How ZenduIT Improved Cloud Visibility, Storage Governance
& Monthly Costs with CloudKeeper
Overview
ZenduIT provides IoT-powered fleet, video, and safety solutions, combining smart devices with cloud software to help enterprises improve safety, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making at scale.
To strengthen financial transparency, optimize storage architecture, and improve cloud efficiency, ZenduIT partnered with CloudKeeper to establish end-to-end FinOps clarity and technical governance across their GCP environment.
Challenges
With growing datasets and evolving IoT/video workloads, ZenduIT faced several cloud visibility and scaling challenges:
They needed a scalable, insight-rich platform to restore financial clarity and a partner who could help them optimize storage, egress, and AI workloads with confidence.
The Solution
CloudKeeper collaborated closely with ZenduIT’s engineering, cloud, and FinOps teams to restore clarity, optimize storage, and enable AI workflows:
Deployed CloudKeeper Lens for full billing clarity, SKU-level dashboards, anomaly detection, and restored missing chargeback visibility.
Mapped GCS pricing and lifecycle rules, built an egress exposure model, and created a storage playbook for ~165 TB/month ingest, recommending CDN usage, caching, signed URLs, parallel ingestion, and resumable uploads.
Enabled governed Vertex AI onboarding with correct IAM roles, resolved permission inconsistencies through WAR, and provided a cleanup workbook highlighting idle/unused resources.
These initiatives gave ZenduIT deeper visibility, optimized storage and egress strategies, and a scalable foundation for AI and IoT workloads.
With CloudKeeper, ZenduIT achieved:
Full financial clarity with SKU-level visibility
Predictable storage and retention costs
~$1.8K/month in actionable savings
Governed and safe Vertex AI experimentation
Strong FinOps governance with cleanup cadence
Lower egress risk through optimized architecture
ZenduIT’s partnership with CloudKeeper transformed their cloud operations, from cost blind spots and unpredictable storage behavior to a transparent, well-structured, and scalable FinOps framework. Through a combination of billing analytics, storage governance, AI enablement, and infrastructure cleanup, ZenduIT now operates with stronger financial control, reduced risk, and a clearer roadmap for scaling IoT and video workloads.
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