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DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021 Nominations Now Open
The DevOps Dozen² Awards are back and open for nominations. This past year has been quite a journey and we are very proud of the DevOps community in their ability to pivot, innovate, adapt and think ahead in these challenging times. Some outstanding leaders and vendors have worked nonstop to reach their goals and achieve the highest level of success. We are thrilled to celebrate their hard work and achievements.

The DevOps Dozen² Awards honor the most dedicated and inspiring thought leaders and innovators who have made significant contributions to the community. For the second year, we have expanded our awards program to include two different DevOps Dozen sections: DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards and the DevOps Dozen Community Awards.

There are 12 awards for each section:
- DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards — Recognizing the companies that develop and deliver outstanding solutions to empower developers, DevOps and IT operations teams.
- DevOps Dozen Community Awards — Honoring the leaders who have made a positive impact in the DevOps community.
Nominations are made by the audience. Anyone can nominate a tool or service, although there is a $250 entry fee for the Tools and Services Awards nominations. We implemented this fee last year to cut down on spam and superfluous nominations. However, there is no fee for Community Awards nominations. Please note that commercial tools and services are not eligible for the Community Awards and will not make it through to the finals.

Finalists will be selected and winners will be chosen from among the finalists. The finalists will be determined by general public voting (weighted for 40% of the final total) and our judges’ selections (weighted for 60% of the final total).

The last day to submit your nominations is October 22. To vote, follow the steps outlined on the DevOps Dozen² website.

Who Are the DevOps Dozen² Judges?

The following DevOps experts make up the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021 panel of judges, and will review the submissions made by the public and choose the winners:
- Alan Shimel, founder, CEO and editor-in-chief at MediaOps
- Jayne Groll, co-founder and CEO at the DevOps Institute
- Mitch Ashley, founder and CEO at Accelerated Strategies Group
- John Willis, senior director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat
- Helen Beal, chief ambassador at DevOps Institute and ambassador at Continuous Delivery Foundation
The 2021 DevOps Dozen² Categories

DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards
- Best End-to-End DevOps Tool/Service
  Consolidation in the DevOps space has led to a greater selection of platforms offering end-to-end solutions. This award honors the platform with the most diverse and robust solution for DevOps teams.
- Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service
  Git has led to GitOps and it has become an integral part of the DevOps toolbox. This award is presented to the most outstanding Repo/Git/GitOps tool.
- Best CI/CD Tool
  This award recognizes the best CI/CD tool that helps teams to deliver quality code better.
- Best Value Stream Management Tool
  Value stream management has come into its own as an important tool for measuring the business value of DevOps and application development. This award recognizes the value stream management tool that most effectively helps visualize the value stream, track metrics and measure improvement.
- Best Observability Solution
  This award recognizes the best observability solution for observing and monitoring to understand the performance of individual components and systems and entire applications.
- Best DevSecOps Solution
  This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC.
- Best Testing Service/Tool
  Testing is a mainstay in the DevOps toolchain. This award recognizes the best testing tool for ensuring the quality of code.
- Best Kubernetes Platform/Service
  The adoption of containers has paved the way for an entire solutions ecosystem supporting and enhancing the container technology. Kubernetes is perhaps the most widely recognized and utilized tool in the space. There are many platforms and services that offer Kubernetes-based solutions. This award honors the best Kubernetes platform/service available.
- Best Cloud-Native Security Solution/Service
  The cloud-native movement has taken the IT world by storm due to the depth and breadth of the solutions available and the benefits of building applications and services specifically for cloud-native environments. This award recognizes the best tools, solutions and services considered cloud-native.
- Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
  Mainframes are far from being the dinosaur of the IT world, and a variety of solutions are available for enabling DevOps practices in mainframe environments and hybrid environments. This award recognizes the best of them.
- Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
  Databases often have been left out of the DevOps conversation, but that is changing. The whole concept of DataOps is gaining greater traction. This award recognizes the best solution in the database for DevOps and DataOps categories.
- Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider
  This award recognizes the best new service provider or tool that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year (must be less than 24 months old).
DevOps Dozen Community Awards
- Best DevOps Industry Implementation
  This award honors organizations that have successfully adopted and implemented DevOps principles and practices.
- Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research
  This award recognizes research that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.
- Best DevOps-Related Video Series (video)
  This category highlights the most entertaining, educational and inspirational DevOps video series—those with the most engaging and highest-quality content.
- Best DevOps-Related Audio Podcast Series
  Which is your favorite DevOps podcast from this year? This category celebrates the many great DevOps podcasts sparking some interesting discussions on a multitude of topics from CI/CD and testing to DevSecOps, Kubernetes, containers and more.
- Best DevOps Book/eBook of the Year
  Each year sees a plethora of well-crafted DevOps-related books and ebooks. This category highlights the most popular and best read of the year.
- Top DevOps Evangelist
  This category is one of our favorites. There are so many great evangelists who spread the DevOps gospel and we want to know who does it best. Nominees can work within the DevOps space or outside of it.
- Best DevOps Transformation (non-vendor)
  In a year in which digital transformation became a must-have for survival, we want to know which organizations stood out in their efforts to transform their business through DevOps.
- Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year
  COVID-19 has changed the game when it comes to hosting events. In 2021, virtual events remain the norm, reaching a global audience while everyone stays safe at home. Which DevOps virtual event stands out from the others?
- Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
  Open source projects are meant to promote innovation and increase efficiency, velocity and quality. While there are many great open source projects out there, the best ones are those that create a community of people who work on and with the technology and support each other.
- DevOps Executive of the Year (non-vendor)
  This category celebrates excellence among DevOps leaders at the C-suite (or equivalent) levels.
- Best DevOps Presentation of the Year
  This category recognizes the best DevOps-themed presentation from the many (virtual) conferences during the year.
- Best DevOps.com Article of the Year
  DevOps.com publishes multiple new articles every day. Which was the best article from 2021? Let us know so we can recognize the author.
All the solutions nominated to the Tools and Services Awards will automatically be registered into the DevOps Tools Guide authored by Techstrong Group. This initiative is our effort to create a comprehensive listing of tools and tools vendors to help end users better understand the DevOps market landscape.

Choosing a winner is difficult when there are so many talented and inspiring leaders doing an incredible job to empower and support our community. Although not everyone can win an award, being nominated says a lot about each and every one of you. We greatly appreciate your dedication and service to the DevOps community.

For more information, please visit the DevOps Dozen² website. If you have any questions regarding entry process, awards, timing or any technical issues regarding the website, please contact us at DD@devops.com.
September 15, 2021
New Relic Survey Shows Greater Appreciation for Observability

A global survey of 1,300 software engineers, developers, IT leaders and executives found half of respondents (50%) are in the process of implementing an observability platform. Another 23% of respondents said that they cannot gain end-to-end observability at all, while 26% said they believe they have mature observability practices in place. The survey, published today, was conducted by CITE Research on behalf of New Relic.

The majority (94%) of IT professionals said observability is important for their job role, while nearly three-quarters (74%) said there is still room to grow their observability practice. In fact, 81% of the 450 C-suite executives that participated in the survey said they expect to increase observability budgets in the next year, with 20% expecting those budgets to increase significantly.

Overall, the survey finds that lack of resources (38%), skills (29%), understanding of the benefits (27%) and strategy (26%) are top barriers to achieving observability.

Observability, in one form or another, has always been a core tenet of DevOps best practices. Most DevOps teams have relied on monitoring tools to observe a specific process or function. The challenge is those monitoring tools track a pre-defined set of metrics such as resource utilization. Ideally, observability combines metrics, logs and traces—a specialized form of logging—to instrument applications in a way that makes it simpler to troubleshot issues without having to rely solely on a limited set of pre-defined metrics.

Nearly three-quarters of respondents (72%) noted that IT teams today need to toggle between at least two different tools to manage IT, with 13% having to use more than ten different tools to monitor the health of their systems.

In contrast, observability platforms make it possible to correlate events across both applications and infrastructure. This capability makes it easier for analytics tools to identify anomalous behavior indicative of the root cause of an IT issue. Armed with these insights, it becomes a lot simpler for IT teams to resolve issues faster.

The New Relic survey notes that 60% of respondents still monitor telemetry data at the application level, which indicates that a massive amount of valuable telemetry data is largely going unused. A full 91% of IT professionals that responded to the survey noted that observability is critical at every stage of the software life cycle, especially when it comes to planning and IT operations.

Top benefits cited include faster deployments (27%), more cost-effective use of IT resources (25%), better digital experiences (23%) and improved productivity (22%). The top use cases cited involved digital transformation initiatives (42%) followed by cloud optimization (37%), DevOps processes (36%) and bringing products to market faster (36%).

Buddy Brewer, group vice president and general manager for New Relic, said observability will become a more pressing issue in IT environments, thanks to the rise of microservices-based applications running on Kubernetes. A full 88% of IT decision-makers New Relic surveyed said they are exploring Kubernetes and containers at some level right now, but only 10% said they have deployed them in a production environment. A total of 40% expect to be in production within three years.

In general, it’s become critical for IT teams to be able to query data in real-time to resolve issues that are becoming more challenging to resolve at a time when organizations have never been more dependent on IT. Sampling data in the hopes of discovering issues is no longer sufficient, noted Brewer.

The challenge, of course, is that most IT teams have been using legacy monitoring tools for so long that it’s still hard to imagine there might be a better approach. That doesn’t necessarily mean all those legacy tools will be immediately replaced, but it does mean many of them may simply fade away over time.

One way or another, most IT teams will soon be able to observe IT environments more deeply. Developers increasingly are taking advantage of open source tools like OpenTelemetry to instrument applications in a way organizations can more easily afford, regardless of whether they fully appreciate the nuances of modern observability versus traditional monitoring.

September 14, 2021
MediaOps, Boca Code Award ‘Engineer the Change’ Scholarship
I am really proud to announce that, in partnership with Boca Code, MediaOps has awarded a scholarship for the Fall 2021 term to the Software Engineering Career Course, a 10-week rigorous and fast-paced coding boot camp from Boca Code. Alina Maliuk, a first-generation immigrant from Ukraine, is the recipient.

The Engineer the Change scholarship was initiated by MediaOps to help foster diversity in the local tech industry and empower individuals from underserved communities to develop the skills needed to succeed in IT. Boca Code offers comprehensive training in software development to enable course attendees to develop these skills.

Need for Diversity in STEM fields

Research shows a staggering lack of diversity in STEM fields, most noticeably within computer and engineering positions. The tech industry is predominantly white and male, which appalls me (yes, even though I am a white male), and I wanted to do something to encourage more diversity across our industry. Gender and race inequity are glaring workforce disparities that require both recognition and responsibility from those at the highest levels in the tech world to create a more diversified and equitable workforce.

Two Full Scholarships Awarded Annually

MediaOps sponsors two $10,000 scholarships each year to enable students to enroll in Boca Code’s flagship Software Engineering Career Course. The full-time, 10-week intensive course combines theory and hands-on, project-based learning to prepare students for a career in software engineering. As part of their coursework, students take on development projects for local businesses, providing the students immediate, hands-on experience with real projects.

The Engineer the Change scholarships combine two goals that are core to the MediaOps team and me. The first is doing our part to make South Florida a world-class hub for the tech industry. The second is providing opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged communities to acquire the skills they need for a successful career in tech. My hope is that we also serve as an inspiration to other local companies to fund similar programs in support of these worthy goals.

About Our Winner, Alina Maliuk

Alina Maliuk, Engineer the Change scholarship winner

Alina hails from Ukraine, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in management. After college, she married and had her first son. During her maternity leave in 2012, her family emigrated to New York. Being first-generation immigrants, they had to start their life here in the United States from scratch. For the first few years, Alina and her husband worked in entry-level jobs. In 2018, now a mother of two, Alina took several online classes in web development and rediscovered her love of learning—particularly software development. Now a resident of Boca Raton, Alina found Boca Code and attended a workshop in web development.

Alina was energized by that workshop, which furthered the continuing education she had already begun. Through that initial course, the Boca Code team inspired her to go even further. She is ready to move on to her next career, which she wants to be in software engineering. Thanks to the Engineer the Change scholarship, she will now have an opportunity to accelerate her tech career. At the same time, she is demonstrating to other female immigrants in Florida that if you can dream it and work hard to achieve it, you can make it happen.

Alan Shimel

CEO, MediaOps

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September 14, 2021
MediaOps and DevOps Institute Earn Inc. 5000 Honors

I am really proud to announce today that both MediaOps and DevOps Institute have been honored by Inc. and earned inclusion in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America.

For MediaOps, this is the second year in a row we have earned this honor. For DevOps Institute, it is the first year they have been honored. First of all, congratulations to all of the great people who work at and make both MediaOps and DevOps Institute the great companies they are. None of the success of these companies would be possible without their talent, skills, hard work and dedication. Thanks to all of you.

Secondly, as the founder/co-founder of both of these organizations, I can’t tell you how proud I am that both of these companies have not only had the success they have (as evidenced by this honor) but that they have done so in the middle of a global pandemic. It really makes all of the hard work and the long days and nights worthwhile.

For anyone who has ever started a business, you know that you put a certain amount of your blood, sweat and tears into any venture you are involved in. It is no different here! Since 2014 I have put everything I could into growing MediaOps into the company it is today. For DevOps Institute, I was lucky to have my partner Jayne Groll, DevOps Institute CEO, take the lead in making DevOps Institute the leading member organization/certification authority in the DevOps space today.

Yes, you hope the monetary rewards of founding a company make it all worthwhile. But this kind of recognition is also very gratifying. It gives you the extra spring in your step and makes the load lighter.

These awards also highlight something else. The ascendancy of technology. It is no coincidence that both of these companies play in the digital transformation space and have seen such success. Digital transformation is driving the world right now. Software is driving digital transformation, and DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud are driving software.

At the end of the day, it is a great honor to have not one but two companies you started win this award at the same time. I think it speaks volumes about the future of both of these organizations. More news on that front is coming, so stay tuned for more great things coming from MediaOps and DevOps Institute!

August 17, 2021
Salesforce Pilots Series of DevOps Initiatives

At its online TrailheaDX 2021 conference, Salesforce today unveiled a DevOps Center pilot that provides a portal through which organizations can track and manage changes to Salesforce applications along with a unified command line interface (CLI) for all its applications.

In addition, Salesforce plans to add Salesforce Functions to enable developers to deploy code in a serverless environment.

The company has also promised to extend its low-code App Builder tool to include support for Dynamic Interactions, a capability that enables both professional and citizen developers to add reusable components to any application. The company has also added a Customer Identity Plus tool that enables developers to consolidate and manage customer identities.

Finally, Salesforce is adding an Einstein Automate tool that employs machine learning algorithms to both integrate data and automate workflows that can invoke, for example, an existing MuleSoft Composer tool for integrating applications using a Flow Orchestrator that will be made available as a pilot project this summer. MuleSoft is a subsidiary of Salesforce. There is also now an Einstein Data Detect tool that ensures organizations adhere to data privacy laws by employing machine learning algorithms to discover when developers might have inadvertently exposed sensitive data.

Dynamic Interactions, Salesforce Functions and CLI unification are expected to be generally available in the winter of next year, while the Einstein capabilities are expected to arrive this summer.

Ryan Ellis, senior vice president of product management for platform at Salesforce, said the company is making a concerted effort to make it easier for both professional and citizen developers to build applications within the same environment by fostering collaboration via a DevOps Center portal that is expected to be generally available in the spring of 2022. Today the skills that any citizen developer can bring to bear are generally limited, largely because they don’t typically know how to build a well-designed, secure application that will truly scale in an enterprise IT environment.

However, as more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are added to low-code tools the amount of developer guidance being provided will increase over time. That additional guidance will enable citizen developers to build robust applications more reliably, noted Ellis.

In the meantime, the primary beneficiaries of low-code tools continue to be professional developers that employ them to build applications faster than they could otherwise using procedural code.

In general, Ellis said the relative DevOps maturity of organizations building and deploying custom applications on top of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform managed by Salesforce continues to increase steadily. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations opted to extend existing SaaS applications provided by Salesforce to accelerate digital business transformation initiative using low-code tools rather than developing every application from scratch using procedural code.

Of course, as the rate at which those applications are being built continues to accelerate, the next big challenge is managing the application life cycles after they are deployed.

It’s not clear what the ultimate mix of applications built using low-code tools versus procedural code will be. Millions of lines of code are now being regularly deployed on Salesforce platforms, noted Ellis. It may be a little while before Salesforce is able to bring DevOps best practices to all that code, but, starting today, the journey has begun.

June 23, 2021
MediaOps Wins Two Gold Hermes Creative Awards for Video and Podcast
We are thrilled to announce that MediaOps is the recipient of two Hermes Creative Awards. TechStrong TV won the Gold Award in the video/informational category and DevOps Chats won the Gold Award for audio/podcast series.

The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional and emerging media. Hermes Creative Awards recognize outstanding work in the industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and communication professionals. Hermes Creative Awards are administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.

Our main goal here at MediaOps is to create and produce high-quality, educational and informational content to our audience, covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology, including DevOps, cloud-native, cybersecurity and digital transformation. These awards are a testimony to all the hard work and dedication that goes into producing these programs. We are proud of our MediaOps team and honored to receive recognition for our work.

The two MediaOps broadcast programs recognized by the AMCP are:
- TechStrong TV: Gold Award winner in the video/informational category. TechStrong TV is a streamed broadcast featuring fresh video news and information three days a week and on-demand content from conferences and shows two days a week on the Digital Anarchist network. TechStrong TV features interviews with industry thought leaders, covering the latest news on DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud native and digital transformation.
- DevOps Chats: Gold Award winner in the audio/podcast series category. DevOps Chats is a “fireside chat” podcast featuring DevOps.com and Security Boulevard Editor-in-Chief, Alan Shimel, discussing relevant topics with luminaries and thought leaders in the DevOps and security industries.
The MediaOps team would like to thank the Hermes Creative Awards for recognizing the content we publish. Most of all, we would like to thank you, our audience, for all the support you have given us throughout the years.

TechStrong TV is available on the web at Techstrong.tv, with on-demand segments available on DigitalAnarchist.com and the MediaOps community sites (DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Container Journal). TechStrong TV is also available on LinkedIn Live (DevOps.com page), Facebook Live (DevOps.com page), YouTube (DevOps TV channel), on the DevOps.com mobile app for iOS and Android, and on TV via DevOps.com app for OTT channels on Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.

Episodes are available after broadcast on-demand at Digital Anarchist, the next-gen streaming service for tech communities, which offers in-depth coverage on DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation, adding high-quality content on a regular basis. DevOps Chats are published on SoundCloud and iTunes, and are also available on Digital Anarchist.
June 17, 2021
Christopher Krebs to Keynote in Live Fireside Chat/Q&A Session at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps at RSA Conference 2021
Former Director of Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to headline free one-day event

Boca Raton, FL, April 26, 2021 — MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, today announced that Former Director of the Department of Homeland’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs, will be its keynote speaker at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps, a free one-day virtual event to take place on Friday, May 19, during the week of RSA Conference 2021. For the keynote session, Krebs will participate in a live fireside chat with MediaOps Founder and Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel, which will also include questions fielded from attendees.

“I am excited to have Chris headline our DevOps Connect: DevSecOps security event at RSA Conference this year. His experience in both the public and private sector of managing risk to businesses and government agencies, enabling them to defend themselves against cyber and physical threats is impressive. Chris probably knows as much about election security and working in a public-private partnership to safeguard our critical infrastructure as anyone. I look forward to an engaging discussion with him,” said Shimel.

Krebs is a founding partner of the Krebs Stamos Group, and previously served as the first director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for two years. Before serving as CISA Director, Krebs served in various roles at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for a range of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and national resilience issues. Prior to his time at DHS, he directed U.S. cybersecurity policy for Microsoft and advised industry and government clients on complex cybersecurity and business risk matters while serving in positions with Obsidian Analysis and Dutko Consulting. Finally, he also served in the George W. Bush Administration, advising DHS leadership on domestic and international risk management and public-private partnership initiatives.

Krebs holds a Bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

For the sixth year in a row, DevOps Connect: DevSecOps is again part of the RSA Conference. Each year, MediaOps puts together a line-up of internationally recognized speakers to bring security and DevOps professionals the best in peer-to-peer knowledge exchange. In addition to keynote speaker Christopher Krebs, this year’s event features a powerhouse lineup of 30 cyber DevSecOps experts.

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About MediaOps

MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, we deliver the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community, for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well.

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Rebecca Auguste

rebecca@mediaops.com

(561) 430-3347
April 26, 2021
Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of TechStrong TV
A year ago today, we started a new streaming project called “TechStrong TV” to provide the audience with an alternative source of information and entertainment, focused on delivering great tech content, during the unusual times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Little did we know back then what this would mean for all of us.

In less than a year, TechStrong TV became an award-winning broadcast with thousands of videos, hundreds of thousands of views and more than 600 guest appearances by tech thought leaders, business leaders and industry experts. Our mission is to provide the best in-depth analysis on current industry issues and to deliver the most relevant tech news and the latest information on software development, DevOps, cloud-native, digital transformation and cybersecurity. Most importantly, we started doing this to help our community stay tech strong in times of uncertainty. We are committed to our community and we believe it is our duty to keep everyone informed and updated on everything that’s buzzing in the IT industry.

TechStrong TV features a variety of video series that make up our daily show, including:
- DevOps Unbound: A bi-weekly/monthly roundtable sponsored by Tricentis, providing a deep dive into DevOps, with an emphasis on automation, continuous delivery, accelerating transformation, testing and quality.
- Analyst Corner: Hosted by Mitch Ashley and seasoned industry veterans, focusing on the latest trends and opportunities businesses see during these unprecedented times.
- CISO Talk: A bi-weekly video series that explores the issues and topics that CISOs are dealing with today and how they prepare for the future.
- The Lab, by GitLab: This monthly segment features GitLab Sr. Developer Evangelist Brendan O’Leary as he shares the latest GitLab updates.
- The H4unt3d Hacker: A weekly podcast hosted by cybersecurity researcher and ethical hacker Mike Jones, one of the founders of Anonymous, and featuring like-minded cybersecurity professionals who discuss ideas and topics relevant to the industry.
- Ambassador Insights: A monthly panel discussion featuring members of the DevOps Institute Ambassadors sharing their expertise and insights on various topics in the DevOps space.
- WFH Fitness with Jeremy Jones: Jeremy, a member of the MediaOps sales team as well as a certified personal trainer, brings his knowledge of fitness to TechStrong TV with a 20-minute home workout for any level of fitness, from beginner to advanced.
- Something Old: Replays of some of the most memorable presentations by top industry analysts and IT practitioners from past in-person and online events and virtual summits.
We’ve had the pleasure to conduct executive-level discussions with outstanding thought leaders such as Sid Sijbrandij of GitLab, Shlomi Ben Haim of JFrog, Sacha Labourey and Stephen DeWitt of CloudBees, Ashok Reddy of Digital.ai, Sandeep Johri of Tricentis, Emmet B. Keeffe III of Insight Ignite and many more.

Today, we not only celebrate the show, but we also celebrate each and every one of our hosts, guests, sponsors and, of course, our viewers, for being tech strong and supporting our community. We wouldn’t have made it this far without you. So, thank you for being a part of TechStrong TV and stay tuned because we have a lot of great content coming your way. We are only getting started.

All the episodes of TechStrong TV are available on demand. You can watch our weekly TechStrong TV livestream on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30 a.m. ET on the web, or on YouTube at DevOpsTV Channel, Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, Twitter or on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV via the DevOps.com TV app. Also on Android and iOS devices via the DevOps.com mobile app.
March 30, 2021
With Explosive Revenue Growth, MediaOps Recognized in Inc. Magazine’s List of Florida’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 Regionals: Florida list employed more than 83,000 people in 2019.

Boca Raton, FL , March 16, 2021 – MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, announced that Inc. Magazine has ranked MediaOps as No.146 on its second annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: Florida list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing Florida-based private companies. Born of the annual Inc. 5000 franchise, this regional list is a unique look at the most successful companies within the Florida economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses.

“This recognition of our place within the thriving Florida ecosystem is very gratifying for us at MediaOps. We are also pleased that even through 2020, we have been able to continue our growth trajectory,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “This recognition and others like it are testaments to the great work by our team of professionals here at MediaOps, who are really the engine that drives our growth. We are honored to be recognized by Inc. 5000 Regionals.”

The companies on this list show stunning rates of growth across all industries in Florida. Between 2017 and 2019, these 250 private companies had an average growth rate of 202% and, in 2019 alone, they employed more than 83,000 people and added nearly $11 billion to the Florida economy. Companies based in major metro areas—Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando—brought in the highest revenue overall.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000 Regionals: Florida, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, metro area and other criteria, can be found at https://www.inc.com/inc5000/regionals/florida starting March 16, 2021.

“This list proves the power of companies in Florida no matter the industry,” said Inc. Editor-in-Chief Scott Omelianuk. “The impressive revenues and growth rates prove the insight and diligence of CEOs and that these businesses are here to stay.”

ABOUT MEDIAOPS

MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, we deliver the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community, for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well. For more information, visit https://mediaops.com.

ABOUT INC. AND THE INC. 5000 REGIONALS

Methodology

The 2021 Inc. 5000 Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2017 and 2019. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2017. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2019. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2017 is $100,000; the minimum for 2019 is $1 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons.

About Inc. Media

The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

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Rebecca Auguste

rebecca@devops.com

(561) 430-3347

March 16, 2021
Helping Bring Balance, Diversity to the IT Workforce

It’s a fact: Minorities and women traditionally have been underrepresented in the IT space. According to the Brookings Institute, less than 7% of computing and math-related jobs are held by people who are Black and Latino. And while women are faring better, they still only represent about 30% of the workforce in computer and mathematical occupations, according to the institute. Clearly, there is more work to be done in creating a balanced, diverse IT workforce.

At MediaOps, one of the traits I believe helps define this company is inclusiveness, recognizing the value each person in our organization brings to the table. Different educations, different backgrounds, different perspectives … they all help us see the world in a different light and make decisions that are rooted less in biases and more with a deeper understanding fomented by the populations each of us represents. This, I believe, is fundamental in achieving balance; by recognizing and celebrating our differences, we create a strong, unified organization.

Be the Change

It is with the goals of diversity and inclusiveness that MediaOps is proud to announce “Engineer the Change,” a scholarship program in conjunction with Boca Code, an immersive coding school that provides in-depth technical training. MediaOps will sponsor two scholarships annually to students from disadvantaged communities interested in pursuing a career in the tech industry. The scholarships, each valued at $10,000, will enable students to enroll in the flagship Software Engineering Career Course at Boca Code.

The “Engineer the Change” scholarships will be awarded to two deserving recipients on an annual basis. To be eligible, applicants must be 18 years or older and be part of an underrepresented community. To be considered, applicants will be required to submit an essay detailing how they can serve as role models to other disadvantaged individuals hoping to acquire the skills to become successful tech workers, and what type of career in the tech industry they are hoping to pursue. While the idea is to help the South Florida tech community, applicants can apply from anywhere, as long as they include in their application essay why they are coming to South Florida to launch their tech career.

Submissions for the first scholarship for the Software Engineering session, taking place April 5-June 4, are now open. The deadline to apply is March 15. The second scholarship application process will open Aug. 1 for the session taking place Sept. 20-Dec. 3.

To learn more about how to apply for the scholarship, please visit: https://mediaops.com/engineer-the-change/

Get Involved

MediaOps is offering these scholarships because we believe diversity enriches everything. We encourage other companies to do their part to help promote diversity and inclusiveness, both within their organization and through programs targeting underrepresented communities locally or regionally. It is time for the IT sector to do its part in promoting technology to women, minorities and other traditionally underrepresented groups; only by getting involved today will we help shape the next generation of technology workers.

March 2, 2021