As a strong development hub, and considering the manner in which technology now catalyses efficiency in all sectors, India will have to ensure its continuing relevance to international markets. With Decoding DevOps Conference 2015, Infoseption and its knowledge partner PM Power Consulting are aiming to showcase how “zero-failure delivery” can be accomplished in IT projects.

Wide participation

The two-day conference will take place at Vivanta by Taj in Bengaluru on April 15 and 16 with a host of speakers from around the world, including senior executives from TCS, Infosys, Flipkart, Siemens and PM Power Consulting, showcasing what DevOps can do for the Indian market. The event is expected to attract participation from manufacturing, banking, retail, IT and telecom companies and also executives from Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and the US.

“Zero-failure delivery will mean that Indian companies can maintain margins if not better them. Already delays or bugs and recalls pose problems, leading to penalties and losses.

“DevOps is picking up as a trend across the world, but awareness even among large IT vendors is low,” explains C Venkata Subramanyam, Founder and CEO, Infoseption.

A pre-event note from the company highlighted that among organisations choosing to implement DevOps, 63% experience improvement in the quality of their software deployments, 63% release new software more frequently and 38% report a higher quality of code production.

Subramanyam says, “People tend to have a ‘nice-to-have’ attitude towards DevOps or quickly adopt anything new, perhaps because a competitor is using it. But not everything is for everybody.”

According to him, this “first-of-a-kind” conference in India will not mimic what many other conferences have tended to veer towards. The Infoseption-led conference looks designed to be product-agnostic, customer-agnostic and technology-agnostic so that it can be of relevance to all participants.

“DevOps is not technology, processes or tools. It’s a way of thinking,” Subramanyam underlines. So its promise lies in not just bringing developers and operations teams together, but in its capacity to help both people and tools to collaborate in real time for efficiency and quicker deliveries with the help of platforms.

DevOps may potentially bring about what large companies have been seeking to achieve for years – an increase in productivity combined with collaborative working. And must India’s relevance as an IT development hub hinge any longer on only the challenge posed by well-known competing economies?

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