Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced a collaboration with Microsoft that utilizes the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to enhance Check Point Infinity AI Copilot, marking a significant advancement in cyber security AI applications.
DEVOPSdigest asked experts from across the industry for their opinions on the most significant advantages of DevOps. Part 5, the final installment, covers the bottom line. These last five advantages are the reasons for most of the previous advantages.
Start with 25 Advantages of DevOps - Part 1
Start with 25 Advantages of DevOps - Part 2
Start with 25 Advantages of DevOps - Part 3
Start with 25 Advantages of DevOps - Part 4
21. BUSINESS ASSURANCE
Companies must use information and digital assets in the value chain in order to redefine the customer experience, operational processes, and business model. To make that happen requires constant digital innovation from development to roll-out to production. During the development phase, bytecode instrumentation is useful for visibility into application performance. For roll-out and production phases, when there is a need to build business services to scale, traffic data provides a consistent source of service contextual information. Therefore, to gain a competitive advantage, a digital organization requires a process of assuring the quality and performance of service delivery, mitigating corporate risk and optimizing operational efficiencies. This process of achieving business assurance must include continuous monitoring and real-time analytics, actionable insight into business agility utilizing a coherent traffic-based data structure model, and ultra-high scalability to support any mix of services and millions of users.
Ron Lifton
Senior Enterprise Solutions Marketing Manager, NetScout
22. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
With faster time to market and continuous incorporation of user feedback businesses can maintain a competitive advantage.
Payal Chakravarty
Sr. Product Manager - APM, IBM
Ultimately, faster software releases give businesses competitive advantage over their competitors in every market, since "every company is a software company."
Baruch Sadogursky
Developer Advocate, JFrog
23. SURVIVAL
The most significant bottom-line advantage is “survival”! Faced with fierce competition, enterprises are increasingly understanding the need for digital transformation, but need to overcome the challenges of driving agility and speed – while embracing reliability, control and scale. Critical to achieving this is automation: Release Automation products automate the delivery pipeline to enable the continuous delivery that modern agile enterprises require. Without embracing this, enterprises face extinction as newer entrants take market-share, or competitors tool-up and skill-up for success.
Chris Boorman
CMO, Automic Software
The most important reason to adopt DevOps is survival: once enough of your competitors are able to innovate as quickly as DevOps allows, you will fall further and further behind.
Andrew Phillips
VP of DevOps Strategy, XebiaLabs
24. REVENUE AND TOP-LINE GROWTH
My latest research found that companies in which DevOps interactions were rated as “excellent” or “above average” were more than 10X as likely to have had double-digit revenue growth in the prior year, compared to companies whose interactions were rated as “average” or “poor”. This reinforces similar findings in last year's research. So, in my opinion, seamless collaboration between Dev and Ops translates directly to the business bottom line.
Julie Craig
Research Director, Application Management, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
For businesses using technology to optimize processes, application software can meet multiple needs. Applications can support customers, help manage business operations, or directly aid in product development. No matter the solution provided by an app though, all applications are generally used to help a business increase revenue. DevOps gets applications in place more quickly and more frequently so that businesses can be more responsive to internal and customer needs. Ultimately, the bottom-line benefit of DevOps is increased revenue through cost reductions, competitive products and company growth.
Derek Hutson
President and CEO, Datical
Repeatability and automation to scale are the foundational advantages of DevOps providing the ability to do more with less. The inevitable IT goal. With the explosion of data and associated infrastructure in the data center, DevOps is necessary for business agility, fast code-to-cash, and overall effecting the top-line growth for enterprises.
Ashok Rajagopalan
Head of Product Management, Datera
25. GREATER BUSINESS VALUATION
Companies that succeed at DevOps outperform their respective peer groups in most operating and valuation metrics. That's because DevOps enables them to improve user experience and reduce time-to-market for their products and services. These companies achieve business objectives faster and with more agility. As DevOps teams become more proficient at recovering from failures and implement changes more frequently their efficiency improves dramatically. This in turn positions them to widen the performance gap between themselves and their peer group. That's the DevOps payoff.
Gabe Lowy
Technology Analyst and Founder of TechTonics Advisors
Industry News
ArmorCode announced ArmorCode Risk Prioritization, providing a 3D scoring approach for managing application security risks.
AppViewX and Fortanix announced a partnership to offer cloud-delivered secure digital identity management and code signing.
WaveMaker has updated its platform in response to customer demand for more sophisticated API and code management tools.
Vercara announced the launch of UltraAPI™, a product suite that protects APIs and web applications from malicious bots and fraudulent activity while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Legit Security announced the launch of its standalone enterprise secrets scanning product, which can detect, remediate, and prevent secrets exposure across the software development pipeline.
Progress announced a strategic partnership with Veeam® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, to provide customers with an enterprise-ready cyber defense solution that strengthens the security of their business-critical data.
GitGuardian released its Software Composition Analysis (SCA) module.
DataStax announced a milestone in its journey to simplify enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for developers by integrating with Microsoft Semantic Kernel.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. is collaborating with NVIDIA to enhance the security of AI cloud infrastructure. Integrating NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, which feature a broad range of purpose-built, innovative security capabilities, the new Check Point AI Cloud Protect solution will help prevent threats at both the network and host levels.
Sentry announced the release of Autofix, an AI-powered feature to debug and fix code in minutes, saving important time and resources.
Apiiro announced a product integration and partnership with Secure Code Warrior, the agile developer security training platform, to extend its ASPM technology and processes to the people layer.
Progress announced that Progress® Semaphore™, its metadata management and semantic AI platform, was named a Champion in SoftwareReviews’ 2024 Metadata Management Emotional Footprint Awards.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®) has partnered with Udemy, an online skills marketplace and learning platform.
GitLab has acquired Oxeye, the provider of a cloud-native application security and risk management solution.