Category: Cost Management - Page 2

5 Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices

This is the second part of our three-part series on Azure Cost Optimization. In Part 1, What Is Azure Cost Optimization? we looked at the basics of Azure cost optimization and some of the tools Azure makes available to manage cloud infrastructure costs. If you just want immediate insights into how you could improve your […]

Infographic: How to Reduce Azure Cloud Spend

Many people ask us, “How do you deliver 30% cost savings on average?” We created an infographic to show in numbers how we accomplish it. The questions we ask: Does your Azure spend stay within budget? Gartner reports that 70% of cloud spend is wasted each year due to poor architecture and overprovisioned resources. How […]

The Hidden Costs Of Ignoring Cloud Optimization

Microsoft Azure is a flexible cloud platform that gives businesses access to an incredible array of infrastructure and services. They can deploy any amount of infrastructure in any combination at any time. If a business has an infrastructure challenge, Azure has a solution, whether as a general infrastructure service like Azure Virtual Machines or a […]

What Is Azure Cost Optimization?

We recently developed a free optimization assessment – the Azure Snapshot – that gives you recommend actions that you can implement immediately for Azure security, monitoring, and cost optimization. Azure cost optimization is the process of assessing an organization’s infrastructure needs, the infrastructure it has deployed, and its current cloud costs. The goal is to […]

Optimize Infrastructure Management with Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite brings together a collection of cloud-based services that help businesses to monitor and manage their on-premise and cloud infrastructure in one place. Monitoring solutions such as System Center Operations Management (SCOM) and Azure Monitor offer complex and powerful functionality, and Azure provides numerous intuitive management interfaces. However, it can be challenging […]