Technology solutions companies faces complex cloud cost management challenges each day. This case study is about such a global IT solutions company headquartered in the USA with a turnover of more than US$2.054 billion. Some of their offerings are digital workplace solutions, cloud, applications, and infrastructure solutions.

Research:

Have challenges in:

• Understanding the sources for their hefty cloud bills
• Finding the orphaned, overprovisioned cloud assets

Envision:

• Analyzing their cloud infrastructure arrangement
• Visualizing and correlating the cost and performance data
• Providing intelligent recommendations for restructuring their cloud setup.

Actualize:

• Visibility to the cloud waste
• Business unit level cost breakdown
• Single pane view of the cloud assets distribution

Launch:

• Overall Cloud OpEx reduction, Savings in excess of 22% in the first year of implementation.
• Operational efficiency improves without affecting the performance of workloads like ERP on Cloud.
• Additional work load migration into cloud, by re-allocating resources, cost aware re-design etc.