


The calculator also offers customers the unique ability to conduct “apples-to-apples” comparison of virtual workloads in a private cloud model, where resources are shared — vs. the public cloud model, where resources are subscribed from a cloud service provider. Users can create scenarios that compare their private cloud costs vs. public cloud estimates with utilization levels at Peak, 95th, and 99th percentiles. They can then accurately determine what these workloads cost to operate in the public cloud at those respective levels. 

“Organizations typically do not have a current cost-per-workload model in their private cloud, and have very poor tools to allow for the pricing and comparison of private vs. public cloud costs,” said Chris Schin, VP, Products at CloudPhysics. “Our Cost Calculator for Private Cloudensures that IT decision makers have real, actionable data regarding the savings a public cloud can potentially provide vs. their current operational costs.”

The Cost Calculator for Private Cloud determines cost based on selected workloads, hosts, clusters, or data centers and calculates the cost per workload/virtual machine (VM). This allows IT administrators to understand the cost of a workload based on size and resource utilization in a private cloud environment. Once private cloud costs are known, workloads can accurately be compared against public cloud hosting costs to determine if savings can be achieved on a workload-by-workload basis.