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Reimagine the grid

Reimagine the grid

Ausgrid is the largest distributor of electricity in New South Wales (NSW) with a vision to serve communities power in a resilient, affordable, and net-zero future. A hybrid cloud approach directly aligned with this vision, but rising and unpredictable costs in their cloud-based model required an experienced partner to see what was causing the cost increases.

how we helped

01
Kyndryl hybrid onshore and offshore FinOps practitioners collected and analyzed cloud usage and spend data and made several assessment recommendations.

Optimizing

Converted the mix of VMs that accounted for 45% of the total cloud usage by appropriately distributing on-demand versus reserved instances, removing 13% of VMs.

Balancing

Restructured the underutilized and unattached storage disks, standard, and premium disks.

Reworking

Tackled underutilized MS Azure SQL databases and balanced on-demand with reserved instances.

02
Kyndryl developed a transformation roadmap in just six weeks and identified several potential cloud optimization savings opportunities.

Targeting savings

Identified 1,264 potential cloud optimization savings opportunities totaling over 8% of Azure cloud spend.

Boosting ROI

Determined a potential Ausgrid ROI of 23 to 1 (potential cloud savings vs this engagement cost).

Fueling discussions

Prompted additional discussions between Ausgrid and Kyndryl on implementing FinOps improvement recommendations.

Customer use cases
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Scale the power supply
Scale the power supply

Harness the opportunity of exploding demand and mitigate the risk of failing to do so. Leverage increasingly cleaner sources, including distributed energy resources.

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Balance the needs of today with demands of tomorrow
Balance the needs of today with demands of tomorrow

Strengthen infrastructure and resilience to ensure continuous service delivery. Simultaneously transition to a modern power grid and evolving regulatory frameworks, all while working toward clean energy goals.

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