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Softchoice Discovery Series: Cloud Cost Governance
The document outlines strategies for improving cloud cost governance, highlighting the financial challenges and barriers organizations face as they adopt cloud solutions. It emphasizes the importance of accountability, budget management, and optimization through effective use of tools and self-assessment. Lastly, it provides recommendations for organizations to enhance their cloud governance practices and ultimately reduce unexpected costs associated with cloud computing.
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- 1. Cloud Cost Governance Avoidingthe Unexpected Costs of Cloud Computing
- 2. Your Presenters Aaron Brooks Directorof Hybrid IT Aaron.Brooks@softchoice.com https://ca.linkedin.com/in/aaron-brooks-03b3068 Craig McQueen Microsoft Practice Director Craig.McQueen@softchoice.com https://ca.linkedin.com/in/craigmcqueen
- 3. Today’s Objective To providesome immediate next steps for you to improve cloud cost governance. $$ $
- 4. Agenda 1. What dowe mean by Cloud? 2. Drivers & Barriers 3. Financial Challenges 4. Overcoming Challenges 5. Self Assessment 6. Q&A
- 5. What do wemean by Cloud?
- 6.
- 7. Public Cloud SpendingIs Up and Growing
- 8. Cloud Drivers Agility Simplification Optimization • Speedto Deploy • Choice of Consumption Model • Access to Latest Features and Versions • Improved Maintenance and Support • Manage Cost/Risk • Avoid Aged Infrastructure • Applications • Data • Integration
- 9. Financial Barriers Budget Accountability • UtilityModel: OpEx vs. CapEx • Many ways to deliver applications (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) • Price is always changing • Changing Business Requirements • Insight into Over and Under utilized resources • Skills and Resources • Provisioning • Alignment between IT, LoB and Finance • Cost allocation (Business and Services) Optimization
- 10. Time Customer Experience Manage Risk BusinessImpact Cloud Adoption The Cloud Challenge
- 11. Trad IT Biz Time Customer Experience Manage Risk BusinessImpact Cloud Adoption The Cloud Challenge
- 12. Trad IT Biz Customer Experience Manage Risk BusinessImpact Cloud Adoption Time No plan • Pilots • 3-5 yrs The Cloud Challenge
- 13. Time Trad IT No plan DIY >30% Fail • Pilots • 3-5 yrs Biz • Skills gap Manage $ • No control Customer Experience Manage Risk Business Impact Cloud Adoption The Cloud Challenge
- 14. Trad IT Biz Time No plan DIY >30% Fail • Pilots • 3-5 yrs • Skills gap Manage $ • No control Customer Experience Manage Risk Business Impact Cloud Adoption The Cloud Challenge
- 15. Trad IT Biz Time No plan DIY >30% Fail • Pilots • 3-5 yrs • Skills gap Manage $ • No control Customer Experience Manage Risk Business Impact Cloud Adoption The Cloud Challenge
- 16. Softchoice Cloud ReadinessStudy – 2016 Don’t understand implications of CapEx vs. OpEx spending 45%
- 17. Softchoice Cloud ReadinessStudy – 2016 Struggle to hold lines of business accountable for cloud costs 44%
- 18. Softchoice Cloud ReadinessStudy – 2016 Lack tools to track cloud spending 42%
- 19. Softchoice Cloud ReadinessStudy – 2016 Have exceeded cloud spends 57%
- 20. Time Spend Budget Actual Clients end upspending more than twice as much as budgeted when governance measures not in place. Key Challenges: • Budget • Accountability • Optimization What We’ve Seen With Our Customers
- 22. Budget – Characteristics •Capex • Fix costs impede or kill projects • Sunk Costs: Hard to pivot • 1-3 year planning cycle • IT owns technology budget • OpEx: Agility, can pivot projects • Consumption based model • Forecasting becomes critical • Variable Costs • LOBs can own some technology budget Traditional Public Cloud Traditional Public Cloud
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- 24. Provision for Usage Burst to support demand OptimizedBudget Time Demand 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 $$$
- 25. Plan Your PublicCloud Spend Properly Optimized Cloud BudgetTraditional Budget • Planned for peaks • Over provisioned • Purchasing direct • Plan for performance • Right size Infrastructure • Automation
- 26. • Four yearuseful life assumed for on-premise hardware • Burdened at approx. 30% for environmental, space and maintenance • Over Provision and Under Utilized • Downtime for maintenance and feature upgrades • Costs Historically decrease 10% year over year • Reduced downtime for upgrades and maintenance • No assets • No Maintenance or Break-Fix costs Budget Influencers When Thinking Cloud Public Cloud Traditional IT
- 27. What to Do… ApplicationsAssessment Contingency Get Started $$ $
- 28. Accountability – Characteristics •Application use to accountability typically clear – can map 1:1 • Can strive to shared costs if services are used by more than one LOB • Clear procurement/provisioning rules • Without strategy, difficult to detail cost allocation • With strategy, full/partial cost allocation is easy • Close tie of revenue and cost • Open provisioning leads to escalated costs Traditional Public Cloud
- 29. Determine Accountability Line ofBusiness Finance IT
- 30. How do Iwant to measure my costs? Customer Department Project
- 31. Procurement Procurement • Users • Applications •Infrastructure • Platform Services • Process Controls • Technical Controls • Auditing What? Scope? How?
- 33. Governance Workshop Availability Business value Business priority Who makes decisions Whyit’s there Who pays the bill Deployment Identifier … Deployment Owner Purpose Steward Priority Net Benefit Operations Active Directory IT Security CIO Critical Productivity of end users 24x7 Web Site Marketing Public information and branding CFO Critical Demand Generation 24x7 CRM Sales Manage our Customers Sales VP Normal Client Relationships 9x5
- 34. Optimize – Characteristics •Resources fixed • Scaling is slow and costly • Limited ability to optimize costs due to CapEx Investment • Optimization comes by way of refresh • Insight focused on performance vs. spend/cost • New Tools Required to measure: • Spend • Performance • Usage • Ongoing Optimization and right sizing • Leveraging PaaS and App Modernization Traditional Public Cloud
- 35. Forecast to YourBudget • Set a Budget • Tools to measure in real time • Alert before you overspend
- 36. Track Spend &Allocate Costs • Leverage Catalog • Track Against Outcomes • Give Visibility to Stakeholders • Update Financial Processes
- 37. Optimize Cloud Environment •Measure Performance • Report on Usage • SLA • Right Size • Automation • Platform Services
- 38. Breaking Through TheBarriers Budget Accountability Optimize • Tool Based Budgeting • Forecast to Budget • Governance Workshop • Track Spend • Allocate Costs • Measure Performance • Understand Usage • Right Size / Automate Challenge Solution
- 39. Two dimensions ofCloud Success Speed of Adoption Managing Governance
- 40. The Adoption –GovernanceModel Realize business benefits sooner Competitors take market share No accountability to Cloud spend Optimal control over Cloud spendGovernance Adoption
- 41. Exercise 1 Calculate theextend and speed of your organization’s cloud adoption. SELF-ASSESSMENT
- 42. Exercise 2 Calculate theextent to which your organization can govern and manage cloud costs. SELF-ASSESSMENT
- 43. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Plot YourScores 44-50 36-43 28-35 20-27 12-19 5-11 5-11 12-19 20-27 28-35 36-43 44-50
- 44. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Interpreting YourResults Hesitant Cautious Cowboy Leader Governance Adoption
- 45. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Strengths vs.Opportunities Hesitant Cautious Cowboy Leader Adoption Governance Speed and Agility Run Governance Workshop Invest in Tools to Gain Insight Strengths Opportunities Balanced Continuous Improvement Automation and Modernization Positioned for Execution Analyze Workloads to Create Budget Get Started with Production App Minimized Risk Right Size and Optimize Create Roadmap for Adopting Cloud
- 46. Recommendations: Tools &Services to Drive Improvement • Cloud TechCheck • Workload AnalyzerHesitant • Jumpstart • Vendor-funded initiativesCautious • Governance Workshop • Customized ConsultingCowboy • Keystone • Softchoice Cloud DashboardLeader
- 47. Thank You! Contact ustoday. 1.800.268.7638 | www.softchoice.com
Editor's Notes
- #3 DSM: Here’s your presenters. Please make notes of any questions you have and we will be happy to answer.
- #4 See the path of financial management for azure and understand that there are tools to help.
- #5 See the path of financial management for azure and understand that there are tools to help.
- #8 TADD According to IDC research, many companies from varied industries find public cloud as the most adaptable model and its spending reached approx. $70 billion in 2015, up 24% from 2014 to 2015 and could possibly extend to $127.5 bn by 2018 at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.8%.
- #9 Critical for sale of services…must understand this. Find ways to get the client to talk about these things.
- #10 Critical for sale of services…must understand this. Find ways to get the client to talk about these things.
- #21 TADD In the Softchoice environment alone, our customers are overspending by $2.2m or 270% in comparison to their EA Commitments.
- #26 TADD Deploy VMWare capacity planner tool to grab on-prem system summaries: SQL, CPU performance, etc. Then execute pricing based on Azure Rate Card. Can optimize pricing based on currency, EA, etc.
- #28 Understand your applications Conduct assessments Add contingency to budget Gain experience : Get Started Invest in tools: Cost tracking and forecasting
- #30 TADD Who is accountable for the costs?
- #31 TADD Who is accountable for the costs?
- #32 TADD Who is accountable for the costs?
- #35 Conduct periodic assessments Understand your applications Script usage schedule Invest in tools: Resource usage
- #36 Megan
- #47 Shared Cloud TechCheck Workload Analyzer Accellerator and Jumpstart Governance Workshop Customized Consulting Managed Service Dashboard Size, Configuration, Visibility, and Ownership