IT Cost Saving Services

The reality is that in the process of delivering IT Cost Savings through cloud optimisation there are significantly more variables than you think. If you break down some of those processes and compare, you start to understand the scope of the task to price a move to the cloud and ongoing costs.

Let’s take an example – changing the location of physical servers to a new room might entail evaluating power supply, networking, air conditioning, and then moving the servers.  Whereas a move to the cloud requires you to think about every aspect of running the server, the predicted demand over time and expectations of performance.  Each and every one of these decisions will almost always impact on the cost in one way or another too.

In a simplistic description, it’s more than just going back to the drawing board to reassess infrastructure.  You must consider everything you need to do that and how much of it you will consume to do that.

Think about cooking. If you were planning to cook a Sunday roast, in the physical world, you would work out how many you’re cooking for and go out to buy your meat and veg and then you’d go home to start cooking.

In a cloud environment, you have nothing in place – no oil, spices, trays, foil, utensils, cooker, power source or even the kitchen.  In the cloud, you must build from a blank canvas.

Next, you consider your ongoing costs.  How often are you cooking and need the power switched on?  How often will you have guests, and will they eat more than expected?

Moving from a physical to cloud infrastructure for even one application or service means everything you took for granted is gone and you must start from the very beginning, crafting an architecture that achieves the required performance today, with the versatility to scale for tomorrow.

It now starts to become clear that a pricing tool will never be able to deliver a complete answer. And in fact, it’s not going to help you manage your costs going forward either.

Nobody likes wasting money – get it right, first time

If you haven’t put any infrastructure in place yet, then our best advice is to talk it through first with an experienced provider first.  We can’t emphasize that enough.  We hate seeing customers wasting money.

Once the infrastructure is in place, it becomes more complex to unravel and resolve, and you may never achieve a perfect environment. Involving an experienced cloud architect at the beginning of the process ensures both flexibility within the environment and costs going forward.

If you’ve already put, or in the process of putting an infrastructure in place, then you may want a second opinion if it’s not working out or you have doubts.  You’d probably be surprised how many businesses do ask for a second opinion on their current provider.  It’s prudent to sanity check a large project to ensure it’s on track, moving down the right route, and not costing more than it should.

igroup gives just as much attention to both new and existing customers when it comes to delivering IT Cost Savings through cloud optimisation too. To us, you’re not just another customer. The technical team prides itself on knowing each customer’s environment in great detail, understanding the background and needs of the account. We’ll be able to advise exactly where you can make saving based on your business priorities.