Cependant, il est difficile de trouver un fournisseur fiable au meilleur prix pour des coûts optimisés et des performances robustes, surtout lorsque l’on recherche des services et des solutions sur le cloud. Et cela devient de plus en plus critique à mesure que la demande en applications de calcul haute performance (HPC) et d’intelligence artificielle (IA) augmente avec des besoins accrus en stockage et en puissance de calcul. Alors comment pouvez-vous y parvenir sans compromettre la qualité, les performances et la fiabilité ? Il existe deux façons d’y parvenir : utiliser des instances soutenues par des accélérateurs sur le cloud, telles que des GPU et des ASIC, ainsi qu’exploiter l’IA, FinOps et l’expertise d’un partenaire fiable. Considérez ceci : les décideurs informatiques peuvent économiser jusqu’à 40 % sur leurs dépenses cloud en maintenant ou en améliorant simplement les performances et la qualité de leurs modèles et services d’IA. Alors pourquoi attendre ? Let us look at how you can propel your business towards a sustainable cloud strategy with accelerator-backed instances.

Considérez ceci : les décideurs informatiques peuvent économiser jusqu’à 40 % sur leurs dépenses cloud en maintenant ou en améliorant simplement les performances et la qualité de leurs modèles et services d’IA.

A heads up

If you are looking at leveraging accelerator-backed instances, here is a heads-up on some challenges you may face:

• Visibility and transparency about costs involved across cloud providers, regions, and availability
• Control and flexibility over cloud resources and configurations that may affect performance and cost
• Alignment and collaboration between an organization’s financial and operational teams that may lead to inefficiency and waste of resources and services
• Expertise and guidance to optimize cloud spends and performance, and leverage techniques and tools, such as resizing, scaling, scheduling, spot instances, reserved instances, and savings plans
• Awareness and understanding the latest trends and developments in the cloud computing landscape, and how to take advantage of the new and more powerful devices

As cloud providers introduce new and more powerful devices, the costs of accelerator-based instances will increase exponentially. However, this is less of a challenge if you are armed with a game plan to tackle the cost to performance ratio.

Leveraging expert partners for the right platform and the right solution

The right cloud platform with the appropriate resource combinations can help you achieve the right cost-to-performance balance. As mentioned earlier, accelerator-backed instances on the cloud, further supported by a dynamic winning combination of AI, FinOps, and a reliable partner’s expertise are the best option for businesses. Here is what this entails:

• AI: One of the most powerful allies in the pursuit of optimal cloud resource utilization, this can help you find the best cloud platform and resource combinations which suit your HPC and AI applications, and your business needs and goals.
• FinOps: This aims to align the financial and the operational aspects of cloud computing for faster management and optimization of cloud spends and performance.
• A reliable partner’s expertise: Leverage HBA’s knowledge and experience to help your IT decision-makers navigate the complex landscape of cloud computing. A partner like HBA also has the expertise and multiple models available for you to access the best technologies and methodologies.

HBA’s whitepaper titled ‘Maximizing Price for Performance on the Cloud’ delves into this in finer detail with insightful case studies. Yet, the first step to optimizing cost-performance ratios begins with understanding your expectations from the cloud, your HPC apps, AI apps and business processes, and what your partner can do for you with accelerator-backed instances. In this blink-and-you-miss-it cloud landscape, let us collaborate and commit towards a sustainable business and cloud strategy. If you would like to know more about how to optimize costs and performance on the cloud specifically for your business, feel free to connect with me for a detailed discussion. If you would like to learn more about how to get the best value from accelerator-backed instances on the Cloud and HBA’s methodologies, head over and check out the action plan in the latest whitepaper that I have co-authored.