IBM Cloudability MX / Shift in 5 Minutes or Less

This video explores how IBM Cloudability empowers organizations to optimize cloud spend, streamline migrations, and enhance financial accountability. It introduces Cloudability Shift for efficient cloud migrations, advanced algorithms for cost comparisons, and tools for grouping applications into migration waves. The video highlights Cloudability's financial management capabilities, including enriched billing data, Kubernetes cost mapping, right-sizing tools, and SaaS license optimization. With curated dashboards and actionable insights, Cloudability helps organizations reduce costs, eliminate waste, and align cloud investments with business goals. Watch to learn how C4G and IBM Cloudability can unlock the full potential of your cloud strategy.

Video Transcript:

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Welcome to C4G Insights. In today's brief insight, we're exploring how IBM Cloudability empowers organizations to optimize cloud spend, enhance accountability, and unlock the full value of cloud investments. Let's get started.

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The first offering in the Cloudability MX family, Cloudability Shift is designed to help businesses migrate to public cloud on time and within budget. Its application-centric approach begins by assessing all relevant details of your data centers, capturing detailed information on infrastructure resources and contracts.

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Updating your inventory to reflect the current state is straightforward. Setting the stage for cataloging deployed applications and the resources they consume Cloud migrations often pose challenges, particularly when evaluating different migration paths.

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IBM's advanced algorithms simplify decision making, comparing expected costs across major public clouds and analyzing the associated resource requirements for each application. This comprehensive view of your data centers and deployed applications provides the foundation for a successful migration strategy.

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By grouping applications into migration waves and considering key data center events, you can manage the process effectively. Testing scenarios ensures clarity on infrastructure costs before, during, and after migration.

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With proper planning, you can avoid unnecessary hardware purchases and align your migration timeline with decommissioning events. Minimizing costs and Risks Adopting a cloud financial management practice is key to adapting to the variable consumption based spend model of the cloud.

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IBM Cloudability enables IT, Finance, and DevOps teams to align deployments with speed, cost, and quality goals. It enriches cloud vendor billing data, allocating costs back to the business through normalized tags and the use of vendor specific constructs like accounts, subscriptions, and resource groups.

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With IBM Cloudability, businesses can create accurate business dimensions to support chargebacks and reporting. Leveraging the business mapping classification engine Making curated dashboards available across your organization ensures critical KPIs and trends are accessible to decision makers.

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These dashboards enable leaders and delivery teams to quickly grasp cloud spend composition and address potential issues. Filtered views allow seamless navigation across teams and projects. Simplifying cloud financial management for organizations leveraging containers in the public cloud.

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Cloudability's Kubernetes cost mapping feature allocates expenses by namespace or labels. Optimizing resource usage to eliminate waste is the next logical step. IBM Cloudability Right sizing covers a wide range of cloud services and offers flexible, interactive tools to evaluate recommendations and performance risks.

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Integrations with third party software streamline the lifecycle of resource optimization while enhancing data utility. Optimization doesn't stop at cost savings. Teams can focus on outcomes by using business metrics to track the cost of delivering value.

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Recognizing the increasing adoption of software as a service, IBM's Cloudability SaaS helps organizations discover, manage, and optimize their SaaS licenses. Through aggregated usage data, API connections and integration with expense systems.

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Cloudability SaaS provides clear visibility into spending and usage across departments. These insights empower finance and procurement teams to optimize licenses and increase user adoption, driving better ROI. Visualizing optimization opportunities ensures teams focus on impactful actions.

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By analyzing vendor contracts, license usage, and wastage figures, organizations can make data driven decisions to improve SaaS ROI. Drilling into user adoption and contract details helps identify key opportunities for action. IBM's Cloudability MX family, supported by C4G, empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of the cloud.

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