Cloud-related cost overruns could divert resources away from where they’re really needed. FinOps keeps cloud spending in check. Higher education IT departments have been taking advantage of the cloud ...

Cloud technology, which forms a considerable and ever-growing part of global IT efforts, plays a pivotal role in shaping an organization’s cost-reduction opportunities, efficiency initiatives, and ...

FinOps, meaning the practice of managing cloud costs, has been around for years. Yet it continues to evolve in response to emerging challenges in the realm of cloud spending. If you want to stay at ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Has the price tag for innovation become untenable? When venture-backed companies were chasing growth metrics, higher cloud bills were shrugged off as unavoidable. But the exuberance of the last few ...

Cloud uses for business continue to grow. By 2024, Gartner predicts, more than 45 percent of “IT spending on system infrastructure, infrastructure software, application software and business process ...

The cloud allows small and medium-sized businesses to go to market faster and grow with less capital. However, 84% of businesses identified managing cloud spending as their top challenge. This isn’t ...

Hey, remember finops? Cost optimization? According to most surveys, it was a big deal in 2023, but you never would have known it, considering the amount of AI noise out there. The State of FinOps is ...

With half of key IT spending expected to shift to cloud in the next three years, organisations will need to get a better handle on cloud cost management to make sure their cloud spending continues to ...

Finops can show where all your cloud spending goes, but sometimes penny-wise is pound-foolish. Account for human costs and monitor all your clouds. These days cloud computing costs typically run about ...

Growth is driven by accelerating cloud adoption across enterprises, increasing cost pressure from AI-intensive and multi-cloud workloads, and the growing need for disciplined cloud financial ...