A mid-market technology company was three months out from an Azure commitment renewal when its procurement team sat down to build a negotiation position. They pulled up the signed agreement. They reviewed the statements of work. They put together a summary…
Best Practices for Azure Zombie Resources and Cost Management
What Are Azure Zombie Resources? Azure zombie resources are cloud resources that are no longer in use but remain active and consuming resources, resulting in unnecessary charges. Zombie resources can occur when cloud resources are not adequately decommissioned or deleted or…
Azure Cost Management
Azure Cost Management Azure is a powerful and feature-rich cloud platform that offers a wide range of services and tools to help organizations build, deploy, and manage applications and workloads. However, the cost of using Azure can be a significant concern…
Four Secrets of A Champion CIO
Mastering Software Licensing: Insights from Champion CIOs As a Chief Information Officer (CIO), one of your primary responsibilities is managing and optimizing your organization’s technology. To correctly manage technology includes ensuring you have the correct software licenses to support your business…
Using Tagging to Get Better Visibility in Azure Costs
We are all aware that Azure offers enterprises the versatility and mobility needed to expand their operations and IT architecture on the cloud. However, it becomes exceedingly challenging and laborious to monitor every commodity in fluid Azure systems as the development…
4 Tips to Upgrade Your Azure Financial Reporting
If you’re like most organizations these days, you’re utilizing Azure to power at least a portion of your operations. Additionally, if you use Azure, you are aware of how crucial it is to keep a close check on your expenses, as…
5 Hidden Azure Cost Optimizations: How to Save on Azure
Various Azure cost optimization tools can assist you in visualizing and controlling costs, in turn maximizing the usage of already-existing resources.