In these videos and accompanying article OpenMetal President, Todd Robinson, discusses the benefits OpenMetal’s on-demand hosted private cloud IaaS powered by OpenStack can provide for SaaS companies.
The below article is a video transcription of the content, edited minimally for clarity.
Lowering SaaS Provider Costs
Definitely a commonality that is coming up is if your business is very sensitive to your infrastructure cost – so SaaS companies is a great example of that – if you’re very sensitive to your infrastructure costs, your bottom line can dramatically shift if you look at a solution that has much better economics.
So the example in this case is that for some workloads you might drop 50-60% of the expense by switching over to an on-demand private cloud. And that’s meaningful, very, very meaningful to a lot of SaaS companies that say, “wow, I’m basically going to get to float another 10 or 15% to my bottom line”.
“Imagine what I can do with that, right? I can get more people, I can pay my people better, I can move faster, I could put that, those dollars in so many different places instead of putting them into a big public cloud’s pocket.”
Giving SaaS Providers More Control
Certainly, flexibility of the platform itself. Because it is a private cloud, you have root access to it. So you can actually make modifications to the system to have the hardware more accurately suit your workload.
So maybe it’s modifications on the storage type. So maybe for certain workloads, you want to have highly available disk and you want to be able to trust that whatever you have written there is going to be there, right? And so you need a highly available system that’s going to be distributed across multiple machines, but that typically has an I/O penalty.
And so for applications a lot of, like, test applications where you need to produce a lot of data, validate the data, and then get rid of it, you don’t need HA. You’re going to want direct access to the drives because it’s much, much faster to do that. And so yeah, so you’ll see use cases that are – ‘I need access to the hardware specifically so that I can tune the settings of the cloud to my workload’.
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