DevOps represents an approach to software development that involves better collaboration between software development and operations. The approach helps reduce cycle time between development inception, software release, and production, and allows for the continuous participation of the operations team and developers throughout the process. DevOps also improves quality and reduces business risks and development costs.
This laundry list of benefits is encouraging large and small companies to adopt DevOps, which is expected to help the global DevOps tools market pass the $3 billion mark by 2019. All told, the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.97% from 2014-2019.
Technavio analysts outline the key vendors expected to impact the DevOps tools market over the forecast period:
Ansible
Ansible is the simplest way to automate IT. Ansible provides enterprise-grade solutions for automating apps, systems and cloud resources for IT organizations, based on the most popular open source IT automation project on GitHub. Ansible’s commercial offering, Ansible Tower, helps DevOps teams manage complex multi-tier deployments by adding control, security and delegation capabilities to Ansible environments. For more information, visit ansible.com.
Atlassian
Atlassian was established in 2002 and is headquartered at Sydney, Australia. It offers a range of products, including JIRA, IDE Connector, Clover, Team Calendars, Fisheye, Crucible, Crowd, Bitbucket, HipChat, Confluence, Stash, Bamboo, and SharePoint Connector. It serves customers in the technology and electronics, automotive and travel, health and biotechnology, science and research, banking and finance, Internet and software, engineering and aerospace, and telecommunications markets.
CA Technologies
CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business, in every industry. From planning to development to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact and communicate.
CFEngine
CFEngine is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and offers IT automation at web-scale and specializes in providing infrastructure management software. The company’s products offer benefits such as speed, security, stability, and scalability.
Chef
Chef was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, US. The company provides cloud-based infrastructure automation solutions. Chef turns infrastructure into code and helps clients automate (build, deploy, and manage) their infrastructure. It is used to streamline the task of configuring and maintaining a company’s servers. The company was formerly known as Opscode.
Cisco
Cisco Systems Inc. is the leader in communications and Internet solutions and services. Cisco provides the networking foundation for some of the largest service providers, commercial businesses and enterprise customers in the world, including corporations, government agencies, utilities and educational institutions.
Clarive Software
Clarive Software is a strong new performer within the DevOps market. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Spain and today has offices in the US, Brazil, and Belgium. Its senior management team has close to 20 years of practical experience in ALM, release and deployment management. Clarive is currently building up a strong partner channel to rapidly expand its success globally.
CollabNet
CollabNet offers organizations of all sizes the platform to accelerate their development and delivery of quality software at speed, with its flagship product TeamForge®. As the creator of Subversion®, CollabNet is a pioneer in open, agile, collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions. Providing innovative development tools at enterprise scale, Agile consulting and training services, CollabNet services over 10,000 customers, supporting 4 million users in over 100 countries and has been recognized for 12 consecutive years as SD Times 100 “Best in Show’ winner in the ALM & DevTools category.
DBmaestro
DBmaestro TeamWork is the leading DevOps for Database solution that brings true continuous delivery to the database. This solution is built upon the complete best practices proven effective for application development. Offering features and functionality far above and beyond what’s achievable using standard compare-and-sync tools alone, DBmaestro TeamWork will transform your company’s development operations, dramatically increasing productivity, reducing development costs, and adding a sure-fire safety net that gives you full confidence in automation for the first time, by leveraging a single source of truth.
Docker Inc.
Docker is the original author and primary sponsor of the Docker open source project. Together with the community of maintainers and contributors, Docker aims to deliver open tools to help developers build applications with open APIs to help sysadmins better manage these applications.
HP
HP offers a broad portfolio of DevOps services and solutions that focuses on the people, processes and toolchain aspects for adopting and implementing DevOps at large-scale enterprises, while ensuring interoperability with industry leading Open Source Software (OSS) and partner products.
HP’s DevOps solution enables Continuous Assessment of applications throughout the software delivery cycle to deliver rapid and frequent application feedback to teams. This enables them to measure application adoption, usage, performance and quality to provide the insight to react and improve their delivery. Moreover, the DevOps solution helps IT operations support rapid application delivery – without any downtime – by supporting a Continuous Operations model.
IBM
The multinational technology and consulting company offers DevOps services to speed up enterprises’ app development.
Microsoft
Microsoft has taken many initiatives to update its DevOps tools to provide fast and efficient development environments. The company has built several new DevOps solutions to enable an organization’s developers, IT, and other stakeholders to determine the next step in their DevOps implementation.
Puppet Labs
Puppet labs provides IT automation software that can make repeatable changes and enforce the consistency of systems and devices across physical and virtual machines, on-premises and in the cloud.
Puppet Labs “software helps sysadmins automate configuration and management of machines and the software running on them”.
Rackspace
Rackspace offers DevOps tools and uses them to automate environments through its DevOps Automation Service. It offers custom advisory services and standard automation services.
Rally
Rally is a provider of enterprise-based software and solutions to boost business agility.
Red Hat
The established enterprise software company has started focusing on promoting the practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery. Red Hat and Dell have teamed up to enable new DevOps companies to start using DevOps.
SaltStack
SaltStack develops next-gen systems management software used by the world’s largest businesses and Web-scale infrastructures for data center automation, hybrid cloud building and orchestration, server provisioning and application configuration management. SaltStack software helps CloudOps, ITOps and DevOps professionals automate the most-difficult and complex infrastructure and application management tasks with speed and flexibility required by the most-advanced computing environments.
Ultimately, SaltStack is used to visualize, build and manage all the data center things including any cloud, infrastructure, virtualization, container, application stack, software or code. For example, SaltStack customers are able to more efficiently secure massive computing environments, deploy big data infrastructures, and orchestrate complex microservices at scale.
Spirent Communications plc
Spirent Communications enables innovations in communications technologies that help connect people. Whether it is service provider, data centers, enterprise IT networks, mobile communications, connected vehicles or the Internet of Things, Spirent solutions are working behind the scenes to help the world communicate and collaborate faster, better and more securely. The world’s innovators rely on Spirent expertize to help them design, develop and deliver best-in-class solutions to their customers.
Splunk
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most pervasive segments of “big data”—generated by websites, applications, servers, networks, mobile devices and all the sensors and RFID assets that produce data every second of every day. By monitoring and analyzing everything from customer clickstreams and transactions to network activity and call records—and more— Splunk software turns machine data into valuable insights no matter what business you’re in. It’s what we call operational intelligence.
VersionOne
VersionOne is a recognized leader and visionary in agile lifecycle management software and services. VersionOne recently introduced a Unified DevOps solution that helps organizations achieve the benefits of DevOps by automating, orchestrating, and visualizing the flow of change throughout the software delivery cycle. Today, more than 50,000 teams at 1,000 companies, including 37 of the Fortune 100, use VersionOne solutions to help scale their agile initiatives faster, easier and smarter. Whether a small team just starting out with agile or a global enterprise scaling agile, VersionOne customers get the best solutions in the industry backed by the pioneers in agile lifecycle management. VersionOne has offices in Atlanta and in Amsterdam.
VMware
Digital business transformation is creating new opportunities and risks in every industry. VMware helps IT become Brave New IT with our One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device architecture. By unifying private, managed and public clouds into one hybrid cloud, our customers accelerate innovation, engage customers with new mobile-cloud applications, and govern risk.
XebiaLabs
XebiaLabs provides lightweight, plug-and-play solutions for Continuous Integration, deployment, environment provisioning, Agile testing and release coordination, helping your teams build your delivery automation platform step by step.
