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This episode is presented by Daniel Virassamy, Principal Solution Architect at Mirantis, who describes himself as curious by nature and open source by choice. Daniel will cover, in-depth, the various costs associated with current Public Cloud offerings to debunk many of the myths that Public Cloud is always cheaper, simpler, and the easiest to use in comparison to Private Cloud offerings.

He will also offer recommendations for reducing cloud spend - on any architecture - by leveraging open source technologies wherever possible.

A full list of topics for this episode includes:

The Iceberg model (of cloud cost)
Yearly Cloud cost example
The FinOps cloud cost model
Staff requirement for Public Cloud
Cloud migration return on investment
Shifting from Capex to Opex
Infrastructure Services to Function-as-a-Service
Importance of cloud reversibility
Cost of data in Public Cloud
Public vs Private Cloud
Private Cloud does NOT equal On Prem
Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK)
Mirantis Support: OpsCare and OpsCare+
The Mirantis TCO calculator

Learn more about Mirantis OpenStack for K8s (MOSK): http://www.mirantis.com/mosk

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In-Depth Cloud Cost Comparison: Public vs Private Clouds

Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis

In-Depth Cloud Cost Comparison: Public vs Private Clouds