Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 16 | Page 13

CA Technologies say firms are missing out on benefits of Agile and DevOps Velocity Group brings customers a focus on security with Check Point partnership C A Technologies has announced the results of a global study which shows that some organisations are struggling with the key challenges and missing out on the extensive benefits that Agile and DevOps can have. The study, How Agile and DevOps Enable Digital Readiness and Transformation, found that, while 75% of respondents recognise that Agile and DevOps approaches drive significant business success when implemented together, only a small proportion consider the consistency, depth and breadth of usage of these practices to be high. It showcases the characteristics of ‘Agility Masters’ (the top 18%), which are organisations that are the furthest along in the full adoption and doing most or nearly all of the right things to make Agile and DevOps an essential part of how they function. “The pressure is on to make all parts of an organisation as flexible as possible when responding to changing customer demands, user expectations, regulatory changes and – most important of all – market opportunities,” said Jaco Greyling, Chief Technology Officer for Enterprise DevOps at CA Southern Africa. “Business leaders need to be aggressive and intentional about driving adoption of Agile and DevOps within their organisations. The success of their business depends on it.” T he Velocity Group is adding Check Point Software to its list of vendors. It means that the specialist South African ICT partner will be able to provide more than 400 mid-market customers access to a host of security solutions that specifically address changing security needs. “With its multi-level architecture approach to security, its focus on changing security from a technology need to a business process and a portfolio that extends from the endpoint to the cloud, I believe Check Point is the perfect partner to assist us to offer clients security solutions that are relevant and adaptable to the modern market,” said Jonathan Kropf, Director at Velocity Group. Check Point offers end-to-end cybersecurity solutions to governments and corporate enterprises and protects customers from cyberattacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks. Jaco Greyling, from CA Southern Africa www.intelligentcio.com “We are excited about this partnership with the Velocity Group and look Jonathan Kropf, Director at Velocity Group forward to working with their customers, as we believe that through our partnership we can jointly assist enterprises throughout South Africa in implementing unprecedented security across their networks, cloud and mobile environments,” added Doros Hadjizenonos, Country Manager at Check Point Software Technologies. INTELLIGENTCIO 13