Following increased demand from Microsoft Azure customers,
Cloud Cruiser, a provider of cloud analytics solutions, today announced the availability of
Cloud Cruiser for Azure Public Cloud in the
Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Cloud Cruiser is also offering six months
free usage of this product for a limited timeframe. As Azure usage
increases, it is important for a customer to analyze consumption
and spending in order to optimize services for greater business
agility.
"Cloud
Cruiser has collaborated with Microsoft since 2012, delivering cloud
analytics solutions to enterprises and service providers utilizing
Microsoft Azure Public Cloud, Windows Pack and System Center," said Paul
Tilston, vice president
of sales and alliances, Cloud Cruiser. "This Azure Marketplace offering
for all Azure EA accounts helps track consumption with confidence and
gives fast insights into usage and costs, better enabling customers to
deliver the right services at the right time.
We believe this is a must-have capability as you move more workloads to
Azure," added Tilston.
Cloud Cruiser 16,
the company's latest Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application is more
robust and is suited for multi-clouds in addition to advanced analytics
capabilities such as a rules-based
recommendation engine for immediate action and avoid over-provisioning.
Cloud Cruiser 16 has rich out of the box reporting, providing
businesses with the details required to make smarter decisions.
Dashboards can be personalized based on what the organization
needs to track and measure in addition to budgeting and forecasting.
Additionally, a built in data transformation engine called Smart-TagsTM
turns cloud data into business meaning for richer reports which can be
distributed to a wide range of users.
"Microsoft
Azure growth rates continue to rise as our customers take advantage of
the growing list of Azure services," stated Nicole Herskowitz, senior
director of product marketing, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp. "Our
ecosystem continues
to add solutions to the Marketplace which is also gaining wide
adoption. With Cloud Cruiser's application, customers can now
understand what is being consumed at any point in time and these
insights help customers drive real business decisions. No matter
what stage you are at in your cloud journey, it is very important to
measure and track usage and spend."
Azure
users can start out with the Cloud Cruiser Marketplace offering and
very quickly and easily migrate to the more robust Cloud Cruiser 16,
which offers deeper insights and analytics. Built for rapid
time-to-value, once you start collecting,
you see reports and insights immediately light up helping you make
smarter decisions on your cloud investments. For more information,
visit
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