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With Cloud provisioning being cheap and straightforward, organisations are oversubscribing and losing control of their spending
By the time most organisations consider getting their cloud spend under control, it has organically developed into a tangle of resources with obscured dependencies and uses. It can feel like it will be easier to start again with a new plan, but throwing away the investment to date is not a clean option. There may be g
Consultancy offerings often lead to a FinOps misfire
As FinOps service offerings are maturing, many consultancies are moving towards productizing dashboards and creating tool packages that can be installed and integrated into existing IT reporting tools. We think this is commendable, and likely necessary to obtain the final 20% of savings, but, it's also an excessively expensive mis-step when setting out to identify and deliver the first round of reductions in cloud spend. FinOps can save you more money in the cloud, but it clearly needs to save more money than it costs to implement.
CloudClarify
Our four-step FinOps consultancy service tailored for those ready to simplify and optimise their cloud expenditure.
1. Data Collation: Initially, we collate all your raw spending data from your cloud provider, ensuring to capture it in the most granular and meaningful way.
2. Business-oriented Grouping: Next, CloudClarify strategically reassembles this spend data into groupings that represent your business units and activities more efficiently. Be it business services, customer products, specific projects, or various environments, we're capable of creating a comprehensive matrix-like combination that suits your needs.
3. Stakeholder Identification: Our third step is to pinpoint the individuals within your business who are responsible for these new groupings, either as usage or pricing accountability owners. With targeted information on usage reduction or price agreement strategies, CloudClarify enables these key players to work in harmony, promoting a culture of resource sharing and cost-efficiency.
4. Management Calendar Integration: Finally, we align with your management calendar to integrate key reports and reviews based on our prior steps. This ensures your cloud expenditure aligns with budgetary, programme, and strategic management timelines, promoting timely oversight and control of your cloud-based costs.
CloudClarify: Bringing bright savings to your cloud based infrastructure.
Your Efficient and Affordable Path to Optimised Cloud Expenditure
CloudClarify is an efficient, treatment-based service designed to optimise your cloud expenditure. Unlike a full-time or fractional consultancy, our service operates like a targeted health check for your cloud operations, conducted in concise project bursts.
Our initial stage involves collating your data and reconfiguring it into more business-oriented groupings. This quickly paints a detailed picture of your cloud spending, resulting in a comprehensive report. If needed, we can also facilitate a review session to explain our findings and recommendations.
One of the unique benefits of CloudClarify is its educational value. As we walk you through our process, your team can learn our methodology, potentially reducing or even eliminating the need for future treatments, unless you require more complex analysis.
Repeat 'treatments' can be arranged as necessary, their length flexibly designed to suit the complexity of your cloud environment. This approach ensures you receive a high-impact, cost-effective solution with minimal disruption, allowing for better cloud cost management over time.
Choosing CloudClarify is a strategic investment. It's a more effective way to acquire FinOps expertise without committing your team to a steep learning curve or engaging in longer, more expensive programmes with general IT consultancies. With CloudClarify, your team gains actionable insights swiftly, empowering you to take control of your cloud expenditure just when you need it.
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