Cloud-native technologies are used in the design or redesign of applications built to run in public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Cloud-native technologies include containers, service mesh, microservices and serverless functions, all of which can be independently updated, controlled, scaled or reconfigured to deliver a coordinated application experience. Adoption of cloud-native is driven by the speed, automation, efficiency, scalability, and portability advantages it can bring to the modern enterprise. Cloud-native is supportive and complementary to adjacent trends such as the adoption of multi-cloud infrastructures, A.I. and IoT workloads, and edge computing.
Cloud-native is a topic 451 Research has been covering since 2012. Today, 451 Research dedicates significant qualitative and quantitative resources to the topic area. Qualitatively we have simplified the CNCF Cloud-Native taxonomy to nine major landscape segments [i.e. Data, A.I., and Analytics, DevOps CI/CD, Management & Orchestration, etc.] each discrete segment has a dedicated research leader, short and long-form research agenda, vendor coverage plan, and future roadmap. Login to the Research Dashboard and search though our cloud native research.