Posted by Helen on Apr 24, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments

Moving into a public cloud environment is supposed to make life easier for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) – but sometimes, the opposite is the case.  That’s why CloudCheckr is helping users combat public cloud infrastructure complexity by launching a professional version of its product.  CloudCheckr Pro’s comprehensive solution has three modules – Resource Control, Cost Optimization, and Best Practices – to help users optimize their cloud performance.

The Resource Control module provides complete visibility into users’ deployments. CloudCheckr’s historical snapshots, current inventory, trending reports, and change monitoring provide accurate, up-to-date visibility into the current state and scope of a user’s cloud while facilitating future planning.

The Cost Optimization module analyzes users’ costs and presents actionable recommendations to help them save. CloudCheckr captures and analyzes utilization data to highlight under, over, and properly utilized resources. It makes purchase recommendations based upon users’ actual workloads and provides cost scenarios to streamline the process for selecting more cost effective pricing.

The Best Practices module identifies misconfigurations and exceptions within users’ deployments. CloudCheckr reports exceptions affecting security, cost, availability, and usage on a daily basis to keep pace with the dynamic cloud environment. With prioritized issues and detailed instructions on how to remedy all identified deficiencies, users can systematically optimize their deployments.

 

CLO Inside Scoop: CloudCheckr Pro aims to help businesses address some of the challenges specific to public cloud environments – particularly in the popular Amazon Web Services (AWS).   While Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) boasts exciting functionality and the cost benefits are easy to quantify, issues like “whole-zone” failures and challenges with Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) can be tough to manage.  (Backups and restores can be particularly challenging.)  This product launch is one of a growing number of initiatives that aims to help users without extensive IT staff or expertise take advantage of the benefits of public cloud without drowning in the attendant complexity.

 

(For more information visit http://cloudcheckr.com/).