The user survey is not intended to track marketshare, but the data says users are increasingly happy with OpenStack (NPS scores trending up), moving their deployments into production (20% more in production YoY), finding cost savings to be the top business driver and come from increasingly diverse company sizes and industries. We are also working on more third party validation and metrics around OpenStack growth and adoption patterns.
In terms of third party data,
Heavy Reading said 86% of telcos think OpenStack is important to their business and
451 Research estimates a $5.7B market for OpenStack by 2020. We are also working with 451 Research to gather more stats about market penetration in their upcoming omnibus survey.
Red Hat cited a jump from 16% to 43% of their customer base who are running OpenStack in production from 2015 to 2016. And IDC is working on a big OpenStack report that we expect will land in April. We did not commission the report, but became an IDC customer this year so we can work closely with them, and encourage other OpenStack members who have relationships to do the same.