in cloud-hosted and in-house AI models.
Grid Dynamics announced the launch of its developer portal.
LTIMindtree announced a strategic partnership with GitHub.