Business Problem to Solve

  • 79% of surveyed organizations indicate that managing cloud spend is a challenge and that 30% of spend is wasted.
  • 80% of organizations overshoot their cloud IaaS budgets, 50% accidentally expose data or services, and 47% do not continuously optimize cloud workloads (source: Gartner).
  • 81% of organizations indicate cloud security is a primary challenge, with 95% of issues stemming from misconfigurations (source: Gartner), and 75% from inefficient cloud operations.

The challenges across FinOps, SecOps, and CloudOps are substantial and can become a serious risk if left unmitigated. Most “solutions” being utilized (for example, home-grown tools or spreadsheets and manual processes) simply fail to address these challenges.

SecOps Challenges

  • Unified Visibility

    • Lack of visibility into security threats, attacks and vulnerability data
    • Inability to view security posture across multiple clouds

  • Remediation Suggestions

    • Inability to remediate security violations
    • Slowed response time due to manual follow-ups

  • Compliance Assessment

    • Inability to assess cloud infrastructure against industry standards, regulations and best practices such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO, AWS WAF etc.

FinOps Challenges

  • Cost Visibility and Reports

    • Inability to view cost details for projects, clouds, accounts, region, environment and resources
    • Inability to understand cost drivers, cost insights and cost anomalies

  • Cost Allocation, Optimization

    • Lack of resource consistency and accountability
    • Inability to charge to appropriate cost centers

CloudOps Challenges

  • Autonomous Monitoring

    • Lack of autonomous monitoring affecting service availability and fault tolerance
    • Missed SLAs due to inability to act expeditiously
    • Lack of insights into anomalies

  • Infrastructure Fulfillment

    • Inability to provision resources with ease
    • Inability to execute post-provisioning activities

  • Incident Ticketing Workflow

    • Lack of 3rd party tool integrations for incident management
    • Inability to route incidents to ITSM tools such as ServiceNow seamlessly