To maximise the success of your Cloud deployment, architecture is everything. The decision you make on how to approach your Cloud architecture now can deliver long term benefits to business growth, cost efficiency and security across your environments.
Episode Two of the series explores the intricacies of Cloud architecture, and how you can reap the rewards of thoughtful implementation.
Cloud & Clear host Des O’Connor, Cloud Intelligence Lead UK at Dell Technologies, is joined by Charlotte Harrison-Gates, Cloud Management Solutions Sales at our partner VMware, and John Mariani, EMEA Business Development Manager, Dell Technologies.
Listen In To Learn
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- The importance of Cloud architecture and the benefits correct deployment can have across your organisation
- How to assess your existing Cloud environment and identify potential pain points
- Which finance and operating models will best suit your Cloud infrastructure
- How ‘Cloud-as-a-Service’ can support your architecture
Transparent Pricing
“As we look to the long-term, the impact of improper applications and workload, and their effects on margins and cost, becomes clear.” – John Mariani
When it comes to the Public Cloud, there are considerations to be made on its potential impact on CapEx and OpEx budgets. Public Cloud can represent a powerful value proposition, providing both immediacy and scalability, but as the lifecycle of the Cloud model lengthens initial cost-saving benefits can be lost to poor optimisation.
Optimisation Through CloudHealth
Optimisation is a must to ensure truly effective Cloud deployments, and is essential in providing a solution for poorly deployed Cloud architectures. The ultimate aim of optimisation is to achieve visibility across Multi-Cloud environments. This increased visibility allows teams to more effectively take responsibility for the maturity of their platform and ownership of their spending to avoid sub-optimal fund allocation.
VMware’s CloudHealth solution excels in assisting users in optimisation across Multi-Cloud environments, giving them more control over resourcing and centralising governance and security. The results of this optimisation are smaller bills and a lessened impact on CapEx and OpEx budgets, as well as providing better utility.
Zombie Infrastructure
“If developers don’t know how much they’re costing the business, they’re going to take all new options offered to them…[resulting in] infrastructure which has been left suspended or ‘spinning up’ without serving a purpose.” – Charlotte Harrison-Gates
This ‘zombie infrastructure’ can be a major drain on funds, but can be easily identified and mitigated using solutions such as CloudHealth. It is most effective to deploy these solutions right at the outset of deployment as part of your best practice and avoid the issue entirely, but they can be applied to Cloud environments at any stage of development.
Regardless of the architectural issue being tackled, working with a flexible, agnostic provider is key to maintaining good Cloud health and meeting future goals.
Dell Technologies provides an agnostic approach, with products and solutions to help our clients deploy their optimal Cloud environment seamlessly. This discussion demonstrates the many opportunities for clarification, improvement and refinement that additional expertise and technology can provide.
You can listen to all episodes of “Cloud and Clear” podcast, including this conversation on Cloud architecture, here.
