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Container Adoption and Drivers | Online survey results ­ Survata
"Container Adoption and Drivers"
Target audience
200 respondents
Age: 18-64 yrs
Country: US
Methodology details
This survey was conducted by Survata, an independent research rm in San Francisco. Survata interviewed 200 online respondents between June 24, 2016 and June 28, 2016. For
further information, visit www.survata.com.
Survey Results
Screening question
Note: Only respondents who passed this screening question are represented in the chart below. Respondents who failed this screening question are not shown.
Which of the following most closely de nes your job role?
250
Number of responses
200
200 (100.0%)
150
100
50
0
0 (0.0%)
Software developer
Product Manager
I'm not currently employed
0 (0.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Marketing Director
0 (0.0%)
0 (0.0%)
Administrative Assistant
0 (0.0%)
Accountant
Other
Question #1
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Is your organization using container technology today?
150
139 (69.5%)
Number of responses
125
100
75
50
41 (20.5%)
20 (10.0%)
25
0
Yes
Not yet but we are planning to soon
No
Question #2 
What container technology are you using?
50
46 (33.1%)
44 (31.7%)
Number of responses
40
34 (24.5%)
30
20
15 (10.8%)
10
0
Docker
CoreOS
Google Kubernetes
Joyent
Question #3 
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In addition to containers, which other IT initiatives or strategies are also underway?
Please select all that apply.
125
105 (75.5%)
Number of responses
100
96 (69.1%)
78 (56.1%)
75
66 (47.5%)
55 (39.6%)
50
41 (29.5%)
25
0
Public cloud services
DevOps
Legacy application modernization
Big Data Analytics
Microservices
Automation for code deployments
Question #4 
What is the driver behind your adoption of containers?
80
66 (36.7%)
Number of responses
60
38 (21.1%)
40
34 (18.9%)
26 (14.4%)
20
16 (8.9%)
0
Business value and time to market
Cost savings on IT infrastructure/management
Scalability for applications
Increased frequency of software releases
Support for micro-services
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What is the secondary driver behind your adoption of containers?
50
45 (25.0%)
Number of responses
40
38 (21.1%)
38 (21.1%)
37 (20.6%)
30
22 (12.2%)
20
10
0
Business value and time to market
Cost savings on IT infrastructure/management
Scalability for applications
Increased frequency of software releases
Support for micro-services
Question #6
Describe the dif culty level in learning how to effectively use containerization tools such as Docker,
Kubernetes and Mesos?
100
91 (65.5%)
Number of responses
75
50
29 (20.9%)
25
19 (13.7%)
0
Highly challenging for most developers
Moderately challenging but not more than expected
Surprisingly easy
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Where are you running containers today?
50
41 (29.5%)
Number of responses
40
37 (26.6%)
37 (26.6%)
30
24 (17.3%)
20
10
0
In our internal data center
At an IT hosting provider’s facility/third party data center
Azure
AWS
Question #8 
What is the biggest challenge of using containers?
Please select all that apply.
100
Number of responses
75
76 (54.7%)
74 (53.2%)
65 (46.8%)
58 (41.7%)
47 (33.8%)
50
25
0
Security
Lacking expertise/staff
Managing containers to avoid sprawl and cost over-runs.
Integrating containers into the existing IT environment
Orchestration and automation
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How are you addressing these challenges?
Please select all that apply.
100
81 (58.3%)
Number of responses
75
62 (44.6%)
59 (42.4%)
54 (38.8%)
50
25
0
Figuring it out on the y
Using third-party management tools or services
Hiring consultants
Adding staff
Question #10
If your organization is using third-party services or consultants to address these challenges, how
does it affect your budget?
80
67 (58.3%)
Number of responses
60
40
30 (26.1%)
20
18 (15.7%)
0
Too expensive so this will be a short-term solution
Competitively priced and good value
Better economic value right now than hiring full-time staff
Question #11
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Will containers help reduce virtualization costs?
100
80 (44.4%)
Number of responses
80
73 (40.6%)
60
40
20
16 (8.9%)
11 (6.1%)
0
Yes, signi cantly
Minimally to Moderately
No
Not sure
Question #12 
What other technologies is your team using in combination with Docker?
Please select all that apply.
20
18 (52.9%)
18 (52.9%)
Number of responses
15
10
9 (26.5%)
6 (17.6%)
5 (14.7%)
5
1 (2.9%)
0
Apache
Mesos
Kubernetes
DCOS
Docker Swarm
Other
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What bene ts have you realized so far from using containers?
Please select all that apply.
100
87 (62.6%)
Number of responses
75
73 (52.5%)
71 (51.1%)
56 (40.3%)
53 (38.1%)
50
25
0 (0.0%)
0
Increased speed/productivity for developers launching code
Overall IT cost savings
More responsive to business needs
Improved exibility for IT infrastructure
Haven’t measured yet
Better ROI from the cloud
Question #14
What is your predicted annual savings in IT from using containers, whether from developer
productivity /time savings, infrastructure savings or other ef ciencies?
100
83 (46.1%)
Number of responses
75
58 (32.2%)
50
28 (15.6%)
25
8 (4.4%)
3 (1.7%)
0
None
10-15%
16-30%
31-50%
51% or higher
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What tools are you using to monitor the container environment today?
Please select all that apply.
80
62 (44.6%)
Number of responses
60
43 (30.9%)
37 (26.6%)
40
43 (30.9%)
38 (27.3%)
36 (25.9%)
32 (23.0%)
31 (22.3%)
24 (17.3%)
20
1 (0.7%)
0
Scout
Other
DataDog
Dynatrace
Prometheus
Logentries
cAdvisor
AppDynamics
Splunk
Vistara
Question #16 
Instead of containers, which other IT initiatives or strategies are you using?
Please select all that apply.
12.5
10 (52.6%)
Number of responses
10
9 (47.4%)
8 (42.1%)
8 (42.1%)
7.5
5
3 (15.8%)
2.5
1 (5.3%)
0
Public cloud services
DevOps
Legacy application modernization
Big Data Analytics
Microservices
Automation for code deployments
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What is the biggest barrier to adopting containers?
Please select all that apply.
10
9 (47.4%)
9 (47.4%)
Number of responses
7.5
6 (31.6%)
5
2.5
2 (10.5%)
1 (5.3%)
1 (5.3%)
0
Security
Lacking expertise/staff
Managing containers to avoid sprawl and cost over-runs.
Integrating containers into the existing IT environment
Orchestration and automation
Other
Question #18
Do you think that having containers would help reduce virtualization costs?
12.5
11 (57.9%)
Number of responses
10
7.5
7 (36.8%)
5
2.5
1 (5.3%)
0 (0.0%)
0
Yes, signi cantly
Minimally to Moderately
No
Not sure
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What bene ts do you think your team might be able to realize if you used containers?
Please select all that apply.
12.5
10 (52.6%)
Number of responses
10
8 (42.1%)
8 (42.1%)
7.5
5 (26.3%)
5
3 (15.8%)
2 (10.5%)
2.5
0
Increased speed/productivity for developers launching code
Overall IT cost savings
More responsive to business needs
Improved exibility for IT infrastructure
I'm not sure
Better ROI from the cloud
Question #20
If your team adopted containers, what do you think your predicted annual savings would be, whether
from developer productivity /time savings, infrastructure savings or other ef ciencies?
10
9 (47.4%)
Number of responses
7.5
7 (36.8%)
5
3 (15.8%)
2.5
0 (0.0%)
0
None
10-15%
16-30%
31-50%
0 (0.0%)
51% or higher
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