Dell Technologies today announced the general availability of Omnia, its open source platform for managing high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

Omnia is an open source set of Ansible Playbooks developed by Dell’s HPC and AI innovation team in partnership with Intel and the broader HPC community. If this sounds familiar, Dell quietly released Omnia on Github earlier this year.

The platform automates the process of downloading and installing open source software for things like cluster management, application execution, accelerator drivers, frameworks, applications and platforms, and it manages systems running Slurm or Kubernetes, explained Caitlin Gordon, VP of product management at Dell Technologies.

“It’s all about simplifying and easing the development and the management of high-performance clusters for not just HPC but AI,” she said.

And because these automations are built on Ansible Playbooks, “you can compose and recompose the stack, based on what you need,” Gordon said. “We’re really taking an infrastructure as code approach here.”

This, she added, allows users to compose HPC deployments around a wide variety of workloads and hardware from multiple vendors. “Of course, because its open source, it can be shaped to whatever your needs are,” Gordon said. “We’ll continue to integrate the latest open source tools, but we also, even more importantly, have the collective power of the HPC community already working behind this.”

Arizona State University, one of Dell Technology’s HPC and AI centers for excellence, is among the first to deploy Omnia and begin contributing to its development, according to Gordon.

Dell HPC Nabs VMware Support, PowerEdge Gets Nvidia Upgrade
Dell Technologies also extended support for VMware to its HPC on-Demand program, which launched last year.

“Being able to consume things as a service be able to access resources as you need them, be able to move faster and simply pay for what you’re using. That’s really what HPC on demand is all about,” Gordon said. “It’s really about being able to support our customers who may not have the resources, or may not want to invest in their own infrastructure and people, because their HPC workloads maybe are inconsistent, and/or maybe they need to complement what they already have in their environment with a secondary environment to burst to.”

With support for VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud Director, and VMware vRealize Operations, customers can now extend these capabilities beyond single-tenant environments to include multi-tenant use cases.

Meanwhile, Dell Tech is adding Nvidia A10 and A30 GPUs to its PowerEdge server portfolio. “These are really ideal for things like VDI inferencing and interactive rendering,” Gordon said.

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(Bloomberg) – Dell Technologies Inc. unveiled software that could burnish its hybrid-cloud aspirations, in the hardware giant’s effort to plot a future beyond a possible spinoff of its most prized asset, VMware Inc.

The product, called Project Apex, will let customers manage information and applications across public clouds and their own data centers, Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said Wednesday in a statement. It will also help customers use the company’s technology based on consumption or through a subscription. The initiative is similar to rival Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s GreenLake product that gives customers a unified view of their information technology environment.

Project Apex gets Dell further involved in the cloud-computing journeys of clients rather than leaving that work to VMware, the software company majority owned by Dell. Both parties continue to negotiate Dell’s possible divestment of its holdings, but any agreement would leave a deep partnership in place.

“We’re not selling VMware, we’re not looking for a buyer,” Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said during a press conference. “We are exploring taking the shares that Dell Technologies owns and distributing them directly to our shareholders. If we do this, it will simplify our capital structure and as Pat said, unleash value for all shareholders,” he said, referring to VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. Gelsinger said talks remain at an early stage.

The company has said that any divestment would not take place before September 2021, so that the transaction could be tax-free. While billionaire Michael Dell has spent the last five years expanding his technology empire so that it could move beyond personal computers and servers, he has recently tried to offload assets in an attempt to pay down corporate debt and boost the company’s market value. The company reported $43.6 billion of long-term debt as of July 31.

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Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell is expecting VMware to become the Kubernetes king as the company expects to “very, very soon” launch a new, rearchitected vSphere deeply integrated with Kubernetes.

“We’re putting Kubernetes right into vSphere. We showed that on stage at VMWorld and gave demos of it — that’s coming very, very soon to the 600,000 vSphere customers that we have around the world,” said Dell in an interview with CRN. “It’s incredibly powerful to be able to manage virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters all from the same console and framework that all these customers are already use too.”

VMware recently unveiled Project Pacific which will untie vSphere and Kubernetes to create a platform for modern applications that offers consistency across all different environments. The new vSphere will empower operators and developers to accelerate innovation by converging containers and VMs into vSphere with native Kubernetes.

Robert Keblusek, chief technology officer for the fast-growing Illinois-based solution provider Sentinel Technologies, said vSphere with native Kubernetes will be a hit in the channel and be easily adopted by VMware customers.

[Related: Michael Dell On HPE GreenLake: ‘We’ll Let Our Share Speak For Itself’]

“One of the things that changes when people start down a cloud roadmap or a container roadmap is managing it. VMware has made a number of really nice acquisitions to help customers with that,” said Keblusek. “When you have 600,000 customers that are already comfortable and very used to managing their data center infrastructure on vSphere, if you extend that into options like containers, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure – it just seems to be a natural extension and it’s easier for customers to adopt.”

Channel partners, he said, will be able to bring more offers to customers, drive net new sales and increase stickiness.

“We can bring more to our customers with a familiar set of tools and help them get to the next level without having to yank out everything they’re doing today with something completely new,” said Keblusek. “That will make it easier for us to help customers adopt these new solutions and maybe add some agility into their organization especially if they’re looking at things like DevOps and starting to leverage containers, moving toward infrastructure as code – those are all things that will become more easily attainable to the organization.”

VMware, which is part of Dell Technologies, has been investing hundreds of millions both organically and inorganically in Kubernetes R&D over the past 12 months.

In December 2018, VMware acquired Kubernetes star Heptio for $550 million. The startup was created in 2016 by two of the original creators of Kubernetes, Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, who are both now part of VMware’s Kubernetes innovation engine. VMware is also slated to acquire DevOps specialist Pivotal Software, owner of the popular enterprise Kubernetes platform Pivotal Container Service (PSK).

Michael Dell said VMware’s acquisition of Pivotal, which also falls under the Dell Technologies umbrella, is nearing the finish line.

“Certainly the acquisition of Heptio, and now the acquisition of Pivotal — which will also close pretty soon — that just strengthens our capability,” said Dell. “We’ve had some of the new hires. We have two of the three original creators of Kubernetes working at VMware. The Dell Technologies Cloud and our infrastructure solutions are all very tightly integrated together with VMware based on VMware Cloud Foundation [and] what we’re doing with the Pivotal Container Service – all of that rides on vSphere.”

This week, Red Hat Kubernetes leader Grant Shipley left the company to join VMware as its new senior director of Kubernetes. Shipley was a pioneer for Red Hat’s Kubernetes OpenShift platform, spending a total of 14 years inside the company in a variety of top executive engineering and software development roles.

The centerpiece of VMware’s Kubernetes strategy is Tanzu, a portfolio of products and services that will enhance the current capabilities of VMware’s Pivotal Container Service. Tanzu has a cross-cloud Kubernetes management console called Tanzu Mission Control and will yield a fully native Kubernetes environment within vSphere. Tanzu is the onramp for PKS customers to broaden their abilities to build, run and manage containerized apps.

“Everything that Dell’s been doing with cloud, with Kubernetes and containers – they have a really strong story,” said Keblusek. “They’ve put together a nice packaging of offerings to make cloud adoption and hybrid cloud services much easier for customer to manage especially for hybrid cloud infrastructure. Whether customers are going to be doing traditional virtualization with full VMs or leveraging containers, automation, DevOps – the whole portfolio is coming together quite nicely.”

Dell Technologies Beats Q2 FY2020 Expectations

Dell Technologies reported stronger-than-expected results for its second fiscal quarter of 2020 (ended 2 August 2019), with total revenue of US$23.37 billion — up 2 percent year over year from US$22.94 billion. The company beat analyst revenue estimates by US$180 million, and its non-GAAP earnings per share of US$2.15 exceeded expectations by 65 cents.

GAAP net income swung sharply positive, reaching US$4.51 billion for the quarter compared to a US$461 million loss in the same period the prior year. On a non-GAAP basis, net income rose to US$1.75 billion, up from US$1.26 billion a year earlier.

Speaking to financial analysts during the earnings conference call, Jeff Clarke, Vice Chairman of Products and Operations, credited the company’s broad technology portfolio — and in particular its deepening integration with VMware — as a key driver of the results.

VMware’s Growing Role in Dell’s Business

VMware revenue grew 12 percent year over year to US$2.47 billion, making it one of the brighter spots in Dell’s portfolio. Clarke described VMware as bringing “increasing benefits to Dell Technologies as a whole,” pointing to a strategy of cross-portfolio integration that he argued positions the company for long-term structural growth.

Key examples Clarke cited of VMware-powered initiatives include:

• Dell Technologies Cloud: Launched the previous quarter, this hybrid cloud platform combines VMware Cloud Foundation software with VMware VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure. At the VMworld conference that same week, Dell announced enhancements including new validated designs for storage arrays and servers, the first fully managed Data-Centre-as-a-Service offering, general availability of pay-per-use flexible consumption, and support for VMware Pivotal Container Service.
• Pivotal acquisition intent: Clarke noted that VMware’s announced intent to acquire Pivotal would further strengthen Dell’s solutions and speed to market.
• Unified Workspace: This offering combines Dell devices and services, VMware, SecureWorks, and Dell Pro Manage into a single end-user computing solution. VMware’s planned acquisition of Carbon Black was cited as a move that would add a comprehensive intrinsic security layer to this portfolio.

“As you can see, we are delivering on our promise to integrate across Dell Technologies to create the future of technology infrastructure from the cloud to the edge while dramatically simplifying the customer experience,” Clarke said.

Segment Performance: Infrastructure and Client Solutions

Infrastructure Solutions Group

The Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) reported revenue of US$8.62 billion, down 7 percent year over year. The decline was largely driven by the server business, which fell 12 percent — primarily due to weakness in Dell’s China market. Storage revenue was roughly flat year over year.

Clarke noted that excluding China, Dell’s server orders would have risen approximately 1 percent. He also stressed that the server revenue decline was partly intentional: Dell was selective about pursuing large, low-margin deals, and server margins actually rose as a result. Despite the revenue dip, ISG added approximately 21,000 new customers in the first half of the fiscal year — an 11 percent increase over the prior year — and more customers are now purchasing across multiple Dell technology lines.

On the storage side, new product introductions are gaining traction. Clarke highlighted strong early uptake of the Unity XT midrange storage platform and noted that the PowerProtect X400 and PowerProtect software data protection offerings are seeing solid market acceptance.

Client Solutions Group

The Client Solutions Group (CSG) delivered revenue of US$11.75 billion, up 6 percent year over year. Commercial client sales rose 12 percent, more than offsetting a 12 percent decline in consumer-focused sales. New product launches in the quarter included updated XPS 2-in-1 mobile PCs and the Latitude 7400.

Macro Headwinds: Tariffs and Enterprise Spending Softness

Clarke acknowledged that the enterprise IT spending environment is softer than Dell and the broader industry had anticipated, and that this softness is expected to continue through the remainder of the fiscal year. Despite this, he expressed confidence in the company’s structural positioning:

“We have built a business to be successful in any environment. We are differentiated by our broad portfolio in the industry with leading solutions, our direct model including services and financing, and our world-class supply chain with its size and scale. Whether the market expands or declines, we expect to outperform the industry.”

— Jeff Clarke, Vice Chairman of Products and Operations, Dell Technologies

On the topic of US tariffs on China, Clarke said Dell’s global supply chain — spanning 25 manufacturing sites worldwide — provides the agility needed to minimize the impact. He described the situation as ongoing, acknowledging the company is “working through the challenges” while maintaining focus on continuity of supply to customers.

Long-Term Strategy: Cloud, Edge, and Digital Transformation

Clarke outlined three structural tailwinds underpinning Dell’s long-term growth thesis:

1. A technology-led investment cycle accelerating customers’ digital transformation initiatives.
2. Exponential growth in data and data-centric workloads, driving demand for modern storage, compute, and data protection infrastructure.
3. Increasing complexity in customer operating environments, spanning public clouds, private clouds, and the edge — creating demand for unified management and simplified infrastructure.

“We are optimistic about IT spending because customers need a partner to help them address these challenges, one who is innovating and delivering a comprehensive, end-to-end IT strategy,” Clarke said.

Key Financial Figures at a Glance

Prior-year figures for ISG and CSG are approximate, derived from the percentage changes stated by Dell management. VMware prior-year figure is similarly derived.

The Multi-Cloud Problem Driving Dell’s Strategy

Dell Technologies used day one of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco to announce a series of updates to its cloud platform, framing them around a challenge its customers know well: managing workloads across an increasingly complex mix of cloud environments.

Varun Chhabra, Dell Technologies Cloud VP of Product Marketing, described the core tension: organisations are no longer choosing a single cloud strategy. Instead, they are making workload-specific decisions — selecting whichever environment best fits each application’s requirements. The result is multi-cloud sprawl.

“There are different needs every workload has, and because of that reason, organisations are making workload-specific decisions that are driving the use of multiple clouds in an organisation.”

— Varun Chhabra, Dell Technologies Cloud VP of Product Marketing

Chhabra noted that over 90% of Dell Technologies customers run two or more clouds, and that a majority operate across five different cloud environments. The organisational consequence is significant: each cloud demands its own operational and management tooling, creating silos that reduce agility and slow delivery.

VMware PKS Support: Kubernetes on Dell EMC VxRail

The headline announcement for DevOps practitioners was Dell Technologies Cloud’s new support for VMware PKS (Pivotal Container Service), enabling automated deployment of PKS on Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure.

The integration adds native Kubernetes and container support to the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, allowing organisations to run and manage Kubernetes clusters for production workloads alongside traditional virtualised applications — on the same underlying infrastructure.

According to Chhabra, the goal is to give IT teams a single, consistent platform that satisfies both developer demand for container-ready infrastructure and enterprise requirements for reliability, security, and scalability:

“IT organisations are looking to meet developer demands for container-ready infrastructure. At the same time, they want to make sure that as more and more applications move towards container infrastructure, the architecture is enterprise grade — that it’s ready to scale, that it’s production-ready, and that they can dependably rely upon the infrastructure.”

— Varun Chhabra

Specific capabilities included in the announcement:

• Automated deployment of VMware PKS on Dell EMC VxRail
• Full lifecycle management (LCM) of multiple Kubernetes clusters
• Enhanced automation, performance, and security for containerised workloads
• A unified platform for both cloud-native and traditional virtualised applications

The PKS announcement arrived alongside VMware’s broader unveiling of the VMware Tanzu portfolio, which VMware positioned as a comprehensive solution for building, running, and managing software on Kubernetes across the enterprise.

Cloud Validated Designs: Pre-Tested Infrastructure for Hybrid Cloud

Dell Technologies also introduced Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs, described as pre-tested infrastructure bundles with deployment guidance. The designs combine Dell EMC compute, storage, and networking components, validated against VMware Cloud Foundation.

The key architectural benefit is the ability to scale compute and storage independently, which Dell Technologies says allows infrastructure-intensive workloads to be supported more efficiently — without over-provisioning one resource to keep pace with another.

Available configurations at launch included:

• Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs for Dell EMC PowerMax storage arrays
• Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs for Dell EMC Unity storage arrays
• Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs for Dell EMC PowerEdge MX servers

Chhabra indicated Dell Technologies intends to expand the portfolio of validated designs over time.

Google Cloud Partnership Completes the Hyperscaler Picture

Building on existing partnerships with AWS and Microsoft Azure, Dell Technologies announced the addition of Google Cloud to its supported public cloud targets. The move positions Dell Technologies Cloud to span the three largest global hyperscalers.

The integration uses VMware Cloud Foundation tooling to enable workload portability between on-premises Dell infrastructure and Google Cloud — without requiring VM migrations, format conversions, or changes to security policy configurations. Chhabra described the intent as allowing workloads to move to the public cloud and return on-premises as business needs evolve.

Data Center-as-a-Service Reaches US Customers

Dell Technologies also announced limited availability of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC — its fully managed Data Center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) offering — for US customers. First announced at Dell Technologies World in April 2019, the offering represents Dell’s implementation of VMware Project Dimension.

The service delivers cloud-managed infrastructure into customer data centers, with Dell handling operational lifecycle management. Chhabra described customer demand as exceptionally strong and indicated a roadmap for global availability would be announced in due course.

Flex On Demand: Pay-Per-Use for On-Premises Infrastructure

To align on-premises procurement models with the consumption experience of public cloud, Dell Technologies introduced Flex On Demand — a flexible consumption program for Dell Technologies Cloud.

The model allows customers to provision excess capacity in their data center upfront but only pay for it when it is actually consumed. This addresses the common operational challenge of handling traffic spikes and burst demand without committing to full capacity costs in advance.

According to Chhabra, the driver behind this model is customer demand for the same agility they experience with public cloud — rapid provisioning through web-based portals and pay-as-you-go billing — applied to on-premises infrastructure.

Dell EMC VxRail: Kubernetes Lifecycle Management and Performance Enhancements

Gil Shneorson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dell EMC VxRail, elaborated on VxRail’s expanding role as the foundation for Kubernetes deployments within the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform.

Specific VxRail updates announced at VMworld 2019 include:

• Automated Kubernetes infrastructure deployments
• Integrated Lifecycle Management (LCM) for Kubernetes clusters
• Performance, security, and connectivity enhancements

“Dell Technologies is uniquely positioned to meet this demand, and through joint engineering between VMware, Pivotal and Dell EMC is delivering with Dell Technologies Cloud.”

— Gil Shneorson, SVP and GM, Dell EMC VxRail

The joint engineering reference reflects the close collaboration between Dell EMC, VMware, and Pivotal — all subsidiaries under the Dell Technologies umbrella at that time — that made the integrated PKS and VxRail solution possible.

Summary of Announcements

Disclosure: Original reporting by Asha Barbaschow, who travelled as a guest of VMware to VMworld in San Francisco.

Overview

AT&T and Dell Technologies announced a collaboration to advance several open source projects focused on container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure. The partnership centers on reducing friction in deploying and managing containerized workloads at scale — both on virtual machines and, increasingly, on bare-metal servers.

Key Open Source Projects in Scope

The collaboration targets three specific open source initiatives:

• AirShip — A management framework that combines OpenStack and Kubernetes to provide declarative, automated cloud provisioning and lifecycle management for containerized applications. AT&T originally launched the project, and both companies committed to accelerating its next major release.
• Metal3-io — A project focused on simplifying the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters directly on bare-metal hardware, removing the dependency on a hypervisor layer.
• OpenStack Ironic — The OpenStack service for bare-metal provisioning. Both companies committed contributions to improve the process of deploying OpenStack directly on physical servers.

Both companies also pledged contributions to the Kubernetes Cluster API, which provides a declarative API for cluster lifecycle management and is central to integrating Kubernetes with infrastructure providers such as OpenStack and bare-metal environments.

The Case for Bare-Metal Kubernetes

Eric Vallone, Director of Service Provider Solutions at Dell Technologies, stated that Dell is committed to enabling joint deployments of OpenStack and Kubernetes — whether on virtual machines or bare-metal servers. At the time of the announcement, virtual machine-based deployments were the dominant pattern for both platforms.

However, running Kubernetes directly on bare-metal offers meaningful advantages for certain workloads:

• Reduced overhead — Eliminating the hypervisor layer removes the performance and resource cost associated with running workloads inside virtual machines.
• Heterogeneous hardware support — Bare-metal Kubernetes clusters can more readily incorporate specialized processors such as GPUs and FPGAs, which are increasingly important for AI, ML, and network processing workloads.
• Tighter hardware utilization — Containerized workloads on bare metal can take full advantage of physical server resources without the abstraction tax of a guest OS and hypervisor.

Vallone acknowledged that this trajectory has implications for VMware — a Dell Technologies subsidiary — whose core business is built around hypervisor-based virtualization. Dell’s apparent bet is that VMware can evolve its portfolio to serve as a management layer bridging legacy virtualized environments and modern cloud-native, Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

AT&T’s 5G Containerization Strategy

AT&T’s motivation for the collaboration is rooted in its 5G network transformation. The carrier has publicly committed to replacing proprietary network infrastructure with open source software running on industry-standard hardware. Containers are central to that strategy: deploying 5G network functions as containerized workloads enables AT&T to build, update, and scale services with the agility that software-defined networking demands.

Beyond internal network functions, AT&T has signaled an intent to cultivate a third-party developer ecosystem — allowing external developers to build and deploy containerized applications on AT&T-managed platforms.

To support this infrastructure shift, AT&T will deploy a mix of Dell-branded and white-box servers in place of the proprietary infrastructure used for 3G and 4G network delivery, according to Vallone. This positions Dell to build expertise in carrier-grade, cloud-native deployments that it can then translate into commercial offerings for enterprise customers undergoing similar transformations.

Broader Industry Implications

The AT&T–Dell partnership reflects a wider industry trend: major carriers and infrastructure vendors are redirecting significant engineering resources toward cloud-native computing frameworks. As both AT&T and Dell face competitive pressure in their respective markets, their investment in open source container infrastructure is likely to accelerate adoption across the broader telco and enterprise IT sectors.

Projects like AirShip, Metal3-io, and the Kubernetes Cluster API benefit directly from this kind of large-scale industrial participation — contributions from organizations operating at carrier scale tend to surface integration requirements and edge cases that smaller contributors may not encounter.

Summary

Global DevOps Market at a Glance

According to a 2019 market research report published by Data Bridge Market Research, the global DevOps market was valued at approximately USD 2.95 billion in 2017 and was projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.1% through 2026. The report used 2016 as a historical baseline, 2017 as the base year for calculations, and extended its forecast horizon to 2026.

The research covered a broad range of industry dimensions, including company profiles, product specifications, geographic scope, production value, revenue analysis, market share, and competitive structures across the global information and communications technology (ICT) sector.

What Is DevOps?

DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that emphasizes collaboration between development teams and IT operations. It emerged from the agile movement and is built on the principle that breaking down silos between developers, quality assurance (QA) engineers, and operations teams leads to faster, more reliable software delivery.

Core characteristics of the DevOps approach include:

• Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD): Automating the build, test, and deployment pipeline to reduce release cycle times.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable configuration files rather than manual processes.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Aligning development, QA, security, and operations around shared goals and shared tooling.
• Cloud-native enablement: Cloud platforms have significantly expanded the scope of what DevOps practices can achieve, enabling on-demand scaling and self-service infrastructure.

The growing adoption of AI and automation within DevOps workflows — sometimes called AIOps — was also noted as an emerging area of interest at the time of the report.

Key Market Players

The report identified a broad competitive landscape. Major players cited included:

• CA Technologies
• IBM Corp.
• Puppet Inc.
• Rackspace Inc.
• Red Hat Inc.
• CFEngine
• Chef
• Cisco
• Clarive
• CollabNet
• DBmaestro
• Dell
• Docker
• HP
• Inedo
• Infosys
• Microsoft
• SaltStack
• VersionOne
• Clarizen, Inc.
• VMware

These vendors competed across a range of strategies including product launches, partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions, and geographic expansions to strengthen their market positions.

Market Drivers and Restraints

The report outlined the following factors as primary influences on market growth:

Growth Drivers

• Demand for continuous delivery: Organizations increasingly require faster application release cycles to remain competitive.
• Dynamic IT environments: The shift to cloud, microservices, and containerized workloads makes DevOps practices operationally necessary.
• AI and automation adoption: Integrating machine learning into development and operations pipelines is accelerating efficiency gains.

Market Restraints

• Skills gap: A shortage of professionals with cross-functional DevOps expertise continues to slow adoption, particularly in mid-market organizations.
• Legacy process dependency: Many enterprises remain heavily invested in traditional, siloed processes and toolchains that are difficult to modernize quickly.

Market Segmentation

The global DevOps market was segmented across several dimensions:

By Type

• Solutions
• Services

By Deployment Model

• Public Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud

By Organization Size

• Large Enterprises
• Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

By Industry Vertical

• Telecommunications and IT-Enabled Services (ITES)
• Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI)
• Retail
• Media and Entertainment
• Government and Public Sector
• Manufacturing
• Healthcare
• Education
• Energy and Utilities
• Transportation, Logistics, Travel, and Hospitality

By Geography

The report covered data points for 28 countries across five major regions:

• North America: U.S., Canada
• Europe: Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Russia
• Asia-Pacific: China, India, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore
• Middle East & Africa: Saudi Arabia, South Africa
• South America: Brazil

Report Structure

For reference, the original report was structured across the following sections:

1. Executive Summary
2. Scope of the Report
3. Global DevOps Market Landscape
4. Global DevOps Market Sizing
5. Market Segmentation by Product
6. Five Forces Analysis
7. Customer Landscape
8. Geographic Landscape
9. Decision Framework
10. Drivers and Challenges
11. Market Trends
12. Vendor Landscape
13. Vendor Analysis

Context: Why This Market Data Still Matters

While this report dates from 2019, many of its structural observations remain relevant. The DevOps tooling market has continued to consolidate — for example, Red Hat’s acquisition of Ansible, Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub, and Broadcom’s acquisition of CA Technologies and later VMware have reshaped the vendor landscape significantly since this report was published. The fundamental segmentation dimensions (cloud deployment model, organization size, vertical) remain standard analytical frameworks used in current market research.

Engineers evaluating DevOps platforms should treat 2019-era market share figures as historical context rather than current guidance, and consult more recent analyst reports for up-to-date competitive positioning.

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