DevOps Dozen 2023 – Tools and Services Award Winners

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.

“The Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service award goes to Jfrog who has been advancing DevOps since its inception.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform – The JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform unifies, accelerates and secures your software delivery, from development to device. The end-to-end platform offers deeper development, security, and operations integration, in a flexible, and expandable platform that delivers increased security, visibility, and control on-premise, in the cloud, and at the edge.

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.

“The Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service award goes to gitStream by LinearB for helping organizations streamline operations, align priorities and achieve organizational objectives.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

gitStream – “Code review is an essential part of software development. However, inefficient pull request (PR) processes impact teams’ cycle times and leave developers feeling frustrated.

gitStream by LinearB is a dynamic rule engine that allows users to define PR conditions and results, providing the flexibility needed to adapt to unique team needs. Engineering teams leveraging gitStream shorten PR reviews by 40%.”

This award recognizes the best CI/CD tool that helps teams to deliver quality code more quickly.

“The Best CI/CD Tool award recognizes CloudBees for its continued market leadership in the space. Jenkins is still the most widely used CI/CD tool and Clouldbees still has one of the best solutions in this space incorporating governance and transparency.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

CloudBees CI/CDRO – CloudBees CI/CDRO is an integrated solution that can also be used separately or integrated with other tools. It provides highly scalable, resilient, and flexible CI based on Jenkins. CloudBees CI can handle complex challenges in managing and scaling Jenkins across enterprise environments. CloudBees CD/RO provides application release orchestration and deployment automation. Enterprises use CloudBees CD/RO because they need a governed release process with real-time transparency across the SDLC.

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.

“The Best Value Stream Management Tool goes to ValueOps by Broadcom. Their deep understanding of this space makes them very deserving of this recognition.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

ValueOps by Broadcom – ValueOps by Broadcom is the industry’s only complete solution for end-to-end value stream management capable of driving digital transformation by bringing visibility, alignment, and efficiency to the entire value stream lifecycle.

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

“This year’s Best Observability Solution goes to the Grafana Labs’ Cloud Free tier. As a useful observability solution for SREs they are deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Grafana Cloud Free Tier – Grafana Cloud extends observability beyond metrics, logs, & traces with a wide range of solutions for infrastructure monitoring, IRM, load testing, Kubernetes monitoring, continuous profiling, frontend observability, & more. The “actually useful” Cloud Free tier, has now expanded to include access to the entire catalog of Enterprise plugins and other features previously only available in Grafana Labs’ paid offerings, helping meet users where they are, without a high barrier to entry.

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

“DevSecOps teams are being tasked to do more with less. GitLab is helping them to meet this challenge and improve productivity and the security of their code.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

GitLab – GitLab helps customers accelerate their digital transformation initiatives through every step of the software development lifecycle, and supports all functions responsible for delivering software, including development, security, and operations. GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform helps organizations build better, more secure, software faster, while increasing operational efficiency and reducing security and compliance risk.

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

“Tricentis taks home the award for Best Testing Tool or Service this year and are helping to meet the challenge of accelerated app delivery with risk reduction,”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Tricentis Mobile – Tricentis Mobile is a cutting-edge solution that empowers organizations to streamline mobile app testing processes. It integrates low-code authoring and real/virtual device testing, accelerates app delivery, resolves performance issues, and ensures superior quality cementing Tricentis as the most comprehensive end-to-end mobile testing solution on the market. Tricentis Mobile offers unmatched flexibility, coverage, and insights across the development cycle, making mobile testing seamless.

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.

“While we continue to see great innovation in the Kubernetes, managing the complexities of Kubernetes is a challenge that Rayfay is addressing.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Rafay Systems – Rafay offers a Cloud Automation Platform purpose-built for platform teams. It streamlines processes, providing automation and governance features to standardize Kubernetes toolsets and workflows. Moneygram, GuardantHealth and Verizon utilize Rafay to seamlessly manage Kubernetes across various environments ensuring centralized control and automated capabilities that enhance the overall experience for developer and operation teams.

The cloud-native movement has taken the IT world by storm due to the depth and breath 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

“Security teams must protect the business without slowing it down.. SysDig continues to be an innovative market leader. We are proud to honor them with this year’s cloud-native security provider award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Sysdig Secure – In the cloud, every second counts. Attacks move at warp speed, and security teams must protect the business without slowing it down. Sysdig stops cloud attacks in real time, instantly detecting changes in risk with runtime insights and open source Falco. Sysdig correlates signals across cloud workloads, identities, and services to uncover hidden attack paths and prioritize real risk. From prevention to defense, Sysdig helps you focus on what matters: innovation.

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.

“As mainframes continue to play a pivotal role in high performance transaction processing, BMC Software is working to include mainframes into end-to-end DevOps. As a leader in this space, BMC are deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

BMC AMI DevX tool suite – BMC empowers the next generation of developers to make the mainframe as adaptive as any other platform. With unparalleled agile application development, testing, and delivery, BMC AMI DevX provides a mainframe-inclusive DevOps toolchain that accelerates innovation and resiliency. BMC AMI DevX enables organizations to automate mainframe application development with a cross-platform DevOps toolchain and integrations that improve velocity, quality, and efficiency to power innovation.

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.

“The team at Percona released Percona Everest, an open source solution helping lead the DevOps for database category. We are pleased that they continue to be a leader in this space and support the open source community, as well.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Percona – Percona offers a unique combination of enterprise-grade open source software, support, managed services, and automated insights that, together, enable users to better monitor, manage, secure and optimize databases on any infrastructure. Percona supports all deployment configurations, improves developer velocity and self-service, and empowers organizations to scale, innovate, and improve efficiency.

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

“AI is playing a rapidly increasing role in DevOps. New Relic, an observability leader, released New Relic Grok which explores the use of generative AI for observability.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

New Relic Grok(now New Relic AI) – New Relic Grok, the first generative AI assistant for observability, eliminates the need for engineers to manually sift through large volumes of data, so any engineer can adopt observability, regardless of prior experience. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, engineers can unlock untapped insights from any telemetry data source and use natural language prompts”in more than 50 languages”like why is my service not working? to perform most tasks, like troubleshooting software issues across their stack.