Servent

Azure Cost Optimisation

Azure Cost Optimisation is a service provided by Servent to help manage and reduce your Azure costs. Azure Cost Optimisation ensures that all Azure costs are assessed, the cloud environment maturity quantified, and the most appropriate cost consolidation and management practices applied.

Features

• Azure cost analysis and optimisation
• Optimisation of current Azure environment
• Assess costs and service requirements
• Cost management best practices
• Develop a cost model

Benefits

• Budget, alerts and reporting
• Improve cloud maturity to optimise spend
• Tagging implementation and policies
• Azure Hybrid Benefit recommendations
• SQL optimisation recommendations
• Security recommendations
• Right-sizing current Azure resources
• Design with a cost efficient mindset
• Encourage accountability

£500 to £1,600 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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 g-cloud@servent.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

902822246126340

Contact

G-Cloud at Servent
0141 465 7075
g-cloud@servent.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: The initial cost assessment phase, which utilises numerous tools and data gathering practices, provides the valuable output for the detailed cost optimisation practices for Azure to be recommended and implemented. ; The final phase is future proofing your Azure environment to allow ongoing confident & accountable management of your Azure cloud expenditure.
• Planning service works with specific services: Yes
• Hosting or software services the planning service works with: Microsoft Azure

Training

• Training service provided: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Azure Cost Optimisation is an offering which is part of this approach, built from many years’ experience of moving customers to the cloud and their onward cloud maturity journey. Servent use many tools and processes to simplify cost optimisation activities, with 3 phases of Cost Assessment, Cost Consolidation and Cost Management.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: Yes
• List of supported services: Microsoft Azure

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: No

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security audit services

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported: Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: Support for the Azure platform would be provided by Microsoft. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/support/plans/

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: We offer offer our customers support 24x7
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Yes, at an extra cost
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Web chat accessibility testing: We use the Microsoft Teams platform for web chat testing which offers an array of features and options for users who require assistive technology.
• Support levels: Access to Servent Architects and Engineers 24x7.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: British Assessment Bureau
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 03/08/2023
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Not applicable
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Fighting climate change

  Fighting climate change

  Microsoft Azure is committed to fighting climate change through various initiatives. One of the ways Azure fights climate change is by using renewable energy sources to power its data centers. Azure has set a goal to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025. Additionally, Azure is working to improve energy efficiency in its data centers, reducing the overall carbon footprint. Azure also offers its customers tools and resources to help them reduce their own carbon footprint, such as the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator, which helps customers understand and reduce their carbon emissions associated with their cloud workloads.

Pricing

• Price: £500 to £1,600 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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 g-cloud@servent.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.