EMEA Enterprises' Container Investment Strategies, Challenges, and Data Management Needs

This IDC Market Perspective examines the renewed interest in containerization among EMEA enterprises, who are accelerating container investments to modernize IT infrastructure, driven by AI innovation, cost optimization, and resilience needs. Containers offer portability, disaster recovery, and compliance advantages but require data management, storage scalability, and automation to run mission-critical workloads. Technology providers must deliver intelligent, flexible, and secure data services to address evolving enterprise requirements by enabling seamless migration, protection, and management of containerized applications across hybrid environments."As EMEA enterprises race to modernize, containerization holds tremendous promise to deliver resilience, sovereignty, and AI-driven innovation. However, this is only possible if organizations are able to successfully address management complexity and mitigate data management risks with the help of enterprise-grade container data services, real-time monitoring, easy data portability, and policy-driven management." - Senior Research Director Archana Venkatraman, European Data Management and Cloud Operations Research, IDC