CIO

Containers emerge as the future of applications

This year will see not the replacement of virtual machines by containers, but the growing awareness that any future plans for enterprise application must assume containers as the default execution environment. Attempting to achieve the kinds of enormous changes necessary to become cloud-native is simply impossible with typical virtual machine use.

http://themsphub.com/5-cloud-computing-predictions-for-2016/

There is little agreement among companies about which management approaches are most effective; more empirical evidence is required. A McKinsey & Company article.