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In this rapidly evolving digital world, the concept of hybrid IT is no longer an aspiration for many organizations, it’s an operational reality. Hybrid IT, which blends on-premises, private cloud and public cloud infrastructure, provides businesses with the flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency they need to meet their ever-evolving demands. However, as business leaders face mounting budget scrutiny and the need to optimize spend becomes paramount, many will find there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach for the optimal IT environment.
Some of the world’s most notable companies such as Dropbox, 37Signals (makers of Basecamp), and GEICO have been forced to rethink their cloud-first strategies to adopt a hybrid environment, saving millions of dollars off their total infrastructure bills. Most notably, Dropbox has reportedly saved $75 million over 2 years by moving from public cloud to its own purpose-built data centers.
The journey towards determining the optimal mix of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud infrastructure comes with the increasing movement of applications across various environments. In fact, IDC found that repatriation and migration is happening in up to 80% of organizations. While these migrations may bring organizations closer to an optimized strategy, without a clear understanding of the financial impacts of these changes, business leaders risk making reactive and potentially costly decisions around their application migration strategy.
To get ahead of this, IBM Apptio has introduced a powerful new solution: Hybrid IT TCO Impact. This solution is included with IBM Apptio Costing and is designed to equip organizations with the tools to track and prove the financial impact of their ongoing application migrations. With Hybrid IT TCO Impact, end users such as Application Owners, IT and Finance leaders, and C-Suite executives can use these financial insights to ensure their migration efforts add financial value and align with the organization’s broader hybrid IT strategy.
Compare Current vs Target Hybrid IT Footprint
With Hybrid IT TCO Impact, users can compare the costs and size of their current hybrid environments with how they have tracked in the past and against future hybrid IT targets set for the organization. This gives them critical insight into key metrics such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), the number of applications, and average unit costs through the lens their applications, helping them to gain visibility into the state of their current infrastructure and how it has evolved over time.
Understand the Financial Impact of Application Migrations
As applications get moved across environments, it is essentials for organizations to understand whether these migrations deliver financial benefit via decreases to TCO and unit costs.
Hybrid IT TCO Impact allows users to track the frequency and financial impact by Migration Type and Migration Strategy.
Possible Migration Types include:
- On-Premises to Public Cloud
- Public Cloud to Private Cloud
- Private Cloud to On-Premises, and
- any other direction and combination of these
Examples of Migration Strategy may include:
- Rehost
- Refactor
- Re-platform,
- and more
Viewing the financial impacts by these details allows users to identify the migration efforts that have contributed most to increased TCO and unit costs, or particular “bad actor” applications that may be responsible for increased costs post-migration.
Get a Detailed Pre-/Post-Migration Analysis
The most crucial part of understanding your hybrid migration strategy is knowing the drivers behind any changes to your financials. Hybrid IT TCO Impact allows users to dive deeper into the migrations by analyzing individual applications and their related costs and usage. This granularity means users can pinpoint the applications and underlying cost drivers, as well as providing additional context like application business criticality and migration date to enable users to drive stronger conclusions.
With IBM Apptio Hybrid IT TCO Impact, organizations can proactively manage hybrid IT costs and ensure applications are in the right place at the right cost. With data-backed insights, businesses can make strategic decisions around what their ideal hybrid IT strategy looks like, by continually optimizing the size and costs of their various infrastructures.
Whether you’re looking to optimize your cloud footprint, reduce costs, or streamline application migrations, IBM Apptio’s Hybrid IT TCO Impact solution is a powerful tool for any organization looking to stay ahead in the world of hybrid IT. Sign up for a demo to learn more.
