Containers to capture 15 percent of all enterprise apps across 75 percent of business by 2024
(2020/06/25)
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Analyst firm Gartner has completed its first forecast for container management software and services, finding that while adoption will be rapid the technology won’t be a big money-spinner for software vendors.
In a new document, titled [1]Forecast Analysis: Container Management (Software and Services) Worldwide , announced today, the analyst firm predicts swift growth revenue growth for the likes of Red Hat, Rancher and VMware, with this year’s sales of US$465.8 million to become $944 million in 2024.
But that’s less than the annual revenue of $1bn Gartner expects IaaS providers will win from hosting containers by 2022. It’s also less than VMware’s annual cash haul for supposedly legacy compute virtualisation products.
It’s not all tepid news for the containerised crowd. The analyst firm predicts that before 2024 containers will become “the default choice for 75 percent of new custom enterprise applications”, with the result that 15 percent of all apps use containers by the same year. That’s up from five percent today.
That 75 percent figure pops up again in the prediction that by 2024 that number of large enterprises in mature economies will use containers in production, up from fewer than 35 percent today.
But Gartner thinks that growth isn’t a great sign of container-mania, because a combination of technical debt, application backlogs and budget constraints mean organisations will prioritise other work. For many, the unavoidable need to do things like migrate SAP HANA to the cloud will simply deserve more attention.
The winners from container adoption will therefore be development consultancies doing the work on containerised apps, who have between $10bn and $15bn in play.
The report’s author, Gartner research vice-president Michael Warrilow, told The Register his research suggested that today’s container users are most likely to be either a large financial services concern or a cloud-native company with fewer than 10 employees.
He also said that containers are most likely to be associated with development of new bespoke applications. Organisations looking to re-factor apps can do so more easily with virtual machines. Which goes some way towards explaining the cloud migration marketing pushes currently under way at AWS, Azure, Google and other big clouds. ®
Sponsored: [2]Running Your Modern .NET Application on Kubernetes
[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3985796/forecast-analysis-container-management-software-and-serv
[2] https://go.theregister.com/tl/1956/-8477/running-your-modern-net-application-on-kubernetes?td=wptl1956
In a new document, titled [1]Forecast Analysis: Container Management (Software and Services) Worldwide , announced today, the analyst firm predicts swift growth revenue growth for the likes of Red Hat, Rancher and VMware, with this year’s sales of US$465.8 million to become $944 million in 2024.
But that’s less than the annual revenue of $1bn Gartner expects IaaS providers will win from hosting containers by 2022. It’s also less than VMware’s annual cash haul for supposedly legacy compute virtualisation products.
It’s not all tepid news for the containerised crowd. The analyst firm predicts that before 2024 containers will become “the default choice for 75 percent of new custom enterprise applications”, with the result that 15 percent of all apps use containers by the same year. That’s up from five percent today.
That 75 percent figure pops up again in the prediction that by 2024 that number of large enterprises in mature economies will use containers in production, up from fewer than 35 percent today.
But Gartner thinks that growth isn’t a great sign of container-mania, because a combination of technical debt, application backlogs and budget constraints mean organisations will prioritise other work. For many, the unavoidable need to do things like migrate SAP HANA to the cloud will simply deserve more attention.
The winners from container adoption will therefore be development consultancies doing the work on containerised apps, who have between $10bn and $15bn in play.
The report’s author, Gartner research vice-president Michael Warrilow, told The Register his research suggested that today’s container users are most likely to be either a large financial services concern or a cloud-native company with fewer than 10 employees.
He also said that containers are most likely to be associated with development of new bespoke applications. Organisations looking to re-factor apps can do so more easily with virtual machines. Which goes some way towards explaining the cloud migration marketing pushes currently under way at AWS, Azure, Google and other big clouds. ®
Sponsored: [2]Running Your Modern .NET Application on Kubernetes
[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3985796/forecast-analysis-container-management-software-and-serv
[2] https://go.theregister.com/tl/1956/-8477/running-your-modern-net-application-on-kubernetes?td=wptl1956
Surely they can do better? Try harder going deeper may help.
But the real money is in services and IaaS, not software, says Gartner’s first lash at container futures.
Does Gartner not realise the real money is in understanding the one is the other .... with software servering and servicing IaaS as an homogeneous package ..... a sealed container of vital goods?
And clearly, by reason of the tales told here in the Registered piece, they do not, which when true renders their predictions no better than inane waffle akin to self-serving twaddle.