Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years
"IBM Power Systems clients who have typically relied upon on-premises-only infrastructure can now quickly and economically extend their Power IT resources off-premises," enthuses Big Blue's brochure for its off-prem virtual server service, which adds that the cloudy Power servers are identical to on-prem boxen and therefore don't require any adjustments to software or fresh licenses.
Even though the servers and associated networking and storage kit are on-prem, the Private Cloud is managed from IBM Cloud. Medium-sized pods can house up to 40 servers, some capable of handling 32 terabytes of memory. Some pods can run 1,615 usable cores, and around 3.5 petabytes of storage. Medium pods sprawl across multiple racks.Big Blue will sign you up for this stuff for one, three, or five years – but there's no upfront payment required, just pay-as-you-go fees depending on your level of resource consumption. Compute, memory, storage and operating system licenses are fully metered.
Google's approach is different: Its Anthos product is a Kubernetes distro tuned for hybrid operations and runs on commodity hardware from the usual gaggle of enterprise-grade server slingers.
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