Whether planning a move to the cloud or looking to optimize your current cloud spend, our methodical approach to cost management can make a crucial difference in your long term cloud commitment.
Scenarios & Questions to Consider.
| Planning a move to the cloud. |
- How does your current footprint map to the cloud? How much should you be spending on each cloud vendor over a 1, 3, or 5 year period? Mapping each resource to the cloud, and performing a detailed cost assessment is critical to determining how much you should budget. Exploiting transformation, consolidation and right-sizing opportunities is key to optimizing the overall spend. Furthermore comparing pricing across cloud vendors is difficult due to differences in services and technical specifications.
- Performing a detailed mapping across various vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, others) is a necessary activity to enable you to compare the costs and budget accordingly. It’s also a crucial input for cloud contract negotiation.
- Comparing cloud vendors and pricing is difficult due to differences and services and technical specifications.
- Once you are equipped with the details and cost assessments, and have a clear picture of what you expect to use, you are ready to tackle the contract negotiation and procurement process.
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| Already in the cloud. |
- Are you using cloud services inefficiently? How does this feed into your renewal or future strategy? Each cloud vendor has a different set of services and options, and ensuring efficient usage across any cloud is difficult.
- Reducing ongoing spend is not a simple case of reviewing the monthly bill and eliminating resources. Knowing how much you should be spending is the first crucial step – followed by a methodical review of ongoing spend line items.
- With ongoing usage assessments and routine comparisons with other cloud vendors, you will have a clear idea of how much you can save on the existing deployments, and/or by switching to other vendors – perhaps in a hybrid, multi-cloud approach.
- With our approach, you will know how much you should be spending, and then have the tools and data to bridge the gap between how much you are spending.
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Our Approach – In a Nutshell.
We have a four step process for helping our clients with reducing and optimizing their cloud spend.
| “Paint a target” |
- As a first step, we perform an independent analysis of how much should be spending for any leading cloud vendor.
- We do this using our proprietary cloud mapping tools that enable us to map your existing deployment to any cloud vendor; we can run countless mapping scenarios to simulate your mapping and pricing.
- This will give us the target spend – the amount you should be spending if cloud deployments were efficient.
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| Analyze Current Spend |
- Once you know how much you should be spending, we analyze how much you are spending. Our analysis inspects your current spend for over-spending and inefficient cloud usage. This is done using cloud usage reports, bills, invoices, etc.
- We will have discussions with the appropriate technical and business personnel to understand the overall cloud strategy, current implementations and roadmap.
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| Bridge the Gap |
- Once equipped with an independent analysis of how much you should spend and how much you are spending, we can begin a methodical exercise to bridge the gap.
- We will perform a detailed resource-by-resource assessment, as well as invoice/bill line item review to bridge the gap, optimize your spend and reduce your overall cloud cost.
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| Advise |
- We will round out our assistance with appropriate vendor management advisory, including tactical negotiation support with the cloud vendors.
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Scope
Our capabilities cover the major cloud vendors, including: AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Linode and Digital Ocean. When scanning on-premise infrastructure, our capabilities include all major infrastructure types, including: physical servers, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, IBM LPARs, HP partitions, Oracle/Solaris Zones/OVM/OLVM, among others.
