Optimizing cloud spending, gaining granular cost visibility and implementing automated governance practices maximize the value of cloud investments.
Think about it this way:
Optimizing cloud spending involves actively managing resources to avoid unnecessary costs. This includes identifying and eliminating underutilized resources, right-sizing instances to match actual needs, and leveraging cost-saving options like reserved instances and spot pricing.
Gaining granular cost visibility requires comprehensive insights into cloud resource utilization. This involves tracking costs across various services, understanding the factors driving them and identifying potential areas for optimization.
Finally, implementing automated governance practices streamlines cloud financial management and minimizes human error. This involves setting spending limits, automating resource provisioning and scaling and enforcing compliance with predefined policies.
Collectively, these practices let businesses move beyond simply using the cloud to strategically use its capabilities while optimizing costs and maximizing the return on their cloud investments.
And in a move to simplify and enhance cloud financial management for businesses, global technology solutions provider Arrow Electronics announced it was selected by Broadcom as the sole provider for its CloudHealth from VMware offering.
Arrow Electronics guides technology manufacturers and service providers to market, sell and manage their products and services. As a global provider of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions, Arrow connects customers to the right technology at the right time.
Broadcom is a global infrastructure and semiconductor technology provider that develops software infrastructure semiconductor solutions that enable vital applications in data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless and storage. Broadcom's solutions include data center semiconductors and software, networking infrastructure, enterprise software, broadband infrastructure, wireless and connectivity solutions and storage solutions.
The purpose of the strategic partnership between the two is to streamline access, support and user experience for businesses utilizing CloudHealth to optimize FinOps across multi-cloud environments.
With CloudHealth, businesses gain better visibility and control over their cloud spending. The platform provides granular insights into cloud resource utilization, cost optimization recommendations, and automated governance tools. This means that businesses to make informed decisions and maximize the value of their cloud investments.
Arrow will provide sales, marketing and technical support for CloudHealth and enhance the user experience through streamlined accessibility, specialized knowledge and personalized assistance. As a result, CloudHealth partners and customers receive the most value from their investment in the platform while Broadcom continues to invest in the innovation of CloudHealth.
“Arrow is pleased to build upon our strategic relationship with Broadcom by becoming the exclusive provider of the CloudHealth offering,” said Eric Nowak, President of Global Enterprise Computing Solutions at Arrow. “Our expansive knowledge of the Broadcom and VMware technology portfolios and our deep experience in cloud delivery and management services will help ensure a fluid transition for those partners and customers leveraging the CloudHealth offering.”
CloudHealth will be available through the ArrowSphere Cloud marketplace starting May 6. The SaaS offering is the latest addition to Arrow’s fast-growing cloud portfolio, built to give organizations of all sizes greater flexibility, scalability and affordability in managing and optimizing their cloud business.
“Arrow’s deep familiarity with as-a-service technologies, innovation and flexibility to explore new business models play a central role in helping Broadcom execute on our global go-to-market strategy,” said Cynthia Loyd, Vice President of Global Partner and Commercial Sales at Broadcom. “Arrow has the talent, operational excellence and reach to make CloudHealth available to more businesses in more markets.”
There is no planned service outage to CloudHealth, including to those customers who consume CloudHealth through the AWS marketplace.
Edited by
Alex Passett
