Azure VM Lifecycle Management · Austin, TX · Est. 2018

The average Azure VM runs at 7% CPU utilization. You're paying for the other 93%.

Baseload Systems manages the full lifecycle of Azure Virtual Machines — rightsizing, migration, patch management, and backup — so your compute footprint actually matches what your workloads use, not what someone provisioned for a worst case that never came.

7% AVG CPU UTILIZATION
Average CPU utilization7%
Average memory utilization18%
Typical savings after rightsizing36%
Orgs acting on Azure Advisor sizing tips22%
Industry-wide figures from recent cloud cost research, not a claim about any specific tenant.
Why This Happens

Nobody sizes a VM for the average day. Everybody sizes it for the worst one.

A VM gets provisioned during a rushed deployment for the traffic spike that might come, then the spike never arrives, or arrives for twenty minutes a week. Eighteen months later, that VM is still running at full size, on full-price billing, because resizing means a restart and nobody wants to be the one who schedules it.

Services

Rightsizing, migration, patching, and backup.

Four services covering the full lifecycle of a VM, from the day it lands in Azure to the day it's retired.

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Our Story

Marisela Fontaine kept finding the same fleet, at every company.

Running cloud operations for a string of mid-sized companies, she found the same pattern everywhere she went: a handful of oversized VMs quietly eating the majority of the compute bill, discovered only when finance finally asked why costs kept climbing without any real growth to explain it. Baseload Systems exists to catch that before finance has to ask.

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How It Works

Six stages, from utilization baseline to ongoing review.

The same disciplined process whether it's twelve VMs or twelve hundred.

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Not sure how much of your own Azure compute bill is actually being used? Get in touch — most engagements start with a 30-day utilization baseline, not a sales call.