Cloud-native technologies are becoming more pervasive, and next-gen enterprise platforms will likely be based on containers and run on platforms like Kubernetes. As they execute on their digital transformation intitatives, enterprises find themselves at various stages of their cloud-native journeys. Enterprises must collaborate to get the best out of their hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. These challenges inform a number of emerging cloud-native trends including:
1. VM convergence
2. Stateful workloads and data protection
3. Container security
4. Platform resiliency
While these topics aren’t necessarily new, the challenge is in how to productionize and operationalize them at scale.