Use Case: Cost optimization

know what to cut and what to keep

Consolidation fails when you can’t see what depends on what. Mugato reveals every source of infrastructure waste and connects each component to the business service it supports, so optimization is safe to execute.

How it works

FROM hidden costs to seven-dimensional rightsizing

Five capabilities that turn infrastructure cost optimization from a risky cost-cutting exercise into a dependency-aware, data-driven program.

Agentless discovery

Manual discovery misses shadow IT and unmanaged assets. Agent-based tools only see servers with agents installed, leaving zombie servers invisible.

Mugato automatically discovers every device, application and connection across your entire environment without installing software on any endpoint, including zombie servers, shadow IT and unmanaged assets invisible to agent-based tools. You can’t optimize what you can’t see. Complete, agentless discovery exposes the full scope of waste before you make a single consolidation decision.

Seven-dimensional rightsizing

Traditional rightsizing uses a single metric, CPU utilization or EOL dates, missing the highest-impact optimization opportunities.

Mugato analyzes each infrastructure component across seven dimensions: compute use, technical debt, cybersecurity posture, licensing cost, management overhead, hardware age and consolidation opportunity. Analysis happens at the application-service level, revealing the true cost and risk profile of every asset so you can prioritize savings that maximize impact while protecting service quality.

Automated dependency mapping

Consolidation without dependency intelligence causes outages that erase savings and damage stakeholder credibility.

Mugato maps every communication pattern, data flow and service relationship, showing exactly which business capabilities depend on each server before any decommissioning decision is made. Blast radius analysis quantifies the precise downstream impact, so consolidation decisions are safe to execute.

Full temporal dataset

Hourly or daily averages mask utilization peaks. Two-week snapshots miss batch processes, seasonal peaks and growth trends.

Mugato’s minute-granularity collection retains the complete behavioral history of every infrastructure component, capturing consumption patterns, seasonal variations, scheduled batch processes and growth trends. Meta-information that is never aggregated ensures rightsizing reflects actual demand, not smoothed approximations.

Business-service-linked cost allocation

Teams can’t attribute infrastructure costs to specific applications or business units, making chargebacks and vendor negotiations impossible.

Mugato automatically groups application services into business services, connecting infrastructure costs to the business capabilities they support. This application-centric view surfaces hidden cost drivers and enables license rationalization, providing FinOps and sourcing teams with the data they need for chargebacks, vendor negotiations and license optimization.

Key Outcomes

20-40%

Potential cost reduction

Identify significant spend reduction through zombie server elimination, rightsizing and license optimization.

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OUTAGES FROM CONSOLIDATION

Dependency mapping ensures cost savings are not erased by  outages and credibility damage from blind decommissioning.

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DIMENSIONS OF ANALYSIS

Every infrastructure component assessed across compute, tech debt, security, licensing, management, hardware age and consolidation opportunity.

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Continuously updated blueprint

Continuous collection means rightsizing always reflects your current environment, not a stale snapshot from months ago.

PAIN POINTS VS. PAINKILLERS

See how Mugato addresses the most common cost optimization challenges.

the pain
the mugato painkiller
Zombie servers
Wasted spend on zombie servers with no way to determine which are safe to decommission
Dependency mapping shows exactly which business services each server supports, enabling safe removal
DISCOVERY FRESHNESS
Discovery data months out of date by the time it’s complete, making rightsizing unreliable
Continuous discovery maintains a real-time view so rightsizing always reflects the current environment
cloud spend
Cloud cost dashboards show spend but not the business services or if they’re safe to cut
Service dependency mapping connects every resource to the business capabilities it supports
peak visibility
Rightsizing based on two-week snapshots with no visibility into batch processes or seasonal peaks
Minute-granularity historical data captures the full behavioral profile of every asset
cost attribution
No way to attribute infrastructure costs to specific applications or business units for chargebacks
Application-centric infrastructure grouping links technical spend directly to business services and owners
Reclaimed capacity
Rightsizing based on daily averages leads to reclaiming capacity still needed during peaks
Minute-granularity data is never aggregated, ensuring reclamation reflects actual behavior

Christian Jørgensen

Head of Infrastructure

For the first time we have a tool that gives us the total overview. Highly complex data is turned into digestible bits and creates a bridge that helps the whole team understand what's going on.

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Bent Ditlevsen

CIO

After less than an hour we were self-reliant. Mugato's system is truly a game changer.

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Henrik Amsinck

Group CIO

Mugato gave us massive yearly savings on our global infrastructure and a quick return on investment by reducing complexity and licensing.

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