7 March 2025

Bring your cloud to Claranet, and we will provide a FinOps service at no extra charge

Cloud adoption can fuel explosive growth but unchecked spending can lead to significant financial problems. If not managed properly, costs can spiral. In a recent survey, only 42% of organisations said their cloud costs are where they should be. Distributed teams with limited visibility and accountability can lead to unpredictable cloud bills that eat into gross margins.

With economic pressure increasing globally, reducing waste is the highest key priority for FinOps practitioners, with businesses looking for ways to reduce spending without reducing the value they are getting from their cloud investments.

Experience FinOps without upfront costs

FinOps brings finance, technology and business operations together, maximising the value you extract from the cloud by helping you understand the costs you can influence. With this knowledge, you can pull the right commercial levers to bring about change and ensure that you are realising the full potential of your cloud investment across the entire business. However, 70% of IT leaders say the cloud skills gap is an urgent concern. As more organisations adopt cloud technology, business leaders are finding that their cloud transformation initiatives are increasingly hampered by a lack of skilled professionals, with 34% of respondents stating that the shortage reduced their ability to operate effectively and launch new services.

At Claranet, we are helping to resolve these issues. When you entrust Claranet with your cloud billing management, you will receive all of the above support and guidance as standard, benefiting from our expert FinOps services at no extra charge. We can also offer in-depth consultancy if customers require it.

The right FinOps approach

We are always looking for new ways to help our clients achieve their business goals. This commitment to innovation, technical skills, experience and tooling gives us the ingenuity to design, build and deliver solutions around your requirements. We help you reach the specific outcomes you need, with the flexibility and freedom to evolve along the way. Wherever you are in the world and on your cloud modernisation journey, you can work with specialist Claranet teams in your region.

Aligning IT goals with business objectives

Two-thirds of CIOs are misaligned with their CEOs when it comes to the target role for IT. The role of an IT leader is not to simply provide technology, but to enable the delivery of business value and benefits through that technology. The challenge is for the CIO to understand what the business actually needs from technology to drive growth. Only 25% of business leaders in organisations struggling with the pace of technical change believe IT teams have an effective understanding of business goals. However, 72% of leaders in expanding and transforming organisations believe IT understands the company’s goals.

Claranet can help you adopt a well-architected framework to ensure best practice, providing you with the core tools, design principles and operational methodologies you need to achieve your goals. The approach is based on the following five pillars:

Reliability: Is the platform resilient, available and recoverable?
Cost optimisation: How can a cloud investment be used to maximum effect?
Operational excellence: Are workloads run and managed effectively?
Performance efficiency: Does resource capacity meet demand without over or under-utilisation?
Security: What safeguards are in place to protect the cloud platform?

People-first, customer-centric approach

Claranet was established over 25 years ago and we believe our success comes from developing impactful relationships with our customers to maximise their investments and deliver better business outcomes.

Our FinOps approach is driven by business goals, not just technology. It’s not unusual for us to be pulled into an engagement where costs are increasing 20% year-on-year. We don’t get too technical, straddling the line between finance and technology; however, if you do want deep technical detail, we have engineers on standby to support you. We also understand that every customer is different. While we are cloud experts, we appreciate that it’s you who holds the in-depth knowledge about your organisation and its needs. We work with you collaboratively to find the right solution, supporting multiple levels within the business, not just the C-suite.

Our end-to-end managed networks experience means you get tremendous value from a single supplier relationship. You can rely on our team of technical cloud engineers, architects and project managers to give you direct access to the right help, information and advice. We also offer quarterly business reviews with our experts as a minimum level of service.

Spendology exchanges private solution for AWS with Claranet

Spendology is a currency exchange fintech which aims to revolutionise the buying and organising of travel money. The company had ambitious growth plans, aiming to onboard 20,000 new members in the first year and exchange over £35 million through approximately 35,000 transactions. In the second year, the company plans to add a further 40,000 members, exchanging over £300 million through 250,000 transactions.

Claranet took the time to fully understand the company’s requirements, using our extensive application proficiency to devise the solution and migrate to AWS. As a Premier Consulting Partner, Claranet enabled the Spendology servers to cope with an increase in demand much more dynamically than before. Furthermore, after paying for the initial set-up of the Claranet solution, the ongoing running costs were far lower than expected.

Why Claranet for FinOps?

Established in 1996, Claranet is the UK's largest privately owned, multi-cloud expert. We have over 10,000 business customers worldwide, operate in ten countries and have over 3,000 employees. We focus on optimising costs by eliminating redundant, overbuilt or unused cloud infrastructure, offering a comprehensive suite of FinOps services, from strategy and planning to implementation and ongoing optimisation. With a long history of success and industry-leading technical expertise, we help organisations modernise and maintain critical applications, data and infrastructure.

Claranet is one of the few AWS partners globally to hold the new AWS Managed Security Services competency. We also hold five other AWS competencies, seven partner programs, six AWS service validations and 400+ AWS certifications.

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Don't let uncontrolled cloud costs hinder your business growth. Claranet provides expert FinOps guidance without upfront costs so you can regain financial control and maximise your cloud investment.

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