Turbonomic Blog

Co-authored by Ying Wei, Kshitij Dholakia and Rick Ochs

The Business Value of Cloud Storage Optimization

Storage is one of the top cloud services globally. AWS and Azure offer various types of storage services, such as AWS object storage, Azure Blobs, Azure Queues, and more. This blog will focus on the block level storage service, which is used with AWS EC2 instances and Azure Virtual Machine instances and provides boot and data volumes.

How many times do you get a call from the help desk about some application being slow or down? More than you would like, I’m sure. The more troubling part is that they call about some business application (or many of them) that are affected and now you have to chase down what the underlying root cause of the issue is.

Why We Built Data Cloud

Have you ever been asked one of the following questions?

• "Was there a server outage?
• "Why is my app slow?"
• "Do I need a bigger VM?"
• "Do I need more storage?"
• "What host has that VM been on?"
• "What happened at 4 p.m. yesterday with my app?"
• "What am I paying for?"
• "What is on that cluster?"
• "What does the load at month end look like?"

We're willing to bet with virtual certainty that you've been asked all of these questions at some point in your IT career. They are central to the primary divide that exists between Applications and Infrastructure teams—and plague even the most well-run DevOps teams—and they are the questions that prevent IT from running as efficiently and performant as possible.

Last month, Turbonomic experts Brian Promes and Tom Griffin gave customers an inside look at our brand new Performance Data Warehouse: Turbonomic Data Cloud, which was invented with the sole purpose of closing the Apps-Ops divide once and for all. If you missed it, you can catch the full recording here, or keep reading for a synopsis and key excerpts.