Report: OpenStack Deployments Move Beyond Test and Dev
OpenStack deployments are getting bigger and are being used for all kinds of enterprise workloads, a new study by 451 Research says.
Released on Tuesday at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, the study finds that OpenStack is not limited to large enterprises as 65 percent of respondents are in organizations of between 1,000 and 10,000 employees.
OpenStack noted earlier this year that it has seen dozens of mid-sized organizations come on board when it addressed common misconceptions about OpenStack, including the misconception that only large enterprises use OpenStack.
According to the study, OpenStack users are adopting containers at a faster rate than other enterprises, with 55 percent of OpenStack users also using containers, compared to 17 percent across all enterprises.
OpenStack supports workloads including infrastructure services (66 percent), business applications and big data (60 percent and 59 percent, respectively), and web services and ecommerce (57 percent).
