In 2018, expect to see the market for virtualization solutions disrupted, as customers will be less willing to pay a premium for virtualization and expect it as part of the infrastructure they currently run or are planning to run. Automation, management and orchestration of on-premise, remote and cloud-based application deployments will also become even more of a business-imperative for enterprises. We’ll see users with Mode 1 legacy applications shift some existing workloads, as well as new development investments, to Mode 2 infrastructures — think hybrid-cloud running VMs within containers.
