The DevOps Exchange now offers more than 65 pre-built solutions from Copado, its partners and the Copado community to extend and enhance the features of Copado’s DevOps platform for Salesforce, including the only generative AI DevOps bot available in the Salesforce ecosystem. The DevOps Exchange has hundreds of downloads and installs each month to support more than 17 million customer deployments, enabling customers to realize the full potential of their DevOps tools and maximize their enterprise SaaS investment.

“We love working with the Copado DevOps Exchange as it allows us to help customers bridge the gap between Copado and Slack in a simple and effective way that makes the DevOps workflow run smoothly,” said Ryan Hitchler, CEO and co-founder of Centro.

DevOps automation saves Copado customers 25 million development hours annually, reduces app failure rates by 78%, and has enabled them to release 10x more features. Companies of all sizes can be up-and-running with Copado quickly and customers report realizing value in less than 90 days. With pre-built DevOps Exchange extensions, customers can plug full-functioning capabilities directly into their DevOps process.

“There will always be delivery teams that encounter unique situations and, with DevOps Exchange, we’ve empowered our teams, customers and partners to build solutions for those specific use cases and share them with our entire user base,” said David Brooks, Senior Vice President and Lead Evangelist at Copado. “Copado’s investment in extensibility and baked-in best practices has enabled customers to get started quickly with pre-built capabilities based on millions of deployments, while giving them the flexibility to manage their specific compliance, testing and team needs.”

Understanding that DevOps success is also rooted in people, Copado’s hosts the largest DevOps community in the world with 80,000 active members. The Copado Community offers 10 public training courses each month and six different professional DevOps certifications. Copado’s investment in education and learning has added 26,500 certified DevOps professionals to the Salesforce ecosystem, accelerating adoption and success.

For more information on Copado visit the website here.

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Platform9 announced the results of its inaugural “2022 Enterprise Trends in Cloud Native” research, revealing that 91% of survey respondents cite security, consistent management across environments, high availability, and observability as their top concerns for operating cloud-native technologies. The research also found that despite fast growing public-cloud deployments, 67% of cloud deployments are distributed, spread out across on-premises, hybrid, and edge clouds. Platform9 is the world’s #1 open distributed cloud service, offering the power of the public cloud on infrastructure of customers’ choice – powered by Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.

The report, which surveyed over 500 technology executives and practitioners, details how enterprises are adopting cloud-native technologies, provides insight into 2022 technology investment priorities, and identifies top concerns to help business leaders and enterprises determine how best to navigate and accelerate their cloud-native initiatives for the rest of the year.

Specific findings include:

• Kubernetes dominates container management: App containerization is accelerating, with 53% of respondents planning to containerize their current applications. Nearly 85% of respondents are using Kubernetes or have plans to deploy it in the next six months.
• Cloud-native hiring continues to be a priority: DevOps, cloud platform engineering, cloud-native developers, and security are the top hiring investments for 2022.
• Executives across the board are looking for practical solutions to reduce vendor lock-in: While 61% of respondents have high or moderate concern about vendor lock-in, 71% of advanced users with larger deployments are even more concerned than early users. Additionally, managers, executives, and architects show higher level of concerns than engineers (65%). Plans for multiple cloud deployment lead as the number one action to address cloud lock-in, followed by using open-source services (#2) and writing portable apps (#3).
• While security and operations concerned 91% of respondents, executives were more concerned about cost optimization, data management, and high availability while practitioner’s challenges were more around day-2 operations such as upgrades, consistent management, observability, and troubleshooting.

“As more and more enterprises are adopting cloud-native technologies, we see a corresponding growth of the deployment of distributed infrastructure across public, hybrid, and edge clouds,” said Bhaskar Gorti, CEO of Platform9. “What many fail to anticipate when implementing a distributed cloud strategy, are the challenges that come with managing it efficiently, and the high skill-level needed to do so. It’s critical that leaders prioritize a cloud-agnostic provider in order to achieve their goals faster and with less complexity, while minimizing the vendor lock-in concerns identified in the research.”

“Platform9’s research concretely reflects concerns we have heard from enterprise and service provider users adopting container and cloud-native platforms,” said Roy Chua, founder and principal at AvidThink. “Now that we are a few years into mainstream use of containers, leading users are reflecting their learnings and concerns across strategic, scaling, and operational elements of container and cloud services. The insights provided in the research make it required reading for enterprise IT leaders regardless of whether they are novices or seasoned experts in cloud transformation.”

“We’ve seen that there is a high-level of concern among enterprises when it comes to consistent management across clusters, uptime and SLA, cost optimization, and troubleshooting, yet there is a major gap in knowing how to actually solve for these challenges,” said Madhura Maskasky, VP of product at Platform9. “Hearing from various industry experts on the emerging cloud-native solutions available to address these issues will enable these companies to gain a comprehensive understanding of operating their deployments effectively, especially at distributed scale.”

Learn about Platform9 or to access the complete “2022 Enterprise Trends in Cloud Native” research, click here.

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Testing in Salesforce becomes more critical as the ecosystem of custom applications, managed packages from AppExchange and integrations are involved. Not only do organizations have to adapt to changes when it comes to their Salesforce deployments, but they also have to track integrations with other systems that have their own release cycles. With this innovation comes the need for scalable end-to-end testing. A recent Forrester report confirms organizations using low-code platforms like Salesforce can’t afford to ignore automated testing.

The Copado State of Salesforce Testing report underscores the challenges organizations are facing as they incorporate testing into their release cycle. Key takeaways include:

Quality is more than a full-time job
Organizations employ a significant amount of resources toward software testing.

• 49% of organizations employ a full-time testing team; 26% outsource this function to a consulting company; 23% rely on developers to handle code testing.
• 51% of organizations have more than 26 resources dedicated to quality assurance full time; 20% employ more than 100 professionals tasked with this responsibility.

Manual testing isn’t scalable — and is expensive
Testing remains the bottleneck to digital transformation. Although technology continues to advance, companies are still engaged in traditional testing methods such as manual testing or script-based solutions. The consequence is the quality of releases suffers since there isn’t enough time to test changes before deployments. Defects found later in the release cycle are exponentially more expensive to fix. Therefore, production defects can have a massive financial impact on companies.

• 41% of organizations don’t have enough time to fully test all changes before a release due to time constraints that force teams to reduce the scope of testing.
• 92% experience production issues (defects uncovered) each year due to inadequate testing.
• 84% of respondents still rely at least partially on manual testing. 30% of companies use home-grown testing scripts, typically based on Selenium, while 35% employ commercial testing tools.
• Manual testing has a 95% higher total cost of ownership than using commercial test automation tools.

Automated testing can dramatically improve outcomes
The cost of not adopting automated testing is a much higher incidence of production failures despite greater investment in the testing team.

• Teams using automated testing experienced less than half as many production failures per year as a result of releases (a median of 3 per year instead of 7).
• Teams using automated testing release 50% more frequently than those relying on manual testing (34 times per year on average, compared to 22 times per year).
• Teams using automated testing were 50% more likely to complete all of their test plans for each release (67% of teams using automated testing reported completing all their tests for each release vs. only 45% of teams relying on manual testing).

“Companies are clearly finding that automated testing is the best way to move fast and not break things,” said Pat McQueen, Senior Vice President of Growth at Copado. “Teams that prioritize their testing strategy outperform those who don’t. The investment in automated testing enables business agility which leads to long-term commercial success in a competitive market.”

The full report can be found at: https://www.copado.com/salesforce-testing

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At the world’s most powerful technology companies, engineering organizations integrate and deploy changes thousands of times per day. They enable fast deployments, fast reviews, and fast data. As a result, they consistently deliver value to their customers, set their industry’s pace for innovation, and ultimately win in the marketplace.

Many companies are falling behind. Their engineering teams struggle against roadblocks and delays during the development process. Developers battle distractions—too many meetings, too many interruptions, and too much wait time on processes and systems. It takes months or quarters for teams to see their ideas turned into reality. Software is on a mission to help engineering teams around the world bridge this growing divide.

“Over the last decade we’ve witnessed a growing tech divide between the highest and lowest performing software development organizations,” said Software co-founder Brett Stevens. “Software sheds light on organizations’ DevOps performance. Our platform is trusted by over 250,000 developers worldwide.”

Software‘s DevOps metrics platform helps organizations improve visibility into their DevOps performance and see how they compare to other companies in the market. Companies can quickly connect their DevOps tools and see performance metrics, including delivery lead time and release frequency, in just a few minutes—with no need for setup or services.

“Companies invest billions of dollars annually in DevOps initiatives without being able to effectively track or measure how they’re actually doing,” said Mason McLead, CTO of Software. “They have no way to know if they’re on the path to becoming a great development organization, or if they’re in danger of falling behind their competitors.”

“The best engineering teams release software 100x, even 1000x, faster than their competitors,” said Joe Lonsdale, founding partner at 8VC. “They’re able to accelerate software delivery as they scale, further widening the divide.”

“Building a world-class engineering organization is critical for long-term success across industries,” said TJ Rylander, partner at Next47. “Software makes great software development attainable at every company—regardless of size or funding.”

Software plans to release a powerful product upgrade that will provide even more data and benchmarks for measuring and improving DevOps performance before the end of 2021. Join the upcoming beta and sign up here for the waitlist. For more information visit www.software.com.

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DevOps Report Finds Quality Trumps Speed When Releasing Software

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Testing is a critical element of a successful DevOps strategy. According to the survey, a combined 82% of respondents experienced either frequent or some slowdown in testing new software releases. Yet, most organizations still defer releases until testing is done. More than 50% of survey respondents agreed that the greatest value of testing is that it enables teams to release updates and applications faster with greater confidence.

The report’s key findings include:

• More than half (58%) of respondents agree that DevOps testing reduces issues in production.
• More than eight in 10 (82%) organizations defer releasing software until testing is done.
• Respondents are divided on the impact of microservices and the ability to continually test, with 43% saying dependencies between services make it challenging to test as each microservice is updated, and 38% reporting it’s easier to test because of smaller, more discrete services.

“As this report shows, testing continues to play a critical role in the DevOps process to ensure that applications perform as expected,” said Wolfgang Platz, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Tricentis. “Poor software releases that create negative user experiences can cause major issues. While software testing may increase timelines, it remains essential in delivering high-quality software. In this case, quality overrides speed.”

For a detailed look at the role of testing in DevOps and additional survey findings, download the full report here.

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The report is available for download at https://info.devopsinstitute.com/2021-upskilling-report-download

“DevOps Humans remained in-demand, despite a global pandemic that upended our ways of life and business,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “This is a testament to the importance and value of DevOps transformations at companies across industries and around the globe. The findings in the 2021 Upskilling Report give us clarity into the evolution of DevOps Humans and how IT organizations will shape their talent-based structures in 2021 and beyond.”

The research and data analysis was led by DevOps Institute’s Chief Research and Content Officer, Eveline Oehrlich, with support from Platinum Sponsor, GitLab; Gold Sponsors, CloudBees and The LLPA; Bronze Sponsors, Tricentis and HCL Software; and Media Sponsor, MediaOps.

Key Findings from the ‘Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report’ include:

• Stop talking about being a learning organization and start acting. Seventy percent of survey respondents said that a learning organization was a predominant model–the DevOps way of working–while 45 percent leaned toward a safety culture. And, while 39 percent of IT teams are still struggling with a defined and systematic upskilling program, 52 percent of organizations already have a formally designed upskilling program or are currently developing one.
• Hiring for DevOps initiatives is high. COVID-19 has not stopped the hiring of DevOps roles. Sixty percent of organizations are recruiting now or in the future.
• Capabilities and skill development must go hand in hand. DevOps teams must assess which critical capabilities they can perform or not, across key areas. But capabilities must be supported with skilled DevOps Humans. Upon examining the priority domain skill categories, the survey data shows that the essential combination of skills for a successful DevOps human are across the automation, human, technical, functional, process and framework knowledge skill domain categories.
• Pressure continues to force old IT operating models to change.  As new forms of hybrid computing are on the rise, it gives application developers more freedom to choose tools and programming languages. As this increases, IT operations teams not yet practicing DevOps feel more pressure to embrace DevOps.
• Value Stream Management (VSM) skills are seen by 39 percent of respondents as a must-have skill within the process and framework skill domain. DevOps and Agile practices have been adopted to innovate and create more iterative approaches for software development and delivery. However, the value must come through the customer lens. This is where VSM comes in. In simple terms, understanding and examining value streams of software being delivered end-to-end enables teams to make complex processes visible and provides the ability to pivot towards further value improvement.
• The adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as an operating model is 22 percent in 2021 compared to 15 percent in the previous year. SRE is needed to continue automation and reduce toil. Forty-seven percent of the survey respondents voted SRE skills as a must-have skill in the process and framework skill domain this year compared to 28 percent in the previous year’s survey.
• DevSecOps is a key trend. Security is integral to protect the business and enforce internal and external policies of the company. DevSecOps makes security an equal consideration alongside development and operations. According to survey participants, DevSecOps achieved a must-have percentage vote of 56 percent in the automation tool category.
• New models such as DataOps and ModelOps are showing up. DataOps was voted by 27 percent as a must-have skill domain in the automation tool skill domain, whereas ModelOps received 22 percent. These new models are shaping the ongoing iterations of DevOps operating models.
• DevOps Engineers are the most in-demand job title this year. It represents 53 percent of recently recruited DevOps positions. The DevOps engineer’s responsibility might differ from company to company, but all should be engaged in upskilling themselves and their teams.

“Our research shows that the future of DevOps at any organization is dependent upon the breadth and depth of capabilities and the supporting skills of the team members and within the team,” said Oehrlich. “A successful DevOps journey (actually any journey) has the DNA of a learning organization which means there is a commitment of continuous learning across all layers and players. Team members have changed their mental models to look at different views working in a collective and collaborative team. For example, problems and mistakes are opportunities to learn. This ability to continuously learn enables individuals and teams to work better together across boundaries regardless of process, team or technology boundaries. This mental continuous learning model will take time to develop, adapt and apply. Still, each individual can bring their skills and abilities to shape the bigger collective effort of DevOps. For everyone in IT, this is an exciting time to unlock your power, abilities and skills to accelerate your DevOps journey and that of your team and company. DevOps Human readiness and organizational learning must take on new importance now and in this next normal.”

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This latest release transforms mainframe management across the BMC Compuware ISPW, BMC Compuware Topaz, BMC Compuware File-AID, BMC AMI Ops Insight, BMC AMI SQL Performance, and BMC AMI Security solutions to enable users to:

• Build, analyze, test, deploy, and manage mainframe applications quickly, efficiently, and with precision through an expanded cross-platform DevOps toolchain;
• Reduce and potentially eliminate how long it takes to diagnose a problem with intelligent, automated, probable cause analysis; and
• Detect and respond more quickly to security threats by uniting mainframe security and IT Operations workflows to make threat events visible, assignable, and trackable.

Mainstream Mainframe Development with an Enterprise DevOps Approach
BMC has completed the integration of Compuware, a BMC company, to create the BMC Compuware suite of tools that build upon the existing BMC AMI DevOps offerings. Now integrated with Visual Studio Code, a popular development tool, the BMC Compuware ISPW solution allows developers to edit source code and compile it on the mainframe with a simple right click. The BMC Compuware Topaz solution comes with a new command line interface and multiple application programming interfaces that give developers flexibility in how they connect to the mainframe, lessen dependence on specialized skillsets, and extend the DevOps toolchain. Finally, developers can also experience dynamically reduced search times when reviewing billions of transactions and log files with the new BMC Compuware File-AID 21 solution’s release.

The BMC Compuware ISPW solution integrates with Visual Studio Code to enable developers to compile changed code on the mainframe with a right click.

“This move by BMC has sent a clear signal that DevOps has shifted from the broad adoption phase to the massive adoption phase. DevOps has become table stakes for every enterprise; whether they operate in the cloud or on a mainframe, they need to adopt DevOps to remain relevant, let alone be competitive. Yet adopting DevOps for many organizations, especially those with mainframes, has been a challenge,” wrote Christopher Condo, Chris Gardner, and Diego Lo Giudice at Forrester Research.1 “…If DevOps doesn’t scale on mainframes, too, where modernization of the core is an impediment, core will all move to the cloud. The bet of BMC and Compuware is to scale DevOps on the mainframe like any other platform.”

To support DevOps processes and increase code quality, the BMC AMI SQL Performance for Db2® solution provides the ability to shift left the quality control of Db2 SQL through a Jenkins plugin that helps prevent SQL from violating company standards and impacting production environments. The solution interrogates static and dynamic SQL in its current environment and against target production environments. This ensures SQL coding standards and performance issues are reported and resolved prior to moving to the next step in the route-to-live process.

Move from Reactive to Real-Time Proactive Problem Resolution
The BMC AMI Ops Insight solution shifts systems management from reactive to proactive mode with automated intelligent diagnostic capabilities that now provide probable cause. Users receive the earliest possible notification of system degradation, with fewer false positives, as well as the ability to pinpoint the issue. By getting to the possible cause faster, BMC AMI Ops Insight provides more time to remediate with actionable insights.

The BMC AMI Ops Insight solution helps reduce and potentially eliminate how long it takes to diagnose mainframe systems problems with intelligent automated, probable cause analysis.

Unite Security and Operations Workflows
The BMC AMI Security offering, which protects against vulnerabilities, malicious actions, and data theft, now integrates with the BMC Helix ITSM solution. If the BMC AMI Security solution detects a threat, this new integration will automatically generate a security incident in BMC Helix ITSM, providing IT Operations teams with greater visibility through a single, real-time data feed and a well-defined process so they can act, track, and respond to threats and events faster.

In addition to its integration with BMC Helix ITSM, the new BMC AMI Security release continues to integrate with a wide number of enterprise security information and event management solutions and thus provides more ways to assign and rapidly investigate events, shorten mean-time-to-remediation, and make mainframes more secure.

“Mainframes are an essential part of our customers’ digital transformation strategies. With tools that transform mainframe management, we allow our clients to better embrace DevOps practices and get the most value out of their investments to accelerate innovation,” said John McKenny, SVP and General Manager, Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation at BMC. “We continue to help our customers achieve operational resiliency, while automating and minimizing manual tasks to free them up to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise.”

Forrester Blogs, Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware, March 2020

Additional Resources

• Learn what’s new in BMC mainframe solutions
• Watch the “10 Steps to True Mainframe Agility” webinar for a proven, phased approach for measurably modernizing mainframe practices
• Discover what it takes to be an Autonomous Digital Enterprise

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Cloud service providers offer APIs that enable DevOps engineers to automate the management of their infrastructure. However, the accounts used to access these APIs are highly privileged, making them a primary target for attackers. Automated workflows typically only need a short window of access to accomplish a specific task, and the persistence of privileged accounts outside of this window represents an unnecessary risk of credential misuse or theft.

DevOps Secrets Safe dynamically generates API accounts with a just-in-time model for privileged access. These accounts are created and removed by the solution as needed, eliminating the need for persistent accounts, and significantly shrinking the window of credential exposure. By automatically brokering access to cloud environments through DevOps Secrets Safe, organizations can eliminate persistent accounts and significantly reduce the security footprint of their automated workflows, all while simplifying access controls for their cloud infrastructure.

In this release, BeyondTrust has also introduced a built-in time-based one-time password (TOTP), with a native two-factor authentication workflow for all DevOps Secrets Safe users. This functionality is essential to ensure every account is protected. A Kubernetes Sidecar is also included in 20.4, which enables DevOps Secrets Safe to retrieve secrets on behalf of application containers on a defined interval, keeping them up to date with the latest available secret.

“Organizations are increasingly leveraging dynamic cloud-based infrastructure and require strong security around secrets and privileged accounts for managing ever-changing cloud assets,” states Dan DeRosa, Chief Product Officer at BeyondTrust. “DevOps Secrets Safe provides the risk protection they need for their highly privileged accounts. BeyondTrust continues to enable our customers’ migration to the cloud and the adoption of new technology stacks, like the DevOps ecosystem of third-party and open-source tools.”

Industry analysts recommend securing these privileged accounts with a centralized secrets management solution that is purpose-built for security, but doesn’t introduce friction into automated processes, keeping DevOps as agile as possible. This approach helps to reduce the risk of exposure, without slowing down the application delivery process.

DevOps Secrets Safe is a highly scalable and highly available solution that provides centralized storage, retrieval, and audit of secrets and credentials. It eliminates the need to embed or hardcode passwords or other secrets, within code or scripts. The DevOps Secrets Safe unique architecture is built on Docker containers targeting Kubernetes for deployment and facilitates rapid deployment and fast time-to-value.

DevOps Secrets Safe offers the following:

• Securely store and centrally manage credentials and secrets (e.g., passwords, API keys, certificates, etc.) for DevOps workflows
• Scalable and highly available, DevOps Secrets Safe is built on a modern architecture to facilitate rapid deployment and high-availability – out-of-the-box
• The REST API-first approach supports integration with CI, CD, and CLI tools for easy and agile interaction
• Securely broker access to cloud environments and audit every action

To learn more, visit http://beyondtrust.com/devops.

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