Heterogeneous and hybrid are two key aspects of cloud computing that matter, according to a survey that Red Hat conducted among more than 400 attendees of the recent VMworld conference in San Francisco.
Fifty-one percent of respondents indicated that they planned to use on premise/private clouds for storing unstructured data, which Red Hat points out is the type of data that is increasingly dominating storage and analytics discussions, but almost as many (44%) said they would use a hybrid architecture made up of both private and public clouds. Four percent said that they would use only public clouds.
In addition, many respondents also plan to have a heterogeneous hypervisor environment. Respondents to the survey conducted among VMworld attendees all use VMware vSphere but 20% also use or plan to use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (and almost as many use or plan to use Microsoft Hyper-V), indicating a multi-hypervisor strategy. These results are fully consistent with other recent data from the Gabriel Consulting Group about hypervisor diversity, Red Hat notes.
For more findings from the survey, go to the Red Hat website.