Cloud Cruiser Debuts Cost Management Tool for OpenStack

Cloud computing cost management solution provider Cloud Cruiser announced the availability of a new cost management solution for OpenStack that includes workflow tools that offer accounting and management features for optimizing costs in cloud environments. OpenStack is an Apache-licensed FOSS cloud computing project with more than 100 members, including AMD, Citrix, Dell, Intel, and other industry titans. Announced as the first of its type for OpenStack, the solution targets server providers and enterprise OpenStack users. “By offering the industry’s first cost management solution for OpenStack, users will now have the capability to gain control of costs and visibility of their cloud-based computing environments with new tools to measure, manage and optimize capex and opex costs,” said Dave Zabrowski, Cloud Cruiser Founder and CEO, in the press release.

The new offering promises the ability to track and limit IT costs in a variety of cloud environments supporting internal, private and public applications, and allows users to “see, charge, control and own” cloud processing costs right down to the individual user. For more information, see www.cloudcruiser.com.