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CONTAINERS ARE MATURING – DATA PROTECTION NEEDS TO KEEP PACE
Dave Russell , VP , Enterprise Strategy , Veeam , explores the pressing need for data protection to keep pace with the maturation of containers and how businesses can accelerate their modern data protection strategy .
Unbeknown to most , containers have been around since the 1970s . But it wasn ’ t until the advent of Docker in 2013 and Kubernetes in 2014 that their popularity began to explode , quickly becoming the go-to packages of software to build , test , deploy and redeploy applications on multiple environments .
Together , these platforms have revolutionized the way companies use containers – unlocking a whole world of benefits in the process , with their ability to reduce overheads , while increasing portability , consistency and efficiency – and ultimately driving the containerzation market ’ s expansion and movement toward maturation .
Such is this expansion , 27 % of organizations are already using containers , with a further 34 % in the planning and testing phase of container deployment , according to Veeam ’ s 2021 Cloud Protection Trends
While container orchestration tools , such as Kubernetes , are convenient for their scalability and portability , they can fall short when it comes to data protection .
Report . Only reinforced further by the application container market ’ s expectation to register a CAGR of 29 % over the forecast period 2021 to 2026 .
In fact , only 16 % of organizations currently have no interest in deploying containers at this time . But while more and more businesses are beginning to realize the potential of containers and grow excited about the benefits they can bring , there ’ s an essential ,
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