Cloud computing continues to drive growth and has become a business reality. This transformative force has raised the expectations of customers and providers to seek out openness, security and faster-time to market, all through open cloud technology.  In line with this businesses are considering various cloud models to meet their ever-changing market demands.

Public Cloud: Offered as a service allowing customers to pay only for the resources they have utilized.

Private Cloud:  This cloud model is owned, deployed and managed by the client.

Managed Cloud:  Owned by the business however managed by a third party service provider.

Some of the enterprises opt for hybrid cloud approach where workloads are migrated to multiple clouds (public, private).  Here, openness stands for the capability of a system to move workloads into multiple clouds without being locked into one cloud provider.  The increase in cloud adoption rate and escalating demands can be addressed Open Source Software (OSS). If the reports are to be believed, a majority of users are considering open cloud options as the part of their IT strategy. Benefits cited by these cloud adopters are flexibility, scalability, and cost savings.

An open cloud structure is modular and can be swiftly extended to meet IT demands. Enterprises with IT as their mainstream infrastructure cannot overlook the importance of open source technology and its impact on business their budget lines.

Now let’s take a closer look at how open cloud technology plays a vital role in triggering business growth:

Greater Control & Scalability:

 Open-stack technology operates on an open and modular concept, which allows clients to pick the right cloud hosting solution for their changing business needs.

Boosts Innovation:

Open cloud technology is supported by numerous veterans, individuals, and providers including users’ feedback that help businesses to quickly innovate.

In addition, these days’ businesses are also showing a bend towards the cloud vendors that can help them to swiftly choose multiple vendors to support their open architecture.