Overview
IBM Cloudability is a flexible cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud. IBM Cloudability 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 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 business; 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 business 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.
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Pricing
Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
CLDY1MYEAR | Manage up to $1M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $1M/year | $30,000.00 |
CLDY3MYEAR | Manage up to $3M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $3M/year | $76,680.00 |
CLDY6MYEAR | Manage up to $6M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $7M/year | $132,480.00 |
The following dimensions are not included in the contract terms, which will be charged based on your usage.
Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
Cloud Spend above contracted amount in an Annual Commit Model | $3,300.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Total Commit model | $3,300.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Financial Planning Annual Commit model | $1,650.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Financial PlanningTotal Commit model | $1,650.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in an Essentials Annual commit model | $1,930.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in an Essentials Total commit model | $1,930.00 |
Cloud spend above contracte amount in a Standard Annual commit model | $2,760.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Standard Total commit model | $2,760.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Premium Annual commit model | $4,410.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Premium Total commit model | $4,410.00 |
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