1、Annual Linux market report for 2021E-book Annual Linux market report for Executive summaryThe use cases that organizations have for Linux are changing as they shift their infrastruc-tures to cloud environments.The last two years have seen an accelerated change with IT infrastructures,as organization

2、s have launched digital transformation projects around new customer services and core operational servicesto keep up with shifting workplaces and expectations.Across both public cloud environments and physical infrastructures,Linux has been at the center of digital change and has recognized that org

3、anizations adapt which Linux distribution they will use accord-ing to their specific project needs.Organizations on average are running more than two Linux distribu-tions in their environments,and they shift between distributions based on the operating environment,the production stage,and the worklo

4、ads types.In 2021 Red Hat commissioned Management Insight Technologies to conduct a global survey of enter-prises that deploy Linux in their IT infrastructure.Management Insight Technologies conducted a series of phone interviews and web-based surveys,where respondents were asked a variety of questi

5、ons about how their organizations were using Linux in the infrastructure and what drivers and considerations were used to select Linux distributions.These surveys were conducted in February and March 2021.Respondents show similar flexibility in how they adopt other technologies,such as moving to a p

6、ublic cloud environment,using containers,and deploying devices at the network edge.New technologies are adopted fairly evenly and in a measured way with comparable growth in cloud and containers and steady incremental adoption for edge and Function as a Service(FaaS).The major inflection point for o