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Are you moving your on-premises workloads to the cloud?
Clarity on your on-premises estate, your migration approach and right size licensing in the cloud to ensure optimal cloud cost optimisation and compliance.
The benefits of cloud for enterprises are undeniable, from on-demand pricing and global distribution to the deployment of new servers in seconds, and the removal of physical hardware management. Cloud has transformed how organisations operate and scale.
The shift to cloud computing has transformed how organisations view software licensing assets and costs. New challenges must be addressed from both a Software Asset Management (SAM) and FinOps perspective when managing licensing in the cloud.
Our approach to licensing and cost optimisation in the cloud
Our license experts, in conjunction with Version 1 Control, can help you successfully migrate your on-premises licenses to the cloud, or make recommendations for an alternative license model as appropriate.
From measuring what license assets you have, to supporting your cloud transition and ultimately optimising your cloud consumption costs, Control can not only help to achieve your cloud objectives, but also avoid unnecessary license cost prior to cloud migration and optimise consumption cost once in the cloud.
Specialist license services for cloud migration
Measure your software assets
Our license experts can help you understand your current license position to assess its ‘cloud readiness’ and support any rightsizing requirements.
Move to the cloud
Our license experts can recommend optimal license strategies for your cloud migration project, to help you side-step any potential non-compliance and benefit from cost optimisation opportunities.
Optimise your OCI cloud consumption costs
Our cloud experts can provide ongoing cloud cost consumption and billing optimisation for OCI, Azure and AWS platforms to continually optimise your cloud estate costs.
AWS optimisation and license assessment
The AWS OLA provides insights, deployment options and potential cost savings across AWS’s flexible licensing models, ensuring the right license decisions are taken at the start of your cloud migration to AWS.
Oracle Fusion application license optimisation
Managing Oracle Fusion app users and applying the correct roles and privileges is critical to ongoing subscription management. Our Oracle license experts can help with ongoing management and/or audit defence strategies if the vendor uncovers over-usage.
Microsoft cloud economics
Our Cloud Economics Assessment is a rapid comparative monetary analysis between existing on-premises workloads and Azure, including readiness levels and migration pathways. Accurately assess your Azure requirements before migration.
FinOps for AI
Our FinOps for AI service helps businesses optimise cloud spending by delivering timely analytics and automated cost-saving recommendations – all powered by advanced machine learning.
FinOps cloud cost optimisation
Delivering cloud consumption optimisation to reduce costs and avoid unnecessary spend.
The license considerations when moving on-premises workloads to the cloud
Moving your on-premises workloads to the cloud requires a review of your license estate before migration, an understanding of how you will license any parallel running and clarity on appropriate license rightsizing for your chosen cloud platform.
Overlooking this important element could result in unbudgeted cost, unforeseen risk and potentially eliminate any project ROI.
SAM experts Brian Lavelle and Jason Pepper discuss the license considerations when moving on-premises workloads to the cloud, and what to do to avoid additional cost and risk in your cloud project:
