International Data Corporation (IDC)
has published its 2016 IDC Innovators report recognizing pioneering
players in the container technology market. IDC Innovators are companies
with under $50 million in revenue that offer an inventive technology
and/or groundbreaking new business model.
CoreOS Inc., Docker, and Mesosphere were all named as IDC Innovators in
container technology for 2016.
"There are a significant number of emerging companies focused on
building, orchestrating, and supporting containers in a variety of ways.
And of course, well-established companies in related infrastructure are
also scrambling to support container technology with their existing
portfolio," said Al
Gillen, group vice president, Enterprise Infrastructure. "These
emerging players represent three good examples of companies that are
likely to help change the industry as we know it. Containers make it
practical to create and deploy applications in a microservices format
that are usable and manageable, accessible through stable APIs, and
individually upgradeable without impact to other container-based
microservices."
CoreOS promises to bring Google-like infrastructure to enterprise
customers that don't care to deploy directly into the Google Compute
Engine cloud. The company is part of the growing, and increasingly
competitive container construction, deployment and
orchestration/management market. Mesosphere is competing in the quickly
emerging container orchestration and management market. Docker has
revolutionized the way applications are architected and deployed, thanks
to its innovative and developer-friendly packaging format that makes it
practical to build modular, microservice-oriented applications.
IDC
Innovators: Container Technology, 2016 (IDC #US41231716)
profiles select companies in the container technology market with an
innovative technology or a groundbreaking new business model or both.
The IDC Innovators research document examines companies with revenue of
less than $50 million with a product, service or business model with a
specific use case.