CMI Announces ACT Portal, A Complimentary Optimization Tool for AWS/SoftLayer

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Oct 30, 2014, 15:00 ET


Mill Valley, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2014 -- CMI, a Bay Area-based cloud solution provider, announces ACT Portal, a free cloud management and cost optimization tool. The tool allows for an enhanced user experience by providing a single, consolidated billing invoice and cost savings for AWS and SoftLayer.

Chouinard & Myhre, Inc. (CMI) provides users with cutting edge cloud solutions and continues to enhance user experience with the new ACT Portal to streamline billing by offering a single, consolidated invoice. The new tool features an interactive dashboard that allows for drill-down views of accounts, product categories, resource IDs and cost centers. With these new capabilities, users will be able to see detailed reporting of financial resources, products, EULA (end-user licensing agreements), and reserved instances (RIs).

“The ACT Portal helps public cloud users manage their complex cloud deployments, billing, and reporting,” said Vanessa Nudd, Director of the Cloud Solutions Practice at CMI, “but most importantly, it will save clients an average of 20-30% on recurring cloud costs.”

For current AWS users, this new tool replaces the Consolidated Billing component offered by AWS. Through ACT, users will be able to access Enterprise Level AWS Support, built in approvals-based workflows, and recommendations to help lower overall costs of AWS usage. The ACT Portal streamlines overall cloud management by improving oversight/control of departmental spend and optimizes costs through RI purchases and detailed analytics. You can sign up for the ACT Portal at http://www.cm-inc.com/act/.

About CMI:
We offer systems and storage infrastructure, software, cloud enablement, consulting and professional services in the relentless pursuit of IT optimization. The agile and highly responsive engineering talent at CMI sees concepts through to reality, providing answers to client challenges that earn us trusted partner status with clients, partners and vendors. Our approach is to foster lasting relationships built on integrity and a strong commitment to pursuing the right solution for our client’s situation. Read more about us at http://www.cm-inc.com/.

Mandy Hurdakis, CMI Inc., http://www.cm-inc.com/, +1 (650) 863-6778, [email protected]