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Cost Implications of various cloud compute options
Cloud platforms offer several compute options that have significant cost implications. As you are planning for the cloud make sure to examine the characteristics of your workload and then select the most suited compute option. In this blog we compare some cloud...
The Deep Discovery Conundrum in Cloud Planning
Is it essential for a cloud planning tool to provide deep discovery? In our experience in the last 12 months modeling over 750K machines for the cloud we've seen two diametrically opposing requirements for deep discovery. Read more about these opposing requirements...
AWS vs. Azure – A Features Comparison
AWS vs. Azure – A Features Comparison In August we worked with a client who was evaluating AWS and Azure as potential destinations for their on-premise applications. We created a chart comparing the high level features of AWS and Azure. The chart showed interesting...
Akasia Announces support for planning for migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS in the Akasia Infrastructure Modeler (AIM)
AIM provides customers with granular planning, cost assessments and bill of materials for transitions from on-premise environments to VMware Cloud on AWS August 28th, 2017, Santa Clara — Akasia, Inc., today announced the availability of Akasia Infrastructure Modeler...
Cloud Cost Planning in a Hybrid Environment
Basefarm is a European Managed Service Provider who specializes in managing applications that run in a hybrid (on-premise and in the cloud) environment. They contacted us because several of their clients ask about the cost differentials as they migrate applications to...
How the new Azure Buying Options Impact You
As of February 1st 2017, Microsoft has introduced some changes in how customer can buy Azure pay-as-you-go. With these changes Microsoft intends to simplify and add value to end-customers as well as its vast community of channel partners. While there has been mixed...
The Anatomy of Cloud Costs Planning
Recently we had the pleasure of working with Polleo Systems to help them with their cost planning for the cloud. They have several hundred VMs and they were evaluating which of them to migrate to the cloud and why. Some word of mouth recommendations led them to ask us...
Enterprises should reverse their order of priorities when planning for the cloud
Among the various trends that I have observed over the last 12 months of working smack in the middle of cloud planning discussions, I would like to address one that seems counter-intuitive at first blush but is a definite shift in how forward-thinking enterprises are...
Observations from Modeling 5000 VMs
Recent trends in Cloud Costing. In a review of over 5000 VMs that were put through our cloud cost modeling tool, we distilled some interesting factoids: AWS costs were lowest across all the major clouds with the exception of custom templates in GCP (a relatively new...