It’s hard to think ahead when your house is on fire. But that’s exactly what we all need to do now.

If you’ve been in IT for any length of time, you know that once upon a time, basically all servers ran on Windows. That’s just how it was: Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system dominated the market, and the company charged plenty for the privilege of licensing their product so you could conduct business.

Getting started with Cloud Native is deceptively easy. Anyone, anywhere—even with zero Cloud Native experience—can simply go online to any public cloud provider, click, and within 10 seconds have a fully-provisioned container running.

The core problem for managers at any company contemplating a Cloud Native transformation is that they don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t even know how long it will take, so they come up with estimates based on the way they’ve previously worked. These estimates are always wildly wrong, for a number of reasons.

At Container Solutions, when we say we help companies transform themselves into Cloud Native entities, we use that term for a very specific reason. Cloud Native is a major paradigm shift, not just the latest new tech to be bolted on top of whatever else a company has been doing for years.