Tell you a real OpenStack: Who's using it, what's it for?

Tell you a real OpenStack: Who's using it, what's it for?

The open-source cloud computing software OpenStack is entering the mainstream enterprise market, but the project is still facing an old problem that is difficult to deploy and manage, according to a two-year survey published by the OpenStack Foundation recently.

There is no doubt that OpenStack is maintaining a high rate of growth, with more than 585 companies and nearly 40,000 people supporting the continued development of this more than 20 million-line open source project in a variety of ways.

　　

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Here are some of the data highlights from the IT manager's web-organized report to help you quickly understand the status of OpenStack:

　　One, the enterprise scale distribution is extensive and uniform. OpenStack Enterprise Users scale large and medium-sized enterprises, and distribution is very uniform, respondents to the enterprise size of more than 100,000 people accounted for 16%, the enterprise scale of 1000-9999 people accounted for 23%, and 10-99 of small and medium-sized enterprises also accounted for 17%.

　　

　　second, it enterprises and telecommunications enterprises prefer OpenStack. in terms of industry distribution, OpenStack is more favored in the IT and telecoms sectors, accounting for 68% and 14% respectively, with academic institutions ranking third in 9%.

　　Three, more enterprise OpenStack Cloud project into the production environment stage. in the April 2015 survey, only nearly half of OpenStack cloud computing projects entered the production environment, and 65% of respondents in this year's survey said their OpenStack cloud project had fully entered the production environment phase. Only 21% of respondents said they were in the development and testing phase, while another 14% were in the proof-of-concept phase.

　　Iv. OpenStack is primarily used in private clouds. 65% of companies surveyed built private clouds with OpenStack. Only 16% of companies surveyed use OpenStack to build public clouds. An increasingly popular trend is the hosted private cloud: 12% of the companies surveyed signed up to host dedicated OpenStack deployments to get rid of the complexities of managing OpenStack.

　　Five, the main reason to choose OpenStack is to save costs. OpenStack's Open source properties are one of the main reasons for its popularity. But interestingly, 66% of the companies surveyed said the cost savings were the main reason they chose OpenStack. 97% of companies surveyed said the standardization of Open APIs was one of the TOP5 reasons for choosing OpenStack.

　　Vi. The seven advantages of OpenStack and the five major drawbacks. The OpenStack Foundation statistics the respondents ' views on the pros and cons of OpenStack as follows:

Advantages:

Community

Flexibility

Innovation

Not locked by the vendor

Eco-System

Evolution

API-Driven Infrastructure

Disadvantages:

Lack of complete documentation

Poor component consistency

A crappy automated deployment

Lack of transparency in the maturity of specific projects

Focus on core projects, offshoot project suffers from neglect

　　the largest number of OpenStack projects with Amazon in the cloud. while the relationship between OpenStack and Amazon Cloud is cold, surveys show that OpenStack users are more likely to opt for AWS integration.

　　

　　Eight, KVM dominates OpenStack. OpenStack users tend to use open source components, 93% of the OpenStack Cloud runs KVM (Kernel Virtual machine hypervisor), and the second manager is QEMU (16%). While VMware is committed to incorporating its own tools into the OpenStack ecosystem, only 8% of users use ESX.

　　open source networks, storage, and databases dominate the OpenStack cloud architecture. the most popular of the network layer is the open vSwitch, which occupies a dominant position in the storage-side Ceph platform. MySQL is the most popular database, followed by MARIADB and MongoDB, the above is open source software.

　　10. Ubuntu is the most popular OpenStack operating system. similar to other areas, open source operating systems dominate the OpenStack operating system market, with 74% of the OpenStack cloud using open-source operating systems, with Ubuntu being the most popular, followed by Redhat, SuSE, and CentOS.

　　11. What are the most popular technology trends in OpenStack? The survey shows that container technology, SDN, Bare Metal, Hybrid Cloud, PaaS, IoT, and hardware accelerators are the most popular technology areas that OpenStack users can integrate with OpenStack.

　　12. The most popular OpenStack software development stack is lamp.

　　

　　13. What is OpenStack used for (which tasks to run)? software development, infrastructure cloud services, and Web Services/e-commerce are the most frequently-run tasks in the OpenStack cloud.

　　

　　13. The position of OpenStack professionals in the enterprise IT department who have received this survey. （）

　　

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Tell you a real OpenStack: Who's using it, what's it for?