Deloitte Expands Strategic Alliance With Intel, Harnessing Intel’s Software Portfolio for Joint Enterprise Clients

NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2023  — Today, Deloitte announced an expansion of its existing strategic alliance with Intel, harnessing the company’s cutting-edge software and technology to help clients better optimize their costs, secure workloads and accelerate their AI and software development. As part of this expansion, Deloitte will leverage Intel^® Granulate^™, the AI-driven runtime optimization software that optimizes workloads in real-time, supporting application architecture across data centers, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.

“By improving performance with application-level optimization, our clients can unlock additional FinOps opportunities — leading to potentially significant cost savings,” said Ram Ramdattan, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Granulate will now seamlessly integrate into Deloitte’s CloudBilling 360^™ platform, a Deloitte-built solution that enables enterprises to visualize, optimize and control their cloud spend at scale with minimal effort. Our goal is to enable engineers to shift their focus towards innovation by implementing leading FinOps practices and streamlining optimization processes through automation.”

“Through our strategic alliance with Intel, which consistently pioneers innovative technologies like Intel Granulate, Deloitte is poised to advance its position in the FinOps and cloud domain broadly,” said Brian Campbell, Intel alliance sponsor, and principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "As we continue to advance our cloud engineering services in the age of Generative AI, our collaborative offering with Intel and the Intel Granulate solution can provide advanced benefits to our clients to maximize application efficiency and cost performance.”

“Intel implemented Granulate into its Cloudera platform as part of its commitment to remain steadfast in assisting organizations with attaining self-managing workloads. Our overarching objective is to empower engineers, DevOps professionals and Site Reliability Engineers to concentrate on refining and enhancing their products, all the while benefiting from peak infrastructure performance and lower costs,” said Asaf Ezra, co-founder, Intel Granulate. “Deloitte is paving the way in helping our joint clients meet their goals in cloud FinOps capabilities and has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to innovation in addressing the pivotal challenges surrounding cloud.”

“Intel software helps enterprises solve complex problems around confidential computing to drive zero trust environments and technologies, accelerate ROI and outcomes from AI and achieve performance optimization. Intel Granulate delivers continuous workload optimization for the enterprise, resulting in insights that help to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. The Intel Enterprise Software organization is committed to providing customers with the tools they need to innovate, grow and stay competitive. This collaboration with Deloitte enables our enterprise customers to deploy Intel Granulate through the service offerings of a trusted global systems integrator,” said Taher Behbehani, corporate vice president, GM of software sales, Intel.

Deloitte and Intel are building on a rich history of collaboration that spans over a decade, combining Intel’s industry-leading technology and deep technical knowledge with Deloitte’s industry depth, strategic advisory services, functional and engineering services, global implementation capabilities and managed services. Intel and Deloitte continue to build on their joint strength and scale of offerings together in the market, in domains ranging from SAP to Oracle to cloud — public, hybrid and private — to AI to application modernization to industry solutions. Learn more about the Deloitte and Intel alliance.

Additionally, as part of Deloitte’s deep sector and technical knowledge, Deloitte’s Cloud FinOps services help clients build customized cloud FinOps models to fully realize the efficiencies cloud offers. Learn more about Deloitte’s Cloud FinOps services.
 

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