Results highlight strong adoption plans motivated by reduced time of
deployment of services, reduced IT operational costs and a more
responsive infrastructure
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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:
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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