Jim Mercer

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Jim Mercer

Research Director, DevOps

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GitHub Expands Developer Community Collaboration and Security Capabilities at Time of Urgent Demand

Jun 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46622420

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies, Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Arnal DayaratnaResearch Director, Software Development

At GitHub's Satellite virtual conference last month, the company broadened portfolio capabilities for the platform across key areas including coding and development with GitHub Codespaces, collaboration across communities with GitHub Discus...
ChefConf 2020 — Expanding Solutions Beyond Traditional Configuration Management

Jun 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46556120

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

Chef software held its annual ChefConf user and technology conference virtually on June 2 and 3, 2020. Given the COVID-19 restrictions affecting travel and social distancing, Chef had to quickly pivot and convert from the planned live, in-p...
Micro Focus Virtual Universe 2020 – Sensible Digital Transformation

Jun 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS46540820

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

Micro Focus recently held the company's first-ever virtual North American customer conference (Micro Focus Universe), which ran from May 19 to 21. Given the COVID-19 restrictions affecting travel and social distancing, Micro Focus had to qu...

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IDC's Worldwide DevOps Software Tools Taxonomy, 2020

Jun 2020 | Taxonomy | Doc # US46603620

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Mary Johnston TurnerResearch Vice President, Cloud Management

This IDC study updates IDC's definition for the worldwide DevOps software tools competitive market. The products, vendors, and revenue covered by this taxonomy represent a subset of IDC's functional market taxonomy. Each segment of the comp...
IDC Market Glance: Service Mesh Ecosystem, 1H20

Jun 2020 | Market Presentation | Doc # US46447320

By: Sriram SubramanianResearch Director, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Brad CasemoreResearch Vice President, Datacenter Networks

This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the service mesh ecosystem from an infrastructure point of view. IDC expects this ecosystem to mature into a functional market in the next 18–30 months. IDC recommends technology buyers to inve...
DevOps Teams Are Increasingly Comfortable Using Open Source Software

May 2020 | IDC Survey Spotlight | Doc # US46332120

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights how DevOps teams are comfortable using open source software."While open source software is at the core of many well-known DevOps tools, it is increasingly being used by DevOps teams for more than just au...