Time and Money: Once Again, the Balancing Scale

“My public cloud spend is far greater than we expected. “ We hear this in just about every conversation around the cloud. Let’s focus on the spend in AWS, Azure, Alibaba, and Google Cloud Platform.  What are some of the options out there that won't cost more than I can save? Where's the baby, here's the bathwater.

Whether you are an organization which is on a cloud journey, or are a value-add partner helping to shape or create the cloud strategy, there are always options on the table. Let’s talk about a few of these and how they may work. Potential 2 approaches:

1. Evaluate the environment with software
2. Evaluate the environment with people, process, and software - aka consulting

Let’s assume that the software is well written and that the people involved and processes they follow are of good quality.  Software alone should provide a relatively fast turnaround, and if it has reporting functionality, one should expect to kick out a report in a few hours or a few days depending on what’s being collected. (point in time snapshot vs performance or resourcing over time.)

Add people and process to the above, and you have consulting – which can be customized, pivot on the fly, and give the human touch. All positives, right?   Though this will take a longer time frame to get a report, the quality should be considerably higher.  In today’s fast-moving IT and business landscape, we don’t have time to wait for results. Stop the bleeding now, do the cosmetic surgery later if needed.

As a consumer or a value-add partner, which should you choose?

 What if the Software(Approach #1) can give you immediate savings, is easy to implement (as in no installation, just browser based), and is a very low cost application with rapid Return-Of-Investment in less than two months?

 What if this software saved you or your clients up to 65% of their monthly cloud spend?

 You could use this solution to give you a rapid (you see instant resource savings potential on the monthly bill) as well as leverage a low-cost answer to your overspend problem.  What’s next?

1. Free up OPEX for new projects and speed your GTM to drive business
2. Free up the IT team’s time in order for them to focus on those new projects
3. Add $avings to the bottom line and net profit

How to explore this solution, and realize savings as above? Reach out to me and let’s put some money back in your pocket. Or your clients’ pockets.