Flexera

“Cloud spend had grown to more than $12 million a year, so we needed to know exactly where we stood before we even started talking to the vendor.”

“We closed a $46 million renewal with nearly $7 million in savings and cost avoidance by knowing exactly what we needed before negotiations began.”

“As a business partner, I couldn’t be happier with Flexera as a company. I’m enthusiastic about Flexera as a company and the product as a whole.”

“The Flexera tools enabled us to make data-driven decisions about how to map our current systems to the cloud,” said John Wagenleitner, technical architect/developer at California State University, Fresno. “It took the guessing out of the equation. It enabled us to work with our migration partner to prioritize the applications and to correctly size and secure the applications in the cloud.”

“The use of Flexera is great for the customers, but also for any MSPs that manage those customers’ environments, as they can offer FinOps services and cost reduction for their customers without any changes in their DevOps tools and culture.”

“Flexera has consistently stayed in step with technologies facing application readiness,” said Costell. “From the introduction of virtualization to mobile devices, Flexera has a solution for most enterprise needs.”

“The first thing I would recommend to any organization operating in the cloud is to try Flexera products to develop a FinOps practice,” said Marsh. “You need to understand how much you’re spending, and you need a product that knows how to get the best value out of what you’re spending.”

“The speed of our development has increased thanks to Elastigroup. We can have more instances, or more powerful instances, with controlled costs. This gives us more confidence and benefits our clients. It’s a win-win””

“Developers want as much compute power as they can have,” said Marsh. “Elastigroup allows us to offer developers more compute power at less cost for their projects. This makes developers very happy and allows us to test a wider range of scenarios during the QA phase.”

““We’re able to see the underlying compute that’s being used, translate that into development costs for each team and then either justify the costs or trim down certain parts of the compute,” said Marsh.”

““In practice, Azure compute cannot be optimized without a third-party solution — let alone stateful single VM workloads like ours. With Elastigroup, we exceeded our extremely ambitious savings target of 25% in just two months — further than we ever thought was possible,” comments Marsh.”

“Working with the Spot team was a very open and collaborative experience,” said Marsh. “The team took our requests and very quickly came back with a proof of concept for us to test. Spot has a very rapid development team—unlike any other software vendor I have ever interacted with.”

“[Flexera’s] Elastigroup looked too good to be true, but we were convinced once we understood how the solution worked in our environment””

“Thanks to Spot, cost optimization is now built into how we scale and manage our underlying infrastructure. Naturally, these cost savings are invested back in the business.”

“It gave us easy access to multiple instance types. Its logging and recommendations were of high value in understanding the bigger picture of our infrastructure consumption and costs. ECS service-level cost visibility is not directly available in AWS, but Spot Ocean provides that and it’s helpful for our cost attribution.”

“Ocean helped improve our overall infrastructure management. It introduced application-driven autoscaling instead of chronic overprovisioning,”

“When onboarding a third-party infrastructure solution, a good product and solid documentation are not enough. We need to see a strong backend team behind it. We expect proactive support for edge cases and custom requirements. Spot knows how to deliver that. For example, we wanted to customize VNGs and needed support to create parameters in IaC. Ocean’s product team facilitated and later standardized that as part of the product.”

““We never thought we’ll move 100% of prod to spot instances,” says Jijo. “During the proof of concept we tracked interruptions, latency, availability and other issues. With Ocean, we saw that even if interruptions did happen, our uptime was intact. This qualified for migrating our production clusters as well”.”

“Autoscaling stateless applications on spot instances is a great way to preserve a lean infrastructure. Anyone with lean resources should tap into those. It requires some time investment – but if you do so through a trusted solution, this investment will have great impact as your cloud usage grows,”

“With Flexera, we get security, cost and performance data in one platform.”

“With Flexera, you get a complete solution, not just great technology. Flexera has a great portfolio of products, but the number one benefit is its customer success model. This is complex data, and no tool can handle that alone without having people ready to hear your issues and be creative on how to solve them. We love the tool, but the difference maker for us is working with the Flexera team.”

“One of the greatest benefits of the Flexera solutions for FinOps is that we can easily optimize our commitments for each customer, as well as apply custom pricing. Our Finance team can then easily integrate this data with our ERP system and generate accurate and timely bills.”

“There were other solutions that we could’ve chosen, but Flexera was the one that we preferred. We had all the support that was needed to get our Flexera solution running smoothly. We’ve had different consultants from Flexera environments helping us. The collaboration with the Flexera organization has been very successful.”

“I’d also say that the SaaS solution [within Flexera One] gives us a lot of knowledge about areas that we’ve seen as some kind of a “black box” previously, which has enabled us now to see where we can optimize on the different vendors that we have. I think we have about 6 or 7 vendors up and running and we’re planning to implement at least 5 more to get even better visibility about where these vendors are going with the products that we have.”

“The transition went very, very smoothly. It took less than a week from leaving on-premises FlexNet Manager Suite to move to Flexera One. Flexera One gives us a very clear picture about the licenses that we have, the compliance that we’re facing, and if we’re using more than we have procured from different vendors. It gives us a picture of where we’re at any given time, and we’re using it almost every month to show management that we need to procure certain products, in order to be compliant with the different vendors. It gives us security for where we are and where we want to go.”