Tectonic Summit 2016: Preparing for Cloud Native

Preparing for Cloud Native
Migrating to the Kubernetes Era
Al Gillen
GVP, Software Development and Open Source
December, 2016

o Why DX, why Containers
o Impact of Open Source
o Containers and Orchestration
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Why Digital Transformation?
Standardization
of Infrastructure
Social Data,
Mobile Data
Interconnection
of Systems
Decision
Support
Real Time
Analytics
IoT and
Other Data
Intellectual
Property
Source: IDC Developer Research, December 2016

Digital Transformation Made Possible by
Containers, Cloud Native Apps
Standard infrastructure enables:
Rapid iteration
Disruption of competitors
Deployment flexibility
To remain competitive:
Embrace standardized infrastructure
Modernize apps application
Embrace DevOps, priv/pub cloud

DX Supply, Demand Pressures Diverge
Buyer Side Pressures/Challenges Vendor Pressures/Challenges
New competitors emerging and disrupting business
as usual
New startups don’t buy IT, don’t buy software; instead
are writing their code and running it in cloud from day
1
Legacy IT still must be supported, and will remain a
burden for the foreseeable future
Legacy IT will continue to be a cash cow, but that
cash will be needed to help fund a transition to 3rd
Platform compute
Cutting edge talent is hard to find and retain Cutting edge talent is hard to find and retain for
vendors, too
On-premises IT investments are becoming more
difficult to justify
Generic cloud hosting services is ultimately a race to
zero. The value add comes from software services
Technologies emerging faster than can be
understood, implemented, and provide a ROI
New technologies emerge, but often today are open
source based and provide little revenue opportunity
Installed apps generally tied to their host; new apps
typically have few or no dependencies
Operating systems losing their differentiation; Linux
and Windows increasingly close; Linux distro
differences fading
Source: IDC System Software Research, December 2016

Majority of DevOps Users Expect to Increase
Spending on IT Ops, Analytics
Q: How are DevOps practices currently impacting or expected to impact purchasing of each
of the following areas?
36%
34%
27%
25%
35%
23%
23%
25%
33%
27%
32%
25%
27%
33%
33%
35%
37%
40%
42%
43%
46%
55%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
in house storage
Testing tools
Public SaaS
Inhouse computing infrastructure
Application development tools
Private cloud
Public PaaS cloud
Public IaaS
Application performance and analytics…
Inhouse automation and orchestration…
IT operations analytics tools
Purchase more
n = 100 multiple selections permitted Source: IDC, Early Adopter DevOps Survey, IDC, July, 2016

Open Source Software Inherits the Earth
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
Worldwide Operating Environments Nonpaid and
Paid New License Shipments, Subscriptions and
Nonpaid Deployments (000)
Others
Linux (Paid)
Linux (Nonpaid)
Windows (Paid+Nonpaid)
 Linux fought a long battle
to open the door
 Open source crossed a
midpoint and is becoming
relevant or dominant in
many market segments
 “Open source first” is
increasingly the approach
that users and vendors
 Even Microsoft is favorable
to open source today
Source: IDC System Software Research, December 2016

45%
20%
20%
15%
26%
26%
21%
27%
15%
25%
29%
30%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Commercial/vendor supported
open source
Community-based free open
source
Cloud or outsourced services
Vendor proprietary tools
Ranked 1 Ranked 2
Enterprises Prefer Commercialized
Open Source Products Technologies
Q: Rank order your organization’s preferences for sourcing options that will be used to acquire DevOps enabling
technologies over the next two years with 1 as the most preferred type

Applications Become the Pivot Point
Linux apps stay on Linux
Windows apps stay on Windows
• Starting points dictate
end points
• Apps divide into “legacy”
& “cloud-native” apps
• Could native apps will
emerge as the new
battleground
• Cloud Native and open
source are tightly
intertwined
IaaS Deployment
Containerized
Lift-and-Shift
Replaced with
Cloud Native Apps

Impact on You and Your IT
Apps
Middleware
Infr SW
Hardware
Storage NW
Apps
Hardware
Open Source
Apps Container
PaaS SaaS
Container
Adoption Continuum
• Open source
• Linux and
Containers
• Cost, service levels
vs. availability
• Pay-as-you-go
• Mobility
• Serverless
computing
Service Provider

Process Fragmentation, Lack of
Mature Product DevOps Challenges
Q: What are your organization's top technology challenges when implementing DevOps?
n = 100 multiple selections permitted Source: IDC, Early Adopter DevOps Survey, IDC, July,
2016
 Smaller
enterprises more
likely to think
workloads are not
suited for DevOps
 Largest orgs most
likely to suffer
from fragmented
processes
34%
34%
29%
27%
25%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Fragmented
processes
Tools and products
not mature enough…
Existing Security
tools are not…
Workloads not
suitable for DevOps
Lack of continuous
integration and…

Culture: The Biggest Impediment
to Digital Transformation
Q: What are your organization's top governance and process challenges related to implementing DevOps?
49%
33%
33%
32%
28%
0% 20% 40% 60%
IT culture and internal
inertia
Project management
Governance,
measurement and…
Streamlining
integration across…
Lack of IT Leadership
support
 Smaller enterprises
more likely to cite
culture due to limited
staff headcount,
training dollars
 Largest enterprises
more likely to focus on
governance and
traceability concerns

Don’t Assume that Developers have an
Easier Onramp to DevOps
Q: Rank order - for which functional team is it more challenging to adopt DevOps practices?
34%
33%
12%
19%
24%
22%
28%
24%
18%
22%
37%
21%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Development
IT Operations
QA & Testing
LOB analysts
Ranked 1 (Most Challenging) Ranked 2 Ranked 3

Container and Orchestration Observations
 Cloud SPs already have substantial experience with containers, and some
have been using them for years
 Most enterprises are dabbling in containers and cloud native applications;
orchestration often not used or an afterthought
 Much lift-and-shift happening today, and obviously the need to orchestrate
containerized monolithic apps is lower
 <10% of enterprise containers in use orchestration to manage scale and
performance
 But by 2020, more than 50% of enterprise containers will rely on
commercially supported orchestration technologies
 Ultimately, we expect most cloud native apps to run in containers and be
orchestrated by solutions like Kubernetes

Essential Guidance
 Open source software is increasingly the foundation on which
both services and commercial products are based
 Darwinism has not yet fully played out in the container
orchestration market; is there really room for 3 (or more) major
container orchestration engines?
 Development of containerized apps still in infancy among large
organizations; but adoption will become strong
 Most existing apps won’t be replaced/rebuilt; rather will be
augmented and extended using cloud native apps
 Mix of on-prem/cloud deployments for years to come
 We will see a scale-out and regulatory insensitive apps gravitate
to public cloud infrastructure

Al Gillen
GVP, Software Development and Open
Source
agillen@idc.com
@algillen
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