Yes, we can loudly confirm it!
We know that choosing the right private cloud computing solution is not an easy task, but choosing the right cloud computing software will ensure the success of your private cloud.
OpenStack’s mature and highly flexible platform has become an innovation engine for companies in wide range of industries, enabling users to operate both legacy systems and cloud-native apps through a single framework. With significant developer and vendor momentum behind it, OpenStack is today the fastest growth IaaS platform and one of the most popular data center operating systems in the market in the recent years.
Why is OpenStack trending? Well, there are many reasons for choosing OpenStack, but here are the latest top 5 key reasons why data center operators are adopting OpenStack, based on the April 2016 Openstack User Survey Report:
- Standardize
- Avoiding vendor lock-in
- Ability to innovate
- Increase operational efficiency
- Cost efficiency
OpenStack adapts and grows with emerging technology, making it an innovation engine for companies as their platforms develop. It has the ability to manage, compute, storage and networking and deploy them is an easy to use dashboard. OpenStack supports a wide range of software and hardware due to its open source nature. This allows for flexible architecture that can support both legacy and new hardware platforms.
It has been adopted broadly by companies in virtually every industry, including most notably telecommunications, academic/research, film/media, and finance, and has a step ahead against its competitors as it is an attractive, lower-cost alternative for an open source platform.
This is all good and running great, but what about the optimal use of resources in data centers? Data centers have been reported to be running at 15% utilization, or less! Can anything be done about this clear wastage? How can operators improve on this paltry utilization? Such low levels of utilization would translate to wastage in energy OpEx also. Can energy OpEx be optimized?
It is not impossible to solve these non-trivial challenges. With the right tools, the right automation platform, an OpenStack-based data center operators can achieve much higher utilization and lower TCO than before. It should also be possible to cohesively manage multiple data centers worldwide as one.
Trusted by a compelling number of notable data center operators worldwide, OpenStack has come to represent the best of what cloud technology can offer. Combined with the right service provider, it can be the most efficient cloud platform available: higher operational flexibility + higher efficiency + lower total cost of operations.
You can now achieve lower costs for your enterprise, using the most popular cloud platform today – OpenStack!