Jay Lyman is a senior research analyst with the 451 Research Cloud Native and Applied Infrastructure & DevOps channels at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He covers software development, hybrid and multicloud infrastructure management and orchestration, and enterprise use cases that focus on the confluence of software development and IT operations known as DevOps. Jay's analysis encompasses evolving software release and IT operations models, including generative AI’s role in both, and the technology used to create, deploy and support infrastructure and applications in today's enterprise and service provider markets. This research includes data and analysis from the Voice of the Enterprise: DevOps survey of both IT decision-makers and practitioners. Other key areas of research include cloud native, open-source software and enterprise end users. Jay arrived at S&P Global Market Intelligence through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research. Prior to 451 Research, Jay worked as a journalist for various media firms and publications including CMP Media, LinuxInsider, NewsForge, Time Magazine and the Associated Press. Jay has been a speaker at numerous industry events, including IC3, DevOps Days, LinuxCon and OSCON, covering topics such as cloud computing, DevOps, open-source software and enterprise case studies.
The company is taking a platform engineering approach to create a unified platform for site reliability engineering and DevOps teams to integrate the tools of their choice into a single pane of glass, augmented with AI-generated insight into development and deployment productivity and results.
Applying generative AI to programming tasks offers organizations numerous opportunities. AI can assist developers in generating or suggesting code, testing and securing code, and improving documentation. AI-enabled tools are also valuable for code discovery, explainability and skills development. For line-of-business users with little coding experience, generative AI provides an opportunity to create or customize applications or engage in analytics.
Regulatory, privacy and policy compliance concerns are driving collaboration among DevOps and security teams known as DevSecOps while generative AI becomes a bigger part of the story.
Voice of the Enterprise: DevOps, DevSecOps provides you with actionable data and insight to understand the key dynamics driving the DevOps market.
Combining 451 Research’s industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision-makers, Voice of the Enterprise: DevOps tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors.
This online survey of approximately 471 respondents was conducted Jan. 17–Feb. 21, 2025. The margin of error for top-line statistics is +/- 5 points at the 95% confidence level.
Compliance drives DevSecOps as integration with generative AI deepens – Highlights from VotE: DevOps (Spotlight)
Regulatory, privacy and policy compliance concerns are driving collaboration among DevOps and security teams known as DevSecOps while generative AI becomes a bigger part of the story.
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Amid the challenges of multicloud deployment and management, Firefly seeks to improve IT operations and reduce cloud waste for a growing number of enterprise customers. Although a smaller player in a market dominated by larger competitors, its fresh approach could draw more enterprise attention.
The role of generative AI in software development continues to grow and is now much broader than simple code generation, with top use cases including testing, security scans and documentation. Notably, this growth has led many enterprises to report an increase in employee recruitment and retention.
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