Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 22 | Page 20

LATEST INTELLIGENCE NETOPS MEETS DEVOPS: PRESENTED BY THE STATE OF NETWORK AUTOMATION Download whitepaper here D Digital transformation anchors the majority of today’s enterprise IT investments Modern agile development practices, microservices, containers and cloud infrastructure have combined to empower application developers to innovate faster and update applications more frequently than ever before. This adoption of agile development and operational strategies requires more scalable and flexible infrastructure teams and processes, ensuring that production network, Layer 4–7 application 20 INTELLIGENTCIO services and applications can scale as needed. Therefore, development and test resources are ready whenever requested. A new discipline, DevOps, has emerged to address these needs. DevOps represents the integration of application development and IT operations at many levels including culture, process workflows and infrastructure management, as well as application creation, test, deployment and delivery. Among enterprise IT teams, 72% expect they will have www.intelligentcio.com