Overview

Today, many application-modernization initiatives are centered at least in part on Kubernetes adoption to create a container-based application environment. In a recent ESG survey, 41% of storage decision makers indicated that their organizations were using containers in production in 2019. An additional 33% reported that their organizations were using containers for dev/test and pre-production applications and planned to use them for production in the following 12 months.1 Container adoption helps fuel DevOps activities, offering multiple benefits—including the fact that containers are built for hybrid cloud environments.

In a separate ESG research study of IT professionals whose organizations are currently using containers or planning to use them for production applications in the next 12 months:²