Accenture & Docker Expand Relationship, Add Container Services to Accenture Cloud Factory to Accelerate the Migration of Bus....
March 15 2017 - 7:59AM
Business Wire
Finnish Railways (VR) sees decreased costs,
improved delivery speed and quality
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Docker today announced an expanded
global alliance and the availability of container services within
the Accenture Cloud Factory, providing industrialized solutions for
enterprises to accelerate their journey to cloud. The new services
focus on container enablement of applications and feature use of
Docker Datacenter (Enterprise Edition - Standard), an integrated
container management platform for developers and IT operations that
brings security, policy and controls to the software delivery
lifecycle. Supported by a global network of certified Accenture
DevOps and cloud migration consultants, the container enablement
services help clients reduce risk and costs while speeding the
migration of business-critical applications to cloud.
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Through the alliance, Accenture and Docker are collaborating on
developing migration accelerators and best practices for enterprise
clients adopting containers. Finnish Railways (VR) is
leveraging the Accenture Cloud Factory to rapidly “Dockerize”
components of a core business application and deploy to a
Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution on the AWS Cloud using
Docker Datacenter; a success now being planned at scale across
their application portfolio.
“We were looking for a way to modernize our existing
applications while reducing dependency on legacy infrastructure and
proprietary software platforms,” said Markus Niskanen from Finnish
Railway. “Using Docker and the Accenture Cloud Factory, we are able
to rapidly migrate our business application components into
containers at a pace and economics we could not achieve internally.
In the process, we established workload portability and a modern,
secure software delivery pipeline for our business systems that has
increased reuse and even improved our own employee
productivity.”
As a Premier Docker Global System Integrator, Accenture is
expanding its relationship with Docker to enhance its existing
multi-cloud CaaS solutions, leveraging Docker Datacenter to provide
enterprises with the capabilities needed to secure the software
supply chain, expand workload portability and improve the
resilience of applications.
“With 70 percent of a typical corporation’s global transactions
running on legacy applications created for a different era,
becoming an agile, digital enterprise is no easy feat,” said Adam
Burden, senior managing director, Advanced Technology &
Architecture at Accenture. “Containers enable compelling approaches
for modernizing applications such as gradually decomposing
monolithic programs into collections of independent and API-enabled
services, while also supporting workload portability from laptop
all the way to cloud. By using Docker Datacenter and the
Accenture Cloud Factory, clients can take advantage of our
experience and best practices from modernizing thousands of
applications, reducing their risk and accelerating the benefits of
agile and digital transformation.”
“Enterprises are using Docker Datacenter to modernize their
traditional applications -- allowing them to ship software 13X
faster, while greatly simplifying the maintenance of these
applications,” said Roger Egan, senior vice president of Sales and
Channel at Docker. “Because these applications are in many cases,
the lifeblood of their business, we teamed with the enterprise
system experts at Accenture to develop a factory model for
migrating to and securely managing containerized environments
across the entire software supply chain. Together, we enable
organizations to quickly realize significant value, transforming
both their application infrastructure and their business
agility."
Accenture’s Cloud First agenda offers comprehensive,
industry-focused cloud services including strategy, implementation,
migration and managed services, and assets, including the Accenture
Cloud Platform and Accenture Cloud Factory that can drive broader
transformational programs for clients. Accenture has worked on over
20,000 cloud computing projects for clients, including
three-quarters of the Fortune Global 100, and has more than 33,000
professionals trained in cloud computing.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 394,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
About Docker, Inc.
Docker, Inc. is the company behind the Docker open source
platform, and is the chief sponsor of the Docker ecosystem. Docker
is an open platform for developers and system administrators to
build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT
organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes,
frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud
and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of
computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by
transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been
downloaded more than 10 billion times and Docker is used by
millions of developers across thousands of the world’s most
innovative organizations, including ADP, GE, the BBC, Goldman
Sachs, Groupon, ING, Yelp and Spotify.
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