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How cloud management startup NewVem is cutting its clients AWS bills by 25%

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Re: How cloud management startup NewVem is cutting its clients AWS bills by 25%

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bproper wrote: post #8
moe wrote: post #6

NewVem sees a massive opportunity to help companies cut costs and avoid the costly overhead of hiring a full time IT staffer to manage the cloud. Makes no sense. If you're using cloud-resources then you probably already have an IT staffer on the payroll. The hard part is not detecting when you're over-/under-provisioned. The hard part is implementing the actual automation beyond "start/stop an instance".

Totally not true - plenty of small startups use AWS and do not have a full time IT staffer. They are the ones who could benefit most from the savings.

plenty of small startups

Still makes little sense. If you have no IT guy then you're likely not using big resources, simply because you wouldn't know how to set them up.

Re: How cloud management startup NewVem is cutting its clients AWS bills by 25%

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iamondemand wrote: post #7
moe wrote: post #6

NewVem sees a massive opportunity to help companies cut costs and avoid the costly overhead of hiring a full time IT staffer to manage the cloud. Makes no sense. If you're using cloud-resources then you probably already have an IT staffer on the payroll. The hard part is not detecting when you're over-/under-provisioned. The hard part is implementing the actual automation beyond "start/stop an instance".

I definitely agree with the fact that the "cloud is programmable" and that one of the major challenges is to be able to plan and implement the automation. On the other hand this highly dynamic environment must be controlled in order to be able to track its behavior over time and be able to maintain and improve its rules and automation. In order to do so you must "Know Your Cloud" in matters such as visibility and con…

Does that make sense ?

Not when you don't have an IT guy. I mean, what is the scenario here? Some contractor left you alone with an elastic EC2 app, that scales magically simply by turning instances on and off? So you have this highly sophisticated application yet nobody who knows how to operate it, nor capacity monitoring? And your best bet is to seek some crummy outside monitoring to aid your... sales-guy(?)... as he pulls the levers?

Seems a little far fetched to me.

If you're a small startup with no tech clue then you're probably deployed on a shrink-wrapped solution (e.g. heroku) to begin with.

I guess I just don't see who they're aiming at here. Their marketing clearly suggests small business with no tech clue; but how did such a business scale to a point where savings are possible in first place then?

Re: How cloud management startup NewVem is cutting its clients AWS bills by 25%

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swah wrote: post #13

Looks nice, but... why is it free?!

My name if Ofir (iamondemand.com) and I work at Newvem. We are still in a beta mode so we provide all our service features for free. We decided to have most of the features that you see today (you MUST try it!) in our freemium package and in the future we will have some advanced premium ones.
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