1、CLOUD COST MANAGEMENT BRING YOUR COMPANYS CLOUD SPENDING UNDER CONTROL PAGE 26 COSTLY MISTAKES TO AVOID WHEN SETTING UP AND MANAGING AN EMAIL SERVER OVERVIEW In this white paper, were going to look at techniques that businesses can implement to maximize their cloud infrastructure value. Businesses c
2、ite infrastructure cost savings as one of the main reasons for hosting applications in the cloud. They want to do more with infrastructure while spending less. Cloud flexibility and on-demand pricing hold out the promise of bringing server spending under control. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) p
3、latforms are elastic so server resources can be scaled up or down in response to business needs. Businesses only pay for the compute and storage resources they use. Billing increments are hourly rather than monthly or longer for other types of server hosting. Cloud platforms are post-paid: businesse
4、s pay for what they use, rather than paying up-front for resources they might not need. But businesses often find it challenging to turn the theoretical cost benefits of the cloud to their advantage. According to the RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report, as much as 35 percent of cloud spend is
5、wasted. Many cloud platforms have ferociously complex pricing structures. It is difficult for businesses to predict how much they will be billed. Gartner found that 80 percent of organizations overshoot IaaS cloud budgets. Businesses that “lift and shift” applications into the cloud duplicate legacy
6、 infrastructure on cloud platforms They over-provision infrastructure and fail to take advantage of cloud elasticity. The flexibility of the cloud can work against businesses that dont implement and enforce infrastructure provisioning and teardown policies. Infrastructure-as-a-Service gives business