“If you’re operating at scale, the cost of [public] cloud can at least double your infrastructure bill.”
Andreessen Horowitz
How Much Does This Cost?
The monthly costs are estimated as follows, broken out per server unit and per three-server cluster. These costs are based on a three year agreement with inherent OpEx cost savings and eligible price reductions after four years.
Year One
$1,811
Per Unit
$5,432
Per Cluster
INCLUDES:
Hardware support, assisted
management, and team training
Years Two and Three
$1,410
Per Unit
$4,229
Per Cluster
INCLUDES:
Hardware support only
Years Four+
$995
Per Unit
$2,984
Per Cluster
INCLUDES:
Hardware support, hardware refresh, or price discounting options
Approximate cluster max capacity of 8GB/4vCPU VMs with their workload: 425
Expected usage of 8GB/4vCPU VMs with their workload: 340
It’s really awesome to work with someone who’s aligned culturally to the same type of mission that we are. And it’s really provided us with the ability to innovate and differentiate from the masses that are out there all using the same hyperscalers.
Tom Fanelli, CEO & Co-Founder @ Convesio
Convesio found more reliable and cost-effective support for their growing business.
Agreements That Work Your Way
In addition to the advantages of an OpenStack private cloud environment, your OpenMetal on-demand private cloud includes unique service and support agreements that make financial sense for your team.
One Year of Assisted Management = Reduced Staff Overhead
OpenMetal will provide assisted management during year one and train your team to run OpenStack and Ceph, keeping supporting IT staff (and OpEx costs) at a minimum, right from the start.
Hardware Refresh Assessments = Potential Cost Reductions
Customers with four or more years of service on their infrastructure may choose to refresh their hardware or benefit from significant price reductions or discounts.
For the full details of agreements connect with us.
Do Alternative Cloud Provider Prices Compare to Public Clouds?
Looking at the estimated monthly costs (per VM) over three+ years of service, it is easy to understand the savings (or profitability) that OpenMetal on-demand private cloud offers vs. popular public cloud providers.
AWS^
4vCPU/8GB VM
Est. Monthly VM Costs
Y1: $68.44
Y2/Y3: $68.44
Y4+: $68.44
OpenMetal*
4vCPU/8GB VM
Est. Monthly VM Costs
Y1: $15.98
Y2/Y3: $12.44
Year 4+: $8.78
OpenMetal Savings
4vCPU/8GB VM
Est. Monthly Savings
Y1: 77%
Y2/Y3: 82%
Y4+: 87%
^EC2 instance savings plan, three year commit, a1.xlarge (ARM, not Intel), provisioned IOPS 500, 30GB storage – gathered 3/2/2022.
*NVMe block storage, >1000 IOPS/VM, 30-60GB storage available, calculated at 340VMs and not max.
Do you have questions about estimated cost savings or ROI?
Are You Evaluating Public Clouds?
Visit our Public Cloud Alternative pages to compare OpenMetal to AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
An Alternative Cloud Provider to the Mega Clouds
The mega public cloud providers are expensive, inflexible, and not a good fit for many organizations. Private cloud is typically a more cost-effective option, but carries significant risk of failure, time delays, and OpEx efficiency problems. To resolve these challenges, OpenMetal on-demand clouds give you the best of traditional public cloud, private cloud, and bare metal fused into an open source platform. It is one of the newest and fastest growing cloud deployment models.
Request a free trial and try it for yourself!
An Alternative Cloud
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Open source is behind all cloud software, public or private. To keep the technology available to all, it is critical to support and use systems that enable all users to have access fully to the complex ecosystem.
OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation does just that. By doing so, OpenMetal can offer on-demand OpenStack private cloud to you at a fair price for a great system.
OpenMetal is a supporter of open source projects and a sponsor of the OpenInfra Foundation. In addition, we donate private cloud to Zuul, the CI/CD project and team running the OpenStack development pipeline.