Technology Milestones that lead toApplications Portability

Simone Morellato, Director of Technical Product Management

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Physical Server

App

First, Application and Hardware were tightly coupled

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Physical Server

AppVirtual Machine

Second, Virtualization decoupled the Operating System from the Hardware

Abstract the OS

from the Hardware

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Physical Server

Virtual Machine

Third, Container Technology decoupled the ApplicationFrom the Operating System …

Abstract the App

from the OSApp

Containers

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Any infrastructure

… Finally freeing the Application from the underlying Infrastructure

AppContainers