The Forrester New Wave™: Enterprise Container Platform Software Suites, Q4 2018

The Forrester New Wave differs from traditional Forrester Wave™. The New Wave only evaluates emerging technologies, and this time its extreme containerization.

Enterprise container platforms provide a container-based development environment with container execution, orchestration, integration, security, and management capabilities designed to provision and control container clusters across multiple on-premises and cloud infrastructure platforms.

The report evaluated eight vendors across following categories:

ü  Runtime and orchestration

ü  Image management

ü  Operations management

ü  Security features

ü  User experience

ü  Integrations and APIs

ü  Vision

ü  Market approach

Forrester's research uncovered a market in which Docker, Red Hat, and Rancher Labs are Leaders; Pivotal, Mesosphere, and IBM are Strong Performers; and SUSE and Platform9 are Contenders in "The Forrester New Wave™: Enterprise Container Platform Software Suites, Q4 2018"