OpenStack Summit May 2014 Atlanta

We have been following DevOps for many years and it always seems awesome. Who wouldn't want to deliver more software more often? Also, that 2009 presentation at Velocity with Spock and Kirk was awesome. Sadly, based on how little we, as analysts, see it in practice, it still seems like something of a unicorn. Interestingly, this has been changing rapidly. This presentation will present 451's freshest analysis of where the DevOps market is in maturity, including M&A, early market-sizing, a landscape overview and quantitative market studies - along with plenty of silly, but nonetheless helpful qualitative hand-waving. Our gut instinct is that DevOps is following a pattern very similar to Agile Development and open source, which are two cycles we can use to think about DevOps. There are some early best practices and cases to go over, but very few - part of what we hope to suss out with this talk are more stories fromt he field. The unicorn seems close to sprouting wings.
For the OpenStack community, tracking DevOps is important as one of our major theories is that developers are driving a massive amount of cloud demand and build-out.
Speaker bio: Michael Coté is the Research Director for Infrastructure Software at 451 Research (https://451research.com/biography?eid=735). He and his team cover cloud management, cloud platforms, software development, and good old fashioned systems management. Previously, he worked at Dell in corporate strategy doing M&A and helping creating new lines of business like the software group and managing the company-wide cloud strategy. He worked at RedMonk as an analyst and used to do real work writing software. See him @cote and http://cote.io.
We have been following DevOps for many years and it always seems awesome. Who wouldn't want to deliver more software more often? Also, that 2009 presentation at Velocity with Spock and Kirk was awesome. Sadly, based on how little we, as analysts, see it in practice, it still seems like something of a unicorn. Interestingly, this has been changing rapidly. This presentation will present 451's freshest analysis of where the DevOps market is in maturity, including M&A, early market-sizing, a landscape overview and quantitative market studies - along with plenty of silly, but nonetheless helpful qualitative hand-waving. Our gut instinct is that DevOps is following a pattern very similar to Agile Development and open source, which are two cycles we can use to think about DevOps. There are some early best practices and cases to go over, but very few - part of what we hope to suss out with this talk are more stories fromt he field. The unicorn seems close to sprouting wings.
For the OpenStack community, tracking DevOps is important as one of our major theories is that developers are driving a massive amount of cloud demand and build-out.
Speaker bio: Michael Coté is the Research Director for Infrastructure Software at 451 Research (https://451research.com/biography?eid=735). He and his team cover cloud management, cloud platforms, software development, and good old fashioned systems management. Previously, he worked at Dell in corporate strategy doing M&A and helping creating new lines of business like the software group and managing the company-wide cloud strategy. He worked at RedMonk as an analyst and used to do real work writing software. See him @cote and http://cote.io.