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Cloud Cruiser Provides Transparent Cost Modeling For Hosted Setups

March 09, 2011
By Chris DiMarco, TMCnet Web Editor
 

For all the provisioning, managing and load balancing offered via a subscription based cloud service these days, very few companies have focused on ways to optimize payment. Customers generally pay a flat fee entitling them to services but seldom make sure that they’re getting every pennies worth of the service they pay for. Cloud cruiser was made publically available at the beginning of this month, offers software designed to sit atop an existing cloud setup and do exactly that.


Cloud Cruiser's solution, offers a comprehensive suite of tools that measure resource usage, mapping and analyzing the usage of your cloud based solutions and determining exactly where you can cut costs. Once it has done so the Cloud Cruiser can offer strategies for optimizing costs and in some getting chargeback for resources that have not been utilized.

Once the product collected intelligence on the spending trends of a company’s cloud solution the data can be broken down in graph or chart from. The visual representation of this information facilitates its digestion and lets user see in real time where they can optimize spending.

“Let’s say you’re all legacy, everything is moving to the cloud and you have to start thinking about it in order to stay competitive. We can manage the costs associated with this for you, as you you’re your workload to the cloud. We partner with portals and provide the cost side of that equation,” says CEO and Founder Dave Zabrowski.

Though Cloud Cruiser primarily focuses on the global 2000 range when it comes to potential customers, all enterprise level companies can benefit from the consultative analysis the company provides.

In addition to exhibiting their solution at the Cloud Connect expos Cloud Cruiser has also announced from the show floor that it’s offering a free test drive of the solution. The demo allows potential customers to extract usage data into the Cloud Cruiser SaaS (News - Alert) environment and see at least some of the potential savings they could be making.

Cloud Cruiser provides IT organizations complete transparency with a single-lens granular view of cost information across their legacy and cloud workloads. Consultation like this is exactly what those still reticent of the unrelenting march to the cloud may need as hosted service adoption becomes a necessity rather than an option.


Chris DiMarco is a Web Editor for TMCnet. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University. Prior to joining TMC (News - Alert) Chris worked with e-commerce provider Suresource as a contact center representative and development analyst. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Stefanie Mosca

 
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