451 RESEARCH has revealed that proprietary cloud offerings are currently more cost effective than OpenStack.
The Cloud Price Index showed that VMware, Red Hat and Microsoft all offer a better total cost of ownership (TCO) than OpenStack distributors.
The report blames the shortfall on a lack of skilled OpenStack engineers, leading to a high price for employing them. Commercial solutions run at around $0.10 per virtual machine hour, compared with $0.08 for OpenStack, but going commercial is cheaper when labour and other external factors are taken into account.
