As cloud infrastructure matures, the industry segmentation between public and private clouds is creating plenty of uncertainty for companies looking to establish their roadmap. To further complicate matters, hybrid clouds mixing public and on-premises infrastructure make it even more difficult to find general trends across industry and company size.

To better understand the current cloud landscape, the OpenStack Foundation published a comprehensive report with a survey of the configuration of every OpenStack deployment. To break down the results of the report, Heidi Tretheway, senior marketing manager at the OpenStack Foundation, spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and John Troyer (@jtroyer), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconAngle Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during this year’s OpenStack Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. (* Disclosure below.)

Carving out a market for OpenStack

While some have questioned the size of the market that OpenStack can address, Tretheway remained confident in OpenStack’s continued market penetration.

“We asked everybody with a deployment, and they told us that about 60 to 80 percent of their overall cloud infrastructure is running on OpenStack,” Tretheway said. “OpenStack is not just being used for some new applications or fringe use cases, but it’s actually permeating the entire organization, including legacy applications.”

Contrary to commentary from media and analysts, OpenStack is seeing the bulk of its deployments coming from medium-sized organizations. “[They] are showing us that OpenStack has these capabilities even among smaller development teams,” Tretheway stated.  

Troyer pointed out that while the benefits to larger organizations at scale are clear, small organizations with less than 100 employees are finding OpenStack deployments to be worth the deployment effort.

“Twenty-five percent of the organizations were actually very small and they were actually in production, so it’s not just for a team of rocket scientists,” Troyer said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of OpenStack Summit 2017 Boston. (* Disclosure: The OpenStack Foundation sponsored this OpenStack Summit segment on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither the OpenStack Foundation nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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