Iaas Pricing Models

Cloud Webinar Series

What They Don’t Tell You About IaaS Pricing Models

December 17, 2013Speaker: Jeremy Littlejohn, Founder and Chief Analyst RISC Networks

Agenda1. Why today’s IaaS pricing models are not efficient.

2. What information is the key to your success?

3. What best practices should you follow?

IaaS Pricing Models

Inefficient Pricing Models

Businesses could be saving as much as 66% on their IaaS infrastructure by looking at pricing differently

Current Models

• Buying Capacity

• Minimum component

• Paying for what you reserve

CPU Cycles

Memory

DiskSpace

How They Are Inefficient

• If you plan the wrong component levels• Not based on what you are really using• Transient workloads• Providers price by “Chunks”

Cell Phone Plans

Keys to your success

• Usage Information• General usage info for CPU, Memory, Disk• Current usage and impact on performance• Current network performance information• Virtualized environment

Best PracticesData, Look, Benchmark

Best Practice #1: Gather Data

• Extract data from your monitoring tools• Ability to sort and filter on the data• Filter on time, 95th percentiles• You need analysis of the data

Best Practice #1: Look Everywhere

• Don’t assume one vendor has the lowest cost• Evaluate public cloud, private clouds, multi-cloud• Evaluate your current performance issues• Cost will differ for the same type of IaaS service

Best Practice #1: Benchmarking

• Have a solid performance baseline• Use to check against when choosing a vendor• Performance in the cloud is tied to pricing• Benchmarks help when making changes

More Information

Cloud Lifecycle Analytics

• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) • Pricing Model Analysis• Network Performance Analysis• Move Group Planning and Analysis• Server & App Dependency Visualization• Cloud Performance Testing and

Validation

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Planning

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Validation

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