Tag: FinOps

AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance ...

FinOps & ITAM Must Team up to Cut Cloud Spend
Ahead of its Wisdom NA 2023 event taking place in Florida March 21-22, Rich Gibbons from the ITAM Review explores the relationship between FinOps and IT Asset Management when it comes to managing ...

Aligning Cloud Spend Management With Cloud Transformation
The cloud transformation movement is well underway, with more than half of enterprise organizations moving to a cloud-native approach this year, according to Forrester Research. Spending on cloud infrastructure is rising accordingly ...

Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes ...

Myth Busting: 5 Misconceptions About FinOps
Over the years, moves to the cloud have happened in several different ways and at various speeds. The reality is that today most enterprises are spending massive amounts on their cloud environments, ...

Four Steps to Avoiding a Cloud Cost Incident
The recent Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report found that organizations waste 32% of their cloud spend, up from 3o% last year. This can be due to cloud cost incidents triggered ...

How FinOps Can Optimize Cloud Costs and Drive Innovation
Two mainstays drive most application migration and modernization initiatives. First, organizations are moving workloads to the cloud as an innovation catalyst. Achieving their strategic goals requires the speed, agility, reliability and advanced ...

Elevating Agile With Financial Discipline
A corporate axiom is changing, shifting from “Big eats small” to “Fast eats slow.” But change doesn’t happen overnight. While Agile and lean methods continue to chip away at the status quo, ...