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Clearing the Clouds Lucidity in Storage Optimization

Name: Clearing the Clouds Lucidity in Storage Optimization
Uploaded: 2024-04-12T15:30:13+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin introduces a product aimed at reducing storage costs across the three major public clouds (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). He frames common…

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Mike Austin introduces a product aimed at reducing storage costs across the three major public clouds (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). He frames common customer challenges in FinOps-style cost optimization and highlights a specific class of waste—"zombie resources": storage volumes left behind (e.g., after a VM is deleted) that continue to incur charges.

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And I'm going to set the stage a little bit about some of the challenges, because this is a product that is very specifically driven towards driving down your costs of storage on the three big public clouds, Google, AWS and Azure. Okay. And if you look at, you know, some of the challenges that companies face when we go out and talk to them about cost optimization and when we're doing that analysis around how can we drive cost out of Azure and aws, we typically, when we when it gets to storage, we really focused on looking for resources that, you know, in the finops world, they refer to these as zombie resources that are, you know, disconnected resources that you're paying for. So, in other words, I've got storage. A VM was destroyed. That storage should be removed from, removed from my environment. But it's still there, and I'm still paying for it.