LONDON, July 9, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- New analysis from Omdia's Cloud Software &
Services Intelligence Service indicates that the container
management and runtime market has grown to $6.3bn. This market now consists of two distinct
main segments – a container-as-a-service (CaaS) market largely
controlled by major public cloud providers, with smaller providers
also offering CaaS, and a commercially supported Kubernetes market
where independent software vendors (ISVs) provide
infrastructure-agnostic solutions.
Amazon narrowly edged out Microsoft to claim the top position in
the CaaS market, which is the largest in revenue terms. Revenue in
Omdia's CaaS market model represents direct costs only, while
revenue from indirect consumption of compute, memory, storage and
network resources required to operate containerized applications
contributes significantly to cloud providers. Smaller and local
cloud service providers (CSPs) have established their own niche in
the CaaS market, offering an alternative to the major public
clouds.
In the commercially supported container management market, where
Kubernetes has established itself as the standard, Red Hat extended
its lead as the top ISV in the container management product
segment. When considering the overall container management &
runtime market (inclusive of both CaaS and container management
products), Red Hat takes the third spot, just behind Amazon and
Microsoft.
"Most container management solutions are based on Kubernetes,
which is known for its increasing complexity," explained
Michael Azoff, Chief
Analyst in Omdia's Cloud and Data Center research practice.
"Fully managed services are touted for reducing this complexity but
when thinking about what is self-service and what is fully managed,
it is best to think in terms of the two key roles: developers and
site reliability engineers. Whether the service is on the cloud or
on-premises, application developers want the maximum freedom to
work on the application lifecycle. Where CaaS is distinguished from
on-premises products, is that CaaS makes administration and
maintenance of Kubernetes as easy as possible, which is attractive
to large enterprises that have large scale requirements, as well as
smaller businesses that lack the right in-house skills".
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Fasiha Khan
Fasiha.khan@informa.com
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