October 2018 //
The digital transformation era is in full swing and is changing the business landscape faster than ever. According to the ZK Research 2018 IT Priorities Survey, 89% of businesses have at least one digital initiative underway. Businesses that become digital organizations are more profitable and are able to sustain leadership in their respective industries. To succeed in the digital era, organizations must be agile and have the ability to both recognize market shifts and adapt their business models and processes faster than the competition.
The need for increased business agility is having a profound impact on corporate IT, as business agility is based on IT agility. Legacy infrastructure is typically rigid and brittle, and it gets in the way of companies being able to make rapid changes. This has caused IT organizations to look to new technologies. One such example is the rise in the use of containers to bring a significantly higher level of agility to compute infrastructure.