Reduce Cloud Costs
If you’re evaluating private and public cloud alternatives to reduce cloud costs, OpenMetal offers a new approach to reduce and/or maximize your current cloud spend.
How to Reduce Cloud Costs with OpenMetal
OpenMetal offers the best of traditional public cloud, private cloud, and bare metal, fused into an open-source platform. This unique combination provided by OpenMetal Cloud Cores results in significant cost savings of up to 50% over traditional cloud options.
Reduce Public Cloud Costs
Learn how OpenMetal delivers cost-effective advantages to reduce public cloud spend.
Reduce Private Cloud Costs
Learn how OpenMetal delivers cost-effective advantages to reduce private cloud spend.
What is Different About OpenMetal?
It all begins with an OpenMetal Cloud Core that delivers unique advantages.
- On-Demand Clouds. Deploy clouds with the speed, convenience and scalability you expect with a public cloud.
- Single-Tenant Environment. Operate on dedicated, bare metal servers that offer the security and control you expect with a private cloud.
- Open Source. Access and build on OpenStack to enjoy integration with Ceph Storage, Kubernetes, and many other resources.
Reduce Public Cloud Costs
Public clouds offer a number of user conveniences when it comes to quickly deploying and scaling clouds when you need them. But if you are responsible for driving profitability in your company, you know how expensive a public cloud can be. When you begin to hit certain cloud spending tipping points (we recommend around $20,000 or more each month), it’s time to look at public cloud alternatives.
Clients moving from public cloud to OpenMetal have seen cloud spend decrease by 50%. To understand how it’s possible to reduce cloud costs with an alternative cloud provider like OpenMetal, it helps to identify some of the most common public cloud cost factors and how OpenMetal helps to resolve those.
| Cost Factors | Public Clouds | OpenMetal Cloud Cores |
|---|---|---|
| Wasted Cloud Resource Costs | A 2023 State of Cloud report by Flexera showed that 28% of public cloud resources being paid paid for are wasted. This Waste can result from mismanagement. However, it is more often an issue of using a cloud not built for your unique needs. This results in paying for resources you DON’T need to get the resources you DO need. | Each OpenMetal Cloud Cores give you three hyperconverged hosted servers with ownership over the entire pool of server resources. Additionally, you have access to root configurations of each server to customize settings for your unique workloads to achieve better control over compute and storage utilization to maximize your cloud spend. Learn how we can help maximize resource management and costs. |
| High Data Transfer (Egress) Costs | Most public cloud providers do not charge for ingress (incoming data). But, they have found that egress (outgoing data) offers an opportunity to make a healthy profit margin, charging between $0.08–$0.12 range per GB. If you are moving hundreds of terabytes, these egress costs can quickly add up to $80,000+/month. | Each OpenMetal Cloud Core comes with a certain amount of egress included. If you exceed this amount, charges are incurred by the megabit at the 95% percentile. This flattens bursting, which leads to more controlled costs. The result is an egress cost advantage of up 80% over per GB billing used by most public cloud providers. Visit our egress pricing page for more details. |
| Unpredictable or Hidden Costs | Lack of control over all of these factors can result in complex pricing models that are hard to understand or predict, which can result in unexpected expenses and possible budget overruns. | Each OpenMetal Cloud Core offers transparent and fair hardware-based pricing to simplify billing and make your expenses more predictable. |
For a detailed assessment and plan to reduce cloud costs for your team, schedule a complimentary cloud consultation.
Are You Exploring Public Cloud Options?
Visit our Public Cloud Alternative pages to compare OpenMetal to AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
“If you’re operating at scale, the cost of [public] cloud can at least double your infrastructure bill.”
Andreessen Horowitz
Reduce Private Cloud Costs
Private clouds can offer attractive cost considerations because, as a single-tenant environment, you have better control over customization of resource utilization. This also delivers advantages in security and operational efficiency. But private clouds can also carry significant risk of capital and operational costs, as well as associated deployment and scalability delays.
Clients moving from private cloud to OpenMetal can realize cloud spend reductions of 50%. To understand how it’s possible to reduce cloud costs, it helps to identify some of the most common private cloud cost factors and how OpenMetal helps to resolve those.
| Cost Factors | Private Clouds | OpenMetal Cloud Cores |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware and Infrastructure Costs | Traditional private clouds typically require capital investments in servers, storage, and networking equipment which can be a significant obstacle to both upfront costs and the time it takes to build and deploy. | Each OpenMetal Cloud Core gives you an initial cluster of three hyperconverged hosted servers (with root level access), that you can deploy within 45 seconds, and be billed for on as little as an hourly basis. See what’s included in initial Cloud Core. |
| Licensing Fees | Most traditional private clouds include vendor licensing fees on operating systems, virtualization platforms, and other tools that can quickly increase monthly cloud costs. For example, VMware licensing fees can add $995 to $3,495 per processor and/or between $615 to $1,950 per block of RAM. | OpenMetal Cloud Cores are built on OpenStack and integrated with open source solutions to minimize (or remove) licensing fees, as well as commonly associated vendor lock-in cost concerns. Learn about the OpenStack platform that powers OpenMetal. |
| Maintenance and Support Costs | Most traditional private clouds require costly IT service and support staffing to manage the physical well-being and security of physical infrastructure. Even training a staff member can cost $4,500 to complete a VMware certification for IT support in the U.S. | OpenMetal Cloud Cores may offer a private cloud model, but it is still a cloud. Our team manages the hardware and includes assisted support to help you minimize IT staff and/or OpEx costs. Read more about our Cloud Support Services. |
For a detailed assessment and plan to reduce cloud costs for your team, schedule a complimentary cloud consultation.
Are You Considering VMware?
Visit our Alternative to VMware Page to better understand the specific cost considerations of OpenStack vs VMware.
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OpenMetal offers the best of traditional public cloud, private cloud, and bare metal, fused into an open source platform. This unique combination provided by OpenMetal Cloud Cores results in significant cost savings of 50% or more over traditional cloud options.
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