Many organizations have a cloud-first or cloud-only strategy, but not everything can be transitioned overnight. With CIOs being laser-focused on driving revenue generation and business innovation, many organizations are moving towards the cloud, multiple clouds in fact. Concurrently, these organisations are still operating Data Centres, combining two of their biggest concerns: Cloud & Cost. This means they are in transition with costs arising from both environments, which leads to decentralised control and overprovisioning of resources.
This increases the complexity and leads to unexpected costs, waste, as well as increased monitoring happening through different toolsets but with no observability. Hence, it is time to take back control with IT Operations Management by recapturing and redirecting cloud-funding that's not being spent wisely. Here is a 3-step approach for optimising your cloud operations :
- Taming your cloud costs first with FinOps that helps reducing waste, freeing up budget and funding incremental innovation.
- Implementing AIOPs by adding observability, boosting service performance and increasing staff productivity.
- Automating vulnerability management to quickly address known vulnerabilities & exposures, thus reducing the security and compliance risks across cloud services.
The benefit of adopting this approach would be to unlock incremental funding, which might be used for innovation. This will also provide key stakeholders Global observability, Faster insights and Efficient resolutions, to improve ITOps performance.
