More than 50% of organizations polled in a survey said they plan to deploy an open source cloud infrastructure.
The survey was released by Zenoss, a provider of unified IT operations software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. One key finding of the survey said 56.9% of respondents said they are thinking of deploying an open source cloud in the future, 41.6% of these expect to do so in one to two years.
Zenoss said survey respondents included more than 600 IT professionals including system administrators and architects, developers, network engineers and CIOs.
“There has been a flurry of activity surrounding the state and adoption of open source cloud deployments,” said Floyd Strimling, VP of Community and Technical Evangelist at Zenoss. “While much of the open cloud excitement has been centered on the newly launched OpenStack Foundation, the vast majority of our survey respondents have not yet deployed a solution.
The survey indicates there is a three horse race between OpenStack, CloudStack, and Eucalyptus with many challenges needing to be solved before full open source cloud adoption will take place.”
The survey findings reveal a pending wave of open source cloud adoption, despite the current pervasive sense that open source cloud is simply not yet ready. The survey further said 82.9% of respondents said they are not using an open cloud and maturity (38.5%), lack of support (30.7%), and security (28.9%) were most commonly selected as reasons why respondents are not using an open source cloud.
The top 3 aspects of an open source cloud solution deemed most important by respondents include efficiency and performance of virtualization technology (75.4%), project’s use of a preferred open source license (52.1%), and quality of community ecosystem (64.2%).
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