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.

“The Freedom Mission is the first hardware-based lunar data center, extending edge computing 240,000 miles from Earth. An amazing feat by the engineers at Lonestar and Phison to integrate hardware, software into in an unforgiving environment. Well done!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Freedom Mission: First Lunar Data Center, led by Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. in partnership with Phison Electronics Corp. – Phison served as the storage and controller partner on Lonestar’s Freedom Mission, the first hardware-based lunar data center. Phison supplied ruggedized Pascari enterprise solid state-drives (SSDs) with customized, power-optimized firmware, and radiation-resilient design. Validated under vacuum, vibration and extreme temperatures, the mission launched aboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C and in Feb. 2025 demonstrated reliable lunar data storage and successful data transfer to Earth.

Tool & Service providers play a critical role in bringing innovative tools, platforms and services to the market..This award recognizes a strong Tools & Services leader who guides their company through the challenges of developing and bringing to market innovative DevOps technologies and services.

“As a serial entrepreneur, Jyoti is acutely aware of the software delivery bottlenecks that slow down innovation and he is constantly redefining how the world thinks about software delivery. Through innovation-prioritization and his commitment to improving software, Jyoti is not only solving today’s delivery challenges but laying the groundwork for the future software delivery lifecycle.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Jyoti Bansal – Jyoti Bansal is redefining how the world thinks about software delivery in the AI era. As a serial entrepreneur who’s built multiple billion-dollar companies that retain innovation and creativity at scale (AppDynamics, Harness, Traceable, and Unusual Ventures), Jyoti is acutely aware of the software delivery bottlenecks preventing innovation from reaching customers quickly and reliably.

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.

“Anthony’s passion for DevOps is evident in every aspect of his professional life. He embodies the spirit of an evangelist by consistently seeking opportunities to share his knowledge, engage with the community, and advocate for adopting DevOps principles. His contributions have had a significant impact on the mainframe DevOps community.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Anthony Anter – DevOps Dozen Vendor Evangelist of the Year 2024, Anthony Anter, energizes every DevOps discussion with expertise and authenticity. As BMC’s DevOps architect/evangelist, he helps customers unlock the mainframe’s DevOps potential—an even more formidable challenge for mainframe orgs. Over the past year, Anthony has inspired audiences with his passion, thought leadership, and dedication to educating others about the power of DevOps, making a lasting impact through community engagement and advocacy.

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.

“From the beginning, we have watched Harness meet challenges of turning siloed software development into integrated workflows that accelerate software delivery. With solutions that span CI, CD, Feature Management and Experimentation, Testing, FinOps, Application and API Protection. Harness certainly offers an impressive level of breadth and depth across the entire software delivery lifecycle.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Harness – Harness is the AI DevOps platform for complete software delivery. It brings AI to the full software development lifecycle, eliminating critical bottleneckslike manual testing, risky deployments, and high cloud costsby automating the most painful parts of software delivery. It allows 1000+ organizations who rely on Harness to ship software faster, safer, and smarter with end-to-end integration, freeing teams to focus on innovation.

Generative AI is transforming DevOps by automating tasks, improving code quality, and enhancing efficiency. It leverages AI models to generate code, automate deployments, and streamline workflows, ultimately leading to faster development cycles and more robust software. This award honors the best use of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform.

“Octopus is putting Generative AI to work in DevOps. The Octopus AI Assistant helps DevOps and platform engineering teams scale securely, deploy faster, and fix smarter.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Octopus AI Assistant – The Octopus AI Assistant puts a DevOps expert in the seat next to you, helping you scale securely, save time and money, and reduce risk. It answers your questions, bootstraps new projects, speeds up troubleshooting, and helps you optimize Octopus. This helps teams deploy faster, reduce errors, and decrease support costs.

Generative AI is transforming DevOps by automating tasks, improving code quality, and enhancing efficiency. It leverages AI models to generate code, automate deployments, and streamline workflows, ultimately leading to faster development cycles and more robust software. This award honors the best use of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform.

“BMC AMI Assistant infused into BMC AMI DevX Code Insights is an example of how Agentic AI is enhancing DevOps. It’s collaborative AI Agents are helping mainframe teams accelerate delivery, reduce risk, and optimize the DevOps lifecycle.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

BMC AMI Assistant infused into BMC AMI DevX Code Insights – BMC AMI Assistant uses collaborative Agentic AI to transform mainframe DevOps. Guided by human prompts, its AI Agents reason through complex code, generate documentation, assist with selective modernization, and explain root causes with next-best actions—combining intelligence, context, and human oversight to make DevOps faster, safer, and more adaptive.

This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC.

“Sonatype’s AI SCA solutions help DevSecOps harness the full potential of open source and AI so developers can spend more time on innovation and less time on remediation and rework.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Sonatype AI Software Composition Analysis (SCA) – With unmatched open source visibility and a unified product suite, Sonatype’s AI SCA solutions give enterprises the intelligence and automated governance they need to harness the full potential of open source and AI. Sonatype protects developers and their time by automating policy enforcement, remediation, and artifact workflows so developers can spend more time on innovation and less time on remediation and rework.

Software supply chain security refers to the measures taken to protect the integrity and security of software throughout its entire development and delivery lifecycle, from initial code to final deployment. This award honors the best solution for ensuring that the software is trustworthy and hasn’t been tampered with at any point in its journey.

“In today’s fast-moving software economy, organizations must redefine how they secure and govern software from code to deployment. JFrog continues to meet this challenge by delivering on end-to-end transparency, traceability, and trust across the software supply chain.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

JFrog Platform – The JFrog Platform deserves recognition as the Best Supply Chain Security Solution for redefining how organizations secure and govern software from code to deployment. With AppTrust enforcing policy-driven release governance and immutable proof of integrity, plus innovations like JFrog AI Catalog and MCP Server extending protection into the AI era, JFrog delivers end-to-end transparency, traceability, and trust across the software supply chain.

This award recognizes the best observability solution for observing and monitoring to understand the performance of individual components, systems and entire applications.

“Grafana Cloud unifies observability data providing organizations a fast path to actionable insights by bringing together metrics, logs, traces, profiles, dashboards, incident response, and performance testing into one composable stack.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Grafana Cloud – Grafana Cloud is the world’s most composable observability platform built on open source, trusted by 7,000+ customers, and starting with a forever-free tier that’s actually useful. In 2025, Grafana Labs introduced Grafana Assistant (GA), Assistant Investigations (Preview), and the complete Adaptive Telemetry suite, alongside full-stack and database observability. From startups to enterprises like Anthropic and NVIDIA, Grafana Cloud helps teams cut costs, reduce toil, and resolve incidents.

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.

“Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) unifies automation, governance, and service data that streamlines software delivery across the entire SDLC by giving developers self-service access to infrastructure, environments, and golden paths.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) – Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) gives developers self-service access to infrastructure, environments, and golden paths. It unifies automation, governance, and service data into one platform that streamlines software delivery across the entire SDLC. Harness IDP simplifies complex processes by combining powerful automation with seamless integration, security, and governance, reducing DevOps tickets by up to 90% and streamlining onboarding from days to hours.

Testing is a mainstay in the DevOps toolchain, and this award recognizes the best testing tool for ensuring the quality of code.

“In this era of AI-driven software development, SonarQube is making code excellence an intrinsic, developer-led function and testing a cornerstone of a mature DevOps practice.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

SonarQube – SonarQube automates code reviews and provides actionable code intelligence for all code first-party, AI-generated, and third-party open source. Providing the industry’s broadest coverage for code with identification of over 6,600 types of quality and security issues across more than 35 languages, Sonar’s platform helps development teams fuel AI-enabled development and build trust into every line of code. It can be deployed on a self-managed server, SaaS, and is offered as a free IDE plug-in.

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.

“Built for z/OS developers and testers, IBM Test Accelerator for Z is a comprehensive test automation and generation framework to accelerate test creation, improve test coverage, and maintain tests in a modern SCM.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

IBM Test Accelerator for Z – The IBM Test Accelerator for Z is a comprehensive test automation and generation framework, built for z/OS developers and testers. Teams gain the flexibility to spin up temporary z/OS environments for Dev and Test and are enabled to adopt continuous integration practices for z/OS applications. Its capabilities include automation frameworks for unit and functional tests with data capture and generation to accelerate test creation, improve test coverage, and maintain tests in a modern SCM.

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.

“Liquibase Secure solves the last mile of DevOps by automating and governing database change across databases and data platforms. AI-assisted schema changes move through delivery pipelines, giving teams a consistent, auditable, and fast path for database and data platform updates.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Liquibase Secure – Liquibase Secure automates and governs database schema change across 60+ databases and data platforms. It standardizes delivery paths so developers can safely deploy with AI-assisted changelog generation, policy checks, and cross-environment visibility. By integrating database change into DevOps and DataOps pipelines, teams like Bancolombia and Zions Bank deliver 120x faster, reduce errors by 95%, and achieve full audit-readiness.

This award recognizes the best tool that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (less than 24 months old)

“DevOps teams waste hours manually fixing infrastructure issues flagged by scanners. Gomboc uses AI to remediate Infrastructure-as-Code misconfigurations automatically. Gomboc delivers secure, compliant releases and measurable ROI for DevOps and security teams.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Gomboc AI – DevOps teams waste hours manually fixing infrastructure issues flagged by scanners. Gomboc uses deterministic AI to remediate Infrastructure-as-Code misconfigurations automatically. It scans Terraform and CloudFormation pull requests, then generates merge-ready PRs with exact, auditable fixes. Supporting AWS, Azure, and GCP with CIS, NIST, and SOC 2, Gomboc delivers secure, compliant releases in minutes, not months, with zero backlog, and measurable ROI for DevOps and security teams.