Fresh off raising an additional $68.5 million, Sysdig is gearing up to build a channel ecosystem around its monitoring service for containers.
Much of the ecosystem will consist of systems integrators (SIs) and managed service providers (MSPs) that are gearing up to build and support a new generation of applications based on a microservices architecture built using Docker containers, says Sysdig CEO Suresh Vasudevan.
Most customers today don’t have much internal expertise when it comes to building microservices applications, which Vasudevan notes creates demand for SIs. At the same time, many of the organizations that have embraced containers to build applications are not especially interested in managing the infrastructure required to run them. Many of those organizations simply prefer to devote all their internal resources to building applications, which results in many of them depending on MSPs to manage container infrastructure, notes Vasudevan.
One of the first things any organization that embraces containers needs is a means to monitor an IT environment that is much more dynamic than traditional IT environment, says Vasudevan. The average lifecycle of a container is often only a few minutes, and a single microservice may consist of hundreds of containers that are frequently updated. To meet that requirement Sysdig makes container monitoring software available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. That service is based on an open source Sysdig Falco project that Sysdig notes are used by millions of developers already, and Sysdig claims that dozens of Global 2000 enterprises are already paying for the commercial service it provides using that software.
Channel partners should also expect to see Sysdig expand the number of technology partnerships it has as part of an effort to create relationships with potential partners that are allied with providers of various container platforms, says Vasudevan.
Sysdig will also use the funding it has raised to expand the range of its offerings into areas such as security.
“We’ll be broadening the technology portfolio,” says Vasudevan.
There’s a raft of monitoring tools that channel partners either resell employ to monitor existing environments as part of a managed service. But most of those tools don’t work in IT environments running containers. That may not be the case forever. But 451 Research predicts the cloud-enabling technology market to grow to $39.6 billion through 2020, and containers are predicted to be the fastest growing segment of that market at 40 percent. Gartner predicts that “by 2020, more than 50 percent of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 20 percent today. Sysdig is betting that its container monitoring platform will be well established in those accounts long before any larger potential rivals come along.
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