rhipe has created a series of tips and tricks to help you, our partner, optimise and fine tune your deployments. Our aim is that these tips help to provide cost and operational efficiencies.

rhipe with support from Microsoft has created a team of experts dedicated to increasing your Microsoft Azure program benefits, reducing your business risk, optimising your deployments and costs to drive greater value for you and your customers.

We understand the impact on your business and your clients during challenging times and we want to do all we can to help. Our key objective is to ensure business continuity for you and your customers so we have created a list of 5 tips and tricks focused on cost savings, usage improvements, and innovative solutions that will help fine tune your customers’ infrastructure.

Explore these tips and tricks and reach out to the rhipe team for more advice on the best way to implement these changes.

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    3 Tips & Tricks to Optimise Microsoft Azure

    The cloud model allows for the dynamic scaling of resources. It's time to leverage the capability to scale down if need be. Partners and customers can look at their current infrastructure and identify non-critical workloads that can be put to hibernation or temporarily removed. Here are a few potential opportunities to reduce costs. Partners or customers should assess the situation and make appropriate decisions.

      1. Reduce costs through infrastructure optimisation
      2. Adopt Azure PaaS and save
      3. Leverage Azure reservations to save cost

    1. Reduce costs through infrastructure optimisation

    Virtual Machine Cost: Observe the CPU, Memory utilisation of the server workloads and look for opportunities to reduce redundant workloads. 

    • Choose to reduce the number of redundant VMs - number of nodes in a cluster if there is room for reduced workload.
    • If there is a low authentication traffic, one can choose to shift the load to a few domain controllers which can be running at full throttle. One can always add workloads if it is affecting the required performance as needed at these difficult times.
    Bandwidth Optimisation: Look for the opportunity to reduce VPN traffic by forcing or redirecting internet bound traffic outside VPN - Similar to forced tunneling. This will allow remote workers to use direct internet as against going through the VPN tunnel, that's either connecting to your datacenter or Azure. 

    If there is not much of a data churn, during these slow economic times - choose to run on a lower data snapshot, Database backup/indexing frequency. This will reduce storage costs and relieve some administrative work. 

    • Choose the incremental Managed Disk snapshot option as against the full snapshot. The incremental Managed Disk snapshot is Generally Available (GA) recently.

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    2. Adopt Azure PaaS and save

    Application Package Cost: Observe traffic to your applications or website. Switch to a lower Package type. Validate the features in the lower SKU and pick them accordingly. 
    • Example: Azure App Service, switch to a lower tier such as standard or basic.
    Choose to use Azure WVD to remove working instead of renting or purchasing Desktops and Laptops. 


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    3. Leverage Azure reservations to save cost

    Buying Azure reservation at 20-60% reduced cost. One can still pay on a monthly basis without an upfront investment on reservations. 

    • Take expert team's suggestions if need be, to make appropriate decisions around the change in architecture.
     
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    What to look out for!

    While every business is looking to reduce costs during difficult economic times, here are some don'ts that one should take note of. 

    • Do not compromise on security. There is an increased risk of security breach during these critical times. These are critical times where we need to protect Health & Medical data. Ensure appropriate assessments are done before optimising workloads.
    • Do not switch to a package or architecture that comprises security and data privacy. Here is a reference to Keeping your Cloud secure during challenging times.
    • Do not risk losing data by switching to a no-redundancy model.
    • Watch out for security permissions and the way they are structured in Low cost storage models. 
    • Do not choose unfamiliar low-cost alternatives, unless you have assessed the security features in the platform.
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