Use MobileForce's CLIPPER (Cloud Infrastructure Pricing and Performance Analyzer) Tool to optimize your cloud computing spend!

MobileForce’s CLIPPER™ Pricing Tool

What is the CLIPPER™ tool? MobileForce has built an advanced, highly flexible, what-if slice and dice enabled pricing analysis and comparator tool for AWS EC2, Google Cloud Compute Engine, and MS Azure Compute VMs hosted on a variety of operating systems. We call the tool CLIPPERTM (CLoud Infrastructure Pricing and Performance AnalyzER). Being true to our strategy using cloud as a force multiplier, we have developed the advanced spreadsheet tool on Google Cloud using Google Sheets. We constantly analyze cloud services for their pricing and performance, and so are able to share critical insights about these services and help you plan the optimal solution.

How can CLIPPER™ help me? CLIPPER can help answer a plethora of questions that SMBs ponder when planning for a scalable cloud-computing solution. 1. How do I translate my customer growth numbers in my forecast business plan into an instance-hours forecast for the next 36 months? Generally, a good long-term forecast is what will get you the best possible rates. 2. Is running a Windows Instance on AWS more cost effective than running a Windows Instance on Microsoft Azure? 3. Who gives the best bang for the buck for a Linux VM Instance? 4. Should I use an on-demand (pay-as-you-go) pricing scheme or a reserved, lock-in pricing scheme? 5. What should be the lock-in period that is optimal for me for a reserved instance? 6. Which type of SQL Service is cost effective - SQL Web, SQL Standard or SQL Enterprise? 7. Which CSP's pricing structure best aligns with my revenue model? 8. How does including add-on load balancing services affect my cloud-computing budget? 9. How can I be assured that I paid top dollars for top rated compute power? 10. What spend and commit levels do I really have to achieve to get all those discounts that CSPs dangle?

MobileForce's subsidiary Accuserve has revenue modeled hundreds of venture financed SaaS firms and can readily translate how your business will scale into a reliable cloud computing forecast capacity.

MobileForce also has in-depth expertise in bundling wireless 4G data capacity with cloud computing solutions and structuring pricing that are easy to understand and of consistent basis (pay as you go or reserved or stackable) across both cloud computing and mobility platforms.

In addition to the CLIPPER™ tool, can MobileForce’s cloud-computing pricing practice do more for me? Answer: YES!!!

MobileForce’s CLIPPER™ Pricing Tool What Virtual Machine OS and Services does CLIPPER™ analyze? Currently, we help analyze Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Compute Engine VMs Only. We do include Micro Instances and Load Balancing add-ons in our analysis. Wherever available, we only calculate pricing for Linux/Unix basic versions, Windows, Windows with SQL Web, Windows with SQL Standard, and Windows with SQL Enterprise OS. We do not yet calculate pricing for premium Linux/Unix versions such as RHEL and SUSE. Also, we do not yet calculate data storage and ingress or egress network pricing fees for these CSPs. We also compute only for US based data centers of these CSPs. We will be adding more to our CLIPPER service in subsequent versions.

Why do you need the CLIPPER™ tool? A presenter at a Google Cloud Conference said you need PhDs to make sense of cloud computing pricing offered by the major cloud service providers (CSPs). We say you don't need one. Let MobileForce do all the heavy lifting for you as you focus on scaling your business and delighting your customers. The three major CSPs – Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure - have fine tuned their cloud performance and pricing differently – be it the payment structure, the bundled performance packages, the processing power and storage resources offered, the reservation lock in period, the commitment discounts offered, add-on features such as load balancing, networking ingress and egress, auto-scaling and so many more. Further, CSPs differ in the way they have priced their services across US geographies and the kinds of services they offer in each US geography. They also differ in how they offer services around the world. Not all of them offer all types of flexibility and some of them offer more flexibility in some areas than others. Some have their VM machines optimized for certain application use types while other have optimized for other use types. To make sense of it all, you would need an eternity, or you could just turn to MobileForce’s CLIPPER™ tool. We have done all the hard work for you. On MobileForce’s website (www.digitalmobileforce.com), we have plenty of information on the types of in-depth and across service analysis you can produce using the CLIPPER™. There is also a case study which details how CLIPPER™ helped save 75% in cloud computing costs. Finally, there is a project intake form that gives you an idea of the kinds of customer inputs we are looking for.

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Shiva Badruswamy President 10900 NE 8th Street Suite 1000 Bellevue, WA 98005 P: 415-371-9610 E: [email protected] www.digitalmobileforce.com

A glimpse into the input portion of the CLIPPER tool: In this sample picture we capture customer’s VM operational and performance preferences. The tool is laid out in a spreadsheet format and resides on Google Cloud.