The First Step to Making Cloud Computing More Cost-Effective

The First Step to Making Cloud Computing More Cost-Effective

Cloud migrations have become increasingly popular among corporations for apparent reasons. The Cloud provides unlimited storage capacity, data security, scalability, and accessibility and drops expenditures on physical infrastructure. For those reasons, digital transformation through cloud adoption is top-of-mind for every business, regardless of industry, shape, and size. However, moving assets from physical or hybrid hosting servers to a cloud service poses specific strategic and technical challenges for a business. What is the most challenging component of a Cloud migration assessment project? The discovery & assessment of your current IT infrastructure.

Providing a technical analysis of virtual machines, physical servers, applications, databases, and workstations is the cornerstone of building a successful cloud strategy and business case, for which you need a solid cloud migration assessment to start. However, if not managed with complete visibility, cloud environments can still harbor hidden recourse costs that will continue to increase as you move further into the Cloud. Therefore, the first step to making cloud computing more cost-effective is to acquire a tool that can help you track and monitor your cloud resources without blind spots. This is where Lansweeper comes in.

Get 100% Visibility of Your Entire IT Estate with Lansweeper.

Lansweeper is an advanced IT asset management solution that provides you with unrivaled visibility of your entire IT estate. You can scan your on-prem network and virtual & Cloud environments to retrieve detailed information on all your IT assets and combine it into one universal IT inventory for easy reporting.

Perform Cloud Server Scans

In cloud environments such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Azure Cloud, you pay for the resource capacity you reserve and use. If you have underused resources, you pay more than you need to. However, overused resources can also become a costly problem. While downtime happens less frequently within cloud environments, it can still happen to cloud servers that become overloaded. Overloaded cloud servers are always a direct consequence of not knowing what exactly is happening to your cloud servers at any given time.

Use Performance Counter Scanning

After the initial scan of your cloud servers, you can retrieve more detailed metrics of your cloud assets. For instance, with Lansweeper, you can use performance counter scanning to accurately measure the number of resources used by devices in your network. If you do not know how many resources are being used, how will you ever know where to cut costs or invest more? Lansweeper scans your cloud environments and can immediately retrieve and visualize your cloud resources’ CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization. Moreover, Lansweeper can help you plan for cloud migration and proactively prevent unnecessary costs by determining how many resources you need to migrate your on-prem servers to your cloud environment. Lansweeper also gives you an estimate of the overall cost of running your virtual machines in the Cloud. This is invaluable information for any cloud migration.

Analyze Specific Cloud Data Instantly

One thing is being able to scan cloud servers and retrieve detailed metrics like performance counters. Still, to analyze exactly where you can lower capital expenditure, you want to access this information orderly and instantaneously. For example, you do not want to go through all your scanned cloud data to know what machines need additional memory. Lansweeper meets this demand with its reporting feature. These built-in reports save sysadmins much time and effort by automatically performing specific queries that only collect particular data. Try the RAM utilization report, for instance. Or use the report designed to monitor CPU usage over time. Or gather Windows and Linux Performance Counter Statistics from the last 30 days. These reports will show you exactly where to intervene in your network in no time.

Get Notified of Excess Costs Through E-Emaillerts

An excellent addition to your reports is the report alert function. With this Lansweeper feature, you can command the system to send any report results through email. You can schedule daily, weekly, or monthly email alerts so they are not sent to you every time the system is scanned. Empty reports are not sent to prevent spamming your mailbox. These ememaillerts can remind you of critical tasks that require immediate action and are therefore valuable for IT managers looking to cut IT costs wherever they can. For instance, when the performance cost of a cloud resource goes above a certain level, the system can send you an automated email instantly or at a specified time.

Know Your IT

The Lansweeper Deepscan engine discovers any asset in your corporate network without installing any software on them. There’s no environment or asset Lansweeper can’t handle.

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