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Cloud Metrics That MatterMeasuring and Metering Azure Cloud Spend

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Meet our speakers

Deirdre MahonCMO & Head of Customer Success

Cloud Cruiser | HPE

Sandro LimaDirector, Pre-Sales

Cloud Cruiser | HPE

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Today’s Topics

• KPIs and metrics

• Azure fundamentals

• Azure optimization opportunities

• Putting a plan in place

• Product demo

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KPIs are only as good as the metrics that feed them.

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Key Considerations for Managing KPIs

● Consistent• Align period with specific metrics (daily, weekly, quarterly…)• Collect data over time to understand trends and growth trajectory

● Sharable• Establish audiences (cloud stakeholders)• Keep KPIs relevant and timely

● Actionable• Identify when and what to do• Make it easy to act on KPIs

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Azure Basics

● Enterprise Agreement (EA)

● Default account structure● Required fields● Optional fields

● Portals: ● Azure Classic (v1)● Azure Resource Manager (ARM) - v2

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Getting Started

Start Simple

Understand your Audience

Prepare Your Data

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Understand your audience

‘REVIEWERS’“I need to

understand and control costs and justify the budget

spend.”

‘DOERS’“I need fast access to services and I

need to make sure they are optimized.”

DevOps

Cloud Architects Line of Business

IT Finance

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Prepare your data

● Leverage what you get natively from Azure●Tagging strategies● Financial: Showback/chargeback (by cost center, project code…)● Operational: organizational (by BU, department, geo…)

●Tagging goals● Cleaning data● Filling the gaps● Enhancing data

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Start simple: Azure best practices

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• Visualization• Azure reports (Bill of IT)• Personalized dashboards (persona-based)• Insights (relevant thresholds with actionable results)

• Budgets • High-level and granular

• Forecasts

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Product Tour

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Q&A

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