Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn , Director Technical Marketing at Zerto , discusses some of the challenges of using containers , as well as some of the benefits which lead to their success .

organisations well for many years , providing a highly effective architecture that separates the operating system and applications from the underlying hardware . Among their many benefits , they optimise resource usage and provide high availability to any and all applications .

However , containers are now becoming an increasingly popular alternative to VMs . According to Gartner , by 2023 , more than 70 % of global organisations will be running more than two containerised applications in production , up from less than 20 % in 2019 .

Key to their growing adoption is that they provide application developers with the ability to package small , focused code into independent , portable modules that include only what ’ s needed to run the applications . This makes the development process extremely agile and fits neatly into the wider technology infrastructure trends driving cloud-based enterprise application and IT strategy .

Digital Transformation has also been a big driver for companies to start using container technologies such as Kubernetes as part of a wider cloud-native strategy . The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated this trend , as more organisations see the benefits of changing and digitising their business models .

Container challenges

That ’ s not to say that the adoption of containers is without challenges . Finding the right expertise to design , manage

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