We are system integrators and deploy this solution for our customers. 

Cost Optimizer is a new module that works alongside the Workload Manager. They are specifically going to be using it in a lab, on the modulator. This is for public consumption, so to be able to deploy workloads into the call. However, not all of your actual standard inner cloud is going to be managed through CloudCenter. They might have SaaS offerings or might be using other guys, so typically what Cost Optimizer is doing is it's connecting to your actual ORG structure in your public cloud offering and will pull all of the costs you actually had into that cloud account. Along with the other ORGs under that cloud account, you will typically see what's managed by CloudCenter and what's not managed by CloudCenter. 

For us, it's going to provide insights as to where we are spending money. One nice thing about the Cost Optimizer is that let's say you've deployed an M4 large something on an Amazon or another size of VM on Azure. If it says to you that typically you are using a small M1, you're spending too much money, it will tell you. You could save $300 a month because this server is under maintenance, so that feature is typically something that there will be doing recommendations to customers on how to work. My work as a business unit last year involved looking into different ways of doing warm recommendations, such as how you can typically bring it back on-prem or move it or have a policy for aging or scaling that could help you minimize the cost. I think the potential of Cost Optimizer is just starting out because, with the recommendation they can do, they can really bring this to the next level.

It's difficult to pinpoint the value, as clients don't have the same system before this implementation. However, they are very happy with the solution, as they are implementing it for a number of customers. It allows for new local services. Some companies, especially the public sector, prefer that the provider stores the information locally in the country, not outside the country. This particular option is of great value to them.