IDC UK
IDC Cloud Cost Optimization
IDC’s Cloud Cost Optimization service provides actionable recommendations that guide organizations to reduce costs and optimize Cloud workloads. The Cloud Cost Optimization offering can save between 10–30% in Cloud costs in the first year, with continuing course correction of cloud spend by 5–10% annually, through continuous improvement after baselining.
Features
- Cloud cost management - actual spend versus budget
- Transparency - understanding cloud invoices
- Planning, budgeting and forecasting cloud investment
- Timely and consistent spend/usage data to stakeholders
- Workload optimization
- Benchmarking against peers
Benefits
- Saving money
- Gaining transparency on cloud costs
- Frees money up for other areas of investment
- Identifies under-used cloud resources
- Management- and operational-level insight into cloud performance and costs
Pricing
£60,000 a unit
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
7 7 8 6 6 7 2 7 9 9 9 5 0 3 4
Contact
IDC UK
Jeremy Harcup
Telephone: 07973 85 8685
Email: jeremy.harcup@idc.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- We provide insights to support organizations to plan their spending on cloud services.
- Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- We train clients on how to manage cloud spending and on how to optimize cloud workloads.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- We provide insights to help buyers to control costs when they migrate to the cloud.
- Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
- Security strategy
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- We aim to respond to questions within 24 hours within business hours in UK.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Not applicable
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Our support to clients, particularly in carbon-heavy industries, enables them to operate more efficiently and reduce their carbon footprint. Furthermore, in the delivery of this service, we endeavor to reduce unneeded travel through the use of video meetings and other collaboration technologies.Wellbeing
IDC supports the wellbeing of all of its employees and has a number of programs and resources available to employees to help strike a healthy balance between work and life outside of work, to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and to manage stress and psychological problems.
Pricing
- Price
- £60,000 a unit
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
email the supplier at jeremy.harcup@idc.com.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.