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  • DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021 Nominations Now Open

    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 devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year
      devopsy.kinsta.cloud 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.

  • Meet the Winners of the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards

    Meet the Winners of the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards

    This is the moment you have all been waiting for. It is time to announce the honorees for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the names of the most outstanding leaders and tools in the DevOps community. Although, I must say, all the finalists have done an amazing job at making the DevOps community better through their mentorship, service and innovative ideas, and every single one is deserving of special recognition.

    The DevOps Dozen Awards recognize the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space and this year’s winners have demonstrated exceptional leadership and support to the community through 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year was a tough year for all of us for sure, but it was also a year of agility, innovation and rapid digital transformation. The 2020 honorees have displayed resilience, determination, commitment and willingness to embrace change in a year of unprecedented challenges to drive their business—and the industry—forward. Congratulations to each and every one of the honorees.

    Winners have been chosen from among the finalists with general public voting being weighted for 40% of the final total and our judges selections for 60% of the weighted total. Our team has gone through thousands of votes to pick out the winners in each category—it was not an easy task. Many thanks to our panel of judges for making the hard calls and to everyone who voted and nominated candidates.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present to you the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards honorees:

    DevOps Dozen Community Awards

    Best DevOps Industry Implementation

    Lloyds Banking Group, the largest financial services organization in the UK, is the winner of the Best DevOps Industry Implementation award. Lloyds Banking Group has invested heavily in driving the adoption of Agile development and DevOps practices across its business to strategically modernize its digital service capabilities and align with customer expectations.

     

    Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research

    The Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research award goes to Puppet’s 2020 State of DevOps Report. The report focuses on two areas that can help organizations scale their DevOps initiative: a platform approach to software delivery and applying DevOps principles to change management. It is the ninth year in a row that Puppet produces a State of DevOps Report. It is the longest-running and most widely referenced DevOps research in the industry.

    Best DevOps Related Video Series (Video)

    The Best DevOps Related Video Series is DevOps Unbound, a bi-weekly video series that focuses on DevOps, automation, CI/CD and testing. Top industry leaders join the series to explore the challenges and issues that software delivery and IT teams face on a daily basis.

     

    Best DevOps Related Podcast Series (Audio Only)

    The Modern Mainframe: Building a Better Software Delivery Platform is the Best DevOps Related Podcast Series. The Modern Mainframe is a podcast by Compuware that explores mainframe modernization and how to transform mainframe culture, processes and tools with DevOps to help your business compete in a digital age. Building a Better Software Delivery Platform is episode 9 of the podcast, featuring Compuware DevOps Architect Rick Slade.

    Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year

    Standing On Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation by Jack Maher and Carmen DeArdo is the Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year. This must-read provides leaders with practical, actionable information about the breadth of Agile, Lean and DevOps topics that are generally dealt with individually; and explains how each of these are necessary but alone are not sufficient to avoid market disruption of your business. The authors focus on how to build an employee and customer-obsessed culture with an organizational structure that drives speed and efficiency, while leveraging technology to enable speed to value that is faster, safer, better and cheaper.

    Top DevOps Evangelist

    The Top DevOps Evangelist award goes to Helen Beal, chief ambassador at DevOps Institute. Helen is a well-known DevOps evangelist leading the DevOps Institute Ambassador program’s efforts to provide broad-based thought leadership and localization. She is an analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group and an editor at InfoQ. Recently, Helen has been working with a group of ambassadors to develop a new, online DevOps Capability Assessment (DOCA), launching in 2021. Taking on strategic advisor roles with Plutora and Moogsoft has given her the opportunity to dive deep into value stream thinking and observability. She is the host of Day-to-Day DevOps, a BrightTalk series that focuses on topics ranging from neuroscience, to ChatOps, to AIOps and everything DevOps related.

    Best DevOps Transformation (Non-Vendor)

    The winner of the Best DevOps Transformation award is Fidelity Investments, a financial services company that supports financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses. Fidelity’s embrace of cloud-based platforms has yielded tangible improvements, such as better operational resiliency.


    Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year

    The DevOps Dozen award for the Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year goes to DevOps World 2020. The virtual event, featuring more than 100 business and technical breakout sessions, focused on how DevOps is transforming the world of software delivery and how businesses are adapting their ways of thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Top industry leaders discussed where DevOps is headed and how the audience can best leverage advanced practices to succeed in the future.

    Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project

    Grafana Loki was chosen as the Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project. Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

     

     

    DevOps Executive of the Year

    The DevOps Executive of the Year is GitLab CEO and Co-Founder Sid Sijbrandij. Sid’s career path has been anything but traditional. He saw the first Ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much

    that he taught himself how to program. It was during his time as a Ruby programmer that he first encountered GitLab, and quickly discovered his passion for open source.

    In 2012, he helped commercialize GitLab, and by 2015, he led the company through Y-Combinator’s Winter 2015 batch. Under his leadership, the company has experienced 50x growth in the last five years, expanded from nine to more than 1,300 remote team members across 65+ countries and regions and is now valued at $2.75 billion. A champion of the open source community and a pioneer in scaling remote organizations, Sid is altering conventional wisdom on DevOps practice.

    Best DevOps Presentation of the Year

    On Ramp to Open DevOps for Mainframe by George DeCandio, chief technology officer of the Mainframe Software Division at Broadcom, is the winner of the Best DevOps Presentation of the Year award. In this keynote presentation, George DeCandio explained what you need to adopt an open strategy and how you can integrate with existing DevOps tools such as Git and Jenkins, or into existing cross-platform CI/CD pipelines. George discussed how Zowe, OMP’s first project devoted to the mainframe, is opening mainframe system commands, data sets and source libraries so you can integrate with tools that know nothing about mainframe.

    Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year

    How to Reduce Engineer Burnout During COVID-19 by Henry Jewkes, staff software engineer at Split, is the Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year. Henry explains how to cope with burnout effectively as it becomes increasingly common during the COVID-19 pandemic.

     

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

    Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service

    The winner of the Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service in 2020 is GitLab. GitLab has demonstrated to be the most efficient solution for DevOps teams to collaborate and build software. The GitLab solution is the result of the collaboration between thousands of community contributors and feedback from the more than 100,000 organizations that have adopted GitLab to power their DevOps transformations. The GitLab community contributes code, documentation, translation, design and product ideas based on their real-world challenges, making GitLab more useful and valuable.

    Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service

    The DevOps Dozen award for the Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service goes to GitHub, the most popular open-source version control code repository. GitHub is great to manage and maintain code in the cloud and contribute to projects quickly with automatic environment setup.

     

    Best CI/CD Tool

    CircleCI was chosen, by the public and the judges, as the Best CI/CD Tool. CircleCI is the leading CI/CD solution for software innovation at scale. The CircleCI platform allows teams to build and deliver software in the cloud or on their own infrastructure. CircleCI manages more than 35 million builds per month on Linux, macOS and Windows.


    Best Value Stream Management Tool

    The 2020 DevOps Dozen winner of the Best Value Stream Management Tool is Digital.ai Value Stream Platform. Digital.ai enables the world’s largest enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by combining industry-leading enterprise Agile planning, application security, continuous testing, software delivery and AI-powered analytics in the first intelligent value stream platform. Digital.ai Value Stream Platform provides a unique view of the software delivery lifecycle through the customer experience lens to better align with business objectives and scale Agile and DevOps processes.

    The Digital.ai Value Stream Platform features end-to-end connectivity, visibility with AI-powered analytics, continuous testing and quality, release management and flow optimization, and measurable outcomes through quantified metrics. The platform allows organizations to set business goals based upon market needs, deliver products and technologies to achieve those goals, measure and analyze results, and make adjustments to continuously improve.

    Best Observability Solution

    The award for Best Observability Solution goes to Splunk Observability Suite, a comprehensive combination of solutions designed to help IT and DevOps teams tackle new monitoring challenges that other tools haven’t been able to effectively address. The Observability Suite helps users maintain the highest levels of business performance and adaptability, improve release quality and velocity, improve developer efficiency, minimize downtime, and deliver world-class digital experiences.

    Best DevSecOps Solution

    JFrog Xray was voted the Best DevSecOps Solution of 2020. JFrog Xray is a universal impact analysis product enhancing artifact security, container security and OSS license compliance across your DevSecOps pipeline. JFrog Xray scans your artifacts, builds and Release Bundles for OSS components being used, and detects security vulnerabilities and licenses in your software components.

    Best Testing Service/Tool

    Tricentis Tosca, a continuous testing platform that accelerates testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps, is the winner of the Best Testing Service/Tool of 2020. With the industry’s most innovative functional testing technologies, Tricentis Tosca breaks through the barriers experienced with conventional testing tools. Simplifying end-to-end functional testing, Tricentis Tosca automates tests across all layers of modern enterprise architectures.

    Best Kubernetes Platform/Service

    The Best Kubernetes Platform/Service award goes to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. 

    Red Hat OpenShift is an open source enterprise Kubernetes platform offering a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications.

    Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service

    Styra’s Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) is the winner of the Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service award. Styra DAS was purpose-built to solve the authorization challenges of cloud-native, containerized application, and the infrastructure they run upon. Built on the open source project Open Policy Agent (OPA), Styra policy-as-code solutions have been proven in production, at scale, in many of the largest cloud-native deployments in production today.

    Styra DAS allows enterprises to define, enforce and validate authorization policy across services, teams, clusters and clouds. As businesses move their cloud-native applications from development through to production, Styra DAS provides the tooling to minimize the risk of human error, offload compliance overhead and ensure security and compliance best practices are enforced across your environment. Styra DAS simplifies policy creation with a built-in library of best practices and security policies, as well as a point and click interface for building custom policy from scratch.

    Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

    It was very difficult to choose a winner in this category. There was a tie between two solutions, CA Endevor Bridge for Git by Broadcom and Compuware’s Topaz, and after a long discussion the judges decided that both should be honored as the Best DevOps for Mainframe Solutions of 2020.

    CA Endevor Bridge for Git is a component of the CA Endevor Integrations for Enterprise DevOps. It connects Git to Endevor via an Enterprise Git Server, such as GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab. Git as well as traditional mainframe developers can easily collaborate on the same mainframe application managed in Endevor. Only code that is pushed from local Git repository to the Enterprise Git repository is recognized by the integration and gets propagated to Endevor.

    Topaz is a modern Agile platform of mainframe development and testing tools that integrates into the DevOps toolchain, empowering any developer, regardless of experience, to understand and work on any program, no matter how old or complex, so that their organizations can easily maintain and innovate from their base of mainframe investments.

    Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution

    The Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution is InfluxDB. Developed by InfluxData, InfluxDB is an open-source time series database that empowers developers to build IoT, analytics and monitoring software. It is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications and infrastructure.


    Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

    The winner of this category is Opsera, the first continuous orchestration platform for DevOps teams. The Opsera platform automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines and provides unified insights across the entire software delivery process.

     

     

     

    Winners will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.

    Thanks for supporting devopsy.kinsta.cloud and the DevOps community. For more information, visit the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards website and stay tuned for the 2021 DevOps Dozen Awards.

  • MediaOps Announces the Finalists for the DevOps Dozen² 2020 Awards

    MediaOps Announces the Finalists for the DevOps Dozen² 2020 Awards

    MediaOps announces the names of the top leaders, companies and tools in the DevOps space that qualified to the finals of DevOps Dozen² Awards nomination process.

    BOCA RATON, Fla., Dec. 2, 2020 —  MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, has published the list of finalists for the 24 categories of the sixth annual DevOps Dozen Awards. The DevOps Dozen Awards highlight the most innovative and outstanding individuals and companies who have demonstrated their leadership and commitment to the DevOps community.

    This year’s awards include twice the number of categories than in previous years, divided into two main sections: DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards and DevOps Dozen Community Awards.

    The community leaders, companies, tools and services that advanced to the finals are those with the highest number of votes in each category. Those who made it to the final phase have demonstrated exceptional performance and service to the community during the past year.

    “Our finalists are definitely the most influential leaders in DevOps,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “Congratulations to each and every one of the finalists. It is quite an accomplishment to be part of such an impressive list.”

    Here are the 12 finalists for the DevOps Dozen Community Awards categories:

    1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation
    1. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research
    1. Best DevOps Related Video Series (Video)
    1. Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Podcast of the Series (Audio Only) of the Year
    1. Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year
    1. Top DevOps Evangelist
    1. Best DevOps Transformation (Non-Vendor)
    1. Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year
    1. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
    1. DevOps Executive of the Year
    1. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year
    1. Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year

     

    Here are the 12 finalists for the DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards categories:

    1. Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service
    1. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service
    1. Best CI/CD Tool
    1. Best Value Stream Management Tool
    1. Best Observability Solution
    1. Best DevSecOps Solution
    1. Best Testing Service/Tool
    1. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service
    1. Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service
    1. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
    1. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
    1. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

    Finalists will receive a badge to display on their website and social media with a link to the voting/survey site.

    Voting for the winners in all 24 categories is now officially open to the public. Winners will be chosen from among the finalists with general public voting being weighted for 40% of the final total and our judges selections for 60% of the weighted total. The deadline for public voting and judges submissions is Jan. 8, 2021. Winners will be announced at Predict 2021 Virtual Summit and will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.

    For more information about the awards and each category, please visit the DevOps Dozen² Awards website.

    For any information regarding the entry process, awards, timing or any technical issues regarding the website, please contact us at DD@devops.com.

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  • Announcing the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Finalists

    Announcing the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Finalists

    We are excited to announce the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards finalists. For six years in a row, we have been honoring the most outstanding leaders in the DevOps community. This year, we decided to expand our awards program to include two different sections: DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards and DevOps Dozen Community Awards.

    Those who made it to the finals have demonstrated exceptional performance and service to the community during the past year. Finalists were picked based on most nominations. Congratulations to each and every one of the finalists in the 24 categories. It is quite an accomplishment to make it this far.

    Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards.

    DevOps Dozen Community Awards

    1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation
    1. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research
    1. Best DevOps Related Video Series (Video)
    1. Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Podcast of the Series (Audio Only) of the Year
    1. Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year
    1. Top DevOps Evangelist
    1. Best DevOps Transformation (Non-Vendor)
    1. Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year
    1. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
    1. DevOps Executive of the Year
    1. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year
    1. Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

    1. Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service
    1. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service
    1. Best CI/CD Tool
    1. Best Value Stream Management Tool
    1. Best Observability Solution
    1. Best DevSecOps Solution
    1. Best Testing Service/Tool
    1. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service
    1. Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service
    1. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
    1. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
    1. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

    Finalists will receive a badge to display on their website and social media with a link to the voting/survey site.

    Voting for the winners in all 24 categories is now officially open to the public. Click here to vote for the leaders, tools and companies you think are truly deserving of an award for their exceptional service to the DevOps community. Winners will be chosen from among the finalists with general public voting being weighted for 40% of the final total and our judges selections for 60% of the weighted total. The deadline for public voting and judges submissions is Jan. 8, 2021.

    Winners will be announced at Predict 2021 Virtual Summit and will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.

    Thanks to everyone who voted and nominated candidates. Good luck to all the finalists!

  • The 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Nominations Are Now Open

    The 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Nominations Are Now Open

    The DevOps Dozen Awards are back for their sixth year and open for nominations. We are excited to celebrate the hard work and continued success of DevOps leaders, whose achievements over the past year deserve recognition. This year, we have expanded our awards program to include two different DevOps Dozen sections; hence, the name DevOps Dozen² (Squared).

    There are a dozen awards for each section this year:

    • DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards — 12 awards recognizing the companies that develop and deliver outstanding solutions to empower developers, DevOps and IT operations teams.
    • DevOps Dozen Community Awards — Closer to the original vision that we had with the DevOps Dozen when we instituted the awards five years ago, these 12 awards honor the leaders who have made a positive impact in the DevOps community.

    Nominations are made by the audience. However, it will work a little differently for the Tools and Services Awards categories than it will for the Community Awards. While anyone can nominate a tool or service for the final phase this year, there is a $250 fee for each Tools and Services nomination. This is meant to cut down on the spam and superfluous nominations we have received in the past.

    We are interested in serious tools/services in the DevOps space. Nominate only those you think are truly deserving of an award. Commercial tools/services are not eligible for the Community Awards and will not make it through to the finals.

    Winners will be chosen from among the finalists, with general public voting accounting for 40% of the final total and our judges’ selections for 60% of the total.

    The last day to submit your nominations is Oct. 15. To vote, follow the steps outlined on the DevOps Dozen² website.

    Meet the Judges

    Who are this year’s judges? You may already be familiar with their names. The 2020 panel will be lead by:

    • Alan Shimel, founder and editor in chief, devopsy.kinsta.cloud
    • Jayne Groll, CEO and co-founder of the DevOps Institute
    • Mitch Ashley, CEO and founder of Accelerated Strategies Group
    • Charlene O’Hanlon, managing editor, MediaOps Inc.

    The 2020 DevOps Dozen² Categories

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

    1. 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.
    2. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service
      Git has led to GitOps, which has become an integral part of the DevOps toolbox. This award is presented to the most outstanding Repo/Git/GitOps tool.
    3. Best CI/CD Tool
      This award recognizes the best CI/CD tool that helps teams to deliver quality code better.
    4. 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.
    5. 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.
    6. Best DevSecOps Solution
      This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC.
    7. Best Testing Service/Tool
      Testing is a mainstay in the DevOps toolchain, and this award recognizes the best testing tool for ensuring the quality of code.
    8. 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.
    9. 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.
    10. 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.
    11. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
      Databases often have been left out of the DevOps conversation, but that is changing. Recently, the whole concept of DataOps has started gaining traction. This award recognizes the best solution in the database for DevOps and DataOps categories.
    12. 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

    1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation
      This award honors organizations that have successfully adopted and implemented DevOps principles and practices.
    2. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research
      This award recognizes research that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.
    3. 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.
    4. Best DevOps-Related Audio Podcast Series
      Which is your favorite DevOps podcast from this year? There are many great DevOps podcasts sparking some interesting discussions on a multitude of topics from CI/CD and testing to DevSecOps, Kubernetes, containers and more.
    5. 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.
    6. 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.
    7. Best DevOps Transformation (non-vendor)
      In a year in which digital transformation became a must-have for survival, which organizations stood out in their efforts to transform their business through DevOps?
    8. Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year
      COVID-19 has changed the game when it comes to hosting events. In 2020, virtual events have become the new norm, reaching a global audience while everyone stays safe at home. Which DevOps virtual event stands out from the others?
    9. 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.
    10. DevOps Executive of the Year (non-vendor) This category celebrates excellence among DevOps leaders at the C-suite (or equivalent) levels.
    11. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year
      This category recognizes the best DevOps-themed presentation from the many (virtual) conferences during the year.
    12. Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year
      devopsy.kinsta.cloud publishes multiple new articles every day. Which was the best article from 2020? 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 MediaOps and Accelerated Strategy 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.

    With so many talented and passionate leaders in our community, choosing a winner is no easy task. Though not everyone can take home the award, I truly believe every single person who is a part of this great community and has done some remarkable work to empower and support other members of the DevOps community is a winner. By acknowledging them in our award process, we want to highlight their work and show how important they are in the DevOps space.

    For more information on the awards, 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.