Chef by Chef Software to be Listed as a top player in the Configuration Management

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Chef by Chef Software to be Listed as a top
player in the Configuration Management Software
Market on 360Quadrants Chef by Chef Software
will belisted as a top player in the
Configuration Management Software segment on
360Quadrants.Chef Configuration Management
Softwareis a DevOps based platform that uses a
pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for
writing system configuration recipes.Chef
softwareallows different organizations to deploy
configuration automation via built-in integrated
validation subsets.Chef is used to contour the
task of configuring and maintaining a company's
servers and manage business processes effectively
without any downtime or interruptions. Chef
Configuration platform can integrate with almost
every physical, virtual and cloud-based platforms
such as Internap, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud
Platform, Oracle Cloud, OpenStack, SoftLayer,
Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace to automatically
provision and configure new machines. Recently,
Chef has made number ofenhancement into its newly
introduced Chef Enterprise Automation Stack
(EAS) that offers secure infrastructure and
applications in any environment.Chef Enterprise
Automation Stack new capabilities includes
Application Operations Dashboards, new Migration
Accelerators and seamless management of Chef
Infra and Chef InSpec using Chef Habitat.The
enhanced Chef EAS offers a unified stack to
enable the Coded Enterprise, integrating
automation engines for infrastructure, security,
applications and providing a clearly defined
process for collaboration through code. Chef
pricing details can be found on
360Quadrants. 360Quadrants, the most granular
comparison platform,is working on releasing a
quadrant on Configuration Management Software to
help businesses make quicker and more informed
decisions. 360Quadrants combines inputs from
various industry experts, buyers, and vendors,
and conducts extensive secondary research
inclusive of annual reports, company press
releases, investor presentations, white paper,
and various directories and databases in order to
rate the companies in every quadrant. 360Quadrant
s covers 32 companies in the Configuration
Management Software space and will place the top
25 of them in a quadrant based on their quality,
reliability, and business outcome. These 25
companies will be categorized as Visionary
Leaders, Innovators, Dynamic Differentiators, and
Emerging Companies. Along with the listing of
Chef Configuration Management Software
360Quadrants has worked on listing Aegis,
AzStudio, Azure Automation, BackBox , CFEngine,
Coveralls, Fugue, HashicorpTerraform, NixOS and
OCS Inventory NG among others as the top vendors
in the Configuration Management Software. The
platform will also provide the most granular
Configuration Management Software comparisons
between vendors. Configuration management
software is the task of tracking and controlling
changes in the softwareapplications and their
infrastructure to ensure that configurations
arein a trusted state. Configuration management
practices includetracking, conducting changesand
revision control made to applications during the
development process. It cover changes typically
made by a system administrator or adevelopment
team. Configuration management software maintains
an accurate historical record of system state
which is useful for project management, auditing,
and debugging. The software can integrate with
version control systems, software testing
products, bug tracking tools, and other software
development tools. 360 Scoring Methodology
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• Top Companies in Configuration Management
  Software will be rated using the following
  methodology -
• A highly experienced team of researchers and
  senior analysts conduct extensive research to
  generate a list of vendors (competitors).
• A patent-pending algorithm is used to collect
  inputs from key stakeholdersindustry experts,
  buyers, vendors, and 360Quadrants analystsbased
  on criteria for Product Maturity and Company
  Maturity.
• Criteria under Product Maturity include breadth
  and depth of product/service offering, product
  features and functionalities, product
  differentiation, and their
• impact on customer value.
• Criteria under Company Maturity include
  geographical footprint, partner ecosystem,
  financial stability, and client coverage or
  sector footprint.
• Approximately 20 in-depth parameterswill be
  considered for research for the Configuration
  Management Software market. These parameters will
  be updated every 6 months to ensure latest
  developments are taken into consideration.
• A weight is assigned to each stakeholder based on
  information gathered pertaining to the above
  criteria as well as inputs from stakeholders.
  These inputs follow the order of
• priority given below
• Buyers
• Industry Experts
• 360Quadrants Analysts
• Vendors (Competitors)
• The inputs are analyzed, and a final rating is
  assigned to each vendor (competitor).
• After the finalization of ratings, each vendor is
  placed in the most relevant quadrant based on
  their score.
• About 360Quadrants
• 360Quadrants is the largest marketplace looking
  to disrupt US 3.7 trillion of technology spend
  and is the only rating platform for vendors in
  the technology space. The platform provides users
  access to unbiased information that helps them
  make qualified business decisions. 360Quadrants
  enables vendors to influence the business
  decisions of potential clients. Vendors get to
  win ideal new customers, customize their
  quadrants, decide key parameters, and position
  themselves strategically in a niche space, to be
  consumed by giants and start-ups alike. Experts
  get to grow their brand and increase their
  thought leadership. The platform targets the
  building of a social network that links industry
  experts with companies worldwide.The platform has
  around 400 total buyers across various markets.
• 360Quadrants will also be launching quadrants in
  fields like Network Monitoring Software, Online
  Appointment Scheduling Software, Video
  Conferencing Software, Human Resource Software,
  and Marketing Automation Software.