Your customers might be asking you about alternatives to virtualization, private cloud solutions and seeking independence from legacy Hypervisor vendors. Finding an alternative solution can help ease your customers’ biggest worries and save them money. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is here to help.
Advantages for you and your customers:
- Flexibility in your solution portfolio
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership for customers at a crossroads with current providers
- Enterprise-grade security for Open Source software packages beyond Ubuntu
- Greater profitability for your business
- No vendor lock-in – providing flexibility for customers
VMware vSphere vs OpenStack by Canonical: Total Cost of Ownership
A successful migration from VMware to OpenStack results in 40% total cost of ownership reduction, with many customers saving far beyond 40% in their TCO.
Beyond a cost reduction, customers won’t face lock-in because Canonical’s support (Ubuntu Pro) is a subscription, rather than a license, and open-source, opening up your customers’ tech stack for integrations. As a plus, customers can cancel at any time and support is only a phone call away.
Migration Example:
A customer in the public sector is currently running 150 nodes across 3 data centers in production on VMware and is considering a migration to OpenStack. Migrating provides an opportunity to refresh their three-year-old hardware, complying with their internal policy to refresh it every three years.
Here is a cost comparison between VMware’s vSphere and Canonical’s OpenStack for hardware, software, and total costs:
The outcome? A 40% reduction in total cost.
If you’d like to learn about more benefits around transitioning to Ubuntu based infrastructure, watch Canonical’s webinar on-demand.
Or if you’re ready to bring OpenStack/MicroCloud to your customer, contact our Climb Alliance Manager
