It’s fairly common for business units and departments in an organization to contract for cloud services without going through their IT organization - a practice called shadow IT.
By seeing all the cloud services used in an organization from a single dashboard, customers can have a better understanding of the scope of the problem. They’d know if they faced a business risk or compliance issue with a new cloud service. They’d also know how much is being spent on cloud services, and by which business groups. With this knowledge, customers can institute processes and governance to select and launch new cloud services quickly to help their business innovate and grow.
US Signal offers a Cloud Consumption Assessment that give customers this level of knowledge and control - and more. These services give full visibility into an organization’s public cloud use, and typically discovers up to 22x more cloud services than have been authorized by IT.
The Cloud Consumption Assessment can help better govern an organizations’ cloud adoption and evolve their IT organization into an internal cloud service brokerage. Customers can then securely provide the right service, at the right cost, at the right time, while establishing strong cloud governance processes that:
- Reduce cloud risks and costs
- Improve onboarding and governance of cloud service providers
- Implement stronger cloud management practices
- Better align cloud services with the needs of the business
- Give more control over cloud adoption to make more informed decisions
Build and Advance a Multi-Cloud Strategy
After you’ve got a better understanding of your cloud services with the Cloud Consumption Assessment, US Signal can work with you to build your cloud strategy to govern your cloud services end to end, execute cost savings strategies and monitor usage.
By understanding how your organization is consuming cloud, we can help you develop a hybrid cloud technology roadmap, a budgetary plan and a business case that will show how you can meet your organization’s needs with cloud services.
Benefits
Gain Control of the Cloud
- Know what cloud services are being used and predict future cloud needs. Benchmark your cloud usage against your peers.
- Reduce cloud security, privacy, and compliance risks and protect your brand and intellectual property.
- Deliver cloud services faster to meet line-of-business needs by transforming IT into an internal cloud service brokerage.
- Simplify cloud management with the right people, processes and tools.
- Meet the needs of internal groups by understanding how and why they’re using public clouds.
- Reduce cloud costs up to 15% by consolidating cloud services.
- Improve service performance by foreseeing infrastructure impact.