Cloud Smart in 6 Steps

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1 Cloud Smart in 6 Steps Cloud Cruiser

2 Meet our speakers Deirdre Mahon CMO and Head of Customer Success Cloud Cruiser Paul Zinn Senior Director, Products Cloud Cruiser

3 Today s Topics Cloud s stakeholders & their needs Getting Cloud Smart Cloud Cruiser product tour Q & A

4 Cloud Stakeholders DOERS I need fast access to services and I need to make sure they are optimized. REVIEWERS I need to understand and control costs and justify the budget spend. DevOps IT Finance Cloud Architects Line of Business

5 Analytics Doers Care About Is this VM large enough for this workload? Why did CPU utilization spike yesterday? How much bandwidth is this app consuming? Have we shut down unnecessary services? 5

6 Analytics Reviewers Care About How much is our cloud spend increasing? Which department is responsible for this spend? How much should I budget for next quarter? Where can we reduce our cloud costs? 6

7 Where s the pain? Tags are critical but rarely used (or accurate) Services are easy to spin up and easy to forget Users aren t accountable as they are in the dark no useful reports Different stakeholders have different needs Cloud data lacks business context Predicting & controlling costs is really difficult

8 What is Cloud Smart? We know exactly who is consuming which services and how much spend. We all see the details We are on-budget, fully aligned on spend and we move as fast as the business needs We maximize our investment, meet business demands and avoid over-spending. Visibility & Accountability Control & Agility Value & ROI 8

9 Best Practices Approach in 6 Steps

10 Collect & Enhance Which cloud sources? How is the data expressed from your CSP? Service bundles, units of measure, time periods What fields are needed by your stakeholders for reporting? Tagging, organizational information, accounting fields Which fields are needed in order to aggregate, slice & dice your cloud data?

11 Visualize & Plan What charts best express what your stakeholders need? Tabular reports, bar charts, donut charts Do you need to restrict access for privacy or relevancy? What decisions do your stakeholders need to make with the data? Who is responsible for managing the budgets? What is your budgetary cycle? What type of forecasting model best suits your needs?

12 Control & Share Do different stakeholders require different budgets (eg. cost vs. usage)? What fields should budgets be based on? How do you want to communicate budget vs. actual? Who needs to be notified when budget limits are approaching or met? Who needs access to which reports and dashboards? What privacy policies should be considered? What is the frequency with which data should be shared? What is best method for each role?

13 Product Tour 1

14 Key Takeaways Don t wait until you go into production to worry about consumption management Assess the unique needs of each stakeholder for each step in the Cost Management approach Make it easy for key stakeholders to manage their spend, otherwise they won t 14

15 Q&A

16 Thanks for joining us today! Let s connect! Cloud Cruiser Download our new Consume with Confidence e-book! 10 Ways to Use Cloud Analytics to Manage Usage & Spend 16