Case Study: Reducing Inefficiencies with Tailored DevOps Principles for a Leading Property Management Company

Organization Description 

This leading property management organization serves thousands of residents across the United States, striving to provide quality, affordable housing options while ensuring exceptional customer experiences. As the organization grew, they were alarmed by drastic Azure overspending, which was caused by inefficiencies in three major areas of their IT department. 

 Client Challenge 

The client was experiencing three issues: 

• Azure Cost Overruns: Inefficient processes and a lack of clear direction hindered efforts to identify and eliminate unnecessary resources. This resulted in redundant services, misaligned resource allocation, and missed opportunities to optimize Azure architecture, driving significant overspending across multiple areas of the cloud environment. 

• Error and Status Monitoring Issues: The organization recognized the need for a more robust and automated monitoring framework across their environments. Without this, their ability to proactively track errors, optimize performance, and maintain operational reliability was limited. As a result, the organization relied on manual processes that impeded efficiency and timely issue resolution. 

• Resource Bloat: Duplicate and untagged infrastructure resources complicated operations, creating challenges for their internal team. These issues not only inflated their operational expenses but also impeded their ability to maintain effective error and status monitoring, critical to ensuring system reliability. 

 Solvaria’s Approach 

This organization was strongly impacted by the implementation of DevOps methodologies, which can provide increased confidence in applications, reduce inefficiencies, and support strategic business alignment. By leveraging DevOps principles such as resource tagging and continuous monitoring, Solvaria ensured the organization’s Azure infrastructure became more efficient and manageable.  

• Azure Cost Overruns: We offered multiple options on how to reduce Azure resource costs such as VM right-sizing, app service right-sizing, scheduled shutdown and scaling of VMs, Databases, and App Services. 

• Error and Status Monitoring Issues: We offered monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, metric alert rules, and discussed third party toolsets. 

• Resource Bloat: To address this issue, our team provided automated solutions to turn off or scale down resources, as appropriate, outside of working hours. Additionally, our team eliminated unused resources and duplicates. 

 Overall Impact 

Through Solvaria’s tailored solutions, the organization experienced measurable improvements in both cost and efficiency: 

• Reduced Azure Costs: A detailed Azure analysis uncovered significant savings opportunities, helping the client lower their monthly cloud expenses. 

• Streamlined Database Environment: Duplicated and untagged resources were consolidated. This fostered a cleaner, more organized infrastructure. 

• Improved Efficiency and Performance: Enhanced monitoring capabilities allowed the organization to proactively address issues, reducing downtime and resource waste. 

• DevOps-Driven Optimization: By implementing DevOps principles such as continuous monitoring, resource tagging, and shared dashboards, Solvaria improved the organization’s operational visibility and control. 

• Real-Time Error Tracking: The implementation of Azure Monitor Solutions coupled with metric alert rules helped the client address monitoring challenges by enabling real-rime error tracking and performance oversight.  

• Centralized View: A shared Azure dashboard was introduced to the organization, providing the client with a centralized view of their cloud environment.   

 Conclusion 

By embracing DevOps principles and tailored optimization strategies, Solvaria empowered this property management organization to overcome significant inefficiencies in their Azure environment. With reduced costs, streamlined resources, and enhanced monitoring capabilities, the client can focus on their core mission of providing quality, affordable housing. 

 The successful implementation of DevOps methodologies not only resolved immediate challenges but also positioned the organization for sustained operational efficiency and scalability. Solvaria’s collaborative approach ensured that the solutions were both impactful and aligned with the client’s long-term goals, reinforcing our commitment to delivering measurable results for our clients. For more information about our tailored DevOps service offerings, explore our Solutions Page.