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IBM Cloudability

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What is IBM Cloudability?

IBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud.

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Beast for optimizing of cloud spending.

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Shubham keshriView profile
Sr. Software Engineer in Corporate at LTIMindtree (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It provides a clear breakdown of cloud spend across AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM Cloud and also Easy to see which projects, teams, or services are driving costs and automated recommendations for rightsizing instances, shutting down unused resources and optimizing storage. You can track your cost on cloud it helps us to reduce cost and you can integrate with GitHub pull request and you can track of each package and it support multi cloud as well.

Pros

  • After implementing Cloudability our cloud billing has become much faster to publish, we have relied on the flexibility provided to assist us with other task such as tag controls, annual license true up, using API to export data to some of our in-house tools and many more.

Cons

  • After the initial IBM M&A the product updates have been a little bit chaotic (we are waiting on some features previously announced, but not yet delivered e.g. user grouping for access controls), but I am definitely seeing that this is ramping up and I am positive that great further updates will come

Return on Investment

  • Customisable/Personalised dashboards to monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs
  • Business mappings and custom views for cost allocation and transparency for individual business units/regions.
  • Ad-hoc dashboard builds

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM Apptio

Other Software Used

IBM Apptio, Coremetrics / IBM Digital Analytics (discontinued)

Full FinOps solution, that won't break the bank

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David James ChiswellView profile
Public Cloud Engineer at King's College London (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a very large, diverse Cloud environment that many departments have apps/services in. It is an easy way to segregate, and break down costs as needed without giving users access to the actual Azure Portal itself. The speed to create dashboards, or run reports is a big advantage when departments need viability of their owns costs.

Pros

  • Visibility of reserved instances, and recommendations for further savings
  • Right sizing suggestions based on VM utilization
  • Dashboards - easy to add widgets for quick visibility of desired metrics
  • Business mappings, bunch resources of type/interest together easily using custom created grouping

Cons

  • I'd like see the actual VM name in reservation portfolio, rather than the reservation ID
  • I find the speed in which the changes are applied a frustration. E.g if you add a business mapping, you often have to wait 24hrs or more for the data to fully process.
  • The user management seems a little clunky, I preferred it when it was part of the actual Cloudy portal, rather that through access administration.

Return on Investment

  • We have seen some substantial cost reductions as a direct result of rightsizing/utilzation suggestions. An estimated 18% per month
  • Greater visibility of allocation of spend, highlights areas to concentrate on for potential reductions, or justification
  • Positive engagement with service owners from other departments so they are now able to have insights of their spend, this was not possible before without manual reports being generated form Azure portal

Usability

Other Software Used

Rubrik, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

IBM Cloudability is a beast

Incentivized
Claiton Zanella
CEO in Sales at Asset IT (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We, as a MSP, use IBM Cloudability to monitor the cloud contracts of our client's environments

Pros

  • Cost avoidance!
  • Governance
  • Observability

Cons

  • Integration with Turbonomic
  • Integration with Kubecost
  • Automation

Return on Investment

  • 30% reduction in cost
  • Observability and charge back possibility

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

Other Software Used

IBM Storage FlashSystem, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Easy Redmine

IBM Cloudability at Ouribank - Review

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Gustavo TortozaView profile
FinOps Specialist in Information Technology at Ouribank (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use IBM Cloudability to automate data collection from cloud providers and classify costs across products.Once this is done, I centralize the information on a public dashboard so people can see their cloud costs and share responsibility across departments.also use the optimization part weekly.In the future, I will create a public dashboard to centralize EKS costs.

Pros

  • Data collection
  • Cost classification
  • Information sharing
  • anomaly and budget alerts

Cons

  • Shared cost, Today it is linked to the shared created, not to all resources
  • Data update, Data takes time to appear on the dashboard
  • Budget, Does not accept the use of custom metrics that were created

Return on Investment

  • Cost reduction, Once the cost is classified, the responsible area is more committed to optimizing workloads
  • Business, Cloudability helped us understand which products were wasting money and weren't delivering the expected return. After that, we decided to reduce some workloads.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM Turbonomic

Other Software Used

IBM Kubecost

FinOps made easy with IBM Cloudability

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Saurav VaishView profile
Cloud Engineer in Engineering at Blackstone (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloudability is the base for our Cloud FinOps practice. We extensively use Cloudability for cloud cost optimisation, reporting, visualisation, rightsizing, budgeting as well as implementing best practices.

Pros

  • Cost Allocation
  • Visualisation
  • Reporting
  • Budgeting

Cons

  • User management
  • Email notifications
  • Integration with alerting tools
  • API and Automation

Return on Investment

  • Cost Transparency
  • 20% reduction in cost spending
  • Budget allocation

Usability

Alternatives Considered

PointFive

Other Software Used

AWS Cost Explorer, Snowflake, Tableau Cloud, Sigma Computing

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