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Open source cloud computing slow to catch on, survey finds

04.10.2012
The market has been heating up in the last year with momentum for building, spinning out of OpenStack to be its own project and slowly gaining tractions. But a new report from cloud management company Zenoss finds slow adoption of these open source platforms so far.

In the survey of more than 600 members of Zenoss' open source community, fewer than 1 in 5, 18%, said they have deployed an open source cloud management platform. Maturity of the projects, lack of support and were the top-cited reasons for the lack of adoption.

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Of users that do deploy open source cloud platforms, OpenStack is the most commonly deployed platform, claiming almost 50% market share among these users surveyed. The project, backed by Rackspace, HP, Dell, IBM, and other tech heavyweights, has come under some . The project recently released its sixth version of the OpenStack code.

CloudStack, which is backed by Citrix but managed by the Apache Software Foundation, is the second most popular with 19% of adoption, followed by Eucalyptus at below 10%. Despite the low adoption rates, 43% of respondents said they are thinking about deploying an open source cloud in the future.