from ZDnet
existing TCO on your IT infrastructure. I call these the 3 "Cs" of IT disruption.
The first "C" is Containers
As I explained in detail recently about what Containers are and what the overall benefits to your organization can be for implementing them, this technology alone will vastly increase the density of your virtualization hosts on-premises and also at hyperscale cloud providers, be they public or private.
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Here's the bottom line: an increase in workload density through the use of container technology means higher levels of efficiency as well as the ability for you to reduce internal infrastructure costs, as well as for a cloud provider to reduce their own internal infrastructure costs and then pass that savings down in the form of cheaper IaaS and PaaS offerings to you as a tenant/subscriber.
Given the greater economies of scale that hosters or hyperscale providers have over your own internal IT infrastructure, this means you are going to have to (yet again) adjust your calculus for what workloads still make sense for you to keep on-prem.
from ZDnet
While Containerization is primarily an Open Source and Linux-based technology today, we're not far off from it being a Windows and Microsoft-based technology as well, given current developments in Windows Server 2016 and ongoing developments at Azure.
So while this may not necessarily be a technology you are going to easily adopt within your own datacenter within in the next six months, it definitely should be on your roadmap within the next year or two.
At the bare minimum, you'll likely see the hyperscalers reduce their IaaS, PaaS and SaaS pricing first, which may give you enough incentive to lighten your own internal burden and also reconsider your ongoing software licensing strategy.
