What are cloud containers, and how should businesses use and secure them?

Container adoption has been increasing for years, and the trend is expected to continue. Gartner forecasts that 70% of businesses will run containerized applications by 2023 and 90% will do so by 2026. 

Yet, while organizations constantly throw around the term containerization, many don’t fully understand the concept.

On this episode of IT Availability Now, host Servaas Verbiest and guest Erik Krogstad, Senior National Cloud Architect at Sungard AS, explore this popular topic, breaking down what a container is, and how businesses should use and secure them. Listen to this full episode to learn:

• The benefits of containers 
• Why organizations use containers, and what’s driving recent adoption
• What containers can be used for
• Container security best practices
• How compliance requirements influence container usage

As Director of Product Field Strategy at Sungard AS, Servaas Verbiest assists businesses and organizations in realizing the full potential of cloud computing by thinking strategically, deploying rapidly, and acting as an ambassador for the cloud ecosystem. While at Sungard AS, Servaas has worked with more than 1,000 unique clients across multiple industries on complex application deployments, re-platforming, public cloud integrations, private cloud deployments, application lifecycle, and hybrid cloud model development.

Erik Krogstad is the Senior National Cloud Architect at Sungard AS and serves as lead for the company’s Cloud Center of Excellence. With more than 20 years in the IT industry, Erik has extensive experience in designing and transforming IT infrastructures and architectures to meet the business and IT needs of fortune 1000 companies. 

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