As organizations increase their use of public cloud services, managing cloud resources becomes a vexing challenge. While cloud buyers often see these issues as a technology problem, this approach can be self-defeating. More experienced cloud adopters have learned to take a holistic approach, calling for overall cloud management – from …
The Mechanics of Cloud Cost Management
As enterprises move more apps to cloud services, managing cloud spending can be difficult challenge for any organization. It can be difficult for those just getting started as well as those with years of cloud experience. There is one key factor, however, that can make a big difference: organizations with …
The Challenges of Cloud Budgeting
Cloud Governance includes a focus on forecasting, budgeting and cost accountability. This addresses a big challenge that organizations face – accurately setting and managing cloud spending targets, while meeting services and revenue objectives. Unfortunately, poor cloud budget planning and cost management can negatively affect financial performance and impact business objectives. …
Managing Expectations on Cloud Spending
Most IT teams migrating their systems to cloud computing will reluctantly admit that managing expectations for increased cloud spending has become a problem. To explore this growing issue, we talked to some of our customers to find out more. The Challenge By now, most companies of all sizes are moving …