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  • Techstrong Group Announces 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards Honorees

    Techstrong Group Announces 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards Honorees

    Boca Raton, FL, January 14, 2025 — Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards, which recognize exceptional contributions to the DevOps community and the evolution of software development practices. From community leaders to tools and services advancing DevOps, the 2024 honorees represent the diverse and innovative efforts shaping technology’s future.

    This year’s winners have been selected for their remarkable achievements in pushing the boundaries of DevOps. These individuals and organizations have demonstrated leadership, creativity, and a commitment to advancing the industry, creating lasting impacts across communities, and driving the development of groundbreaking tools and platforms. The 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards honor those who have not only embraced the DevOps culture but have also paved the way for others to follow.

    Community Awards

    Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast: The Modern Mainframe

    “BMC’s mainframe podcast, The Modern Mainframe, is one of the leading podcasts helping to keep the mainframe relevant. With news and analysis of DevOps topics across the mainframe, it has something for everyone. Keep it up!”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps Book of the Year: “Continuous Testing, Quality, Security and Feedback: Essential Strategies and Secure Practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE Transformations” by Marc Hornbeek

    “Marc Hornbeek’s book shows readers the strategies for transformation success into DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE methodologies.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Top DevOps Community Evangelist: Giorgi Keratishvili

    “Giorgi Keratishvili has played major roles in Development and Operations, actively growing DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering awareness in the Georgian community and beyond.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps Event of the Year: GrafanaCON 2024

    “Grafana Labs’ annual conference in Amsterdam focused on the open-source world of Observability. Of particular note were the live demos, latest OSS developments, and the community winners of the annual Golden Grot Awards.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project: Jenkins

    “The Jenkins open-source project, now boasting over 11 million developers globally, continues to set the industry standard and is a key contributor to DevOps practices.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year: “Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers?” by Alexander Simonov

    “In this article, Alexander Simonov addresses how DevOps professionals can adapt to AI advancements and stay in demand in the evolving tech landscape.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year: Sheree Britt, AVP, Software Engineering Mainframe Modernization, TD Bank Group

    “Sheree Britt’s leadership in leveraging DevOps practices to transform TD Bank’s culture and processes makes her a standout in enterprise DevOps leadership.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Tools & Services Awards

    Best DevOps Industry Implementation: Operation Joined Arrows program for FIS

    “FIS’s Operation Joined Arrows (OJA) revolutionized their processes with a cohesive and secure software development lifecycle across their enterprise.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research: The Software Supply Chain State of the Union 2024

    “JFrog’s 2024 Software Supply Chain report is essential reading for anyone at the forefront of today’s technological innovations, especially in the realm of AI adoption.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best End-to-End DevOps Platform: JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform

    “JFrog continues to innovate with its DevOps platform, improving speed and efficiency across development teams.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Application of AI in DevOps Tool/Platform: GitLab Duo

    “GitLab Duo helps organizations adopt AI while ensuring the security of sensitive data, making it a standout in the evolving AI-driven DevOps space.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist: Tony Anter

    “Tony’s unwavering passion for DevOps and his advocacy for adopting its principles have earned him this well-deserved recognition.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Value Stream Management: ValueOps by Broadcom

    “Broadcom’s deep understanding of value stream management and its commitment to transforming this space make ValueOps a leader in the field.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Observability Solution: Splunk Observability Cloud

    “Splunk’s Observability Cloud allows IT and DevOps teams to detect, investigate, and resolve business-critical incidents quickly and efficiently.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevSecOps Solution: Checkmarx One

    “Checkmarx One is an essential tool for DevSecOps teams, enabling secure application development from the first line of code through deployment in the cloud.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Platform Engineering Solution: Harness Internal Developer Portal

    “Harness’s Internal Developer Portal is revolutionizing platform engineering efficiency, focusing on enhancing both developer and platform engineering effectiveness.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Testing Service/Tool: Tricentis SeaLights

    “Tricentis SeaLights helps organizations balance code quality with speed to market, improving cycle times and minimizing production risks.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution: BMC AMI DevX

    “BMC’s AMI DevX platform addresses the mainframe’s pivotal role in scaling workloads, providing an improved developer experience for mainframe teams.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution: EDB Postgres AI

    “EDB Postgres AI empowers DevOps teams with a unified, scalable, and secure data platform to streamline the management of transactional, analytical, and AI data.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best New DevOps Tool: StackGen

    “StackGen accelerates cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code (IaC), enabling platform engineering teams to deploy resilient, reliable, and secure applications quickly.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    DevOps Industry Leader of the Year: Anuj Kapur, CEO, CloudBees

    “Under Anuj Kapur’s leadership, CloudBees has made remarkable strides, driving transformation in DevSecOps, acquiring Launchable, and positioning itself as a leader in scaling AI innovation within the DevOps ecosystem.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    The DevOps Dozen Awards winners will receive digital and physical trophies and badges to celebrate their achievements.

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

    About Techstrong Group

    Techstrong Group is the power source for people and technology. Techstrong Group accelerates understanding of technologies that drive business. With a broad set of IT-related communities and offerings, Techstrong Group is the only media company serving the needs of IT leaders and practitioners with news, research, analysis, events, education, and professional development. Our focus is DevOps, cybersecurity, AI, digital transformation, cloud native, ITSM, and platform engineering. Techstrong Group business units include Techstrong Media, Techstrong Associations, Techstrong Research, and Techstrong Learning. Techstrong Group helps tech vendors stay ahead of the game by sharing their stories in the most powerful way and engaging with their target audience to build a strong online presence and generate valuable leads.

    Techstrong Group is based in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information, visit us on the web and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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    Veronica Haggar
    Techstrong Group
    veronica@techstronggroup.com

  • DevOps Dozen 2024 Nominations Now Open

    DevOps Dozen 2024 Nominations Now Open

    We are thrilled to announce that nominations for the DevOps Dozen 2024 are officially open! Now in its tenth year, the DevOps Dozen continues to spotlight the standout contributors, projects, and companies driving the DevOps community forward.

    This year, we have updated and refined our award categories to better reflect the evolving landscape of DevOps and embrace the latest industry innovations. Some categories celebrate the commercial DevOps solutions making waves in the market, while others highlight the dynamic community and open-source efforts that power DevOps.

    The nomination process remains as rigorous as ever, with two stages: Nominations for finalists are open now and will close on October 18, 2024. Finalists will be announced on November 11, 2024, after which public voting will take place. This year’s winners will be determined through a combination of public votes (40%) and expert evaluations from our esteemed panel of judges (60%). Our panel of judges will be announced soon on the DevOps Dozen website.

    As with previous years, a nominal fee will be required for commercial category nominations to reduce spam and help cover administrative costs. To ensure a fair process, if a category receives more than 10 submissions, we will refund the fee for those entries that do not make it to the finalist stage. Community nominations remain free, but any spamming attempts will result in disqualification.

    Without further ado, here are the categories for the DevOps Dozen awards:

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

    • Best DevOps Industry Implementation
      Many organizations have transformed their business by successfully adopting and implementing DevOps principles, practices and solutions. This award recognizes those enterprises that have successfully achieved DevOps success and have worked with their solution partner to do so.
    • Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/ Research
      This award recognizes industry research and analysis that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.
    • Best End-to-End DevOps Platform
      Consolidation in the DevOps space has led to a greater selection of platforms offering end-to-end solutions with increasing feature sets. This award honors the platform with the most diverse and robust solution for DevOps teams.
    • Best application of AI in DevOps Tool/Platform
      AI is changing and improving DevOps Tools and Platforms at a rapid pace.. This award recognizes the DevOps Tool or Platform that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to improve or accelerate the application of DevOps principles.
    • Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist
      DevOps solution providers typically are on the leading edge of new DevOps strategies, tools and practices. This award recognizes the individual that does the best job of informing the DevOps community about new and exciting tools and practices to deliver DevOps success and business value.
    • Best Value Stream Management
      Value stream management is 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, 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 Platform Engineering Solution
      This award recognizes the best Platform Engineering solution enabling self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era covering the operational necessities of the entire lifecycle of an application.
    • 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.
    • Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
      Mainframes are far from being the dinosaur of the IT world. This award recognizes the best solution for implementing DevOps practices in mainframe environments and hybrid environments.
    • Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
      Databases often have been left out of the DevOps conversation, but that is changing. This award recognizes the best database related solution for DevOps and DataOps.
    • Best New DevOps Tool
      This award recognizes the best tool that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (Less than 24 months old)
    • Best New DevOps Service Provider
      This award recognizes the best new service provider that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (Less than 24 months old)

    DevOps Dozen Community Awards

    • Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast
      Podcasts are popular ways for DevOps Leaders and Practitioners to keep current. This award recognizes the most educational, informative and inspirational DevOps video or audio podcast series – those with the most engaging and highest-quality content that keeps listeners coming back for more.
    • Best DevOps Book of the Year
      Each year sees a number of well-crafted DevOps-related books. This category recognizes the most popular and best read of the year.
    • Top DevOps Evangelist
      Every community has those who standout as leaders in their field who spread the DevOps gospel everyday. This award recognizes the individual whose peers in the DevOps community recognize for outstanding leadership, knowledge and communication.
    • Best DevOps Event of the Year
      Events and conferences are an important part of IT life. This category includes both in-person and virtual events. Which DevOps event stands out from the others and delivers the best content, speakers and attendee experience?
    • Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
      Open source software is an important part of every organization’s set of development assets promoting innovation, velocity, quality and efficiency. This award recognizes the open source project that delivers the greatest value through a community of people who work on and with the open source technology and support each other.
    • Best Application of AI in DevOps Practices
      AI is changing the world in which we live and work at an incredible pace. This award recognizes the organization that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to improve or accelerate the use of DevOps.
    • DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year
      An organization’s leadership plays a critical role in shepherding its team through innovation and change.This award recognizes a strong DevOps leader who guides their team through the challenges of developing and implementing DevOps strategies, policies, culture and practices to improve software development and delivery.
    • Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year
      devopsy.kinsta.cloud publishes multiple new articles every day. This award recognizes the best article from this year. Let us know so we can recognize the author.

    Good luck to all the nominees for the DevOps Dozen Awards 2024. We look forward to seeing your contributions and innovations recognized. Finalists will be announced on November 11, 2024—stay tuned!