A visitor tries out a tablet computer next to a cloud computing and technology symbol at the Deutsche Telekom stand at the 2013 CeBIT technology trade fair on March 5, 2013 in Hanover, Germany.Companies looking to save money in the current environment of economic uncertainty should take a closer look at their cloud computing spending, experts told Business Insider.
Cloud platforms like the leading Amazon Web Services and second-place Microsoft Azure allow customers to rent access to functionally unlimited supercomputing power, hosted from those tech giants' own data centers. In doing so, those customers can reduce or even eliminate their dependence on their own servers and data centers.
"Vendors know more about clients than they know about themselves," Riley told Business Insider. "The reality is preparedness and operating at the right level is the key to success."Evaluate whether to pause projects, and 'do your homework in advance.' Riley says that when a major cloud project gets put on hold, it's important to go back to the provider and either renegotiate the terms of the deal, or else get credits back for the services of which they no longer have need. Otherwise, Riley says, companies end up committed to paying the vendor according to the original project timeline.
Another way to reap some discounts is to make sure that you're running the right software on the right cloud. Oracle's flagship database software, for instance, often costs more to license to run on non-Oracle clouds, Weins said. Similarly, it's often cheaper to run Windows on the Microsoft Azure cloud than on AWS or other platforms, she said.Different vendors are offering different levels of flexibility amid the pandemic, too.
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft did not comment at the time of publication on their approach to cloud contract flexibility."SAP has been very transparent and forward-thinking in this regard, setting up committees at a regional level to provide relief to its customers," Riley said."This is an unprecedented shared experience that we're going through with our customers in real-time, and our focus is on always doing right by them," SAP said in a statement.
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