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Contributed by Calvin Hsu, Vice President, Product Marketing, Windows App Delivery, Citrix

AppOps Will Emerge to Complement DevOps and Streamline Business and IT Operations in 2016

In 2016, mainstream enterprises will embrace the growing DevOps movement to simplify applications management and accelerate the ability of IT organizations to respond and adapt to new business priorities. Today's increasingly dynamic markets are requiring IT to accelerate the secure delivery of new apps demanded by line-of-business managers to ensure their people have the apps and data resources they need to thrive in this dynamic global marketplace.

While DevOps - a movement emphasizing collaboration between software developers and IT pros - has emerged to bridge the gap between software development and IT and accelerate the pace of software innovation, this is particularly relevant for in-house, custom developed applications.

IT needs a fast, simple way to securely roll out and deliver new applications in alignment with operations - an AppOps approach. Just as DevOps creates an automated lifecycle between software development and IT operations - AppOps creates an automated lifecycle that streamlines application deployment and management so IT can assess, secure, deliver and manage new enterprise and SaaS apps with the agility now demanded by line-of-business managers.

As mainstream enterprise IT organizations embrace DevOps - and the AppOps automated approach to application management - they will become faster, more nimble, and more flexible and responsive to the demands of business managers.

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About the Author 

Calvin Hsu, Vice President, Product Marketing, Windows App Delivery

As a vice president for windows app delivery at Citrix,  Calvin Hsu is responsible for the go-to-market strategy for the market-leading desktop virtualization solutions, Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp.