Optimize the cloud with Cegeka Smart Cloud Insights dashboards

Central insights: the key to unlocking cloud visibility 

Cloud ecosystems are vast and intricate, encompassing a daunting variety of services, resources, and configurations across various platforms. From infrastructure management to application deployment and monitoring, visibility is the key to navigating these complex structures. Without this visibility, organizations risk overlooking critical issues that could impact performance, security, and cost-efficiency. As a result, dashboards have become a vital tool for IT managers to maintain 24/7 system operations, offering: 

• Real-time monitoring and visibility: Insights provide instant updates on the status of your cloud environment, so issues can be identified and addressed as soon as they arise. 
• Data-driven decision making: By aggregating and visualising data, dashboards enable IT managers to make informed decisions based on accurate, up-to-date information. 
• Proactive management and automation: With predictive analytics and automated alerts, dashboards help identify and prevent potential problems before they escalate. 
• Enhanced security and compliance: Dashboards consolidate security metrics and compliance data, helping you to ensure your cloud environments meet regulatory standards and are protected against threats. 
• Integration and interoperability: Dashboards provide a cohesive and interoperable view of the cloud environment, streamlining operations and improving efficiency. 

For all of these reasons, insights play an increasingly indispensable role in modern cloud environments. For companies seeking to enhance their cloud management capabilities, Cegeka Smart Cloud Insights Dashboards offers a complete solution for achieving clarity and control. 

Cegeka Smart Cloud Insights dashboards 

Cegeka Smart Cloud Insights dashboards are a suite of powerful tools designed to provide comprehensive visibility and actionable insights into cloud environments. These dashboards serve as a central hub that aggregates and visualizes data from diverse sources within the cloud environment. They offer a snapshot of key metrics, performance indicators, and trends, allowing stakeholders to quickly assess the health and efficiency of their cloud infrastructure. Developed by our expert analysts, Cegeka dashboards contain graphs, measures and alerts that give companies insight into their specific needs, monitor resource utilization, track performance, identify security vulnerabilities and control costs. 

Through its Cloud Center of Excellence, Cegeka offers 11 dashboards that cover specific aspects of the cloud environment, such as IT spend and security risks. These dashboards are flexible and scalable, and accessible by different roles and responsibilities within the organization. As SaaS solutions, the dashboards are always up to date and in line with the latest technological trends and developments.  

The 11 dashboards 

1. Cost: Gain comprehensive insights into your cloud expenditures with detailed analytics and cost optimization recommendations 
2. Compliancy: Maintain the highest security standards and ensure compliance with industry regulations through continuous monitoring and actionable insights. 
3. Data: Obtain a holistic view of your data pipeline, from ingestion to analytics, ensuring data integrity and accessibility across your organization. 
4. Identity: Streamline the management of certificates and secrets to safeguard your digital identity landscape effectively. 
5. Infrastructure: Oversee your infrastructure health with monitoring of backups, updates, malware protection, and system performance. 
6. Kubernetes: Optimize the performance and reliability of your Kubernetes clusters with proactive monitoring and operational insights. 
7. Vulnerability: Protect your public endpoints by scanning for open CVEs and implementing measures to prevent potential cyberattacks.  
8. Resource Move: Simplify the planning of resource migration between CSP (Indirect Licence model of Microsoft – Cloud Solution Provider) and EA (Enterprise Agreement), or across regions, with intuitive tools and clear migration paths. 
9. Secure Score: Evaluate your CSP customer security posture with a comprehensive view of security scores. 
10. M365 Compliancy: Assess your M365 cloud configuration against compliance frameworks to ensure adherence to industry standards. 
11. Sustainability (in Preview): Monitor and improve your organization's sustainability efforts with actionable insights into environmental impact and resource optimization. 

All of the insight dashboards can be purchased through Cegeka’s direct sales channels. If you want to start immediately, you can already try out our cost and compliance dashboards through the Azure Marketplace. 

Cost and compliancy 

The Cost and Compliancy dashboards are an excellent way to get started quickly with actionable insights that can have a significant impact on your business. These ready-to-use solutions can be deployed swiftly, providing actionable insights for IT teams. They assist in defining priorities for improvements, enabling efficient cost management and ensuring compliance with industry standards.  

Compliancy  

Managing compliance on a cloud platform can be challenging for IT managers. Cegeka simplifies this by consolidating all compliance data into a single, comprehensive dashboard. The compliancy dashboard provides recommendations on the risks of the active cloud configuration, using a scoring system based on regulatory standards (such as CIS and ISO), vendor-specific standards (such as Azure and Microsoft Secure Score), and our Cloud Center of Excellence’s proprietary frameworks and best practices. 

The dashboard provides different layers of detail, from your overall score to the resource level with recommendations for mitigation. 

Cost 

Our cost dashboard provides an instant overview of all your cloud subscriptions, emphasizing Azure license optimization, including Reserved Instances. It offers powerful tools for anomaly detection, helping you quickly identify and address unexpected cost spikes or drops. 

The dashboard tracks the evolution and progress of your optimization efforts, ensuring you stay on top of cost-saving opportunities. With detailed insights, you can efficiently manage and right-size your cloud spend. Additionally, the system monitors ‘shadow IT’* to enhance compliance and reduce security risks, offering tailored recommendations for further cost efficiency. 

*IT systems deployed by departments other than the central IT department 

The onboarding process is simple and straightforward. Our experts will have you up and running in a quick 30-minute call, with two hours of free-of-charge advisory services included. 

A pragmatic approach 

Cegeka’s dashboards give customers full visibility and control over their cloud environment in a single overview, eliminating the need for separate monitoring solutions. They offer fast and automated insights that can be delivered within minutes of the conclusion of the onboarding call, with another two hours of free-of-charge Cegeka advisory services to get companies started with leveraging these insights. 

Cegeka uses the FinOps approach (Cloud Financial Management) to advise customers on cost optimizations, bringing financial, IT, and DevOps leadership together under the guidance of a FinOps practitioner to manage the total cost of cloud deployments collaboratively.   

Insight-driven decisions 

With advanced analytics and visualization, Smart Cloud Insights dashboards empower decision-makers to identify patterns, anomalies, and trends that might otherwise go unnoticed, translating raw data into actionable insights. In detecting potential performance bottlenecks, optimizing costs, predicting resource requirements and uncovering security threats, these dashboards serve as indispensable tools for making informed decisions in ever-changing cloud landscapes. As organizations continue to embrace the cloud as a strategic asset, investing in a robust dashboard solution is essential in unlocking the full potential of this transformative technology. 

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