Linux Investments Looking Up for 2015
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Optimism for 2015 IT Budgets
84% of respondents were optimistic about their 2015 budgets. 40% are planning for a budget increase, while 44% expect budgets to stay the same. -
Top Three Areas of IT Investment
Mobile computing and big data top the list at 69% and 68%, respectively. Customer engagement comes in third at 53%. -
Additional Key Initiatives
Private cloud computing (46%) and DevOps (45%) are ranked lower on the list but are still considered important. -
Linux Adoption Trends
Over half (59%) plan to use Linux for brand-new applications or services. 41% are planning migrations to Linux, 26% are planning Windows-to-Linux migrations and 15% are planning Unix-to-Linux migrations. -
Cloud Computing Adoption Trends
Private and hybrid cloud computing investments top the list, at 27% and 26%, respectively. Just 15% said they plan to invest in public clouds only. -
Top Benefits of Cloud Computing
Cost savings (59%) tops the list, followed by scalability (55%). Accessibility (53%), speed of deployment (50%) and the ability to replace on-premise legacy technology (48%) followed closely. -
Top Cloud Computing Challenges
Security (57%) is still the biggest concern. Interoperability (31%), compliance (30%), ability to measure ROI (29%), cloud portability (27%), and governance/loss of IT control (27%) were the next-biggest concerns. -
OpenStack Momentum
More than half plan to invest in OpenStack in 2015. Top OpenStack benefits cited were greater automation (18%), improved agility to meet customer and business demands (17%) and lower costs (15%). -
Level of Commitment to Containers
13% are already using containers in development and test environments, and 20% are evaluating containers for future use. -
Benefits of Using Containers
Top container benefits are the ability to deploy applications faster (54%), reduced effort to deploy applications (40%), streamline development and testing (38%), lower application deployment cost (31%) and server consolidation (25%). -
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Now that Linux has essentially gained parity with Windows across the enterprise, solution providers have a vested interest in where customers who will make use of the open-source platform in 2015 are headed. In a new survey of 115 customers, Red Hat finds that, in general, optimism concerning IT spending in 2015 is relatively high with investments in mobile computing and big data topping the priority list. Just over half those customers are planning new application deployments on Linux, but perhaps most interesting to the solution providers in the channel is the fact that 26 percent are planning on migrating application workloads from Windows to Linux and another 15 percent are planning to migrate from Unix to Linux. Most of the application workloads also appear headed for private or hybrid clouds rather than public clouds. Also of note to solution providers should be the fact that 33 percent either already have or plan to embrace containers as an alternative form of virtualization in 2015 for reasons, ranging from the ability to deploy applications faster to streamlining testing and development.
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