Cloud storage management firm Lucidity is allowing its channel partners to drill further down into their end customers’ cloud costs.
It has today announced the public availability of Lumen, delivering “seamless” disk tiering management to help partners and enterprises optimise application performance and reduce cloud storage costs with data-driven decisions.
In 2021, Lucidity launched AutoScaler to “autonomously rightsize” cloud storage across the AWS, Azure, and Google clouds, and Lumen builds on top of that.
Nitin Bhaudaria, co-founder at Lucidity, said: “Getting the most out of your cloud storage is complex, leading to a reality of over-provisioned capacity, premium-by-default disk tiers, and idle and orphaned disks, just to name a few.
“We’ve solved the problem of over-provisioning with AutoScaler, and we’re now simplifying never-before-touched areas of cloud storage management with Lumen, starting with disk tiering optimisation.”
Lumen promises actionable recommendations for matching the right disk tier to your application needs, and converting disk tiering up or down with “one click and no downtime”.
The company says disk tiering alone usually requires choosing between six tier options based on projected IOPS, throughput, and latency, all of which can be “nearly impossible to accurately predict ahead of time”. To hedge against potential performance issues, most organisations end up choosing the most premium tier, and, without clear visibility into real-world usage, never convert to a more optimal tier, said Lucidity.
That can add up to real wasted spend and large-scale inefficiencies. Lumen aims to address the challenges by providing visibility into key storage metrics, clear recommendations on disk tiering optimisation based on your historical data and application requirements, and the ability to make single-click, downtime-free disk tier changes.
At an IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, California this week, the company told us it had an expanding channel go-to-market, with the likes of Computacenter on board in addition to the partners shown above.
The company’ original AutoScaler product costs end customers $60 per terabyte per month for data under management with it. How channel partners and their end customers will be charged for Lumen hasn’t so far been publicly confirmed.
Lumen is now generally available for Azure, with AWS and GCP following in a future release.
