Cloud giants like AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure promised businesses of lower costs, seamless scalability, and infrastructure that just works, but as more businesses dig deeper into the numbers, they are realizing these platforms aren't quite the cost-savers they were marketed as.
Open infrastructure which is all about using open-source projects and standards to build your own cloud environment is positioned as the future of IT.
Open infrastructure is a way of building cloud environments that gives businesses more control, transparency, and freedom.
Open infrastructure uses open standards making it more flexible as businesses are not tied to any single cloud provider’s tools or services.
With open infrastructure, businesses pay for what they use in a straightforward manner, with full visibility into hardware and network costs, controlling how and where resources are deployed.
Open infrastructure makes it easy to build systems that work across multiple clouds or mix on-premises and cloud environments. It gives flexibility to move workloads between environments, optimizing both performance and cost while maintaining architecture control.
Open-source projects are community driven so open infrastructure solutions are continuously evolving, improving, and adapting to the latest needs of businesses—without being driven solely by the profit motives of big tech companies.
The Open Infrastructure Foundation is leading the charge, laying out a blueprint for how open technologies can provide a scalable, reliable alternative to the traditional cloud model. Businesses that embrace open infrastructure are not only avoiding the downsides of public cloud, but also positioning themselves to innovate more quickly and adapt more easily to changing business needs.
Open infrastructure offers companies the control, flexibility, and cost transparency they’ve been looking for all along, giving them the freedom to build open, flexible systems that put control back in their hands.