Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Forecast, 2018–2022
This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the container infrastructure software market in 2017 and a 2018–2022 forecast for this market. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide market. Container infrastructure software (CIS) is a competitive market within IDC's software taxonomy and a subset of the software-defined compute (SDC) software functional market.According to Gary Chen, research manager, IDC's Software-Defined Compute, "Containers have tremendous hype as the compute foundation for next-generation applications, but it's important to realize that the commercial market for this technology is in its extreme infancy. Only the very leading-edge customers today have any significant deployments."
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- IDC Market Forecast Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market Forecast
- Market Context
- Drivers and Inhibitors
- Drivers
- Increasing Adoption of Public Cloud
- Shift to Next-Generation Cloud-Native Applications
- Standardization of the Container Infrastructure Stack
- Inhibitors
- Legacy Application Compatibility
- Time and Effort Required for Enterprises to Transform
- Significant Market Developments
- Changes from Prior Forecast
- Market Definition
- Methodology
- Historical and Forecast Market Values and Exchange Rates
- Related Research
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