{"id":21803,"date":"2016-04-13T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/apr\/13\/two-three-openstack-deployments-are-production-argues-new-research\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:22:07","slug":"two-in-three-openstack-deployments-are-in-production-argues-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/two-in-three-openstack-deployments-are-in-production-argues-new-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in three OpenStack deployments are in production, argues new research"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Almost two thirds (65%) of OpenStack deployments are now in production, up 33% from this time last year, according to the latest user survey by the OpenStack Foundation.<\/p>\n

The report, the seventh of its kind and featuring responses from more than 1,600 users, finds organisations are moving towards OpenStack as the default open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) API.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, IT (68%) is where the largest number of OpenStack bods are based, followed by telecoms (14%) and academia (9%), yet interestingly the figures also found OpenStack was used among organisations of all sizes. 17% of the community polled had between 10 and 99 employees, while 16% had a behemoth 100,000 workers or more. Despite this wide range of responses, only half (52%) said they would recommend the open source platform to a friend, in classic Net Promoter Score style. 37% were ‘passive’ and 11% were ‘detractors’, although it is worth noting scores of 80% or higher were considered as a pass.<\/p>\n

Among the reasons to recommend OpenStack, according to the report, were good community support – including the speed and agility of which changes are pushed through – and avoiding vendor lock in, while fragmented governance, difficulty in deployment and project complexity were among the detracting features. Peculiarly, both an increase in stability and a lack of stability were cited.<\/p>\n

In terms of technologies deployed, the report saw little change, but containerisation continues to ride high. The use of platform as a service (PaaS) and container orchestration in particular saw significant changes, with Kubernetes moving ahead of CloudFoundry to become the top PaaS tool.<\/p>\n

Overall however, the prognosis remains good. “Being a flexible framework to build on is the most important aspect of the OpenStack platform,” said one unnamed user. “Also, being able to support both traditional and cloud-native workloads is very important because large enterprises don’t have the luxury of dropping their legacy applications and forklifting them into the microservices-type designs from day one.<\/p>\n

“The benefits of the cloud are too great to only allow new workloads onto the platform.”<\/p>\n

The figures from the OpenStack Foundation correlate with recent survey data<\/a> from cloud software provider Talligent, which found OpenStack adoption was going up and being increasingly seen as a cost effective alternative to public clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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