Cost And Performance Comparison For Openstack Compute And Storage Infrastructure

| Cloud & Virtualization, Data Center, Productivity, White Papers

While the operating assumption is that the OpenStack framework works best on open source components such as KVM, a just completed study by Principled Technologies and commissioned by VMware showed otherwise. Tests showed remarkably higher performance and substantially reduced costs when using OpenStack with VMware technology including vSphere when compared to OpenStack with Red Hat components.