DANNY ALLAN CTO , VEEAM

The term DevOps was coined by system administrator , Patrick Dubois , after consulting on a data centre migration for the Belgium government when he became frustrated by conflicts between developers and system admins . In an interview in 2012 , Debois admitted the naming of the movement was not as intentional as it might now seem . He said he had originally picked DevOpsDays as Dev and Ops working together because the first name , ‘ Agile System Administration ’ was just too long . He added there had never been a grand plan for DevOps as a word , but it has since become quite the buzzword . data to the cloud , but as many other things as well , that changed with the pandemic and the subsequent reinforcement of cloud-based environments . Rapid technology advancements , sweeping changes in business priorities and insatiable demand for software have all collided , meaning developer roles will have a more important seat at the table . A DevSecOp survey by GitLab has found they are already seeing that change . Developers are therefore likely to become embedded in the business teams , rather than technology teams .

Danny Allan , CTO at Veeam commented : “ DevOps and DevSecOps are going to continue to have far more say in the whole data strategy process and as a result , there will be a greater increase in the mobility of

48 September 2021