
Shamrock Consulting Group: Creating a More Efficient Way to Manage Costs in the Cloud

As one of the early advocates for the cloud, Shamrock Consulting Group has a vast amount of resources that they use to help their clients with successful cloud migrations, with the latest addition being their new, “Cloud Cost” platform. The amazing software can be put to use by sales personnel, CIOs, IT leaders, or anyone interested in understanding the cost and budgeting of cloud computing services. “Nobody has a comparison tool; it does not exist. Our platform will be the first tool of its kind available in the marketplace,” says Ben Ferguson, VP and Senior Network Architect at Shamrock. Since no software exists, the engineers at the company, along with Ferguson, have been working day in, day out over the past year to understand optimal Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and qualitative comparison strategies that they can deploy through their solution to simplify complex business decisions.
Microservices, together with container technology, are the most leveraged operations in the cloud, and it is within these areas are where Shamrock Consulting Group provides maximum value to clients via their Cloud Cost tool. One special feature of Shamrock Cloud Cost will be the comparative figures that it returns to users based on the cost of deliverable microservices from various cloud computing platforms across the globe.


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Shamrock Consulting Group Announces Groundbreaking Partnership with Blue Street Capital
El Segundo, CA: Shamrock Consulting Group is thrilled to announce a first-of-its-kind partnership with Blue Street Capital, a market leader in technology financing. The partnership will provide financing for Cloud Reserved Instances, giving medium and large enterprises incredible financial flexibility with regards to migrating their company data to the cloud.
“A 2017 study conducted by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association found that 68% of large IT equipment capital expenditures were financed,” said Ben Ferguson, Shamrock’s Vice President and Senior Network Architect, “And within a cloud-centric consumption model, especially for medium and large enterprises, we see a huge market opportunity there.”
The partnership will serve to bring awareness to the incredibly important yet vastly misunderstood components of cloud financing. Blue Street’s Vice President SE Region, Alex Gafford, lays it out:
“I am truly excited to see how AWS RIs and pre-paid MS Azure services will create more opportunities for CFOs and other business managers to pay for their critical cloud service needs,” said Gafford, “Most companies are unaware that these services can be financed, so we’re thrilled to take part in passing that message around.”
Shamrock Consulting Group is an award-winning telecom and IT solutions agency based in El Segundo, CA and serving clients around the world. Shamrock facilitates the procurement of thousands of products related to telecom, wide area networking, colocation and cloud at the guaranteed best price.
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Company
Shamrock Consulting Group
Headquarters
El Segundo, CA
Management
Ben Ferguson, VP & Senior Network Architect
Description
Shamrock Consulting Group has emerged as an industry-leading cloud solutions consultancy for the three major public cloud providers—AWS, Azure, Google—and is in the final stages of developing a platform that will revolutionize the way cloud services are shared and sold. Shamrock’s new proprietary offering will provide IT and finance teams with complete financial insight into cloud operations costs. The platform will provide feedback based on various criteria such as uptime SLA, microservices, storage, and, most importantly, exact costs associated with cloud computing
