Ongoing management and development.
Cost reduction is often the top reason for migrating a data centre to the cloud. But simply moving and modernising workloads won’t maximise those savings.
Once you’re up and running on the cloud, you face 3 different cost types:
The cost of use How much it costs to run the systems, incorporating capacity, development and support
The cost of unavailability From service instability to security breaches, these are costs of not being able to run systems as desired
The cost of inflexibility The real and opportunity costs incurred when systems can’t keep up with changing market and customer needs
Your cloud environment – be it Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform – gives you capacity. You’re responsible for running your environment, managing incidents and ensuring application security.
Therefore, you need a strategic and cloud-native approach to ongoing management and development to minimise these costs and unlock opportunities for additional value.
You’re then in a strong position to reduce those 3 costs, because you’re benefiting from:
Optimised capacity and performance So you manage cloud spend and achieve higher customer satisfaction (with better application performance and seamless operation).
Increased resilience With automated service requests and patching, 24/7 incident management, monitoring, alerting, threat analysis, back-up and disaster recovery, all of which help reduce risk and maximise uptime.
Greater development efficiency So you accelerate the pace of innovation cost-effectively, empowering the business to capitalise on new, revenue-driving opportunities.
Get guaranteed cloud savings with Managed FinOps
On average, people are leaving 20% of value from the cloud on the table because they’re not keeping on top of their usage and spend consumption. This means customers aren’t ensuring maximum return for every cloud krone spent.
FinOps (financial operations) helps you maximise and accelerate cloud savings
Managed FinOps from Nordcloud gives you a robust, scalable system for achieving this.
- KPIs and benchmarking
- Processes based on real-time insight
- Measurable business outcomes
Industry benchmarks are for approximately 10 to 30% savings. Nordcloud customers routinely achieve between 30 and 40%.
Cloud-native managed services.
To minimise TCO and maximise ongoing value from the cloud, managed services need to be part of your migration strategy – and your provider should be involved early in the process.
Use this checklist to ensure your managed service provider will position you for short- and long-term success.
Cloud-native managed services checklist – what to look for
✓ No vendor lock-in, long contracts, enforced software or minimum purchase requirements – beyond the service experience ✓ Scalability on demand – so your service model reflects the way you use cloud ✓ Full end-to-end service portfolio – including managed capacity, environments, applications and security, so everything works together efficiently to maximise savings and value ✓ Maximised use of PaaS and automation – to reduce support costs ✓ Integration with your internal teams – using DevOps and agile, to accelerate innovation velocity
