Tools of the Trade

Cloud optimization made easy

Cloud optimization is too big of an undertaking for in-house teams to facilitate manually. That’s why many organizations rely on one or more tools to support their efforts.

SHI offers a suite of solutions and services designed specifically to help organizations establish and sustain cloud optimization best practices for:

Cost Control
SHI's Cloud Spend Optimization Services bring clarity to cloud spending and increase insight around an organization’s use of best-of-breed cloud technologies.

SHI’s cloud specialists analyze cloud usage, ensure adherence to budgets, and identify opportunities to drive down cloud spending. With greater visibility and context, organization leaders can make informed decisions that drive down costs through ongoing monitoring and smarter resource allocation.

Simplified Management
SHI One, a proprietary cloud management platform, provides everyone from the procurement team to the C-Suite with a centralized portal to track, manage, and support all public cloud instances.The SHI One dashboard provides customized visibility around cloud costs and consumption across multiple cloud platforms or multiple contracts with a single vendor. The consolidated information enables leaders to spend less time with reports and oversight and more time on the strategic initiatives driving their business forward.

SHI One capabilities include:

Visibility and Tracking: SHI One provides real-time access to detailed analytics and the ability to export reports across all major public clouds, including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Microsoft Office 365. Organizations can enhance their team’s capabilities with visibility across IT projects, cloud consumption, licensing, and services.

Spending Optimization: A 360-degree view of cloud usage plus proactive recommendations from cloud experts are combined to help reduce waste while ensuring the value of every cloud investment.

Securing Shared Access: Organizations can set and protect permissions for accessing sensitive data with single sign-on, native Azure AD integration, and granular role-based controls. Sharing and removing access and visibility is simple without risk.

Governance Support: Use SHI One's insights and practices to help simplify and streamline your cloud governance. Having all your public clouds in one place allows you to set your rules and parameters once rather than separately for each one. Then you can leverage our dashboards to monitor policy compliance.

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Tracking Cloud Assets
Our IT Asset Management (ITAM) services work in concert with cloud optimization efforts to improve governance and reduce costs. These services find, track, and manage hardware and software across the IT ecosystem, including cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, to:

Discover all end-user devices and data center servers
Manage applications and licensing for key software publishers
Optimize consumption of available licenses and subscriptions to drive value
Control the growth of cloud hardware and software costs
Minimize the risks of non-compliance and penalties

Assessing Cloud Readiness
For organizations yet to make the migration to the cloud, SHI offers a Cloud Readiness Assessment that provides insights and tactics for a successful transition. The assessment includes reports and plans for:

Cloud proficiency and knowledge gaps
IT environment readiness gaps
Cloud computing best practice and methodology readiness gaps
Business and IT organizational readiness gaps
Infrastructure, capacity, and performance management
Security and compliance

⁶Source: Cleanshelf, Inc.