The way to reduce cloud computing costs is through efficiency. Your organization, whether it is an enterprise or a managed service provider, needs to put in place the right servers/storage/networks to execute specific workloads – and your organization needs to manage those resources properly.

A couple weeks ago I visited Companion Data Services (CDS) – a managed service provider (MSP) that serves the government and the insurance industries. What I saw was impressive: a highly optimized multi-platform cloud environment with strict process (policy and procedures) overlay. According to CDS, its cloud environment is highly tuned for:

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