Save money...
…by focusing on cost visibility and allocation.
Cost visibility is about enlightenment – having an understanding of what you’re spending and empowering people to be accountable for how they’re consuming cloud.
A traditional starting point is to look at hyperscaler tools. Let’s say the tool tells you that a resizing action will reduce costs and still deliver 80% of performance. But how do you know 80% performance will be enough in your circumstances? And how do you convince wary teams that it’s enough?
To answer these questions, you need to understand both historical usage and how the application/infrastructure works. Additional tooling can help with this.
The likes of Nordcloud Klarity Core give you full, real-time visibility of your cloud estates and costs, so you can get a complete picture across all your clouds and on-prem VMware.
It also uses automation to simplify the whole showback and chargeback process – you set the rules and distribution keys, and costs are automatically allocated to your right customer, cost centre, business unit or person.
Once you have the enriched data, you can truly understand consumption. And then you can develop practical solutions for achieving the projected savings.
Here's a quick case study.
One customer was looking at right-sizing a resource, but there were concerns about the implications. Because we had enriched data, we were able to develop different solutions for optimising that resource, including switching to AMD and turning it off at weekends. Each option offered ways to secure different savings levels and different performance changes, so teams could strike the right balance. It went from: “No way are we right-sizing!” (which meant zero savings) to: “Ah, we can save without sacrificing!” (which meant money in the bank).
Then, it’s easier to get people to action the solutions
Once you have data-backed solutions on the table, you can have meaningful discussions about which one makes most sense – and more easily get stakeholders to take action.
For example, Nordcloud Klarity Core gives users bespoke dashboards and alerts, so everyone can focus on exactly what they need to do for their resources (and there’s accountability for taking action that reduces unnecessary spend).
