Containers for a post-pandemic IT architecture
Summary
In a recent interview with Computer Weekly, John-David Lovelock, distinguished research vice-president at Gartner, described how the coronavirus is forcing business leaders to divert funds from other departments into IT. The Accenture Technology Vision 2021 report recommends that businesses aim to build strategic IT stacks that will enable them to innovate quickly and take advantage of new opportunities in the post-pandemic world. Michael Warrilow, research vice-president at Gartner, says: “Understanding of ‘cloud-native’ varies, but it has significant potential benefits over traditional, monolithic application design, such as scalability, elasticity and agility. Suraj Kumar, general manager of API, integration and microservices at Software AG, believes that simply moving a VM to the cloud will not give organisations the elasticity and modularity that helps them cope with an ever-changing business environment. However, as James Sturrock, director of systems engineering at Nutanix, warns, the main challenges are that Kubernetes is deep and complex, and evolves quickly with its growing ecosystem of technologies, which means many organisations do not have in-house expertise and struggle to keep pace with developers’ needs.