Private clouds are seen as something for larger
organizations with healthy IT budgets, open source continues to play the role
of disruptor, offering small to medium-size businesses (or departments of
larger corporations) opportunities to build in this space as well. That's why
its interesting to see OpenStack, the open source platform for cloud computing,
continuing to expand its base, and is increasingly part of more multi-cloud
initiatives within enterprises.
Those
are two of the key takeaways of OpenStack's latest community survey, which
included 1,052 responses covering 600 installations. The study shows there was
a 95 percent increase in unique OpenStack deployments logged in 2017 over 2016,
mainly in the beginning of the year.
There
is a strong trend to multi-cloud integration among OpenStack users. Close to
half, 48 percent, indicate that they also interact with other clouds -- up from
38 percent a year ago. Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the most popular cloud
interacting with OpenStack deployments, at 48 percent, though this is down from
58 percent a year ago. Another 28 percent interact with Microsoft Azure
platforms, and 21 percent integrate with Google Compute Engine-based clouds.
One respondent, Johan Christenson, CEO of City Network, says multiple clouds
provide for a healthy market: "We believe there is a direct need for
competition in the IaaS market, and OpenStack provides that by being both a
solid choice in public cloud as well as private, creating true hybrid
possibilities."
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