For OpenStack to become the way to organisations to deploy, manage and scale applications in the next decade, the economics need to stack up. How do the economics of OpenStack compare to existing virtualisation solutions or using public cloud platforms? As organisations look at the ever increasing options for workload and service delivery, this talk examines the costs of OpenStack today, how it measures up against the alternatives and what OpenStack users can do to improve the economics of running applications.
Attendees should expect to learn about the complexity and cost challenges of OpenStack and how they compare to alternate application deployment platforms. Steps that can be taken to reduce OpenStack costs will also be covered.