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Bob and DJ are in the same boat, prepping for annual budget meetings at their respective companies. Both must present justification for spending for the next fiscal year. To do so, each needs to figure out their own actual spend and show how it's trending. Bob faces major headwinds because his company has resources in AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, and each has a number of factors that influence cost. With over 500 services available across the three public clouds, isolating costs and comparing them apples to apples is darn near impossible. Bob needs to track spending for on premises multi- vendor resources, too, which means he has to track server and storage costs separately and rely on multiple third party tools to determine usage [music] percentage, requiring help from several departments. Bob ends up facing the budget council without being able to follow the maxim know what you have before you ask for more. He weathers a hurricane of questions and a stormy reception from his colleagues looking for help to justify their spend requests which makes Bob [music] feel like the captain of a sinking ship. DJ on the other hand uses NetApp Cloud Insights and for her prepping for the budget meeting is smooth sailing. She receives granular utilization metrics, plus a detailed look at both current and historical resource utilization, which eliminates [music] eliminates [music] eliminates [music] the dizzying complexity that Bob faces and lets her provide more accurate info without having to wrestle with multiple tools or drag her whole team in to bail her out. For Kubernetes workloads, which can be wildly dynamic, Cloud Insights actually converts resource usage to currency. So DJ can batten down the hatches with department chargebacks backed up by detailed reports. Using Cloud Insights queries [music] and filters, DJ can budget for her hybrid multi cloud infrastructure without guesswork. She can also justify her team's new spending requests, winning kudos from the budget council and calming the waters for all of her colleagues.Because rising profits lift all boats. Thanks to NetApp, the cloud storage specialist.
The annual appearance before the budget council leaves Bob foundering. But it's smooth sailing for DJ as NetApp BlueXP digital wallet helps her to justify her spending - and her request for a budget increase - with just a few clicks of a button.