Almost half of businesses are struggling with cloud costs

[Kent Sharkey]

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A new report published today by business monitoring firm Anodot reveals 49 percent of businesses find it difficult to get cloud costs under control, and 54 percent believe their primary source of cloud waste is a lack of visibility into cloud usage.

Mission Accomplished (Well, almost half accomplished)

[Nelek]

Surprise, surprise! And I wonder how many of them are paying more than needed and even more than hosting their own server.

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

I can confirm the budgetary side of things. A very heavily compute-bound project at work used to run as a distributed background task (only when the hosts were (a) displaying their screen savers and (b) connected to power) on most of the computers in the company, using resources that were essentially "free". When the IT department was reorganized, the new IT manager claimed that this was a possible security breach. We were forced to migrate to the "cloud", where we ran through the entire budget in very short order. I don't know what happened to the project after that.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[realJSOP]

Cloud storage is one thing, but ops and dev is completely different. ALL of our dev servers and VMs are shut down every day at around 5pm, and are turned on again at around 5am the next day - to save money.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013