Are Microsoft, VMware and Red Hat better value than OpenStack distributions?
May 3, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: James Henderson.
Are Microsoft, VMware and Red Hat better value than OpenStack distributions for total cost of ownership? That’s the key question circulating the cloud market following the launch of 451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index, billed as one of the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the cost of cloud computing.
According to findings, the typical cost of small-scale enterprise private clouds powered by VMware, Red Hat and Microsoft are all within half a cent of each other at about US$0.10 per virtual-machine hour while OpenStack distributions cost, on average, $0.08 per VM hour, a 20 percent saving…
But when factoring other elements, including the scarcity of OpenStack skills, 451 Research believes that for a typical deployment, buyers could hire 3 percent more engineers to support a commercial cloud environment, and still have a lower cost of ownership compared to an OpenStack distribution…
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