Alongside this, he said, PointFive’s research team has developed AI algorithms to identify what the company describes as “Deep Waste”. This is cost-control equivalent (sort of) of deep learning.

“Traditionally, waste in cloud environments was unused resources,” he said. “You pay for certain resources, but you don’t use them, or use only half of them. When you have containerized environment, and a lot of managed services for storage, when networking is a huge cost and networking is very influenced by architecture, you have tons of waste that is very, very deep and hard to identify, and this is where you need very sophisticated algorithms to actually map them out and do this ongoing monitoring.” This may not be the case forever, but for today, PointFive is the only company out there that can map this, and mapping it is step one to remediating, which can include reallocating, but at the least tracking to know what to negotiate for and get in the future.