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Agility and speed may be important, but the
business still has an infrastructure to maintain.
Yes, the enterprise wants to embrace the
faster, newer and shinier technology, but it
needs to balance the conceptual capabilities
of the containers versus the realities of
running the business.
Containerisation may allow for rapid
development of solutions on-demand, but it
requires a steady hand and an awareness of
its existing limitations.
Exploiting the Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) revolution
Software-as-a-Service is a burgeoning
trend in the market, allowing organisations
to utilise capabilities, such as WebEx,
Salesforce.com and Office 365, giving them
time to focus their resources on delivering
better infrastructures.
SaaS removes the need to manage
systems that support routine tasks – such
as expense claims – allowing IT teams to
free up resources to embrace the core of
their business, such as building services for
their clients. Businesses that are reaping
the benefits of the SaaS revolution are
successfully accelerating their digital
transformation, by utilising SaaS for non-
differentiating processes. Similarly, an
emerging tech nology that’s proving just as
impactful as containers and SaaS is Functions-
as-a-Service (FaaS), or server-less computing.
savings and efficiency gains. To embrace the
concepts of containerisation, SaaS, FaaS
and the inevitability of innovation, there are
some key ideas that you need to embrace
to ensure success:
• Opt into new applications that deliver on
the premise of speed and agility
• Be prepared for the impact of
automation. It’s the era of infrastructure
as code and infrastructure for automation
• Not everyone is going to change, but if
you’re prepared to accept that you need
to reinvent yourself every five years, then
you are more prepared than most
• If your infrastructure isn’t nimble then
you won’t have the right foundation to
enable all the agile applications that have
just emerged from your containers
• Infrastructure is going to evolve
and become capable of being flexible
enough to be provisioned when
needed and deprovisioned after it
has been consumed n
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THE EVOLUTION
IN SOFTWARE AND
AUTOMATION,
PACKAGING
SOFTWARE AND
NETWORKING
INFRASTRUCTURE
DEMANDS
SCALABILITY AND
AGILITY ON AN
UNPRECEDENTED
SCALE.
It’s proving to be a far simpler method, in
that instead of writing a full application, you
can simply write a function and aggregate
functions together to form a task. This is
already proving useful when computer
processing is needed on-demand, like batch
processing or the Internet of Things (IoT)
and enables compute capacity to be shut
down when not needed, resulting in cost
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IT’S THE ERA OF CONTAINERISATION AS
ENTERPRISES AND DEVELOPERS UTILISE MODERN
DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT TOOLS TO DELIVER
EVERYTHING AS A SERVICE TO STAY AHEAD OF THE GAME.
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