This article explores cloud cost management strategies for enterprises and the tools needed to meaningfully reduce spend. Table of Contents ▼ What Is Cloud Cost Management? Benefits of Cloud Cost Management Why Cloud Cost Management Matters for Modern Enterprises Key Principles of Effective Cloud Cost Control Common Challenges in Cloud Cost Management Core Strategies for…
Designing, building, and deploying an enterprise-ready Azure infrastructure requires the creation of a secure, reliable, and scalable environment that meets the company’s needs. However, many organizations overlook the importance of Azure governance best practices and the need for continuous compliance control to ensure the Azure infrastructure meets the highest security and compliance standards. Efficient Azure…
Everything your business needs is on the cloud! Cloud is the future! Isn’t that how most of the cloud taglines look like these days? Well, cloud technology is the best solution in an age where technology can be accessed on the tip of your finger or the wake of your sound. The much-sought-after cloud solution…
Also Named Gold Stevie® Award Winner in Enterprise Cloud Governance and Best New Cloud Infrastructure Solution BELLEVUE, WA— June 14, 2021 — CoreStack, a global cloud governance provider that empowers enterprises to unleash the power of cloud on their terms by helping them achieve continuous and autonomous cloud governance at scale, today announced that it…
Cloud Compliance is critical in the digital transformation journey. It’s best that Compliance isn’t treated as a tactical check-box exercise. Instead, approach it as a strategic imperative to unlock a critical competitive advantage. To make it a reality you need to leverage automation that not only assures compliance but also reduces the cost of ensuring…
In the previous blog post (part 6 of the cloud governance series), we discussed cloud access governance. In this blog, we talk about the fifth pillar of OSCAR Governance framework which is Cloud Resource Governance. Resource consistency is one of the fundamental steps to consider for cloud governance. It is important to organize cloud assets…
In the previous blog post (part 5 of the cloud governance series), we discussed cloud cost governance. In this blog, we discuss the fourth pillar OSCAR Governance framework – Cloud Access Governance. Controlling and regularly reviewing who has access to what is not just an enterprise security mandate. It is a critical compliance necessity. Sarbanes-Oxley…
Infrastructure and environments are needed by development organizations to support their own build and release process. An IT practice like Infrastructure as Code (IaC) allows you to codify and manage underlying IT infrastructure as software to enable developers or operations (DevOps) teams to automatically manage, monitor and provision resources, rather than manually configuring discrete hardware…
In the previous blog post (part 3 of the Cloud Governance series), we discussed Cloud Operations governance. In this article, we discuss the second pillar of our OSCAR Governance framework – Cloud Security. In our customer conversations, we often hear that the most significant security challenges CISOs face are: Rapid migration to the cloud resulting…
Enterprises are increasingly using various cloud platforms, each geared at providing differentiated value. Irrespective of the cloud platform, there are common pillars and principles that guide enterprises in defining, building, and enforcing cloud guardrails for efficient governance. Cloud Operations, Security, Cost, Access, and Resource consistency form the core pillars of cloud governance. We call this…
Do not treat Compliance as a tactical check-box exercise. Instead, approach it as a strategic imperative to unlock a critical competitive advantage. To make it a reality you need to leverage automation that not only assures compliance but also reduces the cost of staying continuously compliant. CoreStack empowers Compliance and Security teams with a solution…
Even after 14 years since the inception of Cloud, Infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders still struggle to find a balance between agility and cost-control, security & compliance needs. In this 7-part blog series, we aim to resolve this cloud conundrum by detailing the challenges, the need for real governance, and the best practices. We begin…