Once an organization has decided to pursue a cloud strategy, many decisions must be made to complete the journey from on-premises to the cloud or manage your existing cloud as it evolves. The following lists some significant destinations along the way at a high level:
Selecting the correct cloud platform (i.e., vendors, services, configurations)
Choosing the best migration strategy for on-premises workloads
Managing the ongoing performance and cost as workloads grow and change
The journey becomes increasingly complex, considering that 92% of organizations utilize a hybrid multi-cloud environment. This complexity occurs as special interest groups form within organizations around specific technologies.
Unfortunately, many of the decisions made along the way are not based upon verifiable data. Indeed, some organizations make platform decisions before identifying the workloads that must be supported. A company will spend, on average, as much as $12M annually for cloud services. What business leader would make such consequential decisions without data to back it up?
Gartner estimates that 80% of organizations exceed their planned cloud budgets. But unfortunately, a poor decision-making process inevitably results in unrealistic goals, higher costs, and unhappy executives. Conversely, data-driven decision-making enables improved collaboration among IT, financial, and business stakeholders.
In addition, it reduces the risk of economic or performance surprises, providing stakeholders with realistic expectations faster and with greater accuracy. BEZNext FinOps optimization software and services deliver all these benefits.
How to make the right decisions during the Journey to the cloud
Constant growth and change
Increase in number of users
Volume of data
New applications implementations
Complexity
Cost increase
Unstable performance Workload profile change
Cloud Decisions Optimization
How to select appropriate cloud data platform for data warehouse workloads
How to optimize cloud migration decisions
How to organize Dynamic Capacity Management of Hybrid Multi-Cloud environment
How to optimize DevOps decisions prior to new applications deployment
How to optimize Performance and Financial decisions in a Hybrid Multi-Cloud environment
Organizing Dynamic Capacity Management
Predict the impact of expected changes
Set realistic performance and financial expectations
Verify results, determine performance and financial anomalies and their root causes
Evaluate options and predict measures necessary to continuously meet SLGs for all workloads on all platforms with the lowest cost
Organize continuous close loop control
BEZNext Talks with Thought Leaders in Modeling and Performance Optimization
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BEZNext talk with Dr. Jeff Buzen, a legendary figure in developing and applying modeling algorithms for optimizing IT decisions.
BEZNext talk with Dominique Heger (Part 1)
BEZNext talk with Dr. Jeff Buzen, a legendary figure in developing and applying modeling algorithms for optimizing IT decisions.