Reduce Cloud Costs
How to Reduce Cloud Costs with Tirzok
If you’re evaluating private and public cloud alternatives to reduce cloud costs, Tirzok offers a new approach to reduce and/or maximize your current cloud spend.
Tirzok offers the best of traditional public cloud, and private cloud, fused into an open-source platform. This unique combination provided by Tirzok Cloud Cores results in significant cost savings of up to 50% over traditional cloud options.
Reduce Private Cloud Costs
Private clouds can offer attractive cost considerations because, as a single-tenant environment, you have better control over the customization of resource utilization. This also delivers advantages in security and operational efficiency. But private clouds can also carry significant risks of capital and operational costs, as well as associated deployment and scalability delays.
Clients moving from the private cloud to Tirzok can realize cloud spending 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 Tirzok helps to resolve those.
Cost Factors | Private Clouds | Tirzok Cloud Cores |
Hardware and Infrastructure Costs
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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 Tirzok Cloud Core gives you an initial cluster of three hyper-converged 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 the initial Cloud Core. |
Licensing Fees
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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. |
Tirzok 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 Tirzok. |
Maintenance and Support Costs
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Most traditional private clouds require costly IT service and support staffing to manage the physical well-being and security of the physical infrastructure. Even training a staff member can cost $4,500 to complete a VMware certification for IT support in the U.S. |
Tirzok 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. |
Cloud Cost Considerations
One of the biggest considerations is the way costs factor into bottom-line profitability.
Proprietary Licensing Costs
Licensing costs account for a significant portion of total costs, much like many of the other competitor services. And because these platforms are built to operate on special-purpose hardware and software, the higher your need for higher levels of service, the higher you can expect your licensing costs to grow. Open source alternatives are typically built to be vendor-agnostic to work on regular hardware and with software that is openly available to anyone without limitations.
Vendor Lock-In
Vendor lock-in refers to a situation where customers are not able to easily move their products or services from one vendor to another. This is typically because of incompatibilities or dependency on proprietary hardware and software. But some pricing models also have the ability to restrict or complicate customers from easily moving from one vendor to another. Because open source alternatives are not dependent on any hardware or software vendors, this removes commitments to any single vendor.
Staffing and Support
Because of the commonly proprietary nature of competitors, the requirement to obtain specialized skills to manage and support makes it difficult and costly to hire and train staff, and/or maintain ongoing certifications. The open source community can help to overcome some of these concerns by providing access to a world of problem solvers ready to help resolve issues that may arise.
Tirzok is Something Different
There are many options as an alternative to Private Cloud. But if you are looking for something truly unique, how about an open source platform that is also challenging the norms of a conventional cloud?
Single-Tenant Environment
Tirzok clouds are single-tenant environments, hosted on a Cloud Core made up of 3 dedicated servers that are assigned to you, offering the inherent performance, security, and TCO you would expect from a private cloud model.
Use and Scale On Demand
Tirzok clouds can be deployed in less than 45 seconds, scaled up (or down) on demand, and billed as little as hourly, offering the inherent low cost of entry, scalability, and ease of use that you would expect from a public cloud model.
Control and Customization
Tirzok clouds give users more control over the root configurations of Cloud Core servers to customize settings and optimize performance for your unique needs.
No Hardware Management
Whiles users can customize server operations, Tirzok still manages the server hardware. It is still a cloud. It is just YOUR cloud to use as you desire.
Built on OpenStack
Tirzok clouds are built on top of the power of OpenStack and set up using Kolla-Ansible and Ceph-Ansible with various OpenStack cloud services enabled at deployment.
Committed to Open Source
Tirzok supports and works to expand open source efforts through community participation and the development of educational and learning programs.
Cloud Cost FAQs
Let’s look at some of the greatest advantages of open-source alternatives to help you make an informed decision that is best for your organization’s needs.
A public cloud shares resources with multiple entities. A private cloud only allows a single entity to the cloud physical setup.
Private Cloud Solutions may be a more cost-effective solution depending on resource utilization.
Yes, Private Cloud Solutions are designed to offer exclusive access on hardware level.
Tirzok’s Private Cloud Solution uses the same architecture of our proven Public Cloud Solution, ensuring a high-availability design.
OpenStack is an open-source, multi-tool software platform that enables the construction and management of public and private clouds. This software platform is the overarching cloud management software and handles networking, computing, storage connection, access levels, and much more.
This is native functionality for OpenStack. The steps (simplified) are as follows: Create your new Tirzok's Cloud in the new pod/geographic location – called Cloud 2. Edit Cloud 2’s OpenStack to use Cloud 1’s Keystone as the source of administration truth and to turn off Cloud 2’s Keystone and Horizon, and then edit Cloud 1 to recognize and admin Cloud 2. Cloud 2 will now appear as a Region in Cloud 1.
As this is a fully private OpenStack and Ceph cloud, you will have full access to all of OpenStack and Ceph’s APIs.
The first type is an on-premises private cloud. This is when an organization builds and maintains its own data center in-house.
Another type of private cloud is hosted by third-party providers or managed service providers. This option allows organizations to outsource their infrastructure management while still maintaining control over their data and applications.
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