There is no doubt that open source clouds are on the minds of both open source communities/projects and commercial entities.

With 3/4 of 2012 behind us, we thought it was time to get some feedback on The State of the Open Source Cloud.

We polled more than 100,000 community members to determine the prevailing sentiments concerning open source cloud deployments, the perceived advantages and disadvantages of this technology as well as to gain insight into future open cloud deployments within IT departments. You can download a copy of the full report here.

Highlights from the survey include:

Maturity Hampers the Deployment of Open Clouds

• 82.9% of respondents said they are not using an open cloud.
• Maturity (38.5%), lack of support (30.7%), and security (28.9%) were most commonly selected as reasons why respondents are not using an open source cloud.

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