Gain a sneak peek of Cloud Financial Advisor (CFA), a new and innovative offering from RDX that helps organizations make more informed cloud business decisions. RDX Cloud Platform Services Team, Troy Mitchell and Allen Holmes, begin with an overview of the benefits cloud systems provide along with tips to help manage cloud expenses. Troy and Allen then provide a demo of Cloud Financial Advisor’s cost allocation, reporting and billing features to showcase how this offering helps organizations easily scale and manage their cloud subscriptions.

1. RDX Managed Services Project Kickoff
<DATE>
Managing Cloud Costs
March 28, 2019

2. 2
• Reduce Costs - Lower or eliminate CapEx in exchange for Opex
• Flexibility & Agility – Scale up and down reducing time to productivity
• Collaboration – Always on from anywhere from the internet
Benefits of the Cloud
Many enterprises experience after the first couple of months in the cloud:
• Higher than expect complicated cloud bills
• Ease of cloud allows for unlimited resources to be provisioned
• Lack of business/IT cloud policies makes accountability challenging

3. 3
1. Monitor spending daily - understand cloud consumption trends by workloads
2. Use a stand alone cloud cost management tool – multi-cloud prevents vendor lock
3. Require Tags company wide – increase accountability for specific workload costs
4. Deploy a Usage Strategy – shut down unused or unnecessary instances
5. Use automation - build a consistent cloud delivery model to control costs
5 Quick Tips to Control Cloud Costs

4. 4
Cloud Financial Advisor
• Self discovers all objects within your cloud
subscription
• Tracks active objects and accounts for
expected and unexpected state changes
• Understand cost consumption for instances,
storage (block & object), and networking
• Single report for multi-cloud Azure and AWS
accounts – one dashboard, one invoice
• Add up to 250 individual tags to provide
granular reporting and cost accountability
• Action cloud objects that are abandoned or
un-tagged to optimize cost
• Track instances, block storage, object
storage, elastic load balancers and
networking
• Use tags to track by business unit,
department, project or any custom tag
• Real-time, any time invoicing
• Objects billed at a per minute rate and
tracked against Azure and AWS price rates
• Invoice reporting allows search and filter
functions to track tagged and un-tagged
objects
• Download invoices via Excel for off line
financial and business analysis
• Customable price rates and IT uplift options
for internal and external custom invoicing
RDX’s advanced cost management solution helps IT professionals understand every detail about their cloud
subscription. Aggregate up to the minute object cost and usage detail for external or internal invoicing and billback.
Cost Allocation Track & Manage Invoice & Billing
CFA Web-Based Portal CFA Statements CFA Data Export

5. RDX Cloud Financial Advisor Demo

6. 6
Start your 14 day free trial today!
Access real-time data from your CFA Services dashboard
Download your cloud subscription details (CSV file)
Access to the CFA support team
Contact
Troy Mitchell - Sales & Channel Management
tmitchell@rdx.com
Take the Next Step

7. Presentation Copy
A recording and copy of the
webinar’s slides will be emailed to
everyone who attended today.
Upcoming Events
Microsoft Inspire
July 14th-16th
Las Vegas, NV
Follow RDX
Follow @RDX_DBAs to stay
updated on our latest news,
articles and events!
Questions & Additional Information