Cloud Resource Governance
Resource governance is a new approach to resource and cost optimization that is focused on engineers, with the goal of giving them optimal flexibility while still maintaining safety and cost efficiency.
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Discover the Root Cause of Your Cloud Spend Issue
If you’re sick with a cold then measuring your body temperature is a wise move or maybe if things are really bad a visit to a doctor might result in testing vs. what are considered “normal” levels in order to diagnose the issue; seasonal flu or infection? To improve our health after picking up a bad bug, we do things that affect our situation back to normal levels once again where we can then declare ourselves healthy.
6 Things Critical to Cloud Optimization Programs
Enterprises face many challenges when FinOps programs turn to infrastructure optimization to find cloud savings. Cloud catalog complexity, reluctant engineers or even having the staff and time to make the many changes required can all slow down or impede progress and savings. In this 20-min session we will cover the 6 things leading large scale cloud users have learned are critical to cloud optimization programs.
Our Cloud Cost Optimization Framework That Works
We’ve seen two general approaches to getting optimization done to reduce cloud costs in our customers; the first and most popular is “the stick” where FinOps teams campaign against lines of business development teams with a mantra of “spend less”!
The Foundation of Cloud Optimization - Cloud Tagging Strategy
Cloud Tagging should be automated, not left to humans. Optimization in the cloud is actually really simple. Here’s how we get our customers thinking differently which in turn makes them successful. “To your developers the cloud is like a candy store is to a kid where all the candy is free”. Just as parents need to teach their kids the value of money, you need to teach your developers the value of cloud spend.
Building Organizational Trust for Cloud Optimization Software
You’ve loaded data into Densify and after reviewing recommendations your developers don’t want to take the recommended action – they aren’t trusting, yet. This is one of the top issues identified by the FinOps Foundation and many of our customers of Densify – but not all. Let’s explore what some customers do differently to build organizational trust in taking optimization recommendations.
Cloud & Kubernetes Tagging Best Practices
The importance of optimizing your tags. Watch this 20-min session to learn about the importance of accurate and consistent tagging, outlining the direct impact it has on data quality, security, and automation.
Maximize Long-Term Savings From Cloud Providers with Densify
One of the first considerations for FinOps teams trying to lower their public cloud spend is investing in long-term savings vehicles available from their Cloud Service Provider. These programs can provide customers with upwards of 72% savings off on-demand prices, in return for a 1-to-3-year usage commitment, so it’s pretty common that we see them in use by our customers.
We Let Our Developers Choose Their Own K8S Requests and Limits and This Happened!
Some things are better left to machines. Watch this 20-min highly focused kubernetes session. We will cover.
Densify Talks, Automated Cloud Instance Selection with Josh Hilliker from Intel
On this episode of Densify Talks, Josh and Andrew discuss automated instance selection and the importance of letting machines make the resource decisions as cloud environments scale. Speaking from the perspective of a hardware manufacturer, Josh offers unique insight into some of the criteria that affect the performance and cost of hosting apps in the cloud, and how to leverage “optimization as code” to automate the optimization process.