Cloud Service Management .. not just Cost Management and Optimisation
Cloud Service Optimisation is often the poor cousin to Cloud Cost Management and Optimisation. Many organisations look at Cloud Bill Shock and only look in the rearview mirror to address the immediate cost issue but should be looking further to enforce good service controls without limiting productivity. The key elements to good Cloud Service Management […]
Cost Forecasting
Financial Forecasting is an important part of keeping your cloud budgets in order. It can often be the difference between success and failure in your cloud migration projects. Cloud Cost Forecasting can be a complex task, with cloud costs being variable and more dependent on growth / demand you can’t always rely on historical data […]
AWS Reserved Instance Management
AWS Reserved Instance Management is an on-going challenge for enterprises using Public Cloud provider services. When looking at Reserved Instance RI optimization having the ability to identify and remediate the low hanging fruit is paramount. It does not make sense to spend hours remediating for a low impact benefit but it does make sense when […]
Federating Cloud Management with Greater User Autonomy
Modern Federated Cloud Management drives Speed and Innovation? Many organizations are struggling to manage their Cloud services. Application teams are deploying without standards, backup policies, governance and cost controls ultimately causing business risk, cost and innovation deceleration. Federated Cloud Management – next generation CMP platforms control networks, security, governance, compliance, cost, database, storage and compute […]
Automating Cloud Cost Management and Optimisation
Cloud Cost Management and Optimization is one of the on-going Cloud challenges. Many organisations are moving to the Cloud at speed. Most enterprises are good at building and deploying Cloud services. A lot of organisations struggle to run their Cloud environments cost effectively. There are a number of elements to take into account when thinking […]