PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudability,
the True Costâ„¢ cloud management platform, announced today the
launch of Rightsizing Recommendations for Azure. A popular and
broadly adopted feature for AWS users since it launched last year,
Rightsizing Recommendations helps enterprises optimize cost by
providing pertinent information on how they can build and scale
their cloud infrastructure tightly around their needs, so that they
only provision the resources their business will actually use. With
today's launch, Cloudability Rightsizing Recommendations is now
available for enterprises using either AWS or Azure as their
primary public cloud provider or as part of a multi-cloud
environment.
Rightsizing for Azure is designed to bring a new level of
transparency, control, efficiency, and elasticity into the Azure
cloud compute environment. With Cloudability's Rightsizing,
enterprises gain a view into how they are using their cloud
resources over time and into key utilization metrics per resource.
They can then evaluate the multiple recommendation scenarios based
on the associated risk and savings. Cloudability generates
recommendation risk by a blend of statistical models and
proprietary algorithms, each based on Cloudability's massive
underlying cross-ecosystem data set.
"One of the biggest reasons companies move to the cloud is to
save time and money. But what often happens is the migration
creates new resource utilization complexities. So something that
was initially well-intentioned can pretty quickly lead to cost
overruns and headaches if it's not managed right," said
Patrick Philips, Director of Data
Science, Cloudability. "With Rightsizing Recommendations, we put
the power back into the hands of enterprise DevOps teams, giving
them insight into risk versus reward tradeoffs and helping them to
take actions that best suit their resource demands."
Major features and functionality of Cloudability Rightsizing
Recommendations include:
Statistical modeling, rich datasets and proprietary risk
measurement algorithms: Cloudability Rightsizing approaches
resource utilization through the lens of a predetermined length of
time (suggested as 10 days). It then creates a statistical model
around the resource utilization taking into account peak
utilization periods. Having a massive cross-customer and
cross-ecosystem data pool to work with, Cloudability has high
confidence in determining performance characteristics across
instance families and instance types, even between geographic
regions. Cloudability Rightsizing also leverages its own
proprietary algorithms to rank risk between different resource
utilization options.
Visual representation: Cloudability offers a graphical
representation to assess the recommendation risk by enabling
companies to overlay on their current workload utilization the
applicable instance types and their anticipated performance. For
compute resources for example, all four key metrics of utilization,
namely CPU, disk (for instance types with local disk), memory, and
bandwidth, are available per resource. The ability to cycle through
each recommendation against the actual resource utilization, allows
you to visually inspect the headroom and potential for clipping
ahead of actioning game-changing rightsizing initiatives.
Recommendations: Cloudability provides multiple
recommendations. Since each business in its customer portfolio has
different needs in terms of specific resources they can use,
Cloudability surfaces the top recommendation for each resource and
arranges the remaining recommendations to show which next highest
savings options are available with some additional risk.
Companies interested in learning more about Cloudability
Rightsizing Recommendations for Azure can visit the Azure
Rightsizing product overview page and accompanying Azure
Rightsizing blog post.
About Cloudability
Cloudability is a True Costâ„¢ cloud
management platform that empowers enterprises to run their cloud
like a business. Offering the industry's most precise insight into
every aspect of cloud usage in real-time, Cloudability ensures
enterprises in all phases of cloud migration run their business
with cloud financials they can trust. Adopted by a majority of the
top 50 Fortune 100 companies across the retail, financial services,
healthcare and media sectors, Cloudability helps both
enterprises and cloud-native companies leverage advanced analytics,
automation and machine learning to transform their cloud
infrastructure data into a new source of competitive value,
providing disruptive advantage over time. Cloudability is
venture-backed and based in Portland,
Oregon. For more information, visit
www.cloudability.com.
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