A New Zealand IT managed-services provider was paying about $18k a month more than it needed to. The cause was sitting in plain sight.
The wrong SQL Server editions had been deployed against the workload. Enterprise where Standard would do the job. The bill renewed every month, and nobody had matched the licence to the work.
We matched the editions to what the workload actually requires.
Licensing fell from $20k a month to $2k a month. A 90% saving, with no change to what the business runs.
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