Snow Software, the global leader in technology intelligence, announced new innovations available on Snow Atlas to empower customers with the intelligence to optimize growing SaaS and cloud infrastructure spend and reduce data leakage in the enterprise. The breadth of new offerings includes agentless optimization of Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server, enhanced SaaS application discovery to identify non-compliant generative AI tools, deeper user-based cost analysis of SaaS spend and expanded visibility into software running in container environments.
“Technology is a significant investment for most organizations, as IDC predicts IT spending will continue to increase to $3.25 trillion in 20231,” said Sanjay Castelino, Chief Product and Customer Officer at Snow. “However, it is incredibly challenging for most organizations to understand exactly what they are using and how much they are spending. That’s why we continue to develop new capabilities that create further transparency into complex IT environments. We believe organizations should be able to identify and understand not just what SaaS applications they are running, for example, but what the total monthly costs are by user. The context of these insights and the ability to immediately act on them are a powerful form of intelligence — one that positively informs strategic business decisions, creates budget predictability and demonstrates the value of an entire tech stack. That’s Technology Intelligence realized.”
FinOps and ITAM Save Costs With Agentless Azure Hybrid Benefits for Windows Server
Cloud services are increasingly consumed directly by distributed development teams, to the point that the spend on cloud has become a clearly visible line item on an organizational expense sheet. This is often exacerbated by cloud providers bundling the cost of software licenses like Windows Server and SQL Server within the rate for a virtual machine (VM) or platform service. This results in organizations purchasing software licenses twice – once for on-premises, and a second time in the cloud.
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Azure Hybrid Benefit allows organizations to apply their already-purchased licenses for Windows Server to their virtual machines on Microsoft Azure, reducing the cost of that virtual machine by up to 80% over standard pay-as-you-go and reserved VM instance rates. However, many FinOps and IT Asset Management (ITAM) teams lack the knowledge or experience to take advantage of potential savings offered by the Azure Hybrid Benefit program.
- Identify Azure Hybrid Benefits — To help organizations realize the benefits of Azure Hybrid Benefits, Snow has released an industry-first agentless capability which identifies Windows Server VMs on Microsoft Azure that are eligible for the Azure Hybrid Benefit. The capability is available to all Snow Atlas customers in an open beta program and is a key next step in Snow’s mission to bridge ITAM and FinOps.
Curb SaaS Sprawl with Snow SaaS Management
Despite a year of economic uncertainty and a renewed focus on efficiency for many organizations, Gartner predicts SaaS spending will increase this year by 17.9%, totaling $197 billion2. Increased spending in SaaS also follows the news that many SaaS vendors are raising the prices of their products this year. Ultimately, these market movements suggest organizations need to be especially focused on their entire SaaS application portfolio and the overall costs, or risk overspending and uncontrolled sprawl.
SOURCE: Businesswire