CLOUD CONTROL

With drastic increases in cloud consumption, does your governance go far enough?

IF CLOUD SPEND FEELS OUT OF CONTROL, IT PROBABLY IS

One of the less exciting but vital roles of being a leader is to have an understanding of, and control over, the organization’s processes. For IT and procurements executives, that now needs to extend into the company’s cloud environment(s).

Yet many organizations are failing in their efforts to control cloud spend.

The good news: You can save up to 50% on your monthly Azure bill with the right approach to cloud optimization.

Through our work with thousands of customer organizations, we’ve found that companies typically overspend by 35% on public cloud, with some reaching as high as 50%. This is due to a mix of unused resources, oversized infrastructure, failure to leverage cloud-native architecture, reservation mismanagement, and leaving available discounts on the table.

Common Causes of Cloud Overspend

No internal budget ownership
Participating in the wrong buying program
Paying double for licensing
Waste/sprawl
Failing to maximize commitment discounts
Poorly designed infrastructure
Continuing to use legacy apps instead of cloud-native technologies and underutilized resources

Take control of your cloud spend with four key steps and a little help from SHI.

FOUR STEPS TO OPTIMIZED AZURE COSTS

Just as there is no single cause for overspending, there is no single solution to it, either. Rather, organizations aiming to optimize their Azure spend and usage need a roadmap that guides them toward opportunities across four main areas:

Governance
Ownership & Expertise
Process
Tools

This eBook explores each area in more detail, illustrating why so many Azure optimization efforts fail and the steps you should take to avoid common pitfalls.

This eBook is perfect for organizations that are:

Planning to invest in Azure and want to control spending from day one.
Exceeding their cloud budget (especially after 2020) and don’t know why.
Tasked with cutting costs and seeking ways to reduce cloud spend.
Looking to streamline financial operations to simplify billing.

Spending on cloud system infrastructure services is expected to grow from $44 billion in 2019 to $63 billion in 2021, reaching $81 billion by 2022 – according to a recent Gartner IT spending forecast.

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