Survey: OpenStack Dominates Open Source Cloud

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Keith Ward.

Open source is becoming an increasingly attractive option for companies in the cloud, or planning on moving to it. And of those companies, a clear choice has emerged as their No. 1 option: OpenStack. So say the 376 respondents to an Open Source Cloud survey conducted by Zenoss, a vendor specializing in cloud-based management.

Its "2014 State of the Open Source Cloud" study found that 69 percent have implemented some form of cloud computing; of that number, 43 percent have cast their lot with open source. Of those, 69 percent are using OpenStack, which has been on a meteoric growth curve over the last several years…

That’s not to say that open source clouds are becoming ubiquitous: 30 percent of the survey-takers report using an open source cloud in 2014. Still, that’s a 72 percent increase from a previous Zenoss survey in 2012, which found that just 17 percent were using open source cloud. The uptake indicates that resistance to the cloud, for numerous reasons, is steadily being overcome…

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