Tackling IT Costs in 2025: Smarter Ways to Reduce Spend

In 2025, companies are under increasing pressure to do more with their IT but with tighter budgets than ever before. With increasing cloud hosting costs, and price rises across Microsoft and Google’s software licenses this year, managing your infrastructure has become more expensive than ever before. Yet businesses still demand more innovation and security.

At Dolphin IT Solutions, we understand the balancing act needed to reduce costs whilst still delivering value. Here’s what’s driving the growing IT cost crisis, and how we can help you take back control.

What’s Behind the Rising Costs Of IT?

Whether you're a small business or a large, growing enterprise, you’ve likely felt the squeeze this year. Some of the biggest culprits behind growing IT budgets come from:

• Cloud Overspend: Multiple cloud platforms without central governance.
• Waste: Paying for unused licences or SaaS subscriptions.
• Support inefficiencies: IT support contracts that overcharge and under-deliver.
• Legacy systems: Outdated infrastructure demanding high maintenance
• Compliance pressure: Increasing costs to meet regulations like ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials.

How Does Dolphin IT Solutions Help You Regain Control of Your Costs?

We take a holistic, business-first approach to IT cost optimisation without compromising on security or business growth plans.

We’ll conduct a detailed audit of your IT estate. What we look for are redundant services, underutilised software licences and subscriptions, and cloud charges you may be unaware of – you can’t control what you can’t see, after all.

Our FinOps approach will help you resize your cloud environments and benefit from price reductions through reservations and spending plans, identifying if these are actually needed. If they’re not, we can help you set up automatic shutdown / start up policies, as well as automatic scaling for your cloud workloads. We’ll make sure your storage tiers are correct as well, archiving anything that you deem to be old or unnecessary. We’re also resellers of Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, so if you’re on one of these clouds, by purchasing through us we can get you a competitive discount.

When it comes to your software licences, we do it all – Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Adobe, you name it. We’ll consolidate everything into one, helping you benefit from better rates and co-terminus renewals. We offer flexible bundles and direct support ensuring you get the best value for money from our IT partnership, rather than from an overpriced vendor who sees you as just another number.

Our WEBCON BPS solutions reduce the need manual work which can help reduce costly human errors, and free up your time for other activities. By automating everyday tasks such as HR onboarding, IT asset tracking, expense request approvals, or invoice scanning, we save your teams time, letting them get on with what really matters.

Real Savings: Real Results

Our clients trust Dolphin IT Solutions to deliver sustainable cost saving solutions across every aspect of their IT estate – licences, cloud hosting, business operations, and support. All whilst increasing performance and staying compliance.

Get in touch with us today for a free IT cost management audit, and to discuss how we can help you shift from reactive spending to a strategic investment that makes the most out of every penny spent on IT.