These examples show how CloudQbit helps New Zealand organisations find hidden cost, security and governance issues, then turn them into measurable remediation outcomes.
Problem: Long-term VM backup data was being retained in expensive Azure Backup vault tiers, even where lower-cost archive storage was suitable.
Action: CloudQbit reviewed retention requirements, separated active recovery needs from long-term retention, and moved eligible backup data to secure archive storage.
Outcome: Around 200 TB was migrated, reducing storage cost for eligible backup data by 95% and creating a six-figure annual saving.
Problem: Azure spend continued to grow even after reservation and savings-plan opportunities had already been addressed.
Action: CloudQbit traced the cost increase from service-level trends back to the operational behaviour creating unmanaged consumption.
Outcome: Root-cause remediation produced a five-figure monthly reduction and a six-figure annualised saving.
Problem: A fragmented VM estate was carrying high pay-as-you-go usage and too many VM SKU variations to optimise effectively.
Action: CloudQbit rationalised VM families, validated reservation coverage, and protected enough pay-as-you-go capacity for operational flexibility.
Outcome: The optimisation plan identified six-figure savings potential, with up to 64% savings available through selected 3-year reservations.
Problem: A legacy cloud application hosted on a VM was repeatedly crawling Azure file shares and generating tens of millions of transactions. This increased Storage, Defender, Networking costs, with the affected workload pattern representing around 40% of total cloud storage spend.
Action: We discovered the workload behaviour behind the cost, traced the impact across the affected Azure services, identified a more suitable existing technology path, and helped the team move the change through architecture review and change control.
Outcome: The workload was changed without removing the process or business requirement, creating significant cost reduction of around 90%.
Problem: A complex integration environment had high Azure spend that was being treated as normal operational cost.
Action: CloudQbit analysed service-level cost behaviour and proved excessive diagnostic ingestion into Log Analytics was the main driver.
Outcome: Logging was tuned without removing required visibility, creating a five-figure annual saving and clearer cost ownership.
Problem: A large Azure estate had only around 2% usable tagging coverage, inconsistent tag names, and no reliable showback model after years of stalled attempts.
Action: CloudQbit automated tag visibility, defined a practical tagging baseline, built controlled update scripts, and coached internal engineers through a safe rollout.
Outcome: 6,000+ resources across 740 resource groups and 32 subscriptions were tagged, enabling showback, workload ownership, legacy cleanup, and significant cost reduction.
Problem: A nested business group unintentionally inherited privileged workstation access through legacy group membership.
Action: CloudQbit validated inherited access paths, removed inappropriate nesting, and realigned access to least-privilege requirements.
Outcome: More than 100 non-IT privileged access paths were removed, reducing unnecessary admin exposure and improving group governance.
Problem: Large New Zealand enterprises were still relying on AD FS for Microsoft 365 and application authentication, with decommissioning stalled by complexity and operational risk.
Action: CloudQbit migrated Microsoft 365 authentication to modern cloud authentication, moved applications to Microsoft Entra ID SSO, enabled MFA, and designed Conditional Access policies.
Outcome: AD FS dependency was removed, authentication security improved, legacy federation risk was reduced, and modern Microsoft identity controls were enabled.
Problem: A multinational enterprise needed its New Zealand business to integrate Workday with Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory for joiner, mover and leaver processes.
Action: CloudQbit worked with HR, parent-company stakeholders and identity teams to map attributes, configure transformation logic, automate provisioning and deprovisioning, and enable Workday SSO.
Outcome: The organisation gained HR-driven identity lifecycle automation, stronger joiner/leaver control, modern SSO, and an integration model still in use years later.
Problem: Domain Administrator credentials were being used too broadly for routine server operations, increasing identity compromise risk.
Action: CloudQbit implemented tier separation between Tier 0 identity systems and Tier 1 operational workloads, reducing unnecessary privileged access paths.
Outcome: Domain Admin exposure was reduced while operational access remained workable, mitigating thousands of potential credential exposure paths.
CloudQbit can review your Azure cost, identity, governance and security posture to identify practical opportunities for savings, risk reduction and stronger operational control.
