Companies face psychological, institutional, and technical hurdles when it comes to confidently right-sizing app instances In a recent post, we noted that many companies are struggling to control their public cloud costs, even though a key driver for moving to the public cloud in the first place was often to cut infrastructure expenses. There is …

Right-sizing Public Cloud Instances Can Cut Costs 20%-40% Read More »

The rush to the cloud is well underway. According to a 2016 IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Survey of IT leaders, 45% of their IT environments was hosted in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment. Cloud vendors are responding to the demand with a dizzying array of options which routinely lead to costly over-provisioning and …

Solving the Cloud Placement Puzzle Requires Science – Not Guesswork Read More »

By almost any measure, cloud computing is on a tear. Most organizations have grown comfortable with this form of computing, and many have grown passionate. Unfortunately, far too many companies are still using a haphazard, piecemeal approach in their adoption of different cloud models and services. The lack of a comprehensive cloud computing strategy today …

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In this final segment of our ongoing series about right-sizing public cloud instances for optimal performance and cost efficiency, we are focusing on a common source of cloud overspending: deadwood. Idle or zombie instances plague many public cloud environments, insidiously wasting your opex budget dollars. This deadwood can occur without you even realizing it, and …

How to Eliminate Deadwood in AWS, Azure, & Google Cloud Platform Without Risking Disaster Read More »

In previous blog posts we’ve discussed the challenges organizations face in choosing the right cloud instances, and how understanding workload patterns is critical to right-sizing public cloud instances for optimal CPU and memory efficiency. In this post, we’ll look at a key aspect of instance selection that plays a critical role in optimizing AWS, Azure, …

How to Modernize Public Cloud Instances to Stop Leaving Money on the Table Read More »

Of all the reasons to move to public cloud solutions during the past decade, reducing computing costs has perennially ranked as a top driver. That remains true today – in its most recent cloud computing survey of more than 900 IT decision makers, IDG Enterprise found that 42% cited lower total cost of ownership as …

Why Controlling Public Cloud Costs is so Difficult & What to Do About It Read More »

In our last blog post in this series, we discussed how to overcome the “bump-up loop” in which you continually increase CPU resource allocations in public cloud instances, even when it isn’t needed. In this blog post, we’ll look at another cloud resource management challenge: memory. Sizing memory appropriately is extremely important because memory is …

How to Size Your Cloud Instances for Memory Read More »

In the first blog in this series, we looked at why it’s so important to look at an application’s workload patterns when sizing for any public cloud, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and others. In this post, we’ll look at another common pitfall that we call the cloud instance bump-up loop. Here’s how …

How to Avoid the Sneaky (and Costly) Public Cloud Instance “Bump-Up” Loop Read More »

Organizations are moving application workloads to public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in droves. After all, it’s a cost-effective way to get things done, right? Not necessarily. In reality, many organizations are overspending and overprovisioning their cloud instances is a key reason why. Analysts predict that by 2020, 80% of organizations will overshoot their …

How to Choose the Right Public Cloud Instances to Reduce Costs and Optimize App Performance Read More »

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research shows that approximately 50% of public cloud customers are complaining about significant cost overruns in their monthly public cloud bills. 36% indicate that they only have an incomplete understanding of public cloud cost and 38% admit that they are not able to predict public cloud performance and compliance. The fact …

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