Cloud Cruiser Announces '10% Cloud Cost Savings Guarantee' at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2011

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo -- Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions, today announced that it will be conducting live demonstrations of its cost management software accompanied with a new guarantee for CIOs and senior IT management at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011, October 17 – 20 in Orlando, FL.  The 30/10 guarantee is based on Cloud Cruiser's cost management solution that identifies savings through end-to-end heterogeneous transparency, enterprise chargeback, granular BI analytics, and proactive budgets and alerts.

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"Just like traditional IT, with cloud computing, enterprises need to gain visibility and understanding of the true costs involved at a sufficiently detailed level," noted Jay Pultz, Vice President & Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. "Such an understanding is obviously paramount to effective management of cloud computing costs."

One of the four central themes of the symposium is cloud computing, a market that Gartner projects to exceed $148B by 2014. The IT industry is moving a wider range of workloads and assets into the cloud, thus creating a critical need for cost-to-value transparency, chargeback accountability and predictable spending. To meet this demand, Cloud Cruiser's cost management software was specifically architected for public, private and hybrid cloud computing environments.

"Real money is moving to the cloud and many CIOs and CFOs aren't realizing the full savings they expected. Give us thirty days and we guarantee we can identify a minimum 10% cost savings in your private, hybrid or public cloud," said Dave Zabrowski, Founder & CEO of Cloud Cruiser. "With end-to-end granular cost visibility and organizational resource mapping, our software provides a powerful window into where your IT dollars are being spent and allows you to take immediate action to cut costs. We have yet to find a customer who isn't surprised when they see their first Cloud Cruiser results. Rogue workloads generating unexpected charges, inadequate public and private cloud chargeback, uncontrolled VM sprawl, vendor pricing errors, and unauthorized shadow IT are just a few of the areas we've uncovered for cost savings."

To see a live demo of how Cloud Cruiser can identify cost savings, visit booth # 207 at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, email [email protected], or visit http://www.cloudcruiser.com.

Cloud Cruiser's sophisticated collection engine retrieves and aggregates IT resource utilization data (CPU, storage, VMs, etc.) and IT financial costs (personnel, licenses, facilities, etc.) and delivers a 360-degree view of the entire organization's IT costs. Role-based dashboards, granular-level BI tools, chargeback, and proactive controls empower IT management to increase business agility and guarantee cost savings in the cloud. Cloud Cruiser is also the industry's first cost management solution designed to meet the standards for the OpenStack community.

About Cloud Cruiser

Cloud Cruiser is the leader in cloud cost management solutions. Cloud Cruiser's cost management software is designed specifically for enterprises and server providers to gain transparency, accountability, chargeback and proactive controls of their IT costs across a heterogeneous environment of internal, private and public workloads.  Cloud-centric businesses can now see, charge, control and own every workload to the end-user level. With Cloud Cruiser, the Federal Government, large providers such as Microsoft, HP, Dell, VMware, Amazon, Google, Savvis, Rackspace and Nimbula will be able to cost optimize their entire cloud-centric infrastructures. For more information visit: www.cloudcruiser.com.

About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world's leading enterprises, Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual planning efforts. Attendees rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use technology to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency. For more information, please visit http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/orlando/index.jsp.

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