IaaS Tops ODCA Member Cloud Usage Models
March 20, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
A survey of the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) membership found that the most popular usage model for members is infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which was noted by 86 percent of the respondents. It far outweighs any other category, including service orchestration (49 percent), virtual machine interoperability (48 percent), service catalog (39 percent) and scale-out storage (39 percent).
According to the ODCA, the survey highlights the continued growth in cloud computing adoption by the organization’s members—not a far stretch considering part of the purpose of the ODCA is to push adoption of cloud computing models. But the ODCA goes even further, noting its members are ahead of broad market trends…
The data is restricted to a relatively small number of respondents. The ODCA collected information 124 members. Through the survey, it found that 31 percent of respondents are running at least 40 percent of IT operations in an internal cloud. But the ODCA expects that number to grow to 70 percent by 2016…
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