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CONTAINERISED DATA CENTRES
The future
containerised
By Chris Gray, Technical
Director, Amido
www.amido.com
Industry sceptics may view containers as overhyped
yet large investments in container and modular
solutions suggest otherwise
Up until now there has been a slow uptake for containerised
data centres, which certainly isn’t because of the lack of
technology. Containers, as an idea, can be traced back to
1979 when the chroot system call was introduced during the
development of Unix V7, which brought about the beginning
of process isolation. Jump forward four decades and
containers have exploded in popularity with Docker making
huge leaps with the development of containerised software.
This growth has highlighted the move away from complex
bricks and mortar data centres that were cumbersome
with their innumerable servers and required purchasing,
implementation and maintenance. Organisations are
beginning to see the appeal of containerised data centres
that promise fully functioning engineered systems.
This seismic change in approach has exposed the growing
demand for IT talent in the market today; as illustrated
by BMC Software’s new report highlighting that over the
next two years, IT decision makers believe that IT spending
will move towards investments in workload automation,
containerisation and DevOps training.
DevOps in the enterprise has always been mostly focused
around tooling and processes in the development of software,
with operations such as support and monitoring still handled
by separate teams. However, utilising deployment platforms
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