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Central to the recovery is the ability for organizations to leverage digital capabilities to adapt to disruptions .
Abby Kearns , CTO , Puppet
Ensuring an effective DevOps strategy as APAC recovery races ahead
Abby Kearns , CTO , Puppet , tells us how APAC organizations can progress and scale DevOps practices to get ahead of the competition as recovery from the pandemic in the region beckons .
As CTO of a company that calls 80 % of the Global 5000 our customers , I ’ m keenly aware of the impact COVID-19 has had on global business . Organizations across the world have accelerated their digital journey in the wake of the pandemic and are continuing this process as recovery stands on the horizon .
According to IDC , Asia Pacific will be the first to recover from the economic disruptions of the pandemic , with 65 % of APAC GDP expected to be digitalized and spending to hit US $ 1.2 trillion between 2020 and 2023 . Central to the recovery is the ability for organizations to leverage digital capabilities to adapt to disruptions .
The rise of DevSecOps has placed security and its cousin compliance as key components of DevOps as companies seek to not only deliver software faster but also to avoid major security and compliance snafus that could cost them millions .
Many organizations have adopted DevOps but many remain stuck at the middle stages of their DevOps evolution . They are rarely able to scale DevOps ways of working beyond the development , operations and ( sometimes ) security teams . Over the years , we have learned that frustration is highest in organizations that are at the middle stages of integrating security into the software development cycle .
DevOps has been a proven way to adjust to change quickly and to deliver software and services faster .
Once an organization has been through the early changes , it must dig deeply to uproot and revise old
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