The DevOps market is growing at a record pace. It has keenly taken a grip on the enterprise as business models mature. The rapid progress can be linked to increasing demands on mobile and cloud applications. Companies have already acknowledged their future to be somewhat dependent on DevOps.

In his inaugural speech, new CA Technologies CEO, Mike Gregoire mentioned why they shifted their focus and resources to DevOps.

“The old waterfall approach to developing applications in 12 to 18 months won’t work anymore,” Gregoire said during his CA World keynote. “To be competitive, you have to deliver applications within months at the most, but more often in weeks, even days for some things like mobile applications.”

CA is dead serious with their goal to get ahead of the war where development and operations are tightly integrated and virtualized, automated and managed. They have recently announced two acquisitions to bolster their DevOps stance: Nolio and Layer 7 Technologies. The former is an application delivery vendor while the latter takes care of security and API management.

Meanwhile, SOASTA enters collaboration with Jenkins community through open-sourcing their plugins to run automated tests on physical mobile devices. The plugin made build steps available to carry out operations and testing mobile devices such as making the app testable, installing of iOS app on device, executing a CloudTest composition and rebooting of iOS device.

A recent study documents DevOps on the rise and growth in multi-cloud usage. Furthermore, big organizations are realizing how platforms can be assimilated into their machineries to position themselves in the growing DevOps market. Few days ago, IBM has sealed the deal of buying a small but promising vendor, UrbanCode.

The Big Blue hopes to use UrbanCode’s software to automate production and delivery of new applications that will be aligned with their SmartCloud and Mobile First initiatives. The UrbanCode acquisition is also in line with the organization’s goal to reduce operating costs of the development process especially for mobile and cloud applications. With this, they can better compete with the leaner but incredibly aggressive startups such as Platfora and BMC.

Opscode’s open source automation platform, Chef is already cooking in the enterprise. Supported by both IBM and Microsoft, it has recently been adopted to manage fast moving infrastructures of Facebook.

“Facebook, Google and Amazon have figured out how to leverage large-scale infrastructure, and we are now seeing a similar trend in the enterprise,” said Jay Wampold, VP of Marketing at Opscode. “IT is a front-office imperative in how companies engage customers and users. Enterprises were not built from the ground up for this. Now they have to retool.”

Serena Software has the same love going on for DevOps. They regarded this as the primary driver of IT organizations that are looking to augment profits from cloud-based enterprise solutions. Serena, is a Silicon Valley-based company that has been in the industry for more than thirty years now.

DevOps has gone a long way from being a new trend in technology to a standard in test and performance automations of software. Surely, there are tons of exciting developments that we are going to see in the next few days.