Cisco OVG NCM Cost Governance as a Service
Cisco OVG NCM Cost Governance as a Service provides essential product support and cost management for your virtual machines, ensuring efficient IT operations.
- Coverage for VM Costs: Gain visibility and control over your virtual machine expenditures.
- Included Product Support: Access expert assistance and troubleshooting for the NCM platform.
- Subscription Billing: Predictable monthly costs for ongoing governance and support.
- Per VM Licensing: Scalable licensing model that aligns with your virtual infrastructure size.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering is a subscription-based software license for Cisco's Network Configuration Manager (NCM) with Overdrive (OVG) capabilities, specifically focused on cost governance for virtual machines (VMs). It includes product support, providing businesses with the tools to monitor, manage, and optimize their VM-related IT expenses.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this service to maintain compliance, reduce operational overhead, and ensure efficient resource allocation within their virtualized environments. It integrates into existing IT infrastructure, offering a dedicated solution for cost control without requiring extensive hardware investments.
- Cost Visibility: Provides detailed insights into VM resource consumption and associated costs.
- Governance Controls: Enables the implementation of policies to manage and limit VM spending.
- Subscription Model: Offers predictable, recurring costs for budgeting and financial planning.
- Product Support Included: Ensures access to technical assistance for platform operation and issue resolution.
- Scalable Licensing: Adapts to your organization's VM footprint, from small deployments to larger environments.
This Cisco NCM service is ideal for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to proactively manage VM costs and maintain operational efficiency.
What This Enables
Enable VM Cost Visibility and Control
Enable teams to gain detailed insights into virtual machine resource consumption and associated costs. Streamline the implementation of policies to manage and limit VM spending effectively.
virtualized environments, cloud-native applications, hybrid cloud deployments, on-premises data centers
Automate Cost Governance Policies
Automate the enforcement of cost governance policies across your virtual machine fleet. Streamline compliance with internal financial controls and reduce the risk of budget overruns.
managed virtual infrastructure, private cloud environments, containerized workloads, multi-tenant platforms
Support for VM Resource Optimization
Support teams in identifying underutilized or over-provisioned virtual machines. Automate the process of rightsizing resources to align with actual performance needs and reduce unnecessary expenditure.
dynamic workloads, scalable applications, resource-intensive services, business-critical systems
Key Features
Subscription-based licensing
Provides predictable, recurring costs for easier budgeting and financial planning.
Per VM cost tracking
Offers granular visibility into spending for each virtual machine, enabling targeted optimization.
Cost governance policy enforcement
Helps prevent budget overruns by enforcing predefined spending limits and rules.
Included product support
Ensures access to expert assistance for platform operation and troubleshooting, minimizing downtime.
VM resource optimization insights
Identifies opportunities to rightsize VMs, reducing waste and lowering operational expenses.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent cost controls and compliance to manage sensitive data and adhere to regulatory requirements for IT spending on virtualized resources.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must manage IT costs efficiently while maintaining high availability and compliance with regulations like HIPAA for their critical patient data systems.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often operate complex IT environments with significant virtualization for operational technology and business systems, requiring cost oversight to maintain profitability.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, dynamic IT infrastructures and need cost-effective solutions to support research, administration, and student services without overspending.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco OVG NCM Cost Governance as a Service?
It is a subscription service that provides software licensing and product support for Cisco's Network Configuration Manager (NCM) with Overdrive (OVG) capabilities. It specifically focuses on managing and governing the costs associated with your virtual machines (VMs).
Who is the target audience for this service?
This service is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to control IT spending and optimize resource utilization within their virtualized environments.
What does 'Per VM' licensing mean?
Per VM licensing means the subscription cost is based on the number of virtual machines you are managing and governing through the NCM platform. This provides a scalable model that aligns with your infrastructure size.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.