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DevOps on the move to mainstream

10 Mar 2015

By 2016, DevOps will evolve from a niche strategy employed by large cloud providers to a mainstream strategy employed by 25 percent of Global 2000 organizations, according to Gartner’s recent report, Market Trends: DevOps – Not a Market, but a Tool-Centric Philosophy That Supports a Continuous Delivery Value Chain. “In response to the rapid change in business today, DevOps can help organizations that are pushing to implement a bimodal strategy to support their digitalization efforts,” says Laurie Wurster, Research Director at Gartner. “Digital business is essentially software, which means that organizations that expect to thrive in a digital environment must have an improved competence in software delivery.” The report defines DevOps as a ‘culture change’ that merges operations with development to facilitate collaboration, and emphasizes the centrality of business agility to a DevOps approach.

Says Wurster, “With respect to culture, DevOps seeks to change the dynamics in which operations and development teams interact. Key to this change are the issues of trust, honesty and responsibility. In essence, the goal is to enable each organization to see the perspective of the other and to modify behavior accordingly, while motivating autonomy.” People and processes are vital to a DevOps approach, but Gartner is also predicting strong growth opportunities for the technologies that support DevOps. It estimates that the DevOps tools market will be worth $2.3 billion in 2015, up 21 percent from $1.9 billion in 2014. Find out more at Gartner