Cloud Spend

April 14, 2022

CLOUD

Intersight Workload Optimizer: How to Tame the Public Cloud

8 min read

In this third blog in my Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) series, I focus on how IWO can help with public cloud optimization.

August 18, 2015

CLOUD

Cut Your Risks & Costs By Reducing Redundant Cloud Services

2 min read

How crazy is this? We’ve found that large organizations on average use 172 compute, 157 marketing and sales and 62 finance services from the cloud. Some organizations use nearly double these amounts! Simply put, as businesses groups control more IT spend and purchase more cloud services, cloud sprawl is skyrocketing. A large organization now uses […]

January 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Do You Know How Much You Are Spending On Cloud? Hidden Costs of Public Cloud Can be 4-8 Times Higher than Visible Costs

2 min read

Reducing costs remains amongst the top reasons why organizations use public cloud services. However, when calculating the costs of public cloud services organizations need to look well beyond the license fees and billed costs. With Cisco Cloud Consumption Services, we have worked with numerous customers to discover their public cloud usage and analyze cloud spend. […]