The cloud offers enhanced security and stability, helps cut costs, and gives companies greater flexibility. The latter comes in handy when you need to navigate the ever-changing terrain of doing business – which most companies appreciate.
Cloud services are taking the business world by storm and cloud adoption statistics tell the same story.
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It’s no surprise we’re seeing these kinds of adoption statistics, as the move to cloud computing has been a no-brainer for many enterprise companies. Cost-cutting tops the list of the reasons why enterprises choose to adopt the cloud, followed by the appeal of new features and capabilities, current warehouses filling up, and widespread executive mandates.
But unlike many other operating costs, cloud computing is an expense that is largely variable. Cloud services and Software-as-a-Service represent a large and fast-growing share of the budget for most organizations.
One of the most challenging aspects of managing cloud infrastructure is cost monitoring, optimization, and forecasting. There are countless services to keep track of — including storage, databases, and compute — each with its own complex pricing structure. It’s one of the reasons why compared to most other organizational costs, monitoring cloud costs and accurately forecasting them is so complex.
Cloud costs represent such a significant portion of a company’s operating budget, and this isn’t changing any time soon. It means that if significant action isn’t taken to actively monitor and lower cloud spend, organizations’ pockets are going to hurt - and it’ll be upon them sooner than they realize. Because these costs are so challenging to stay on top of, many organizations are currently (or should be) working on their FinOps approach - an emerging field that specializes in merging engineers, developers, and financial professionals in order to optimize cloud expenses.
As with many other use cases today, many organizations and their FinOps teams are turning to technology to help them manage and navigate this growing problem. Specifically, organizations are turning to data analytics platforms. They’re targeting the specific issue of cloud waste, given this waste is accounting for 30% of cloud budgets today.
We broke down Three Easy Ways To Lower Cloud Spend that focus on reducing that waste, including:
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Cloud computing forecasts point to one thing – the future of computing is indeed in the cloud. Cloud services are convenient, fast, secure, and can be cost-effective to boot - so long as organizations take the proper steps to monitor, optimize, and forecast their expenses.
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