7 Open Source Tools To Consider For Your Data Center
Data Center Knowledge, Monday, August 21,2023
These seven open source tools can help optimize data center efficiency and agility while reducing costs.
If you want to reduce data center operating costs while also maximizing agility, open source software tools may be up your alley. Although open source tools certainly don't guarantee a lower overall cost, the fact that they don't come with licensing fees makes them attractive compared with most commercial software that you'd use to help manage a data center or workloads inside it. Plus, open source tools pose a lower risk of locking you into a particular vendor's platform or ecosystem.
So, let's take a look at some of the most popular open source tools for data centers. Some are designed for needs specific to data centers, while others are open source solutions that support a variety of use cases, including but not limited to data centers.