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Re-imagine how.
Destination Cloud Optimisation
Re-imagine how.
Welcome
Ben Nicholson
Cloud Optimisation Manager, KCOM
Jeremy Chaplin
Head of Cloud Optimisation Practice, KCOM
What we’ll cover
• Why optimise?
• What are the barriers to success?
• KCOM Cloud Optimisation Services
• Optimisation tooling
Why optimise?
• Getting from where you are to where you should be
• Make more efficient use of the cloud
Demand exceeds
hardware’s capacity
About consumption and Cloud Economics
Infr
astr
uctu
re c
ost
$
Time
Traditional hardware
Actual demand
Azure
The pillars of Cloud Optimisation
RightSize Increase
elasticity
Pricing
and licensing
Storage
needs
Measure and
monitor
Incremental Cloud Optimisation
Service benefits from Cloud Optimisation
Scale
up/out
Service
healing
Improved
performance
Improved
availability
Organisational benefits from Cloud Optimisation
Customer
satisfaction
ProfitabilityCost
savings
Employee
satisfaction
Organisational benefits from Cloud Optimisation
Major brand with
cloud accounts and30$500k monthly spend
RightSizing instances
saving25%Instance moves
saving19%
Reservations:
saving*24%Unattached volumes:
saving1.6%Unused public IP addresses
saving1.9%
People, process, investment
• Senior sponsorship needed to drive change
• Not understanding your IT demands and long term strategy
• Robust configuration management and asset tagging required to ensure an accurate representation of infrastructure
• Historical decisions not understood
• Cost implications of best practices not recognised
How to optimise your cloud spend
Continuous and bidirectional
Describe
Ensure
visibility
of expenditure
Establish and
baseline metrics
and KPIs
Governance
Tagging Policies
Cost-aware
design
Spend controls
Change
Management
Business and
Finance
objectives
Design
Elasticity
Serverless /
Functions
Deployment
environments
Right Size
Right Sizing VMs
Use functions
and serverless
storage,
database etc.
where possible
Eliminate waste -
turn off when not
used.
Implement
Purchase or
alter
Reservations
Implement
re-designed
architecture
The organisational impact
• Finance / Procurement processes around capital expenditure are no longer fit for purpose
Agree
approach Spend Opex
Spot what was
spent!
Finance
Finance Finance
FinanceProcurement / Billing
Business / Tech
Old world
New world
Approve
CapexSpend Capex Forget
• In the new world Finance may approve the operation expenditure but
the business or IT functions are spending it
The organisational impact
• Once impact identified, take action!
• Use a tool/ automation to monitor and track
• Highlights problems and makes recommendations to fix -
RI’s, Storage etc.
• Quick wins - savings are recurring and can be reinvested
• Appropriate governance is required to ensure finance can
spot and allocate what has been spent
Set rules
Alarms
Action
Prevent
action
People, process and technology
• Tooling plays an important part in monitoring and tracking costs
• A different approach to financial accountability required - devolved to the Cloud Centre of Excellence
• Processes will require continual review
• For accelerated delivery, look for a partner who can help
Organisation
Process
Tools
View
• Gain visibility into your cloud usage and cost through the
CloudHealth Cloud Management Platform
• Identify cost savings and areas for optimisation
Insight
• Regular highly-focused optimisation reports and reccommendations
• Consultation and guidance to help you optimise your IT estate
Action
• Advice and best practice policies to help implement continuous optimisation
• Establish effective control policies, governance, monitoring and usage alerts.
KCOM Cloud Optimisation Services
Optimisation Tooling
Next steps
• Take a top-down approach and ensure buy-in at a senior level
• Implement measure and monitor capability - tagging, KPI’s & baselines
• Don’t forget the organisational impacts - Finance in particular!
Consider establishing a ‘Fin-Ops’ culture
• As you progress and mature, revisit your processes and governance to refine.
• Consider future state and not just current environment
• Start small, experiment, iterate and grow
Want more?
• What’s involved?
• Will it affect my data?
• What will it cost?
• How long will it last?
• What will I get out of it?
• Why should I do it?
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