New OpenStack Survey Highlights Strong Adoption Plans Among Global Enterprises
May 18 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Results highlight strong adoption plans
motivated by reduced time of deployment of services, reduced IT
operational costs and a more responsive infrastructure
Enterprise IT organizations are moving, or planning to move to
OpenStack for their cloud infrastructure, a new survey from Red
Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, revealed.
The OpenStack enterprise adoption survey of more than 310 IT
decision makers and professionals from around the world,
commissioned by Red Hat through TechValidate, found that the
majority of respondents (75 percent) are planning to use OpenStack
for cloud initiatives. The survey found respondents in varying
stages of deployment, ranging from learning and evaluation (40
percent) and proof of concept/pilots (40 percent) to preparing for
deployment (18 percent) and in production (16 percent).
The survey results show that deployment plans for OpenStack
workloads span the physical, virtual, private and public cloud
footprints. Survey respondents reported strong intent to run
OpenStack workloads in other environments, including traditional
enterprise virtualization (35 percent); physical servers (30
percent); other private/Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds
(22 percent); and public clouds (18 percent).
Other key findings from the survey include:
- OpenStack deployments span workload
types. Fifty-nine (59) percent of respondents are using, or
planning to use, OpenStack for new workloads optimized for cloud
environments, while 52 percent of respondents are using or planning
to use OpenStack for existing virtualized workloads.
- Rapid growth and broad deployment
plans lead to concerns about OpenStack skills development.
Forty-five (45) percent of respondents cite lack of internal IT
skills as the biggest barrier to OpenStack adoption. Other top
barriers include: OpenStack’s maturity (43 percent); lack of
alignment with current application architectures (22 percent); and
poor alignment among internal organizations (21 percent).
- Enterprise users are looking to
address these concerns with offerings and support from commercial
OpenStack providers. According to survey respondents,
production-level technical support (82 percent) is the most
important aspect of commercial OpenStack offerings, followed by
simplified installation process (78 percent); the ability to move
workloads between providers and platforms (75 percent); and support
for complementary open source cloud management, operating system,
and development tools (72 percent).
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and
containers are on the rise. Fifty-four (54) percent plan to use
OpenStack with a PaaS, while 42 percent indicate that they plan to
use containers within their OpenStack environments.
- KVM is the hypervisor of choice for
OpenStack, with 75 percent of respondents indicating that they
are using, or planning to use it, in OpenStack deployments.
Sixty-four (64) percent of survey respondents selected VMware
vSphere ESXi, while 18 percent selected Microsoft Hyper-V, and 13
percent chose Xen.
- Enterprise users are looking to
OpenStack to reduce time to deployment, lower costs, and provide a
more responsive IT infrastructure. According to survey
respondents, the top three performance indicators for OpenStack
projects include: reduced time of deployment of services (77
percent); reduced IT operational costs (52 percent); and a more
responsive infrastructure to demand changes (44 percent).
Methodology and Demographics
TechValidate, an independent research company, conducted an
online survey on behalf of Red Hat from April 28 - May 5, 2015, to
understand enterprise adoption trends associated with OpenStack.
The survey polled more than 310 enterprise IT decision makers and
professionals from global organizations across industries and of
all sizes, spanning small businesses to Fortune 500
organizations.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“These survey findings are a positive indication that OpenStack
is growing as a preferred choice for building private and hybrid
clouds. With production-level support cited as a main concern
around OpenStack deployments, we are excited about Red Hat being
uniquely positioned to address the need given our technical
expertise around OpenStack as well as portfolio of open solutions,
proven track record in delivering enterprise-class support and a
full spectrum of training and services offerings to enable our
customers to be successful.”
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