Survey: AI Spurring Increased Adoption Of Containers
Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
A global survey of 1,600 cloud, IT, and engineering executives published today finds a full 87% expect their organizations' reliance on containers to deploy applications to increase over the next three years, with 83% reporting they are already building new applications in containers.
Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Nutanix, 85% of respondents also said they believe artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating adoption of containers, with 59% reporting they anticipate their organization will have more than five AI-enabled applications in the next three years. However, 82% also noted their current IT infrastructure is not fully ready to support those applications.
Lee Caswell, senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix, said the survey makes it clear that while AI is clearly spurring additional adoption of containers, the pace at which organizations are deploying those applications appears to be deliberate.