Three in four enterprise IT organizations are moving, or planning to move to OpenStack for their cloud infrastructure, according to a new survey from Red Hat.
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%) are planning to use OpenStack for cloud initiatives.
The survey found respondents in varying stages of deployment, ranging from learning and evaluation (40%) and proof of concept / pilots (40%) to preparing for deployment (18%) and in production (16%).
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%); physical servers (30%); other private / Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds (22%); and public clouds (18%).
Nearly 60% percent of respondents are using, or planning to use, OpenStack for new workloads optimized for cloud environments, while 52% of respondents are using or planning to use OpenStack for existing virtualized workloads.
The survey also shows that 45% percent of respondents cite lack of internal IT skills as the biggest barrier to OpenStack adoption. Other top barriers include: OpenStack’s maturity (43%); lack of alignment with current application architectures (22%); and poor alignment among internal organizations (21%).
According to survey respondents, production-level technical support (82 percent) is the most important aspect of commercial OpenStack offerings, followed by simplified installation process (78 percent); the ability to move workloads between providers and platforms (75%); and support for complementary open source cloud management, operating system, and development tools (72 percent).
Some 54% plan to use OpenStack with a PaaS, while 42% indicate that they plan to use containers within their OpenStack environments.