Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 08 | Page 43

////////////////////////// The pace of innovation suggests the likelihood that organisations who aggressively embrace new tools and business models – and make these available to their development teams – are the ones who are more likely to succeed. Engineers are required to transform their skillset in order to remain relevant in today’s market and to deliver at the pace that the business demands. The evolution in software and automation, packaging software and networking infrastructure demands scalability and agility on an unprecedented scale. Containers provide the enterprise with the ability to modernise legacy applications, create born-in-the-cloud applications and develop solutions that are both scalable and agile, all within containerised environments that work in concert with legacy applications given the right approach to infrastructure. An edge to success Building with containers can add business value, but a common mistake organisations make is to assume that they now have to rebuild everything and that legacy systems face endless overhaul with endless cost. The reality is that containers should leverage some of what’s already available in the organisation, while additional investments are carefully considered for the best possible end-to-end application environment. INTELLIGENTCIO 43