INFRASTRUCTURE & CLOUD TRANSFORMATION

Your Infrastructure Budget Is Full of Costs That Shouldn't Exist Anymore.

Legacy infrastructure, zombie servers, oversized cloud commitments, and underutilized data centers are costing you millions annually. We find them and eliminate them.

The Infrastructure Debt Nobody Is Tracking

Most large IT organizations are running infrastructure that was provisioned for peak loads that never materialized, supporting applications that have been deprecated, or paying cloud hyperscaler rates they never renegotiated after the initial migration.

The concept of “zombie servers” — active servers running at near-zero utilization — is pervasive. In our experience, 20–35% of an organization's server estate can be decommissioned without impacting any production workload.

Cloud environments are no different: lift-and-shift migrations created cloud bills as expensive as the on-premise infrastructure they replaced, without capturing any of the cost optimization that cloud makes possible.

What We Do

A cost-first modernization approach that eliminates waste and then locks in FinOps governance.

Infrastructure Rationalization & Zombie Server Elimination

We conduct a full audit of your server estate, virtual machine inventory, and storage infrastructure. We identify and decommission zombie servers, consolidate underutilized capacity, and build a right-sized infrastructure model that matches actual demand.

Cloud Cost Optimization

We audit cloud spending across all hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), identify waste in oversized instances, idle resources, and unutilized reserved capacity, and renegotiate enterprise agreements. Cloud savings of 25–40% are consistently achievable with structured analysis.

Data Center Consolidation

We design and execute data center consolidation programs that reduce physical footprint, eliminate redundant facilities, and migrate workloads to optimized hosting environments. We have managed consolidations from full on-premise to hybrid to cloud-native models.

Infrastructure Modernization Roadmaps

Beyond cost reduction, we design the modernization path from legacy infrastructure to modern, scalable architectures that support AI workloads, real-time data pipelines, and cloud-native application delivery.

FinOps Implementation

We stand up financial operations practices that give organizations ongoing visibility and governance over cloud and infrastructure spend — so the savings achieved don’t evaporate over time.

How We Do It

We separate real production demand from legacy provisioning assumptions, then build a modernization roadmap that keeps savings durable.

Inventory + Utilization Evidence

A full estate view—VMs, servers, storage, and cloud services—paired with utilization and dependency evidence.

Decommission + Consolidate

Remove zombie capacity and consolidate what remains into a right-sized target model.

FinOps + Guardrails

Budgets, tagging, chargeback/showback, and policies that prevent waste from returning.

Proof Points

20–35%
Typical server estate reduction through zombie server elimination
25–40%
Cloud cost savings consistently achievable through structured optimization
$175M+
Total transformation value delivered by the COEG team across all engagement types

THE NEXT MOVE IS YOURS

There's Money Sitting in Your Infrastructure Right Now. Let's Get It Back.