Google published a list of "11 best practices for operational efficiency and cost reduction with Google Cloud".

The list includes:

• Increasing agility and reducing IT costs by adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.
• Driving a higher return on ERP investments by migrating SAP systems to the cloud.
• Avoiding costly hardware refreshes and reducing on-premises infrastructure costs by migrating VMs to the cloud.
• Increasing scalability and gaining access to advanced analytics through data warehouse modernization.
• Make cluster management easier and more cost-effective by migrating on-premises Apache Hadoop clusters to the cloud.
• Gaining cost efficiencies by running specialized workloads in the cloud with a scalable Bare Metal Solution.
• Increasing flexibility and decreasing on-premises investments by migrating Windows workloads to the cloud.
• Embrace a modern architecture for scalability and cost efficiencies by offloading a mainframe environment.
• Leveraging AI to rapidly respond to customer needs and improve customer experience.
• Gaining more visibility and control to lower costs with billing and cost management tools.
• Improving productivity by transforming the way teams work together with cloud-native collaboration tools.

While these are high-level, and the linked whitepaper goes into a little more detail, contact us today if you would like expert advise on implementing these practices for your environment/team.

‍