Enterprise Private Cloud ScenarioPrivate clouds offer shared infrastructure and services for a

single enterprise. Enterprises gain cost advantages through

virtualization and realize greater security and control of resources

because the infrastructure resides behind an enterprise’s

firewall. Many enterprises have justified their investments in

private cloud by committing to a chargeback policy within their

organization. Whereby most traditional IT costs were divided up

amongst departments, true pay-per-usage chargeback requires

sophisticated collection, mapping, and pricing algorithms that

most enterprises do not have. With VMs so easily deployed,

costs can quickly spin out of control, both in labor costs to

manage them and by spending on unnecessary infrastructure.

Conclusion

For enterprise customers implementing a private cloud, Cloud

Cruiser provides the cloud financial management tools necessary

to control resource usage and implement internal chargeback.

Cloud computing offers a fundamentally lower cost IT operating

environment by way of more efficient utilization of resources.

However, a sophisticated cost management solution is needed

to manage this more accessible, on-demand and elastic

environment. Without cost controls, resource usage can easily

grow out of control and the promised cost savings evaporate.

In addition, many IT managers require chargeback to justify their

investment in private cloud technology and prove that they are

implementing technology solutions which delivers better service

at lower cost to the enterprise. Cloud Cruiser’s granular cost

transparency, BI analytics and chargeback ensure that private

cloud costs are accounted for at the appropriate level in the

enterprise, that resource usage is proactively controlled and

that areas for cost savings are easily identifiable through user-

friendly dashboards and reports.

Customer Needs Cloud Cruiser Solutions Customer Advantages

End-to-end cost visibility

Collects data from across the entire enterprise (public, private, hybrid) and aggregate it into single, simple, personalized view.

Utilizes granular BI analytics and quick-answer reporting to manage costs across the enterprise.

End-to-end cost transparency allows businesses to analyse data at any depth and breadth to identify areas to reduce or cut costs.

Unnecessary resources, such as VMs, can be identified and shut down, saving money in IT labor and inefficient resource utilization.

Showback and chargeback to internal business units

Collects resource utilization data and map to the appropriate business units.

Implements an internal chargeback system at the appropriate level – department, BU, project or user.

Chargeback helps fund private cloud investments.

Pay-by-usage eliminates typical inequities in enterprise IT cost distribution.

Visibility and chargeback encourages users to reduce waste.

Agile pricing models

Sets rates for the services being delivered by internal IT.

Applies different pricing models, such as fixed, variable, tiered, and states, to align with business requirements.

Pricing the services that IT delivers enables the IT department to implement service catalogs as they transition to a self-service IT model (IT-as-a-Service).

Offering different rates for different services and different organizations enables IT to shape demand, such as discouraging usage of a more expensive resource, or discouraging IT waste.

Spending controls

Defines resource budgets based on expected consumption and plan for peaks and valleys due to high demand business cycles.

Defines alerts to notify management when resource usage reaches defined thresholds.

Budget setting results in better alignment of IT spending with business goals and ensures that resources are not abused.

Alerts eliminate VM sprawl and ensures that resources are used efficiently, resulting in cost savings.

Alerts also allow IT to proactively provision more resources as necessary, resulting in greater control and lower IT expenditure.