UiQ TV: Introducing IA-Cloud – Automated Cloud Optimization, Security & Management

Discover how IA-Cloud, Ultima’s intelligent automation SaaS platform, transforms cloud infrastructure management by addressing the three critical challenges every organization faces after cloud migration: escalating costs, security vulnerabilities, and operational complexity.

Chris Kirk, Head of Ultima Labs, explains how businesses consistently underestimate cloud operational expenditure, often requiring double their initial budget projections as usage scales and resources proliferate without proper governance.

IA-Cloud’s optimisation capabilities can reduce cloud spending by up to 30% through intelligent right-sizing recommendations, resource utilization analytics, and automated efficiency monitoring that balances performance requirements with cost control.

Unlike basic cloud monitoring tools that simply report spending, IA-Cloud provides actionable insights and automation that continuously optimize your infrastructure without requiring constant manual intervention.

Security represents another critical concern as cloud environments introduce new vulnerabilities including misconfigurations, compliance gaps, and exposure risks that traditional on-premises security approaches don’t address.

IA-Cloud continuously scans your cloud resources against security best practices and compliance frameworks, identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and policy violations before they can be exploited. This automated governance ensures your cloud environment maintains security posture as it evolves, providing peace of mind without requiring dedicated security specialists to manually audit configurations. For growing businesses, particularly smaller organisations without extensive IT teams, IA-Cloud solves the visibility and management challenges that emerge as cloud estates expand beyond what spreadsheets and manual processes can effectively track.

Automated documentation represents a transformative capability that saves countless hours while ensuring accuracy. Rather than tasking technical staff with maintaining configuration documentation that becomes outdated within weeks, IA-Cloud automatically generates comprehensive documentation every eight weeks, capturing current resource configurations, relationships, and dependencies. This proves invaluable for audits, troubleshooting, disaster recovery planning, and knowledge transfer when team members change. Whether you’re a small business seeking to control cloud costs, a mid-sized organization struggling with cloud complexity, or an enterprise optimizing multi-cloud infrastructure, IA-Cloud delivers the management, optimisation, and security capabilities that transform cloud computing from a cost concern into a strategic advantage.