Software licensing costs can be 3 or more times the cost of all other cloud costs combined. Optimize 24x7 is Evolve's proprietary built Cloud Assessment Platform used to give our customers a complete Total Cost of Ownership Analysis when considering moving workloads to the public cloud
While there are many great tools in the industry that will collect server utilization, very few also look at software licensing impact. It is impossible to provide an accurate TCO without taking into account software licensing. Optimize 24x7 has built in integration with most of the industry leading assessment tools to enhance their data outputs and give customer's a complete TCO
It's Evolve's experience that while many of the industry leading assessment tools capture excellent utilization data, they still greatly oversize Public Cloud instances. On average, Optimize 24x7's Instance Mapper further optimizes compute costs by an additional 42% compared to already "rightsized" assessment tool outputs. Optimize 24x7 also takes into account software licensing impact when performing instance mapping
Customers can save a considerable amount of money by using existing licensing investments when moving to the cloud. However, it is essential that "Bring Your Own License" rights are validated and that technical feasibility are both taken into account. Optimize 24x7's host stacking functionality ensures that every host model created is not only technically feasible but also license optimized to the fullest
Optimize 24x7 has the ability to import Microsoft license entitlement data to help customers understand their BYOL rights to different cloud options as well as detail that their new licensing footprint will be. On average, Optimize 24x7 is able to reduce SQL cores that need to be licensed by 55% and Windows Server cores needed to be licensed by 77% when moving workloads from on-premises to the public cloud
Optimize 24x7 provides customer the ability to understand their sizing and cost models for EC2 Shared Tenancy, EC2 Dedicated Hosts, VMware Cloud on AWS and SQL on RDS Managed Database. Optimize 24x7 provides a complete TCO, detailing Compute, Network & Storage costs for all models, as well as comparing software licensing cost & impact between BYOL of existing Microsoft Volume Licensing vs AWS License Included
Optimize 24x7 provides customer the ability to understand their sizing and cost models for GCP Shared Tenancy, GCP Sole Tenancy & Google Cloud VMware Engine. Optimize 24x7 provides a complete TCO, detailing Compute, Network & Storage costs for all models, as well as comparing software licensing cost & impact between BYOL of existing Microsoft Volume Licensing vs GCP License Included
VMware has platform offerings for all three major public clouds, each with their own unique licensing nuances. Optimize 24x7 takes in account those licensing nuances along with technical feasible when creating models for VMC on AWS, GCVE on GCP & AVS on Azure
One aspect that is consistently overlooked when performing Azure TCOs is the increase in volume licensing cost when moving from an on-premises host base licensing model to a per VM model in Azure with a 16 core minimum per server. Optimize 24x7 gives you a complete & accurate Azure TCO including Compute, Network, Storage and potentially increased licensing cost impact
Software licensing is very expensive. One of the greatest long term advantages when moving to a non-Microsoft public cloud is the ability to start distancing you from these costs. Optimize 24x7 provided a detailed direction view on the cost saving potential when moving to cloud native alternatives
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