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OpenStack Gains Ground in the Enterprise With Business-Critical Workloads Running on Larger Deployments Across Diverse Industries: 451 Research
OPENSTACK SUMMIT -- OpenStack® deployments are getting bigger.
Users are diversifying across industries. Enterprises report using the
open source cloud software to support workloads that are critical to
their businesses.
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These are among the findings in a recent study by 451 Research (News - Alert) regarding
OpenStack adoption among enterprise private cloud users. About 72
percent of OpenStack-based clouds are between 1,000 and 10,000 cores and
three fourths choose OpenStack to increase operational efficiency and
app deployment speed. The study was commissioned by the OpenStack
Foundation.
The data were previewed at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona, alongside a
diverse set of users speaking directly about their experience, including
Banco Santander, BBVA, CERN, China Mobile, Comcast (News - Alert), Constant Contact,
Crowdstar, Deutsche Telekom, Folksam, Sky UK, Snapdeal, Swisscom,
Telefonica, Verizon, Volkswagen, Walmart and many more.
**Find many of these user stories spanning workloads, organization size
and geography at the OpenStack
User Stories page.**
Key findings from the 451 Research include:
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Mid-market adoption shows that OpenStack use is not limited to large
enterprises. Two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) are in
organizations of between 1,000 and 10,000 employees.1
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OpenStack-powered clouds have moved beyond small-scale deployments.
Approximately 72 percent of OpenStack enterprise deployments are
between 1,000 to 10,000 cores in size. Additionally, five percent of
OpenStack clouds among enterprises top the 100,000 core mark.
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OpenStack users are adopting containers at a faster rate than the rest
of the enterprise market with 55 percent of OpenStack users also using
container, compared to 17 percent across all respondents.2
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OpenStack supports workloads that matter to enterprises, not just test
and dev. These include infrastructure services (66 percent), business
applications and big data (60 percent and 59 percent, respectively),
and web services and ecommerce (57 percent).
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OpenStack users can be found in a diverse cross section of industries.
While 20 percent cited the technology industry, the majority come from
manufacturing (15 percent), retail/hospitality (11 percent),
professional services (10 percent), healthcare (7 percent), insurance
(6 percent), transportation (5 percent), communications/media (5
percent), wholesale trade (5 percent), energy & utilities (4 percent),
education (3 percent), financial services (3 percent) and government
(3 percent).
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Increasing operational efficiency and accelerating
innovation/deployment speed are top business drivers for enterprise
adoption of OpenStack, at 76 and 75 percent, respectively. Supporting
DevOps is a close second, at 69 percent. Reducing cost and
standardizing on OpenStack APIs were close behind, at 50 and 45
percent, respectively.
"Our research in aggregate indicates enterprises globally are moving
beyond using OpenStack for science projects and basic test and
development to workloads that impact the bottom line," said Al Sadowski,
research vice president with 451 Research. "This is supported by our
OpenStack Market Monitor which projects an overall market size of over
$5 billion in 2020 with APAC, namely China, leading the way in terms of
growth."
"Our keynotes this morning highlighted enterprises doing work that
matters with OpenStack," said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack
Foundation. "The research gives an unbiased look into the plans of
enterprises using private cloud, and they're telling us that OpenStack
is not merely an interesting technology, but it's a cornerstone
technology. Companies are using OpenStack to do work that matters to
their businesses, and they're using it to support their journey to a
changing landscape in which rapid development and deployment of software
is the primary means of competitive advantage."
New Enterprise User Case Studies Available Online
Members of the OpenStack community have joined forces to take advantage
of the momentum in enterprise adoption. The collaborative effort, dubbed
"The World Runs on OpenStack," was launched at the OpenStack Summit
Barcelona, using the social media hashtag #RunsOnOpenStack. The
cornerstone of the campaign is a collection of OpenStack
enterprise user success stories that feature many industries,
workloads and organizations using the software around the world.
About OpenStack®
OpenStack®
is the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds. In
use globally at large and small enterprises, telecoms, service
providers, and government/research organizations, OpenStack is a
technology integration engine that supports the diverse ecosystem of
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1 Study examined enterprise use in organizations of more than
500 employees.
2 From "Voice of the Enterprise-SDI," 451 Research.
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