Reducing Software License Costs with Open Source (Google Cloud Adoption Series)
Welcome to the continuation of the Google Cloud Adoption for the Enterprise, From Strategy to Operation series. In the previous part, we talked some of the key points that need to be covered in your Cloud Adoption Strategy.
Make or Break!!
Now I want to cover a key consideration that can potentially save you more in future IT spend than any other decision you can make: embracing open source as a core element of your cloud strategy.
Alternatively, you can choose not to, and you’re likely to get one or both of the following:
- A doubling or even tripling of your IT costs, once you’re running in cloud.
- Total destruction of many of the key tenets of your cloud strategy.
What is Open Source?
If you’re here, and you’re formulating a cloud adoption strategy, then you know what open source is!! But no lie: I was once (not so long ago) pitching a cloud strategy to a CIO, and he said “I don’t know what open source is. It doesn’t sound like something we should be considering.” This CIO was a person that was difficult to get time with. So I spent the next several weeks kicking myself for having made terrible assumptions about the level of knowledge…
