The data displays the leading business drivers for choosing OpenStack as a development platform, as of August 2017. As of that time, participants were asked to rank their business drivers on a priority scale of 1 to 5. Among the participants, increase operational efficiency was the leading business driver for choosing OpenStack in 2017.
Increase operational efficiency | 18 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 13 |
Accelerate ability to innovate | 18 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 12 |
Avoid vendor lock-in | 18 | 22 | 14 | 12 | 14 |
Save money | 7 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 25 |
Standardize on platform and APIs that power global network of public and private clouds | 31 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 0 |
Achieve security and/or privacy goals | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 19 |
Attract top talent | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 |
Other | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 |