IBM Cloudability for US Federal

Overview

IBM Cloudability for US Federal is a flexible cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and agency teams to optimize their costs and communicate the Agency value of the cloud. IBM Cloudability for US Federal is built to support the organizational adoption of cloud financial management - the process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of the cloud. IBM Cloudability for US Federal normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across your public cloud ecosystem so that you can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services, enabling your team to: Fully and accurately allocate your cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the agency; Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments; Make decisions with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to agency objectives.

Highlights

• Establish Visibility: Translate billing and usage data into a unified view to contextualize costs and govern cloud consumption

• Optimize Costs: Match spend to needs, view reservations and commitment based discounts, and identify candidates for purchase and modification

• Improve Efficiency: Continuously improve the unit economics of cloud with a shared understanding of costs and business value