SoftwareONE sees PyraCloud as game changer for single pane of glass view of cloud spend

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An enterprise’s cloud journey involves doing due diligence to maximize the return on investment and spend.

With the cloud emerging as a de facto operating model, being spend conscious has become fundamental. Through PyraCloud, SoftwareONE AG is providing organizations with enhanced visibility of the entire cloud spend for optimal performance, according to Asim Khan (pictured, left), North American AWS services lead at SoftwareONE.

“It’s basically our spend insight platform,” Khan stated. “It gives customers a truly agnostic single pane of glass view into their entire cloud enterprise spend. What I mean by that is with a single login, the customer has access to looking at their enterprise spend on AWS, on Azure, as well as GCP, and in the future, we’re going to add other hyperscalers.”

Khan and David Torres (pictured, right), director of cloud services at SoftwareONE, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Lisa Martin at the AWS Summit New York event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the partnership between SoftwareONE and Amazon Web Services Inc. and how PyraCloud is emerging as a game-changer when viewing the entire cloud spend. (* Disclosure below.)

PyraCloud helps ‘mature’ cloud users

PyraCloud enables enterprises with higher spending to have enhanced control. Therefore, it helps create a strategy for managing costs and spending in the cloud for long-term purposes, according to Khan.

“Mostly, the customers who would be a very good fit for PyraCloud would be a slightly more mature customer who already has a large amount of spend or who is already very mature in their different hyperscalers,” he noted. “What we’ve seen is once a customer is mature in the cloud over a certain period of time, controlling costs does become difficult, even though you might have automation in place.”

By supporting the hyperscalers, Torres believes SoftwareONE propels the cloud migration and modernization journey. As a result, its offers enterprises IT asset management services and governs on-premises licensing.

“We do support AWS, Azure and GCP at modernization, because … a lot of our customers … they’re moving from on-premises to AWS,” he stated. “They have a lot of technical debt, and they’re looking at options to modernize that and mission-critical workloads like SAP, Windows, Oracle, and we offer a suite of professional services, managed services, migrations …”

SoftwareONE looks at a customer’s business needs for precise decision-making. Some of the inputs scrutinized include data and the type of industry, according to Khan.

“I’ve seen how the trends have changed, but from our perspective, because we are an agnostic services company, we basically can work with any hyperscaler,” he pointed out. “We initially see what the business needs are for the customer. If the customer is already, for example, using Amazon, we initially want to have the customer use native tooling available within that hyperscaler space.”

Through the strategic collaboration with AWS, SoftwareONE covers key areas like FinOps. This helps enterprises that have heavily adopted the cloud with the financial management aspect, according to Torres. “Top three mission-critical workloads … so enterprise workloads like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,” he explained. “Two, app modernization, and, three, definitely FinOps and the hyperscalers.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Summit New York event:

(* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for the AWS Summit New York event. Amazon Web Services Inc. and other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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