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Colovore’s high density colocation facility is covered in "Is there a point where a private cloud is cheaper than the public cloud?" on NetworkWorld. The article is a review of a white paper jointly published with OpenStack cloud management software firm Piston Cloud Computing, network virtualization vendor Plexxi and King Star Computing.

NetworkWorld’s analysis has these key quotes:

A report from the vendors – which include a collocation provider, a cloud management vendor and a network operator – attempts to address a question many organizations may be considering: When is it better to use a public cloud versus a managed hosting or collocation environment? The case study finds that if an organization is spending more than $7,644 in Amazon’s cloud each month, then it can be cheaper to operate a private cloud.

Analyst Lee Doyle of Doyle Research says it’s good for companies that are spending a lot of money on the public cloud to consider if there’s a more cost effective way to run their workloads, including potentially bringing them in-house. Around $7,000 on public cloud spend is enough to consider exploring other options, depending on the size of the company.

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Source: NetworkWorld

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