the economics of azure management
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THE ECONOMICS OF AZURE
MANAGEMENT
Your Presenters
Megan ShukerProduct Manager
Tadd AxonMicrosoft Practice Lead
Welcome/Agenda
• What is the problem?• Why is it different?• Who should be involved?• How to leverage tools• Caveats• Q&A
Public Cloud Spending Is Up and Growing
IDC Research- Public cloud Computing spending by Cloud types (Paas, laas, Saas)
Worldwide Public IT Cloud Services Spending by Segment (in $ billions)
Why is Financial Governance different in Azure?
Unmanaged deployments have direct, immediate impact to operational expenditure
HOW MUCH?
Extended Cost and Amount
Amount
Extended Cost
270%
Why is Financial Governance different in Azure?
IMPROPERLY SIZED
Why is Financial Governance different in Azure?
IMPROPERLY CONFIGURED
Why is Financial Governance different in Azure?
UNCLEAR OWNERSHIP
Why is Financial Governance different in Azure?
INVISIBLE
Why is Financial Governance different in Azure?CHARACTERISTIC ON PREMISE AZURE
SIZING Eventual impact on capital expenditure Immediate impact on operational expenditure
CONFIGURATION Eventual impact on capital expenditure Immediate impact on operational expenditure
OWNERSHIPDifficult to attribute, problematic to measure (division of capital and operational expenditure)
Without proper controls, hard to track and allocate
VISIBILITY Difficult to even identify, hard to measure actual impact on expenditure
Easier to identify, immediate impact on operational expenditure
Why is Financial Governance Important?
• Attribute (or show) costs to the proper area of business
• Understanding consumption patterns enables forecasting, and some other significant benefitso Measure cost-effectiveness prior to deploymento Predictability of costs to operateo Identify where costs scale with organizational benefits
Who?
I.T. FinanceLine of Business
How?
Understand Ownership
How?
• Accountability for costso Identify the business owner
• Accountability for provisioning/deprovisioning resourceso Process controlso Technical controlso Auditing
• Additional considerationso Sensitivity of datao Regulatory obligations
How?
OTHER
COST
PROVISIONING
Tools
Cloud TechCheck
File Sys. Cap (GB) File Sys. Util (%) Disk Used (GB) Read(KB/sec) Write(KB/sec) Peak IOPS
14015 34.38% 4818 367.74 196.25 2571.17
Cloud TechCheck
Tools
Softchoice Azure Dashboard
Softchoice Azure Dashboard
Softchoice.com Ea.azure.com
Display month-over month spending Commitment Analysis with expected end dates X
Graphical displays of spending broken down by subscription, department, account, etc X
Ability to track spending to subscription and product X
Graphical view of daily spending by category, product, subscription, department, etc. X
Usage reports with details down to the instance level to track spending. X
Identify percentages in spending changes period-over-period X
Identify exact date when commitment will be met. X
Caveats
• Investment Requiredo Planningo Timeo Resources
• Changes Requiredo Processo Technical Controls
• Capital to Operational expenditure move can be culturalo Approvalso Depreciationo EBITDA
Azure Bootcamps and Webinars
Azure Hub: http://www.softchoice.com/azure
• Upcoming Azure full-day Bootcamps in Montreal, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, LA, Seattle
• Upcoming Webinars on: Identity Management, Backup, Application Security and more
Q&A