Lift and Shift

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending Container Summit NYC, arranged by the great folks at Joyent. The first speaker, Dave Bartoletti of Forrester, gave a broad overview of cloud computing - private and public - and container adoption. One of his themes was the methods by which companies adopt new technologies, particularly cloud and containers, and the benefits they gain. New technologies enable new ways of operating. While some technologies simply make it easier or cheaper to operate in the same way as before, most enable new methods, new processes, new ideas that previously were difficult or impossible.