Cloud adoption is the implementation of a cloud-based computing environment for your organization. Depending on the applications that your organization uses, some of them may work best in the cloud — and by being operated in their ideal environment, can provide you with several of benefits.
In order to ensure that your applications are working properly and your end-users are having the best possible experience, you’ll also need to implement a cloud optimization strategy. This plan enables you to make changes to your infrastructure as the application needs evolve.
Below, we’ll discuss the benefits of a cloud optimization plan and how you can implement this strategy at your organization:
By having a cloud optimization strategy in place, your organization can:
While many organizations know that cloud optimization is important, C-Facts reported that “through 2024, 80% of companies will be unaware of their mistakes in their cloud adoption and will overspend by 20 to 50%.”
Cloud optimization is an ongoing process. Since your organization’s needs will change, — along with application infrastructure needs and other factors — it’s important to return to your plan on a regular basis to make updates as needed.
Each time you update your plan, it’s important to include:
There may be other factors to consider that are specific to your organization during your application-first digital transformation.
As more organizations move toward an application-first approach that helps businesses run applications more efficiently, it’s important to understand how these strategies can benefit your business.
A Multi-Generational Infrastructure (MGI) strategy allows organizations to update their infrastructure during their colocation contract. Since applications move faster than contracts, this strategy gives your organization the ability to shift your workload to the cloud or to colocation.
With the flexibility of MGI, you can change your infrastructure strategy as your needs change. In addition, by working with cloud experts to optimize your cloud infrastructure, you can have a number of additional benefits:
Foghorn Consulting, Evoque's cloud engineering arm, has slashed over 40% from customers’ AWS, GCP, and Azure bills — resulting in $100s of thousands in savings per month for our partners.
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