Be proactive and respond faster with the Lucidity notifications center

Cloud storage is often a black box. It’s extremely difficult to understand how much storage you’re utilizing, when you’re paying for something you’re not using within your cloud environment, or when you are at the risk of downtime to resize your cloud storage to maximize your IT budget. 

Not only is visibility a challenge, cloud storage environments change quickly to keep up with the explosion of data that modern enterprises deal with. New disks are spun up or moved, data surges can fill up existing disks, and so on. IT and DevOps teams often end up overprovisioning cloud storage just to be safe, since, unlike cloud compute utilization, there’s no easy way to rapidly adjust provisioned storage or get real-time visibility into cloud storage utilization, but that gets expensive quickly, and doesn’t solve the problem of cloud teams being in the dark about what’s happening in their storage environment. 

Get visibility and actionable intelligence with the Lucidity notifications center

Lucidity was built to help cloud teams solve this problem, and to best ensure that cloud teams know what’s happening in their storage environment and within Lucidity itself, Lucidity is introducing the new notifications center to support AutoScaler, the industry’s only muti-cloud storage rightsizing solution. 

With fully tailorable alerts, the notifications center is built to give every Lucidity user a real-time understanding of what matters to them within Lucidity and in their cloud storage environment, from critical issues like Resource Locks preventing shrinking operations to cost optimization opportunities like Orphan Disks Detected. The notifications center can show alerts related to both Lucidity operations and key issues in your cloud storage environment, depending on what you as a user care most about. 

Increase your efficiency and further optimize cloud spend

In most any cloud storage environment, there are many opportunities to reduce wasted spend and improve efficiency. Getting visibility into key issues such as unscheduled reboots and resource constraints helps cloud teams move faster and increase awareness. Another example is when a disk becomes unassociated with an active resource. Teams are still paying for the storage, but not utilizing it anymore. 

The notifications center can share alerts on orphan disks, onboarding problems, and other issues that can help cloud teams avoid unnecessary spend and streamline their operations. By raising awareness of issues and opportunities like these faster, Lucidity helps cloud teams ensure they are getting the most out of Lucidity and their cloud storage optimization efforts.

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Get real-time awareness about what’s important to you

The notifications center is customizable, with users able to decide what categories of alerts they care about among critical alerts, warning alerts, informational alerts, and success alerts across Lucidity operations and their cloud storage environment. You can also choose where to receive alerts, be it within the Lucidity platform, via email, or in Microsoft Teams (with Slack, GChat, and others coming soon). This ensures that no matter what your areas of focus are, from ensuring that Lucidity is running without any blockers to identifying new opportunities for optimizing cloud costs, the notifications center will deliver real-time awareness on what matters to you so you can move faster and not miss anything important happening in your cloud storage environment.

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Reduce downtime and risk to data

Downtime can occur if your storage hits limits on cluster sizes or projects, or if resource constraints aren’t addressed in a timely manner. Without digging into a cloud provider’s portal, there’s no easy way to find out when you’re running into such constraints. 

The notifications center can surface alerts on issues that may impact your data or lead to downtime, helping teams proactively address anything that may hinder performance or prevent Lucidity from optimizing your storage usage. 

Move faster and keep your finger on the pulse with the notifications center for the Lucidity AutoScaler

Tackling a problem or opportunity begins with learning it exists in the first place. With the new notifications center, customers can now stay up to date with everything of note going on with Lucidity and their cloud block storage environment without having to manually dig into their cloud provider’s portal. As a result, customers get more visibility and are able to respond quickly and directly when there’s an opportunity to save money or optimize their storage. 

The notifications center delivers significant scalability through automated alerting, helping customers ensure that they see the alerts that matter to them no matter how large their storage environment is or how many users engage with Lucidity.

Get a demo of Lucidity to learn more about how you can cut your cloud storage bill by up to 70% and stay on top of your cloud storage environment in real time.

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