Mat EllisCEO & Founder

@matellis

(without getting mauled by volatile cloud costs)

GRABBINGTHE CLOUD COST

TIGER BY THE TAIL

Tiger image: flickr.com/photos/wwarby

A monumentalA monumental

(yet, historical)(yet, historical)and predictable operations of

factories...and predictable operations of factories...

shift from the fixed costs shift from the fixed costs

...to the...to the

processes of today’s cloud based economyprocesses of today’s cloud based economy

dynamicdynamic

flexibleflexible

supply chain-dependentsupply chain-dependent

Managing the new IT supply chainManaging the new IT supply chain

New processes

and controls

3BIGthe

OF I/T

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1) Out of control spending

2) Wasteful spending

3) Wrong focus

You can rebuild IT

DON’T BE AFRAID

#1 Follow the money

#2 Mea

sure

eve

ryth

ing

#3 Tag everything

1. Stop out of control spending by following the money

2. Curb wasteful spending by measuring everything

3. Stay focused by tagging everything

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