As Microsoft Corp. evolves its enterprise-ready technology, it is also building an ecosystem of companies looking to push the envelope in key, strategic areas. One of those ecosystem partners, Presidio Inc., has developed a solution for companies who have invested in cloud or subscription-based services but lack visibility into full usage and consumption.

The solution is Presidio Concierge, a cloud subscription management and analytics platform, which became generally available last month.

“We developed this product from the ground up in combination with Intel,” said Raphael Meyerowitz (pictured, left), vice president, Office of the CTO, at Presidio, who described examples of customers having invoices that were 50 pages long. “They can never actually figure out what their costs are.”

Meyerowitz spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Microsoft Ignite event in Orlando, Florida. He was joined by Jake Smith (pictured, right), director of marketing, Data Center Group, at Intel Corp., and they discussed the role of Intel’s processor family in supporting hybrid cloud environments and one use case for Presidio’s telematics technology. (* Disclosure below.)

Greater customer flexibility

For Intel, the joint development of the Presidio cloud management platform is part of its continuing approach to build new families of processors that meet enterprise needs. The company is now making new CPU releases every year because cloud customers, including those in Microsoft Azure, want the latest and greatest technology, according to Smith.

“Partners like Presidio have developed technologies like Concierge that give customers the ability to manage their hybrid cloud environments both in the cloud and on-premises,” Smith said. “When you start giving customers that flexibility, they want the choice to deploy the latest Xeon processor family and Skylake processors this year.”

One of the use cases for Presidio’s platform involved a major trucking company. The customer wanted to equip its fleet with unique reporting capability for key metrics like oil pressure along with high-level diagnostic tools.

“We actually created, in partnership with Intel and Microsoft, a telematics platform that can provide a customer in real time with what issues they have with a particular truck,” Meyerowitz concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Microsoft Ignite event. (* Disclosure: Presidio Inc. sponsored this segment, with additional broadcast sponsorship from Cohesity Inc. Presidio, Cohesity, and other sponsors do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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