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DevOps Dozen² 2021 Finalists Announced

By: Alan Shimel on November 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

Today, we are delighted to announce the finalists of the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021, celebrating the greatest innovators and their achievements in the DevOps space. Despite the many challenges of the past year, these individuals and companies have taken an active role in the DevOps community, demonstrating their leadership and commitment to the improvement of our industry. We had a record number of nominations this year which was terrific to see. It means even through the challenges of the last two years, the DevOps community has remained robust and active.

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Congratulations to every one of the finalists—it is quite an honor to make it this far. All of your hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated.

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Without further ado, here are the finalists for the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2021:

DevOps Dozen Community Awards

1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation

  • City of Gainesville / Gainesville Regional Utilities
  • EY 
  • IRS / Citizant Inc
  • PNC Bank

2. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research

  • 2021 DevSecOps Report
  • 2021 State of DevOps Report
  • Modernizing Mainframe Development Tools Can Help Drive Greater ROI
  • State of CD Report
  • State of Feature Management Report

3. Best DevOps-Related Video Series (video)

  • Cloud Tool Time
  • DevOps Series (DevOps for IBM Z Media Center)
  • GrammaTech/Shift Left Academy
  • QualiFYI Video Series
  • SAFe’s Continuous Delivery Pipeline

4. Best DevOps-Related Audio Podcast Series

  • DevOps Radio
  • DevOps Sauna
  • OpenObservability Talks
  • The Pipeline: All Things CD and DevOps
  • The POPcast
  • Z DevOps Talks

5. Best DevOps Book/eBook of the Year

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Observability, Splunk
  • Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale, by Zhamak Dehghani
  • Enterprise Bug Busting, by Rosalind Radcliffe

6. Top DevOps Evangelist

  • Tracy L Bannon
  • Jeff Keyes
  • Eran Kinsbruner
  • Sacha Labourey
  • Tracy Ragan
  • Abel Wang

7. Best DevOps Transformation (non-vendor)

  • Broadcom
  • FedEx
  • Garanti BBVA Technology
  • Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS)
  • OneMain Financial
  • TD Bank

8. Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year

  • cdCON 2021
  • DevOps World 2021
  • GitLab Commit
  • JFrog SwampUP 2021
  • Open Mainframe Summit
  • Puppetize Digital ’21
  • The DEVOPS Conference 2021

9. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project

  • Ketch
  • Kyverno
  • Open Policy Agent
  • Open Telemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Weave GitOps Core

10. DevOps Executive of the Year (non-vendor)

  • Shlomi Ben Haim
  • JT Giri
  • Edith Harbaugh
  • Tim Hinrichs
  • Rob Hirschfield
  • Idit Levine
  • Sid Sijbrandij

11. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year

  • DevOps Nights
  • Our Journey to The Open, Modern Mainframe
  • Rethinking the SDLC/Revolution Model
  • The Value of DevOps Transformation in the Digital Enterprise

12. Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

  • Make Metrics Matter: Measure What’s Important
  • Measuring Value Streams by Analyzing Flow Metrics
  • Using IBM ADDI and VTP to Enhance Observability in Mainframe Development

DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

1. Best End-to-End DevOps Tool/Service

  • DevOps Solutions and Tools from BMC
  • CloudBees Platform
  • Copado
  • ITMethods Managed DevOps SaaS Platform
  • JFrog Platform
  • Pulumi Registry

2. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service

  • Argo CD for the Enterprise
  • Fleet 
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
  • Weave GitOps Core

3. Best CI/CD Tool

  • Buildkite
  • CircleCI
  • CloudBees CI
  • The BMC Compuware ISPW Solution
  • Torque

4. Best Value Stream Management Tool

  • Allstacks’ Value Stream Intelligence Platform
  • CloudBees Platform
  • ConnectALL
  • Digital.ai VSM Platform
  • Plutora
  • Tasktop Viz
  • ValueOps from Broadcom

5. Best Observability Solution

  • Honeycomb
  • Lightrun
  • Logz.io
  • Moogsoft
  • New Relic One
  • Retrace
  • Splunk Observability portfolio
  • Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform for Application Observability
  • VMware Tanzu Observability

6. Best DevSecOps Solution

  • ArmorCode
  • Cobalt
  • Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform
  • JFrog XRay
  • Mayhem for Code
  • Stacklet Platform
  • Zimperium’s Mobile Application Protection Suite (MAPS)

7. Best Testing Service/Tool

  • Applitools
  • Copado Robotic Testing
  • Coverity Static Analysis
  • Cyara Automated CX Assurance Platform
  • mabl 
  • Mayhem for API
  • ReversingLabs Software Assurance Service
  • The BMC Compuware Topaz Solution

8. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service

  • Akka Serverless
  • D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP)
  • ionir Kubernetes Container-Native Enterprise Storage
  • Kasten K10
  • Rafay Systems-Kubernetes Operations Platform
  • SUSE Rancher 2.6
  • The BMC Helix Platform
  • Zerto for Kubernetes

9. Best Cloud-Native Security Solution/Service

  • Contrast Serverless Application Security
  • NeuVector
  • Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS)
  • ThreatStryker
  • Traceable AI

10. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

  • Ansible for IBM Z
  • IBM Developer for z/OS Enterprise Edition
  • BMC Compuware Topaz Suite
  • Zowe

11. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution

  • Couchbase Server 7.0
  • MinIO
  • Redis Enterprise
  • Starburst Galaxy
  • The BMC AMI SQL Performance for Db2® Solution
  • TigerGraph Cloud
  • Toad® DevOps Toolkit

12. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

  • ArmorCode
  • Citrix App Delivery and Security Service
  • Cortex
  • FireHydrant
  • Glasnostic 
  • Jellyfish DevOps Metrics
  • Kong Konnect Cloud
  • Nobl9

Finalists were picked by the judges and also based on which entry had the most nominations. Every single finalist will receive a badge to display on their website and social media with a link to the voting/survey site.

Voting for the winners in all 24 categories is now open to the public. To vote for the leaders, tools and companies you think are truly deserving of an award for their exceptional service to the DevOps community, please visit the DevOps Dozen² website.

Winners will be chosen from among the finalists, with general public voting weighted for 40% of the final score and our judges’ selections for 60% of the final score. The deadline for public voting is Dec. 31 and the judges’ determinations will follow shortly thereafter.

The winners will be announced at the Predict 2022 Virtual Summit Jan. 20 and will receive both digital badges and physical trophies celebrating their achievements.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the DevOps Dozen² Awards by nominating candidates and voting. Good luck to all the finalists!

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