With DevOps, you can imagine “the machine in the cloud.”

DevOps is a different way of thinking about IT for core businesses. It presents an intriguing proposition: Rethink all the processes and tools used to get systems up and running, such that you can achieve the desired result in a fraction of the time. This report provides an overview of how automation and DevOps work, how use of the approach is increasing, and the situations/environments in which DevOps may be best suited.

Put another way, DevOps is the merging of the software development discipline and IT operations using automation. With DevOps, you can imagine “the machine in the cloud.” A machine in the cloud means there is no longer a need to wait for your machine order, which saves a significant amount of time. Automation ensures that the manual aspects of the process are eliminated, saving value time and money. Automation and DevOps together will speed up the delivery of IT change both wealth and asset management.

This report dives into some of the details around how DevOps works, how its use is increasing, and the situations/environments in which DevOps may be best suited.