Zenoss Inc.,
the leading provider of unified monitoring and analytics solutions for
physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure and applications,
today announced results and findings from its second global survey,
The 2014 State of the Open Source Cloud.
This research study is a follow up to a previous research
survey conducted by Zenoss in 2012, and focuses on the evolution of the
open source cloud market over the past two years. Findings are based on
376 responses from around the world, from both large and small
organizations across many different industries.
Research from The 2014 State of the Open Source Cloud
highlights the rapid growth in open source cloud adoption -- 72% growth
between 2012 and 2014. The survey also highlights the increasing
dominance of the OpenStack
platform in the open source cloud market -- 69% of respondents who use
an open source cloud use the OpenStack platform. However, major
challenges remain, including lack of in-house specialized skills and
lack of support, which continues to hold back cloud adoption in some
organizations. Significant challenges related to efficiently managing
the underlying IT infrastructure that supports cloud services and
improving uptime also persist.
"Despite the tremendous growth in open source cloud adoption,
enterprises still face big hurdles around effectively monitoring and
managing their cloud infrastructure," said Alan Conley, Chief Technology
Officer and Senior Vice President at Zenoss. "However, 79% of
organizations still use multiple tools to manage their cloud instead of a
unified monitoring solution, which is very inefficient. Moving to a
unified monitoring solution would reduce costs and inefficiencies and
improve the performance and availability and their cloud services."
The research survey provides important insights into the
benefits and challenges of today's open source cloud platforms,
including lower cost of ownership, agility, and faster time to value for
applications. Additional research findings from the survey include:
- 69% of respondents are using a cloud, with 43% of respondents using an open source cloud.
- Satisfaction with open source clouds continues to grow; 77% reported
satisfaction with their open source cloud, up from 71% in the 2012
survey.
- Over 86% of prospective open source cloud users are considering the
OpenStack platform, followed by CloudStack at 43.9%. OpenNebula and
Eucalyptus were tied for third at 19.7%.
- 32% of the organizations are using converged infrastructure to build
their open source clouds; Dell Active Systems is the leader.
- 41% of organizations surveyed who are considering an open source
cloud plan on buying a unified monitoring tool to monitor their cloud
services. Only 8% of current open source cloud users are using a unified
monitoring tool today.
Download a full copy of The 2014 State of the Open Source Cloud research report.