February 11, 2018 at 17:50How the virtual infrastructure will develop: 4 main trends
RightScale specialists conducted a study last year, during which they interviewed thousands of IT specialists from companies of various profiles and sizes about how their organization is doing with the implementation of cloud technologies.
In our material today, we will present the most significant IaaS trends from the report and talk about other trends that found a place in the cloud ecosystem last year. / The Flickr / stefano Meneghetti / CC
As told in the research agency to Gartner, in 2017 IaaS market value increased just by 36.6% and reached $ 35 billion, making this segment the fastest growing among all cloud services. At the same time, it is expected that the trend will continue, and this figure will increase to 56 billion in 2020.
Reuters notes that, according to OrbisResearch estimates, by the end of 2017, 40% of global companies should have transferred their capacities to the cloud. Moreover, the fastest growing regions in this direction were Latin America, Brazil, as well as the countries of the Middle East and Africa.
High rates of IaaS development are also observed in Russia. CNews ranking results showthat at the end of 2016, the revenue of the ten largest Russian providers increased by 76% - from 3.8 billion to 6.7 billion rubles. 1cloud was also included in the top ten , noting the highest revenue growth in the period from 2015 to 2016 - 259%.
According to RightScale research , 95% of the companies surveyed use cloud technology in their work. Almost 90% of them use the public cloud, and 72% - private. At the same time, in 2017, there was a slight decrease in interest in private clouds - up to 72% (it was 77% in the 2016 report).
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
At the same time, VMware vSphere remains the leader among private cloud platforms with 42% of the market. It is followed by OpenStack (20%) and VMware vCloud Suite (19%).
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
Having reduced the volume of financial investments in private clouds, companies sent these funds to another direction - a hybrid cloud. In 2016, the number of companies implementing hybrid solutions,increased from 58 to 71% (according to WiseGuyReports).
As for 2017, the number of large companies wishing to implement a multi-cloud infrastructure amounted to 85%. Moreover, more than half of these organizations seek to build a hybrid infrastructure. Only 9% of corporations continue to work with private clouds only, compared with 23% in 2016.
If you look at the distribution of workload in the cloud, then 41% of applications are in a public cloud environment, and 38% are in a private environment.
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
RightScale respondents named cloud drivers as scalability - 61% - and availability - 56%. Factors such as IT staff efficiency and lower infrastructure costs have become slightly less significant, and among the advantages of the cloud, 35% of respondents noted them.
“The ability to change VM configurations at any time, add new and delete old machines gives users almost unlimited opportunities to optimize the costs of virtual infrastructure for the current needs of the business,” says Vitaliy Gritsay, General Director of 1cloud Service.
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
As for the “main fears” that hinder the introduction of cloud technologies in companies, such popular myths as low security of cloud infrastructure and the difficulty of forecasting costs (we even prepared a separate series of materials about the myths of the IaaS sphere - the first part is available here ), remained a problem only for 25 percent of respondents, while a year earlier these figures were higher - 29 and 26 percent, respectively.
The DevOps methodology has become widespread and has become a kind of standard in the development of cloud applications. In general, over the past year, 78% of companies turned to DevOps methods. In large corporations, this figure reached 84%.
Large companies are implementing DevOps gradually, starting with individual development teams and moving to entire divisions. However, that year there was a jump in the prevalence of methodology across companies: from 21 to 30 percent.
When mastering the DevOps methodology, companies often decide to implement tools that would automate and standardize server deployment and configuration processes. These include configuration management applications (such as Puppet and Ansible), container technologies (Docker), and orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Swarm, and Mesosphere).
Docker has become the most popular DevOps tool. 35% of companies have implemented it, and 32% plan to do it. The closest rivals to Docker are Chef and Puppet, each with 28% of the market.
Note that over the past year, the prevalence of Kubernetes has also increased. The number of implementations increased from 7 to 14 percent.
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
If we estimate the percentage of Docker usage in companies of different sizes, then 40% of large organizations use this tool , and 30% plan to implement it. As for small and medium-sized enterprises, here the docker has a "share" of 30%. 33% of companies in this segment plan to start working with him.
Among small companies, Kubernetes also showed good growth: from 5 to 12 percent. Planning to turn to this open solution from Google 21% of respondents. At the same time, more and more companies are starting to create tools to support working with Kubernetes: of the recently released utilities, VMware Dispatch, which we wrote about in our blog on Habr, can be noted .
While Docker and Kubernetes were gaining popularity, Chef and Puppet were losing their audience. The first one lost 7% and 21% of companies work with it, and the second - 6% (19% in 2017).
A 2017 study shows that hybrid infrastructure is the most preferred cloud migration format for enterprises. And organizations are less and less paying attention to a private cloud.
The main motivators for moving to the cloud companies consider reducing the cost of maintaining the infrastructure and ease of scaling. As for the main factors limiting migration, they remained lack of experience and security, however, only 25% of respondents indicated them (compared to 32% and 29%, respectively, in 2016).
As for DevOps, the introduction of appropriate tools at the scale of large enterprises is gradually happening. In 2017, Docker became the leader. Kubernetes also showed strong growth - this framework has already been implemented and large organizations such as Google, Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, so you can expect further growth in the popularity of this technology.
In our material today, we will present the most significant IaaS trends from the report and talk about other trends that found a place in the cloud ecosystem last year. / The Flickr / stefano Meneghetti / CC
IaaS - the fastest growing segment of the cloud market
As told in the research agency to Gartner, in 2017 IaaS market value increased just by 36.6% and reached $ 35 billion, making this segment the fastest growing among all cloud services. At the same time, it is expected that the trend will continue, and this figure will increase to 56 billion in 2020.
Reuters notes that, according to OrbisResearch estimates, by the end of 2017, 40% of global companies should have transferred their capacities to the cloud. Moreover, the fastest growing regions in this direction were Latin America, Brazil, as well as the countries of the Middle East and Africa.
High rates of IaaS development are also observed in Russia. CNews ranking results showthat at the end of 2016, the revenue of the ten largest Russian providers increased by 76% - from 3.8 billion to 6.7 billion rubles. 1cloud was also included in the top ten , noting the highest revenue growth in the period from 2015 to 2016 - 259%.
Hybrid Infrastructure Rises
According to RightScale research , 95% of the companies surveyed use cloud technology in their work. Almost 90% of them use the public cloud, and 72% - private. At the same time, in 2017, there was a slight decrease in interest in private clouds - up to 72% (it was 77% in the 2016 report).
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
At the same time, VMware vSphere remains the leader among private cloud platforms with 42% of the market. It is followed by OpenStack (20%) and VMware vCloud Suite (19%).
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
Having reduced the volume of financial investments in private clouds, companies sent these funds to another direction - a hybrid cloud. In 2016, the number of companies implementing hybrid solutions,increased from 58 to 71% (according to WiseGuyReports).
As for 2017, the number of large companies wishing to implement a multi-cloud infrastructure amounted to 85%. Moreover, more than half of these organizations seek to build a hybrid infrastructure. Only 9% of corporations continue to work with private clouds only, compared with 23% in 2016.
If you look at the distribution of workload in the cloud, then 41% of applications are in a public cloud environment, and 38% are in a private environment.
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
Scalability is the Cloud's Key Benefit
RightScale respondents named cloud drivers as scalability - 61% - and availability - 56%. Factors such as IT staff efficiency and lower infrastructure costs have become slightly less significant, and among the advantages of the cloud, 35% of respondents noted them.
“The ability to change VM configurations at any time, add new and delete old machines gives users almost unlimited opportunities to optimize the costs of virtual infrastructure for the current needs of the business,” says Vitaliy Gritsay, General Director of 1cloud Service.
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
As for the “main fears” that hinder the introduction of cloud technologies in companies, such popular myths as low security of cloud infrastructure and the difficulty of forecasting costs (we even prepared a separate series of materials about the myths of the IaaS sphere - the first part is available here ), remained a problem only for 25 percent of respondents, while a year earlier these figures were higher - 29 and 26 percent, respectively.
The popularity of DevOps is growing
The DevOps methodology has become widespread and has become a kind of standard in the development of cloud applications. In general, over the past year, 78% of companies turned to DevOps methods. In large corporations, this figure reached 84%.
Large companies are implementing DevOps gradually, starting with individual development teams and moving to entire divisions. However, that year there was a jump in the prevalence of methodology across companies: from 21 to 30 percent.
When mastering the DevOps methodology, companies often decide to implement tools that would automate and standardize server deployment and configuration processes. These include configuration management applications (such as Puppet and Ansible), container technologies (Docker), and orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Swarm, and Mesosphere).
Docker has become the most popular DevOps tool. 35% of companies have implemented it, and 32% plan to do it. The closest rivals to Docker are Chef and Puppet, each with 28% of the market.
Note that over the past year, the prevalence of Kubernetes has also increased. The number of implementations increased from 7 to 14 percent.
/ RightScale 2017 / CC
If we estimate the percentage of Docker usage in companies of different sizes, then 40% of large organizations use this tool , and 30% plan to implement it. As for small and medium-sized enterprises, here the docker has a "share" of 30%. 33% of companies in this segment plan to start working with him.
Among small companies, Kubernetes also showed good growth: from 5 to 12 percent. Planning to turn to this open solution from Google 21% of respondents. At the same time, more and more companies are starting to create tools to support working with Kubernetes: of the recently released utilities, VMware Dispatch, which we wrote about in our blog on Habr, can be noted .
While Docker and Kubernetes were gaining popularity, Chef and Puppet were losing their audience. The first one lost 7% and 21% of companies work with it, and the second - 6% (19% in 2017).
General conclusions
A 2017 study shows that hybrid infrastructure is the most preferred cloud migration format for enterprises. And organizations are less and less paying attention to a private cloud.
The main motivators for moving to the cloud companies consider reducing the cost of maintaining the infrastructure and ease of scaling. As for the main factors limiting migration, they remained lack of experience and security, however, only 25% of respondents indicated them (compared to 32% and 29%, respectively, in 2016).
As for DevOps, the introduction of appropriate tools at the scale of large enterprises is gradually happening. In 2017, Docker became the leader. Kubernetes also showed strong growth - this framework has already been implemented and large organizations such as Google, Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, so you can expect further growth in the popularity of this technology.