From a standing start, an ecosystem has quickly grown to support the use of containers. The year 2015 picked up where 2014 left off, with continuing venture capital investment, new company formation and a slew of new products and technology initiatives.
To better understand the dynamics of this ecosystem, The New Stack initiated a survey of companies that provide or plan to provide services associated with containers. We found that vendors are adjusting their portfolio of services to meet the demands of both application developers and IT operations.
Here are key takeaways from the study:
- Management and orchestration are top priorities for Docker and container ecosystem companies.
- Companies plan to invest in developer tools, networking and security functionality.
- Vendors fear competition from end-to-end solutions offered by IBM, AWS and Heroku.
- The PaaS market is evolving quickly as vendors offer platforms to deploy containerized applications.
- PaaS providers will face new competitors but are likely to benefit from increased market demand.
- VMware and configuration management systems like Chef and Puppet Labs face disruption.
- Ecosystem vendors are targeting enterprise/ISV practitioners of DevOps.
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