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for Cloud InfrastructureComprehensive, accurate, and act ionable insight into cloud infrastructure usage

Benefits:• Reduce expenditures on

cloud services

• Enable efficient use of cloud infrastructure

• Understand usage trends for better budgeting and forecast ing

• Make more effect ive deployment decisions

• Inhibit shadow IT and cloud sprawl

The cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) industry is growing fast – over 15% per year according to IDC1. And it is easy to understand why. Cloud infrastructure services add terrific benefits to an organization. They are easy to purchase. They give you immediate access to computing power, storage, and database services without the need or overhead of sett ing up or adding to a datacenter. And, they can mean a faster t ime to value when delivering IT services.

In many cases, infrastructure services such as those provided by Amazon Web Services can be acquired at lower cost than a company can achieve if it builds them in-house. But the adoption of cloud services does not come without new business challenges. The ease of purchase and lower init ial cost can easily result in:

• Lack of visibility into total spend on cloud infrastructure services across mult iple departments and business units

• The growth of “shadow IT” and cloud sprawl which can lead to spiraling costs

• Poor insight into cloud operat ional data• Difficulty in the ability to chargeback for

cloud expenditures

And the ease of purchase and ability to quickly leverage cloud compute power does not lessen the need to manage the cloud infrastructure in your enterprise. Without effect ive tools and processes, you risk overspending on cloud instances and paying for infrastructure that you may not be using.

FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure provides enterprises with comprehensive, accurate and act ionable insight into cloud infrastructure usage to optimize use and spend on these services.

Built on proven Flexera Software license management technology, it automates the collect ion and aggregation of cloud usage data and billing information to produce a complete view of cloud service consumption throughout the enterprise.

Provide a 360 Degree View of Cloud Usage and Spend FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure provides the means to see, at a glance, a complete view of your cloud operat ions using role based dashboards.

The Financial Dashboard (Figure 1) shows which business units are spending the most money, how much unused or underut ilized cloud instances are cost ing you, spending patterns and trends, and spending by service type.

The Operat ional Dashboard (Figure 2) shows ut ilizat ion patterns by instance type, which instances are underut ilized, when your AWS EC2 reservat ions are expiring, and usage trends.

Combined, these dashboards provide unprecedented visibility into cloud infrastructure usage and spend, and enable you to perform more detailed analysis for fact-based decision making.

“ After being involved with thousands of cloud contracts, I have learned that successful management of your cloud instances and accounts is a basic requirement for to opt imize usage and spending.”

“Ray” R. Wang

- Principal Analyst & Chairman

Constellat ion Research

1: 2015 “Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker®.” Internat ional Data Corporat ion (IDC)

Understanding Cloud Infrastructure• Amazon Web Services (AWS) – a cloud computing service provided by Amazon.com

• Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elast ic Compute Cloud) – an AWS product that provides virtual and resizable computing capacity in the cloud

• Amazon Reserved Instances – allow you to reserve computing capacity for 1 or 3 years at a discount

• On-Demand Instance – provides compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments

Figure 1: Cloud Financial Dashboard

Figure 2: Cloud Operat ional Dashboard

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What is the best mix of Amazon EC2 services for your organization? FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure helps determine the most cost effect ive option with two key capabilit ies—Cloud Cost Analysis and Cloud Usage Analysis.

Cloud Cost AnalysisFlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure enables organizations to perform detailed cost analysis of their total cloud infrastructure spend. It begins by providing visibility of how much you are spending for Amazon Web Services, including EC2 On-Demand and Reserved Instances, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC and Amazon RDS. In addit ion, it shows spending trends over configurable t ime periods, and allows organizations to project future spending month-to-month.

This will help to:

• Choose the most cost effect ive instance type• Optimize spend and make better purchasing decisions• Improve budgeting and financial management• Provide business relevance of collected data

Cloud Usage AnalysisAnalyzing the cost of cloud infrastructure services is only part of managing the cloud. Companies need to make sure that Amazon EC2 instances in use are ut ilized properly, whether ensuring that Reserved Instance capacity is consumed before On-Demand instances are launched, or by ensuring that right-sized instances are used. This helps prevent an organization from buying more expensive virtual machine configurat ions than they really need.

With FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure, organizations have complete visibility of their ut ilizat ion of Amazon Web Services Reserved Instances, understand the cloud instance ut ilizat ion rate, and can see their cloud instance usage trends over configurable t ime periods.

This allows organizations to:

• Manage the cloud instance lifecycle to make better decisions about the best mix of on-demand and reserved instances

• Have the most cost effect ive instance configurat ions that best meet their needs

• Eliminate idle cloud instances to reduce waste

Configurable Report ingEffect ive decision making requires the right information at the right t ime. An extensible report engine included with FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure enables users to easily visualize cost or usage data and perform in-depth analysis.

A library of out-of-the-box reports enables a quicker t ime to value, providing answers to cloud usage and cost quest ions.

And you can easily share reports and data with key stakeholders, tailoring them to meet their needs throughout the enterprise.

Automatic Data Collect ion and AggregationAmazon provides volumes of usage and cost data, sometimes mult iple gigabytes in size. The challenge, however, is the enormous t ime and effort needed to turn this immense volume of raw data into information that has business relevance.

FlexNet Manager for Cloud Infrastructure automatically collects and aggregates billing and usage information from mult iple accounts. Data can be classified by mult iple parameters, including AWS Tags, account, instance type, and account owner, to align cloud service billing to your organizational hierarchy.

Intelligent Solut ions for Managing Enterprise SoftwareFlexNet Manger for Cloud Infrastructure is part of FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, a comprehensive, proven, next generat ion hardware asset management, software asset management, license compliance and software license optimization solut ion. The Suite provides ent it lement based license management and software license optimization to enable organizations to reduce ongoing software licensing

Figure 3: AWS Cost Per Service

Figure 4: EC2 Instance Breakdown

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costs and maintain cont inuous license compliance. It is used by thousands of enterprises to gain control of and optimize software spend while reducing the t ime and effort required to manage the software estate.

Only Flexera Software enables organizations to manage cloud services and the software running in the cloud, as well as managing and optimizing on-premises software.

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