Despite migrating to the cloud, many organisations are yet to see the benefits on their balance sheets. Other businesses lack the visibility and knowledge to fully understand their cloud solution or the complexities of the cost models.
So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the number one cloud initiative for many organisations is a cloud optimisation strategy. But without the right in-house knowledge, making this a reality can be incredibly difficult.
The business landscape is in constant flux. Market forces, innovative disrupters, shifting customer expectations, and the introduction new technology can cause unexpected complications. In such a dynamic world, systems that lack agility become a cost and risk liability - even cloud infrastructure.
Let Nasstar take that worry off your hands with our cloud optimisation services. Our experts will ensure that your cloud environment is operating to its fullest potential, keeping you ahead of market demands and your competitors. We’ll handle the optimisation so you can focus on growing your business.
Kat Clarkson
Managed Services Director at Nasstar
"Nasstar helps businesses of all sizes understand and continuously optimise their cloud resources. We work closely with our customers to ensure they’re only paying for what they use. On an ongoing basis, we’ll leverage the right mix of services, to manage and maximise your application performance while reducing expenditure and risk."
Our expertise
At the heart of our continuous cloud optimisation model is our Cloud Centre of Excellence – a team of experts who are constantly evolving our standards, embedding best practices, and driving innovation to deliver value and opportunity for your business.
Aided by bespoke custom dashboards to benchmark and measure progress, our experts produce reports, heatmaps, and recommendations that highlight your biggest opportunities for improvement.
Throughout your transformation journey, our dedicated experts will educate and nurture your internal stakeholders to ensure that your cloud story continues to evolve.
Eliminate waste and gain control
Leveraging best practice and real-world experience, Nasstar helps organisations at all scales to maximise their application’s performance and reduce expenditure while adhering to cloud governance standards.
Nasstar’s Cloud Optimisation offerings allow organisations to better understand their IT resources. As your strategic advisor, we monitor, review, and make recommendations on how to optimise your cloud environment. By leveraging the right services and expertise, we can bring accountability and transparency to your cloud spend.
Our experts will identify opportunities to maximise the return on your cloud investment, without compromising on performance, security, or scalability.
- Align cloud spend to business needs and save up to 20-30%
- AWS & Microsoft Azure cloud rightsizing and optimisation
- Optimise your cloud with actionable insights and recommendations
- Improve governance and control by driving accountability, tagging, cost allocation and chargeback
- Reduce your carbon footprint by measuring and analysing emissions from your IT infrastructure
Cloud Optimisation Service Delivery
FAQs
In today's digital landscape, cloud adoption is nearly ubiquitous. However, only a small proportion of organisations have a clear understanding of their cloud expenditure. Meanwhile, the rapid shift towards cloud solutions, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and technological advancements, has introduced significant complexities in cloud management.
Cloud services come with varying costs, and many organisations find their IT expenses rising instead of falling. Navigating these challenges without the proper tools and expertise can lead to even more confusion and costs. As businesses strive for greater efficiency, reducing overspend has become a critical objective.
Cloud optimisation involves a continuous process of monitoring and adjusting your IT environment to select the right resources for the right tasks. This approach not only helps in identifying cost-saving opportunities but also in reducing resource wastage.
While the cloud offers vast potential, it also presents challenges such as overprovisioning, underutilised assets, and inefficient data storage. Effective cloud management can help to optimise these resources. It involves monitoring key operational metrics such as service availability, response time, throughput, and capacity.With the data collected from monitoring, organisations can make informed decisions. For instance, if cost reduction is your goal, you can aim to identify and deactivate redundant server instances or assess the return on investment (ROI) of your current pricing plan.
Examples of cloud optimisation objectives include:
- Ensuring efficient operation of multi-cloud environments
- Establishing a clear cloud governance structure
- Adjusting storage types to better align with workloads
- Leveraging the latest energy-saving and cost-efficient processor technologies
Cost and service alignment: Cloud optimisation services enhance efficiency by rightsizing resources to match application and workload requirements. With real-time visibility into spending and usage, organisations can align costs with business key performance indicators (KPIs) and link spending to ROI. Data-driven insights enable users to fine-tune each service offering to meet their specific needs and gain cloud cost optimisation.
Reduced cloud spend: Monitoring cloud costs provides powerful oversight of your infrastructure. We estimate that most companies could achieve a 20-30% reduction in cloud costs through optimisation.
Improved cloud application performance: Overprovisioned resources or excessive network traffic can slow down performance. Cloud optimisation helps identify opportunities to eliminate or reduce unnecessary resources, allowing organisations to run workloads more efficiently.
Increased productivity: With better control over infrastructure, organisations can predict and respond to issues more quickly. An optimised environment and automated processes free up developers to focus on creating new products and experiences for end users.
Enhanced cloud utilisation: The multitude of cloud solutions can be overwhelming. For instance, AWS offers over 200 services. Continuous cloud optimisation simplifies tracking essential features for your business operations. Practices like auto-scaling dynamically adjust cloud resources based on workload demands.
Nasstar’s Cloud Optimisation services offer tailored strategies to maximise your IT environment. We provide both one-time consultancy engagements for quick wins and ongoing managed services to implement architectural changes that reduce costs and enhance sustainability.
Our experts utilise a blend of cloud-native tools, best practices, and real-world experience to optimise cost, storage, network, computing power, and operations. This approach will allow you to maximise performance while minimising expenditure.
