At Datacate, our focus is always on providing our clients with the greatest overall value for their IT spend. We were recently asked to produce a cost comparison for a client’s cloud services deployment, and the numbers proved our assertion that your IT dollars go farther at Datacate! When taking into account all factors, the client realized monthly savings of between 33% and 45% by deploying their virtualized stack on our platform, instead of going with one of the big-name guys.

Below you’ll find the actual data, with assumptions and notes outlined for each. The use case reflects a fairly simple and modestly-sized deployment that made the comparison as clear-cut as possible. Datacate’s capabilities include rapid scaling, custom managed networking, hybrid solutions and managed IT, all of which can be added to any cloud deployment solution at very effective price points, transforming the a cloud deployment into a full-blown, comprehensive solution.

Global Assumptions: all hosts are Linux except as noted otherwise. As instance and resource provisioning methods vary from platform to platform, the closest available equivalents have been selected. Cloud solutions are self-managed by client unless otherwise noted.