Customers reporting interest in cloud, containers, Linux, OpenStack for 2015

December 18, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen.

As 2014 comes to a close and IT departments reflect on their initiatives heading into the new year, we asked a group of 115 Red Hat customers — ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses — about their priorities for 2015. What we heard from the respondents is promising going into the new year: Budgets are increasing (or at least staying the same); Linux adoption is increasing; cloud deployments will be dominantly private or hybrid; OpenStack is hot; and interest in containers is emerging.

Budgets — always a popular topic at the new year — look strong going into 2015: 84 percent of survey respondents are optimistic about their 2015 budgets, with 40 percent of respondents planning for a budget increase, and 44 percent expecting their budgets to stay the same. According to the survey results, respondents are planning for several key IT initiatives in 2015, including:…

  • Mobility and mobile apps: 69 percent
  • Big data: 68 percent
  • Customer engagement: 53 percent
  • Private cloud computing: 46 percent
  • DevOps: 45 percent

Survey respondents are also bullish about the increasing Linux adoption in 2015: 59 percent plan to use Linux for brand new applications or services, or greenfield deployments, and 41 percent are planning migrations to Linux (26 percent are planning Windows-to-Linux migrations; 15 percent are planning Unix-to-Linux migrations)…

Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/customers-reporting-interest-in-cloud-containers-linux-and-openstack-for-2015/

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