Private Pods

This comes up a lot. The decision depends on how much you are spending and if you have other deployments in addition to AWS or other public clouds. If you are under $1000/mo, the public cloud is probably a good fit for you. Between $1000/mo and $2000/mo, the self-service On-Demand Private Cloud will save you a bit and lock down your budget. Between $2k and $10k/mo, you will see substantial savings and performance improvements. Between $10k and $50k, you will find significant improvements and, typically, large savings. Above that, you are almost certainly spending too much and getting too little. A recent AWS bill we analyzed was paying $859K/mo for what we can offer at $329K/mo.

This is accomplished with our private pods. This is typically for large companies with significant data center investment and often open resources like power and space. We would love to help you bring highly automated deployments to your corporate users right in your data center.

Our team has prepared excellent documentation for many situations, but sometimes a quick standup can save days or even weeks of work. For large deployments, we offer easy access, including over Slack, to our engineers so you can quickly communicate barriers, ideas, and plans.

If you have a group of system administrators, engineers, or DevOps, you are well-positioned to maximize on-demand private infrastructure. Let’s put our great engineers together first. Running an already provisioned cloud is much more manageable than architecting and building one. We love it when companies build OpenStack clouds, but we suggest using one of our prebuilt clouds first. Also, we don’t offer consulting for ground-up clouds at this time, but we are happy to refer you to our ecosystem partners.

The greatest challenge with OpenStack has always been architecting the cloud, including hardware, networking, software, etc. In this case, we have done the heavy lifting and OpenStack and Ceph clouds are delivered on demand. Your team can start with administering an OpenStack instead of architecting it from scratch.