2. Alation - http://bit.ly/2DjLRpH
AI, MACHINE LEARNING, CLOUD LOCK-IN, MICROSERVICES, DATA
LAKES AND MORE
Satyen Sangani, co-founderand CEO of
Alation
Microservices Will Result in Macro-confusion
• With the proliferation of containers and microservices, the cost of software
creation, deployment and infrastructure will further decrease.Which services
exist? How are they being used? How do we know if the service is deprecated?
Who/what else is using the service?

3. Anexinet - http://bit.ly/2mXv31P
WHAT'S NEXT FOR PRIVATE CLOUD, CONTAINERS, SECURITY,
MIXED REALITY AND QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ENCRYPTION
Ned Bellavance, Director,Cloud
Solutions, Anexinet
Containers will show up in commercial software
• There has been a lot of hype around containers and how transformative they can be
for an application. In almost all cases, the applications being deployed in containers
are highly customized and developed in house or by a consulting firm. Now that
container standards are settling down, largely thanks to the CNCF, and a de facto
standard for container orchestration is emerging (kubernetes); it is becoming
feasible to offer commercial software in a container format to enterprises. In the
same way that virtual appliances became popular once enough enterprises had a
virtualization platform, COTS applications in containers will rise in popularity when
enough enterprises have a container platform.

4. Automic Software - http://bit.ly/2Ds05ZS
THE RETURN OF VENDOR LOCK-IN AND OTHER PREDICTIONS
Lucas Carlson, Vice President of
Strategy at Automic Software
Container adoption will continue to be impressive.
• I write this prediction with egg on my face. In this space last year, I forecast that
container hype will keep soaring while adoption will stay small. "Pitifully small" were
my exact words. "Don't get me wrong," I wrote "It's not that I don't think containers
won't take off.They just won't take off in 2017... Despite the hype, containers have a
few more years before they are ready for the mainstream."
I was wrong.The aforementioned mandates from upper management to migrate to
the cloud have put far more wind behind Docker's sails than I anticipated (even though
I still maintain it's not always the right solution).That momentum is almost certain to
continue and expand into 2018.

5. Cloud Foundry Foundation - http://bit.ly/2EWsqE4
WE ALL LIVE IN A KUBERNETES WORLD
First, it's all about Kubernetes.
• A container orchestration technology created and incubated at Google before
spinning off to the stewardship of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (the
sister organization to Cloud Foundry Foundation), this open source project has
incredible industry momentum.The cloud application platform we support, Cloud
Foundry, fully embraced Kubernetes in 2017. And by the time you read this, all three
of the major public cloud providers -- AWS, GCP andAzure -- will have embraced
Kubernetes and offer managed Kubernetes services. We even saw Docker radically
pivot to support Kubernetes over its own solution, Swarm (the biggest surprise of
2017).
Is it safe to run Kubernetes in the enterprise?
• Google announced a partnership withVMware and Pivotal that validates enterprise
adoption of Kubernetes in well-managed environments. It also provides access to
Google cloud services via the Open Service Broker API.Are we seeing a repeat of
Google's strategy to offer Android as an open source mobile OS to compete with
Apple and the iPhone at a new place, the price of zero? It's early days in the cloud
wars and smart people will watch Kubernetes closely in 2018.
Chip Childers, CTO, Cloud Foundry
Foundation

6. CloudPassage - http://bit.ly/2mW5i1L
LOOKING AHEAD TO OBSTACLES AND IMPROVEMENTS FOR
CLOUD MIGRATION AND SECURITY
Amit Gupta, VP of Product
Management, CloudPassage
Containers will reach the mainstream and become the preferred
form factor for greenfield applications.
• Container adoption saw a growth explosion in 2017, and the app development
benefits have become apparent to all. Any security practitioner defining their
security roadmap and not accounting for a comprehensive plan for container
security is building a flawed, incomplete approach.

7. Datadog - http://bit.ly/2BghpuN
THE YEAR OF CONTEXT
Jason Yee, Technical Evangelist, Datadog
Context through abstraction
• We've seen the continued abstraction of systems from early configuration
management defining individual servers, to tools like Hashicorp'sTerraform
defining clusters, to very high level abstraction in Kubernetes's service definitions.
Along the way we've seen these abstractions handle relationships between
applications and nodes. In 2018, we'll continue to see growing adoption of container
and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.And with it, we will see
new abstractions that define the relationships between systems and provide
context for what those systems should do and how they should behave.

8. Hedvig - http://bit.ly/2Dkusxp
EASY ENTERPRISE CROSS-CLOUD ARCHITECTURES AND MORE IN
2018
Avinash Lakshman, CEO and Co-
founderof Hedvig
Like Docker for containers, Kubernetes becomes the de facto cloud
orchestrator
• I could easily have made this prediction last year and it would be just as true.The
recent embrace of Kubernetes across the industry - including Microsoft Azure,
Docker, and Mesosphere DC/OS - shows that the open-source container
orchestration system has proven its effectiveness in providing simpler cloud
deployment, better scaling, and more efficient management. It is already baked in
to OpenShift and other private label solutions. In 2018, the IT world will become
conversant, if not fluent, in Kubernetes, its concepts and terminology and start to
expand inside enterprises and clouds.
Containers drive multi-cloud adoption
• One of the barriers to multi-cloud architectures is portability of workloads. As more
enterprises gain experience developing and delivering applications that run in
containers, it opens a new level of cross-cloud capability that in 2018 will mean
these organizations can more easily spin up workloads in the cloud - or clouds - of
their choice.This will make is possible to place and run applications where it makes
the most sense based on a number of factors, including economics and locality.

9. Lightbend, Inc. - http://bit.ly/2mQpstc
JAVA EE GOES CLOUD NATIVE IN 2018 WITH REACTIVE
• Containers and cloud-native often presume bare-metal servers, no JVM, and polyglot
development.As cloud-native has taken flight as the way the big tech companies and
startups in SiliconValley build new distributed applications, there have been many
unanswered questions from the Java community about how to best participate in this new
world of modern application design and operations.
• Here's why this will change in 2018 and beyond. First, the hardening of microservices
frameworks and architectures--and their creeping into Java EE via MicroProfiles--is making it
possible for enterprises to target legacy Java monoliths, to deconstruct them as
microservices and run them in the cloud.This will be a huge disruptive force as the massive
installed base of Java shops in all industries target these previously inflexible systems and
make them more flexible with the cloud-native development styles happening with the net
new systems and applications that are being designed in enterprise.The container format
itself has matured.The writing's on the wall and near consensus opinion is out that
Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. So the operational predictability that
Kubernetes and containers provide at the server / cluster infrastructure level, and the
elasticity, resilience and responsiveness of Reactive system design at the application
infrastructure level are the future. And the next big domino that will fall in this evolution will
be microservices being pointed at the inflexible Java monolithic applications in production at
enterprises that have--to date--felt sidelined in the move to the cloud, but who now have a
clear path.
Mark Breweris the CEO of Lightbend, Inc.

10. ManageEngine - http://bit.ly/2rnKTrc
CONTAINERIZATION TO CONTINUE ITS UPWARD TREND
Arun Balachandran, Senior Product
Analyst, ManageEngine
Containers continue to gain importance
• The rise of cloud computing has also given rise to the problem of public cloud
vendor lock-in.To counter this problem, some CIOs are looking at multi-vendor
strategies and containers for portability. If an enterprise is likely to move
essential applications and processing from cloud to cloud or platform to
platform, then containers hold the most potential. All major cloud providers
now support containers.

11. Mirantis - http://bit.ly/2mXfNCd
CONTAINERS WILL DRIVE MASSIVE SHIFT IN HOW COMPANIES DO
BUSINESS
Boris Renski, Co-Founderand CMO,
Mirantis
ContainerizingVNFs will become a thing
• The telco space is big on standards. Nobody moves until everybody moves. So
while the benefits of containerizingVNFs (vs. virtualizing network functions) are
broadly understood and accepted, the space has been nascent while companies
waited for standards to appear.
• This year, Kubernetes and its surrounding ecosystem of open projects have
provided the telco sector that security. Kubernetes is the orchestrator, Helm is the
Kubernetes Package Manager, and with those areas no longer in flux, next year
we'll seeVNF vendors and telcos starting to move on containerization.
• We've already seen the beginning of this process this year with the AT&T
announcement about containerizingOpenStack, but that's the NFV Infrastructure
level; the really exciting stuff will be happening at theVNF level next year, starting
with containerization of vIMS and video delivery (transcoding, packaging etc.).

12. NeuVector - http://bit.ly/2FX1e9w
CONTAINERS, KUBERNETES, AND SECURITY
Fei Huang, CEO, NeuVector
Enterprises migrate to containers in production - at the edge, and
cautiously.
• Virtually all enterprises will have a container project in production by the end of
2018. However, most of these will be small deployments used to first explore the
technologies, and then refine the pipeline from there. Larger issues around
processes, people, and automation will prevent many enterprises from moving into
containers at a large scale. Early adopters in the usual industries such as financial
services will try to move quickly, but typical laggards like consumer goods and retail
will find that they can benefit more quickly from containers and try to move into
them aggressively.
The first multi-cloud container deployments will go into production.
• Trust in services such as AWS will remain high, but enterprises will always be
concerned about vendor lock-in.The abstraction provided by containers and their
orchestration tools makes it possible - and in some cases preferable - to be able to
deploy services across multiple clouds, and this is exactly what enterprises will do
more of in the coming year.

13. Platform9 - http://bit.ly/2DsaOnm
INNOVATING WHAT WE HAVE
Sirish Raghuram, CEO and Co-Founder,
Platform9
Kubernetes is dead. Long live Kubernetes.
• It's no secret that Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration platform.As
Platform9 found in a recent survey conducted at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon
Austin, Kubernetes usage dwarfs competing solutions by greater than 3:1.
• While adoption has soared, Kubernetes has now reached a local maxima - forcing
vendors to innovate at a faster clip to stay ahead of the competition, especially
from public clouds, in the year ahead.The value of the base Kubernetes platform
will go to zero dollars in 2018 as the market becomes overcrowded with managed
Kubernetes solutions.To succeed, Kubernetes solutions will need to offer
capabilities that are differentiated from the base platform - such as those offering
serverless as an easier onramp to use Kubernetes at scale.

14. Red Hat - http://bit.ly/2DRvcLs
VIRTUALIZATION, CONTAINERS, CLOUD, IOT, SECURITY, AI AND
MORE
Gunnar Helleksonis the Directorof
Product Management for Red HatThe merging of containers and virtualization
• It's all about containers in 2018 -- and virtual machines running on containers will
gain momentum in the new year as Kubernetes continues to evolve. It's important
to remember, however, that virtualization and containers are not competitive, but
rather complement one another. I expect we will continue to see the vast majority
of containerized infrastructures operating on hypervisors, with early adopters
actually merging the two with Kubernetes.
"Hybrid by default" becomes the new operations mantra
• The worlds of containers and OpenStack will blend: Increased collaboration across
OpenStack, Kubernetes and other key open source projects, driven by the
customer need to get to a unified fabric for physical, virtual and containers, will
bring compelling benefits by reducing redundancies and leveraging the ecosystem.
Additionally, I predict private cloud efforts will gain further momentum in 2018
driven by application modernization efforts, resulting in "hybrid cloud by default" to
become the standard operating procedure for enterprises.
Radhesh Balakrishnan is the global
leader for OpenStack at Red Hat

15. SUSE - http://bit.ly/2DO9NCN
OPEN SOURCE IN 2018: CONTAINERS, MULTI-CLOUD AND
COLLABORATION
Thomas Di Giacomo, Chief
Technology Officer, SUSE
Containers technology will take off, bringing DevOps success
• Container technology made huge inroads in 2017 and that success will only grow:
Forrester predicts that the application containers market is likely to grow by 40
percent by 2020. In 2018, organizations will focus on optimizing their use of
containers in the enterprise.This means adopting more container management and
orchestration tools to scale extensive container deployments. For example,
Kubernetes is allowing organizations to maximize their processing time and
storage space. With a refined container strategy in place, developers and
organizations will be able to further streamline their delivery/management
processes, leading to a DevOps success story, by starting to forget about the
underlying infrastructure, including that it runs containers.

16. Tufin - http://bit.ly/2DPJpsn
CONTAINERIZATION RISES
Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of
Tufin
The Rise of Containers and Micro-Services
• With a steadily increasing use of containers in enterprises, we believe that 2018 will
see the notion of segmentation extend from the realm of the network to the realm
of micro-services.
• The continual decoupling of applications from infrastructure will enable new
architectures and methodologies which will transform the way enterprisers practice
cybersecurity.Two leading trends in this area are immutable infrastructure and
serverless architectures.
• Immutable infrastructure has already been established as a way to improve agility
and security and we expect this trend to continue in 2018 and beyond.We'll also see
enterprises begin to invest in serverless architectures.

17. Usermind - http://bit.ly/2mUMlwi
CIOS MUST LEAD IN CLIMBING THE LEARNING CURVE OF
CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION
David Talby, CTO, Usermind
Tightened Security
• Even the more advanced container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes are not
inherently secure. Security controls are required at multiple levels - network isolation,
storage encryption, key management, role based access, audit logs and many others.
Additionally, regulated industries like healthcare, education and finance will require
stricter compliance. Security, privacy and compliance must be baked into the
architecture from the ground up. Point solutions and "quick fixes" don't work.Controls
also have to consider the entire technology stack since vulnerabilities often exist where
multiple systems were designed separately with different security assumptions. Even if
the API connects, the security protocol may not translate.
More Container Services
• Engineering shops will leverage the managed container services that all major cloud
providers now offer, even though that may increase lock-in to cloud providers.
Consider carefully the benefits of using a cloud provider's managed container
service, versus rolling a Kerberos deployment. Since Docker and Kerberos will
become core technologies for which you'll have good in-house knowledge, and
since there are reusable, standard scripts to deploy them, this is an opportunity to
be (almost) completely cloud-agnostic.

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