Enterprise Cloud Consulting for Performance & Cost Optimisation

Enterprise cloud consulting provides support to companies in optimising cloud investments by improving operational capacity, reducing operational costs, and creating a scalable foundation for future development. 

What Is Enterprise Cloud Consulting? 

The purpose of this program is to find the right balance between people, process and technology to ensure maximum benefit is achieved from any investment made in the cloud. By partnering with an enterprise cloud consultant, your organisation can take advantage of improved architecture, automation, monitoring, and billing management. 

Enter a new world of opportunities for your organisation as you create an efficient and secure enterprise cloud that will grow to meet the needs of your organisation in the future, while maintaining high performance levels for years to come. 

Key Challenges Businesses Face 

The majority of modern enterprises have multiple Servers that are over-provisioned, have applications that are slow and have numerous Cloud resources that are not being used. 

According to my technical team, most of the problems associated with Cloud costs/the cost of using Cloud services have nothing to do with one mistake, there are many small inefficiencies with how compute resources, storage, databases, networking and security tools are managed across the board, which ultimately leads to Cloud cost problems. 

In terms of implementation, Cloud Optimisation should be focused on three key areas: Performance, Cost Control, and Security. 

Technical Entities That Build Cloud Authority 

An enterprise Cloud strategy should be built upon globally recognised technical standards and platforms, including, but not limited to, AWS Well-Architected Framework, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes, in addition to ISO/IEC 27001 (International Organisation for Standardisation/International Electronic Commission 27001). 

By using these globally recognised standards and within these globally recognised platforms, enterprise organisations can develop an enterprise-level, secure, scalable and compliant Cloud environment and enhance the Digital Identity of their IT Service Provider. 

Traditional Cloud Method vs Optimised Cloud Solution 

First, find out the current cloud environment to confirm where things are happening. To begin this process, look at how many servers you're using, what data is on each server, how long each application takes to run, how fast the database is responding, what the security settings are for each server, and how you are billed for each of your cloud resources. 

2. Performance Optimisation 

To improve cloud performance, such as making applications run faster and providing a better overall experience to users, you can implement one or more of the following solutions: load balancing, caching, tuning your database, integrating CDNs (Content Delivery Networks), optimising containers, and using auto-scaling. 

3. Cost Optimisation 

Cloud cost optimisation consists of removing unused resources, right-sizing servers, using reserved capacity when applicable, creating budget alerts for every cloud resource, and having an organisation account for every cloud resource. The idea behind all of these methods is to save money, improve performance, and provide all users with security without sacrificing any of the above-listed. 

4. Security and Compliance 

A comprehensive cloud consulting strategy needs to contain the following: Encryption, Access Control, Audit Logs, Backup Strategy, Disaster Recovery Strategy, and Compliance Alignment. 

5. Automation 

Automation improves delivery speed (the time from creation to production) and eliminates human error. With Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD Pipelines, businesses have the ability to deploy more quickly, maintain consistent performance and reliability, and be confident that they are properly scaling their workloads. 

Why Businesses Need Cloud Consulting 

Through enterprise cloud consulting, organisations can reduce waste, increase uptime (availability of services), secure workloads and plan for the future. To achieve this goal, CTOs and IT leaders will have greater control over their infrastructure; finance departments will see more predictable spending on the cloud; and leaders of business can expect to gain greater returns on investment in the cloud.  

Based on case studies, the best results from companies that have made the commitment to a continuous process of continuous improvement through the optimisation of their cloud versus only a one-time effort to cut costs. 

Conclusion 

In addition to providing businesses with improved performance and optimisation of cost through the use of their cloud infrastructures, consulting can also provide businesses with a much faster, safer, and more cost-effective way to deploy and operate their cloud infrastructure. In addition, with a consulting partner that is an expert in cloud performance and cost optimisation, businesses can also expect to gain significant reductions in waste in the cloud, greater improvement in the performance of their applications, a more secure cloud infrastructure, and the ability to create a future-ready cloud strategy. 

For more information on an enterprise cloud performance and cost assessment, please feel free to contact our cloud consulting team or download our enterprise cloud optimisation whitepaper for a detailed analysis of your organisation's cloud performance and cost optimisation capabilities. 

FAQs 

1. What is enterprise cloud consulting? 

Businesses can get help with designing, managing, securing and optimising their enterprise cloud infrastructure with the assistance of enterprise cloud consulting services, to achieve improved performance, lower costs and/or increased scalability. 

2. How does cloud consulting reduce costs? 

Cloud cost optimisation achieves cost reduction through the elimination of non-utilised resources, appropriate sizing of servers, maximisation of storage usage, setting budget alerts, and providing visibility around overall cost. 

3. Why is cloud performance optimisation important? 

By optimising the performance of a cloud-based application, organisations benefit through faster application performance, reduced downtime, enhanced user experience and enhanced opportunity to enable business expansion. 

4. Is cloud cost optimisation a one-time process? 

It is essential to know that there is an ongoing need for continued cloud cost optimisation as usage, workload and business requirements are all constantly in flux. 

5. Who needs enterprise cloud consulting? 

Cloud Consulting provides an opportunity for CTOs, IT Managers, companies that are growing, and organisations using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure, Google Cloud or Hybrid Cloud systems to improve their results through the implementation of best practices for their enterprise cloud infrastructure.