Defining Cloud-Native Workloads: An Infrastructure Perspective

Defining Cloud-Native Workloads: An Infrastructure Perspective

This IDC Market Perspective takes an in-depth look at the features and attributes that define an application as being cloud native from an infrastructure perspective. This document also outlines why containers are popular as an operating environment for cloud-native applications despite not being a defining attribute of a cloud-native application. Finally, this document discusses how cloud-native applications will develop on a workload category level and which workloads will be most significantly impacted. In particular, this document looks at how cloud-native applications will become popular within the data management workload category."The rise of cloud native as an application framework is having a perceptible impact on the office ecosystem, especially when it comes to improving data management practices," said Max Pepper, senior research analyst, IT Infrastructure. "Defining what separates cloud-native applications from cloud rehosted and other application types, and for what workloads this technology's potential can go the farthest, is critical for businesses as we see greater transition to take advantage of this technology to maximize productivity."

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