Unifying Solutions: One Dashboard, More Problems Solved

Scenario

Company A is a rapidly growing technology company that provides a wide range of software solutions to businesses. They have recently migrated their infrastructure to a cloud environment using OpenStack to improve scalability and efficiency. To make reporting their cloud costs easier, they implement a billing system on OpenStack.

Scenario: Company A operates multiple web applications and services that cater to a diverse customer base. The company uses OpenStack to host its applications, taking advantage of the flexibility and scalability offered by cloud infrastructure. However, they want to ensure that they are optimizing their cloud resources.

Solution

Company A deploys an OZON to manage resources their cloud infrastructure. This billing system integrates seamlessly with their OpenStack deployment and offers a range of features to track resource usage, allocate costs, and provide insights into their cloud spending.

Key Steps and Features

1. Resource Usage Tracking: Ozon continuously monitors the usage of virtual machines, storage, networking, and other resources across Company A OpenStack environment.
2. Balance for Budget Monitoring: If Company A sets budget limits for each department or project. OZON sends real-time notifications when usage approaches predefined thresholds, preventing unexpected overages.
3. Automatic Invoice: OZON generates detailed reports, showing resource consumption, cost breakdowns, and trends. These reports are used for internal reviews, resource optimization, and efficiency utilization.

Outcome

By implementing OZON, Company A achieves better visibility and control over their cloud infrastructure costs. They are able to:

1. Prevent unexpected overages by receiving timely notifications as they approach budget limits.
2. Allocate costs accurately to different projects, ensuring transparency and accountability.
3. Make informed decisions about resource allocation and scaling based on historical data and forecasts.
4. Optimize their cloud spending by acting on cost-saving recommendations provided by the billing system.

Overall, OZON empowers Company A to manage their cloud costs efficiently, enabling them to focus on delivering innovative solutions to their clients while maintaining financial discipline.