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Selecting a Cloud Management Platform is a critical decision with far-reaching effects on your enterprise financial health, operational agility, security resilience, and ability to innovate. This isn't just a technology purchase, it is a fundamental business decision. To assist with this choice, we address the five key questions you should ask to validate the platform's strategic value to your organization. 1. How does Maestro fit my Enterprise Size and Load? 2. Are there any PoCs or Demos for Maestro to see how it actually works for my enterprise? 3. How does the Maestro accelerate our 'Concept-to-Cash' cycle and improve business velocity? 4. Does Maestro makes us "cloud-agnostic" without becoming "cloud-complicated"? 5. How much training do we need to start using Maestro? 1. How does Maestro fit my Enterprise Size and Load? Maestro main target customers are large organizations (government, bu...

Rapid evolution in IT engineering is changing how modern platforms are built and operated. Today, engineering teams must balance scalability, security, cost efficiency, compliance, and performance—while integrating AI into both user-facing services and internal workflows. This growing complexity is redefining platform and infrastructure engineering, and bringing to life a new concept – Neocloud, focused on provisioning capacities for AI, machine learning and data analytics workload. In response to these challenges, Maestro takes a major step forward in 2026, evolving into a powerful framework for building complex engineering solutions with modern tooling, AI capabilities, and proven best practices. Maestro 2026: Build Your AI Platform In 2026, Maestro evolves into an Infrastructure Orchestrator and Platform Engineering Hub , enabling Autonomous Orchestration across the entire engineering lifecycle. With AI becoming a core part of modern service provisioning, one ...

There is a typical challenge, frequently faced by organizations of different sizes, domains and technologies. Financial, development, security, and management teams work each in their own bubble. Each team uses different tools, tracks different metrics, and speaks a different language even if it comes to the same subject. This disconnection frequently leads to miscommunication, friction, unexpected budget overruns, and security gaps. The result is inefficiency and risk that could otherwise be avoided. Effective cloud management and FinOps is not only about the tools. It's a cultural shift toward shared accountability for cloud spending. It requires creating an environment where technical, management, and financial teams can work together seamlessly. Maestro is the platform enabling this by design. It provides a unified view for infrastructure, costs, security, breaking down departmental barriers and enabling effective, data-driven cooperation across your entire organizati...

In our previous posts we have already discussed the details on the financial management tools, by their function on different stages of infrastructure lifecycle (find them here ). We also frequently speak about security , and optimization . Maestro Dashboard is the key entry point for both finding out the data about your infrastructure, and cooperation between teams.It represents the key indicators and findings, each grouped in separate views for your convenience. Here, you can see the general infrastructure statistics, top spendings per cloud, service, or resource type (FinOps); the suggested infrastructure optimization possibilities (Optimization), and the security and compliance statuses (Security). Maestro Dashboard is not only about row data: you can interact with the numbers, call reports, thus receiving more details and diving deeper into investigations of specific cases. You can also adjust the content and look for the Dashboard to better meet your goals,...

The Year 2024 is coming to an end, and it's high time to sum up our achievements and future plan in the traditional summary and resolution post. While the Green Dragon is still here, we would like to start with summing up the past 52 weeks, taking the recap of the updates, news, and success cases we had - all that becomes a solid ground for our further movement. 2024: Main Steps and Updates Traditionally, Maestro development was focused on several main directions, as well as included a set of general updates and stabilization changes. General updates and stabilization The updates covering general Maestro performance and core functionality has been taking place throughout the year, with the massive stabilization closer to the end of the year. These included not only performance improvements and bug fixing, but also important new features, such as the possibility to have the ReadOnly access to Maestro, a huge update to C-level, tenant-l...

Effective cloud usage for an enterprise requires various tools, including resource management, corporate integrations, and establishing effective communication with end users. By default, cloud providers offer crucial alerts out-of-the-box, with additional alerts being customizable and provisioned as a service. This setup works well once you use only one provider and a small infrastructure. However, in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, tracking complex infrastructures efficiently becomes more challenging. Enterprises have different methods to address these challenges, ranging from manual sorting to integrating third-party tools. However, not all these methods are flexible enough to respond promptly to technological updates and market demands. This is where the need for a better solution emerges, leading to our case study on migrating to Maestro. Problem Statement An enterprise using a hybrid cloud with AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack-based infrastructure uti...

The year is coming to the end, and it's high time for our traditional lookback on Maestro evolution, changes, and important events. The year of 2023 has been dynamic and full of updates, both technical and strategic. We kept to our previous commitments , meanwhile adjusting to the new trends in Cloud and technologies in general. We met our user's expectation and need for cross-cloud FinOps, automated infrastructure analytics, security assessment and the "Fix it" button , aimed to simplify issues remediation. We also took into account the rising demand for Open Stack-based resources, Cloud Native approaches, AI/ML integrations . As a result, we came up with our standard "six release per year" cycle, highlighted with the following milestones: Maestro Insights With the ML technologies growth, the amount of services offering infrastructure recommendations and analytics, grow. This is true for the public cloud providers'...

Reporting is one of Maestro's key features, which turns a wide set of its tools and capabilities into a convenient information delivery process. Maestro financial and analytic reports are initially designed to face users with the different types of tasks and levels of responsibility.  We have already described some of the reporting features in the articles like  Maestro Reports for Cost Analytics and Optimization  or  Size-based approach to cloud infrastructure analytics , as well as you can find related posts by FinOps and Analytics labels.  Today, we would like to uncover a couple of new features, that enforce significantly the enterprise-level dimension of Maestro reporting: a set of C-Level infrastructure and costs reports, and the new concept - "Linked accounts" which allows you to build a more effective infrastructure hierarchy within your organization. Linked Accounts: Improved Accountability Traditionally, there was the case when one project owned one ...

In our previous post , we started the topic of top questions related to Maestro , which included those about Maestro as a SIAM platform and Maestro resource management approaches. In this article, we are facing another popular questions - focusing on finance and automation. 1. How would you organize the multi partner billing process? Using a SIAM framework which supports multi-layered organizational structure allows organizing billing process for multiple cost objects, that can be assigned to different partners. This can be organized wither via using multi-tenant approach, where cloud accounts are matched to different tenants, thus the whole billing for a specific tenant goes to a specific partner. Alternatively, in case a single account is used by several partners, infrastructure can be split within a tenant, with tags, or based on the resource ownership concept. 2. What are the relevant price items which would build up the structure of your cost estimation? For public cloud providers...

New trends keep on hitting the Cloud Market, caused by both changes in infrastructure creation approaches, and enterprises' aim to make the infrastructures more effective - in performance, and from the financial point of view. While communicating to project teams and customers, Maestro team has collected a set of typical questions, and we decided to aggregate the answers in a series of two blog posts. And we would like to start with the questions, related to one of the hottest topics now - Maestro as a Service integration and Management Platform.  1. How should a SIAM model from your point of view look like? SIAM is a framework needed to manage multiple service providers and their services effectively, in a unified manner, by incorporating them into a single platform.  Maestro as a SIAM framework allows arranging effective operation and infrastructure services for an enterprise.  It has an API-first approach which allows both effective adding new own components, as well ...

These days, it’s hard to go online and do not get into the word-wide trend for OpenAI’s ChatGTP. Everybody is discussing it, checking the new tools capabilities and knowledge. It was impossible to resist the temptation and check what ChatGTP knows about Maestro, based on its site and blog. Why would I need  (https://www.maestrocontrol.cloud )? As an AI language model, I do not have access to your specific circumstances or needs, so I cannot provide a definitive answer as to why you would need https://www.maestrocontrol.cloud/. However, I can provide some general information about the benefits and features of this service, which may help you determine if it is right for you. https://www.maestrocontrol.cloud/ is a cloud-based software platform designed to help businesses manage their operations and workflows more efficiently. Some potential reasons why you might consider using this service include: Improved productivity : The platform can help you automate and streamline many ...

Analytics expect that businesses will rely on Cloud even more in upcoming years, quickly moving to multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and cloud native architectures. Naturally, with infrastructures growing and evolving dramatically, the cost-related questions get to a totally new level, and need new approaches. The most common issues that the enterprise face when trying to balance between effective infrastructures and effective spendings, are: Blurred responsibilities for Cloud expenses Unclear responsibilities for resources planning and usage Unclearly organized environments and per-environment tracking Inability to find the correlation between cloud initiatives and business goals Inability to keep to the expected budget and to predict how cloud costs changes after implementation of new business solutions Lack of communication between business, financial, and technical teams So here is where FinOps comes to the stage – to help with proper setting up the technological and business processes f...

The year of 2023 is only started, but it is already highly important in cloud industry. According to numerous reviews and reports, the number of businesses hosting their infrastructures in Cloud is growing dramatically, and in this respect, multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures are the main trend. Each cloud provider gives a vide set of services, that are often alike across vendors. However, there are special offerings not available at competitors, or the specifics of performance or configuration. That is why many businesses end up with a multi-cloud environment. For example, AWS has a very powerful Machine Learning services set that meets the expectations in models training, once Azure provides the effective identity services (like Azure AD). There are still many businesses engaging clouds built within private data centres. There are numerous reasons for that – from compliance requirements to just historical development. If the business is relatively young and was initially cloud-b...

According to Gartner , by 2025, over 85% of organizations will embrace the cloud-first principle, and cloud-native architectures and technologies will become an intrinsic part of their digital strategies. To compare with, in 2021, this number was 30% only. The year 2023 brings new trends that reflect this rapid Cloud evolution. AI, Virtual Desktops, Serverless, Automation, Hybrid Cloud are among the top directions, according to most analytics and reviewers. Maestro traditionally responds to the three sources of requirements – stakeholders, market, and end-users experience. This year, the three of them are naturally united, and we came up with a perfect roadmap that will lead our product to a new level of maturity and marketability. Main Directions Among the whole set of things to be done we would like to highlight those that are the most important and promising. One-Click Workspaces/VDI Provisioning on AWS and Azure Virtual workspaces is a highly demanded way to provide secure avai...