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2. 5 Ways to Optimize Your Azure Infrastructure
Visibility, Optimization and Governance for your
Public Cloud and Hybrid Environments
Shabrina Jauhal
Solution Architect
Thayer Glasscock
Regional Manager

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Who is CloudHealth Technologies?
Deep Domain Expertise in ITSM
$86 Million in Venture Capital Raised
600+ Direct Customers
200+ Employees
Headquartered in Boston, MA
Offices in San Francisco, Washington DC,
London, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Kuala
Lumpur & Singapore
1,300+ Channel Customers through
80+ Partners

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1.1
Our Management Metrics
99.99%
yearly platform
uptime
assets
PER MONTH…
1.2 million policies
evaluated
365,000 emails sent
$15 million in monthly
RI purchases
PER DAY…
14 million VMs
600PB Storage
8TB bills processed
400,000 perspectives / groups
305,000 cubes generated
3,000 reports generated
billion
API callsin cloud spend
managed per year

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Cost Drives Public Cloud Adoption
§ According to Gartner, it is common for
public cloud expenditures to be 2x
higher than projections
§ Proper visibility leads to confident
spending
§ Hourly billing can be complex but
empowering

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Publishing & Media eCommerce IT Security
Business Intelligence &
Analytics
Marketing & Advertising Social Performance Management Gaming Analytics
Best Practices Gathered from Cloud Leaders

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1. Tag All Resources
§ Companies on average have 6
naming conventions that align to their
business strategy
§ Tagging drives organization and
accountability of resources.
§ An untagged resource might be a
security threat

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2. Terminate Zombie Resources
§ Unnecessary security risks
§ Common causes of zombies:
ü Forget to turn off resources
§ Dev, Testing, Big Data
ü Failed launch of VMs
ü De-provisioning scripts fail
ü Unused Volumes
ü Old Snapshots
ü Idle Load balances
CLOUDOLOGIST TIP
Start your zombie hunt: find VMs that have
a max CPU < 10% over the past 30 days.

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3. Rightsize Disk Storage
§ Over-provisioned disk storage
can be modified for potential
cost savings
§ Evaluate capacity, IOPS, and
throughput
§ Two storage performance tiers:
– Standard
– Premium
§ Price difference can be as
high as 3x!
CLOUDOLOGIST TIP
Premium storage is billed based on the
total disk size, regardless of
consumption. Keep a close eye on
utilization of to minimize wasted cost.

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4. Rightsize Virtual Machines
§ Over-provisioning a VM can
lead to exponentially higher
costs.
§ Evaluate CPU, memory, disk,
and network utilization
– A good starting place for
rightsizing is to look for VMs
that have an Avg CPU < 5%
and Max CPU < 20% for 30
days
CLOUDOLOGIST TIP
A good starting place for rightsizing is to
look for VMs that have an Avg CPU <
5% and Max CPU < 20% for 30 days.
VMs that fit this criteria are viable
candidates for rightsizing or termination.

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5. Start and stop VMs on a schedule
§ How many of your VMs really need
to run 24x7?
§ Instances running 24x7 run 672 to
744 hours per month
– Turn off VMs on nights, weekends,
and holidays, and the same VM
will run 152 - 184 hours per
month
CLOUDOLOGIST TIP
Create a Tag called Run Time for
all non production VMs.
IE RunTime:MF8/6pst, this VM
would run Monday to Friday 8am
to 6pm PST.

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How can CloudHealth help?

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Gain visibility across all accounts
Align your cloud costs with business groups for financial accountability

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Consolidated view & business Perspectives
§ View assets & resources through
a business lens
§ Align metrics and reporting to
business objectives
§ Rule-based grouping by tags and
meta data
§ Leverage perspective for
reporting and analysis
§ Mapping dependencies of
downstream resources

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Analyze cost, usage, and performance
§ Granular, interactive reporting by
accounts, functional business
groups, services and service
items
§ Sample cost reporting
capabilities:
– Cost reallocation to enable
financial reporting
– Burndown tracking versus
annual commitment
§ Leverage integrations to provide
context for workloads and their
usage

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Active policy management
§ Define how to manage cost, availability,
performance & security of cloud
infrastructure
§ Apply rules based on multiple data
sources
§ Receive recommendations on how to
return back to ideal / preferred state
§ Choose actions to take (coming soon):
– Notify users of violation
– Automatically make changes to infrastructure
– Make changes to infrastructure but only after
internal approval

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Best practices recommendations
§ Customers can identify critical
constraints for optimizing
infrastructure
– e.g. sizing virtual machines,
terminating zombie VMs
§ Leverage different algorithms
to analyze customer data &
identify how to achieve ideal
state
§ Customers can modify
recommendations with a
single click for actions

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Data Center Migration
§ Provide customers with
analysis on potential costs if
assets were migrated to
Azure
§ Based on usage profile of
individual assets
§ CloudHealth Tech agent
deployed to assets to be
migrated, provides
recommendations on cost
and VM types

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Q&A

20. Thank you for attending!
Learn more about CloudHealth by
visiting www.cloudhealthtech.com