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How to Dodge Container Availability Challenges in Production Jay Lyman, Principal Analyst, 451 Research Connor Cox, Director of Business Development, DH2i October 18, 2017

Agenda - Containers in the Enterprise •  Containers – what’s the big deal?

•  Drivers and benefits after adoption •  Challenges

•  Enterprise Adoption

•  What’s next?

•  DH2i perspective 2

Primary Driver of Container Use by Company Size

33% 44%

26% 32%

32% 20%

40% 35%

12% 18% 10% 10%

11% 10% 15% 8%

10% 8% 9% 15%

Total (n=201) 1,000-2,499 (n=61) 2,500-4,999 (n=78) 5,000+ (n=62) 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Speed

Serving developers

Portability of applications

Hybrid cloud/cross cloud integration

Efficiency

Q. What is the primary driver for containers in your organization?

Biggest Container Benefit Once Adopted

30% 18%

33%

55%

29%

37%

30%

13% 15% 19%

18% 13%

14% 13% 10% 13%

9% 8% 7% 5% 2% 5% 3% 0%

Total (n=201) Infrastructure (n=62) Programming & Development (n=61)

DevOps (n=38) 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Avoiding vendor lock-in

Speed

Security

Competitive advantage

Efficiency

Developer productivity

Q. What is the biggest benefit of containers once adopted in your organization?

Note: Caution is advised when interpreting data with small n sizes.

Biggest Hurdle to Container Adoption

Q. What is the biggest hurdle to container adoption for your organization?

34% 33% 36%

28% 28% 29%

19% 25% 12%

11% 7% 15%

7% 7% 7% 0% 0% 1%

Total (n=201) Director (n=107) VP or Above (n=94) 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100% Other

Existing VM process is efficient

Production use

Complexity

Compliance and regulatory concerns

Security

Biggest Container Implementation Challenges by Respondent IT Management Area

Q. What are the biggest challenges for you to overcome in implementing containers?

47% 39%

51% 61%

40%

22% 21%

26% 11%

30%

20% 29%

16% 16% 18%

10% 11% 7% 13% 13%

Total (n=201) Infrastructure (n=62)

Programming & Development

(n=61)

DevOps (n=38) Other (n=40) 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100% The technology is too early to consider

Fear of people being replaced by machines

Internal culture

Training internal teams on containers and container orchestration

Containers Critical to Attracting/Retaining Talent

Q. How critical are containers to attracting and retaining good technology talent?

37% 39% 35%

49% 42% 56%

11% 13%

9% 3% 6% 0%

Total (n=201) Director (n=107) VP or Above (n=94) 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Minimal impact

One of many factors

Moderately critical

Highly critical

Primary User of Containers

21%

67%

10% 13%

IT operations

Both developers and IT operations (DevOps)

Developers

Lines of business

Q. Who is the primary user of containers in your organization?

n=201

Primary Purchaser of Container Software

Q. Who is the primary purchaser of container software in your organization?

37% 35% 36% 26%

53%

36% 42% 41%

24%

33%

21% 21% 16%

42%

8% 3% 2%

5% 5% 3% 2% 0% 2% 3% 5%

Total (n=201) Infrastructure (n=62)

Programming & Development

(n=61)

DevOps (n=38) Other (n=40) 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Architects

Lines of business portfolio owners

Developers

IT management

IT operations

Where Are Speed Advantages from Containers?

31%

25%

21%

22%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Through the entire process

Production deployment

Early in the application release process (test and development)

Developer onboarding and productivity

n=201

Q. Where do you gain most speed/time advantages from containers?

Use of Containers, Management & Orchestration

n=201

Q. How would you describe your organization's use of containers? Q. How would you characterize your organization's use of container management and orchestration software (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, etc.)

17% 21%

15% 12%

16% 15%

28% 27%

24% 25%

Use of Containers Use of Container Mgmt & Orchestration Software

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100% Broad implementation of production applications

Initial implementation of production applications

Use for test and development

Running trials/pilot projects

Discovery and evaluation

Where Containers Run Currently Vs. Future

32%

36%

35%

43%

31%

21%

2%

0%

Will Run in Next 12-24 Months

Currently Run

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

On top of VMs Separate from VMs In place of VMs On bare metal

Q. Where does your organization run containers? Q. Over the next 12-24 months, where do you expect your organization to run containers?

n=201

CLOUD TRANSFORMATION WORKLOADS AND KEY PROJECTS 2017

CLOUD TRANSFORMATION WORKLOADS AND KEY PROJECTS 2017

Source: 451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation, Workloads and Key Projects 2017

Q21. Which of the following statements best describes how your organization will use different on-premises and off-premises cloud environments over the next 2 years?

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38.4%

28.6%

20.4%

12.6%

We will focus primarily on a single cloud environment, not multiple clouds.

We will have multiple different cloud environments, but there will be little to no

interoperability between the cloud environments.

We will have multiple cloud environments to migrate workloads or data between different

cloud environments.

We will have multiple cloud environments where the delivery of a single business

function across the different cloud environments is seamless.

Percent of Sample

n = 437

Use of Cloud Environments Over Next Two Years Cloud-Familiar Respondents Using Cloud Computing

What’s next? •  Beyond containers on VMs

•  Rise of container management and orchestration with hybrid cloud

•  Growing production use and revenue •  M&A consolidation

•  Dare to adopt

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