OpenNebula cloud – bigger than expected in business

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

OpenNebula, the European-rooted open-source cloud platform is used by more businesses and in more countries than many might expect. At the ripe old age of 7, OpenNebula remains a quiet force compared to say, OpenStack. OpenNebula — the open-source cloud behind the European Space Agency and CERN – may be bigger in private industry business than many may have anticipated.

According to new survey data from C12G Labs, the company behind OpenNebula, 43 percent of 600 users responding are in business accounts compared to 17 percent in research, and less than 10 percent in academia. Maybe this shouldn’t be a shocker given that OpenNebula’s customer page lists such companies as Akamai, Dell, IBM, SAP and Telefonica…

OpenNebula: world traveler

Also a bit surprising was that geographic distribution was much more heterogeneous than expected for a technology born and raised in Europe. Sure, nearly half (49 percent) of respondents are in Europe or Russia but a healthy 23 percent are in North America where the open-source cloud buzz is much more around the newer OpenStack cloud platform backed by Rackspace, IBM, HP, Cisco, and other tech powers and OpenStack’s slapfight with CloudStack and Eucalyptus, two other open-source cloud platforms vying for the limelight (and customers.)…

Read more from the source @ http://gigaom.com/cloud/opennebula-cloud-bigger-than-expected-in-business/