Cloud Operations
As part of the cloud managed services offering I-RAY assumes responsibility for the software and technologies designed for operating and monitoring applications, data and services residing in the cloud. Cloud management tools help ensure cloud computing-based resources are working optimally and properly interacting with users and other services. I-RAY understands the public cloud, and that their focus needs to be on helping enterprises with security and governance, managing cloud spending, the lack of resources/expertise, and the ability to manage multi-cloud. I-RAY defines the cloud operating model for the customer. The black box public Cloud makes it harder for IT Organizations to keep sight of the big picture and live up to their supervisory obligations. This becomes evident mainly through the lack of close ties to the actual IT Operations of the cloud Infrastructure. The use of Public Cloud infrastructure is based on shared responsibility model in which responsibilities are clearly separated between the provider (Physical environment) and its clients (logical environment). I-RAY understands the separation layer and manages the provider and ensures availability, fault, performance across network, system and applications.
Cloud services
As part of the cloud managed services offering I-RAY assumes responsibility for the software and technologies designed for operating and monitoring applications, data and services residing in the cloud. Cloud management tools help ensure cloud computing-based resources are working optimally and properly interacting with users and other services.
I-RAY understands the public cloud, and that their focus needs to be on helping enterprises with security and governance, managing cloud spending, the lack of resources/expertise, and the ability to manage multi-cloud. I-RAY defines the cloud operating model for the customer.
The black box public Cloud makes it harder for IT Organizations to keep sight of the big picture and live up to their supervisory obligations. This becomes evident mainly through the lack of close ties to the actual IT Operations of the cloud Infrastructure. The use of Public Cloud infrastructure is based on shared responsibility model in which responsibilities are clearly separated between the provider (Physical environment) and its clients (logical environment). I-RAY understands the separation layer and manages the provider and ensures availability, fault, performance across network, system and applications.
Cloud Cost Reduction Tips
- Get Insights on spending from different cloud resources doing the same function.
- Meter, allocate budget and forecast future use.
- Develop the ability to group the cloud cost department wise.
- Track unused and under used resources.
- Track who is provisioning what in real time
- Continuous clean up helps in removing unwanted usage of infrastructure.
Cloud Optimization Services
Why Cloud Cost Optimization
- Most public cloud customers pay more than what they utilize. The cloud service providers can reduce the cost by optimizing the infrastructure utilization
- Each component of Cloud server, storage, tools and other services has to be reviewed
- Integrating Cloud Optimization services will allow the TCO to be brought down overall
- Good service provider can reduce cost without compromising on availability and performance
Cloud Cost Management Challenges
- Predicting cloud spending, internal chargebacks and allocating budgets appropriately
- Lack of financial transparency due to scattered usage
- Enterprise cloud costs are hard to predict and hard to understand.
- Confusing terminologies used by different cloud service providers.
- Increase in the no of application infrastructure components due to complex digital applications
- Lack of real time spend visualization
