(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM)) Enterprise IT organizations are moving, or planning to move to OpenStack for their cloud infrastructure, a new survey from Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, revealed.
The OpenStack enterprise adoption survey of more than 310 IT decision makers and professionals from around the world, commissioned by Red Hat through TechValidate, found that the majority of respondents (75 percent) are planning to use OpenStack for cloud initiatives. The survey found respondents in varying stages of deployment, ranging from learning and evaluation (40 percent) and proof of concept / pilots (40 percent) to preparing for deployment (18 percent) and in production (16 percent).
The survey results show that deployment plans for OpenStack workloads span the physical, virtual, private and public cloud footprints. Survey respondents reported strong intent to run OpenStack workloads in other environments, including traditional enterprise virtualization (35 percent); physical servers (30 percent); other private / Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds (22 percent); and public clouds (18 percent).
TechValidate, an independent research company, conducted an online survey on behalf of Red Hat from April 28 - May 5, 2015, to understand enterprise adoption trends associated with OpenStack. The survey polled more than 310 enterprise IT decision makers and professionals from global organizations across industries and of all sizes, spanning small businesses to Fortune 500 organizations.
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat, said, "These survey findings are a positive indication that OpenStack is growing as a preferred choice for building private and hybrid clouds. With production-level support cited as a main concern around OpenStack deployments, we are excited about Red Hat being uniquely positioned address the need given our technical expertise around OpenStack as well as portfolio of open solutions, proven track record in delivering enterprise-class support and a full spectrum of training and services offerings to enable our customers to be successful."
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